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Fun with AI

A random TikToker finally convinced me to contribute to the James Talarico Senate campaign. Probably not what she was intending but it worked.

Consider: Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, destroyer of so many bookstores, is also the owner of the Washington Post. And today they close their books section and lay off 300 journalists. Careless. Moving fast. Breaking things.

Membership in a union seems to be what turned Taylor Rehmet into a Democrat. Go figure.

Start the countdown. Of all the mistakes you can make in the Trump administration, admitting you could have been wrong is the worst. apple.news/AnZ7xtG_-SPu...

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

Fear and Loathing in Davos

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Shorter timeline but still a TACO trade day.

Apparently in his speech today demanding Greenland, he kept calling it Iceland. You just know that one day he’s going to order a Diet Coke and that’s the way the world will end.

Cubans in Florida are shocked, shocked that they’re now being deported from Florida. Shocked I tell you.

🚨🚨 Attention: ICE 🚨🚨

As the Voice of America, NPR, the CPB, CBS News, the Washington Post and other news organizations or broadcast organizations and news organizations diminish and die, fewer young people become journalists and fewer young people study and know what news and objective reporting is. Truth begins to die.

Scott Bessent should have beat Bill Pulte up when he had a chance.

Each day one new outrage pushes the next off the page. As if we are a nation of amnesiacs.

Dammit! I didn’t have the Secretary of Labor inter-office affair on my bingo card.

Gold and silver are the smart bets these days; if you’re not predicting more chaos, you’re playing to lose.

If Trump will target childcare TANF funds for Democratic states because he claims they are fraudulent, what makes us think he won’t say the same about election results from those same states in 2026 or 2028?

The failure of Republicans and the right to show the tiniest shred of empathy or understanding for the left in its moments of collective grief concerns me deeply on a human, non-partisan level. The left is not going to forget this week. The 2020s may be seen as the decade when it all came apart.

Silence in the face of injustice is a very loud political position.

RIP: Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1 year of congestion pricing in New York City!!! My favorite middle finger to this administration.

People worried about capitalism in New York City as if we’re going to pay for our Starbucks on January 1 with random acts of socialism.

Major oversight that CBS wasn’t mentioned on the New Year’s Eve in memoriam segment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o... Interesting article.

My takeaway from the 60 Minutes CECOT video is this: if you voted for the Trump administration you’ve co-signed onto the idea that the dream of coming to America should now be one that ends in torture and imprisonment. And that’s a betrayal of all of our values and morals.

Helping Randi Weingarten share the leaked Canadian 60 Minutes CECOT story on Facebook was some fun good trouble to get in.

The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

43. 43 Danish lives were lost in the American “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and less than 20 years later America pays Denmark back by assigning the governor of its worst state to help steal Greenland away from it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...

Turns out the left didn’t have to picket the Heritage Foundation after all. They found their own self-destruct button. apple.news/ADyhj25DGTZ-...

The awful thing is once the last polar bear is gone and the last glacier is melted, we won’t still have around any of the selfish people who ensured it would happen to blame.

RIP

Did not see this coming. Wait. It’s the Heritage Foundation. Anyone could have seen this coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Unemployment up to 4.6, highest since September 2021. Almost back to where it was last time…👀

The fact that I don’t care how much MrBeast is worth seems to me an unofficial mark of my maturity and also makes me wonder why there isn’t a frog drinking tea emoji yet. Random thoughts for a Friday morning.

RIP CBS News

There’s no reason the state of Maryland should be represented by a single Republican in Washington.

Ukraine cannot give in to Putin and Trump. We must all support Ukraine.

Nancy Mace sounds like she’s about to get a Bluesky. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...

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Erika Kirk at the New York Times DealBook Summit definitely giving prequel to The Handmaid’s Tale vibes.

Any Republican who won office with less than a 12 point margin in 2024 should be rightfully worried about now. The shift is coming.

At the end of the day, thankful for many good things, and also the anger that’s gotten me through this year.

Lisa Murkowski is the first Republican I am aware of to come out against Trump's weird attempt to drag an astronaut before military courts.