This is like Rose Mary Woods releasing the full Nixon tapes and then going door to door with a magnet asking if she can just see them for a quick sec.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

More evidence Trump’s tariffs are simply tax increases on Americans.

How many times are we going to do this???

I drafted a letter to the editor, please help me out by DMing, commenting, emailing feedback if you are an expert on colliderbias, id obviosuly ad you as a author, Ideally we submit within 24-48 hrs, draft: zenodo.org/records/1800... (click download if the pdf doesnt preview on zenodo)

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

What could go wrong? www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Putin picking his own US negotiator is the kind of thing you’d get called a hysterical conspiracy theorist had you predicted it

Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime. Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

The trap Trump now faces - the Epstein redactions will only fuel conspiracy theories even when they are innocuous. Our 2016 JEPS article: "Classified or Coverup? The Effect of Redactions on Conspiracy Theory Beliefs" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ungated version www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster" or, to use another metaphor, the right is reaping the whirlwind

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

"The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle." "Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy." defector.com/two-nights-p...

what Jake Paul looks like with this size disadvantage

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

“Mr. Kennedy was also clear that he supports vaccines. He [said] I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking either of those vaccines.’ -United States Senator John Barrasso, MD

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

This was found in the batch of Epstein files the DOJ released today.

Hot dog guying intensifies

I honestly have no idea who the audience for this is supposed to be. The manosphere won’t watch it, and feminists certainly won’t. And it’s just not how most people choose to spend their leisure time. Touch grass, tv exec edition.

lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This stuff was just on an absolutely industrial scale. This is a girl who was aged 14 to 16 and she alone saw Epstein *100 times*. This, btw, was at the peak of Epstein's influence and his celebrity friendships:

Doesn't take long looking at the documents before you see the incredibly grim reality of Epstein's crimes – and the age of his victims (this one was 14). This document is from 2011, and was a notification to Australian authorities that officers would be flying to Australia for an interview.

Cool stuff. I’m sure there won’t be any consequences for the increasing ubiquity of publicly acceptable anti-Jewish bigotry in American society.

Do you want more measles, flu, RSV, and chicken pox? Because that's what we'll get

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h... Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).

Glad to have contributed an entry on "Misinformation" with @obboutin.bsky.social to the IPSA Companion to Political Science. Thanks to Daniel Stockemer, Stephen Sawyer, and @audreygagnon.bsky.social for the excellent editorial work! doi.org/10.1007/978-...

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

Five years ago today, Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC for a “protest” on Jan. 6, 2021, tweeting: “Be there, will be wild!” Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

I'd like to see journalists investigate the companies/guys that are doing this work. Who are they? Do they know this is illegal? Are they worried about being held responsible for defacing a federal building? How did they get the letters so fast, given that the "decision" was only made yesterday?

given rising global populism — and tendency to demonize people with little power in society — worth reflecting that the hero in Australia's mass shooting was a Syrian refugee, and the key witness in the Brown University shooting was a homeless man

It's interesting to look at the questions they ask for these sentiment surveys. Because even if indicators aren't great now, they aren't close to the worst they've been in the past 50 years. Maybe it's a proxy for feelings about the state of the country rn. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php...

One of the most uncomfortable things I've ever watched

Missing the deadline = breaking the law.

Birtherism, but make it administration policy.

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Just from this morning's news. Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening here.

A vast and growing authoritarian cult of personality. Literally un-American in its lack of fealty to the norms of the country going back to Washington himself.

Bari Weiss is Jimmy Fallon in glasses

big scoop from reuters: pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Pure cash grab / corruption play - there's nothing here on a business level. Truth Social is a rounding error: "The loss-making company generated about $2.7 million in revenue in the first nine months of the year."

This evidence of Trump's 2020 coup attempt in Georgia is no more damning than the tape of Trump telling Georgia officials to "find" the exact number of votes he needed to reverse his loss to Biden. But the Supreme Court rewrote the Constitution to let him run, and a plurality of voters didn't mind.

Trump's promise of $1,776 for service members last night -- which was supposed to be a tariff thing -- is in fact theft from increased housing allowances. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

The frontier of AI is still very messy. Hilarious column.