President-elect Trump reportedly balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks. That's a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems, like Tom Homan's bribery probe.

So... Fuentes didn't feel the leg length he was assigned at birth conformed with his height identity?

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I miss when being so openly racist had negative consequences

I'm a Best Of! 😁

(writing about an open antisemite who accosted a school shooting survivor on the street and devoted her life to erasing trans people and sending immigrants to concentration camps) hey boss i got a great quote from the nice lady about being christlike let’s pull quote it

Greene's shift is newsworthy but it's shockingly dishonest for @nytimes.com to portray it as a sincere awakening. There's no evidence of that; she's not changing caucus nor voting differently. She's an abhorrent bigot cynically adjusting position because she sees Trump as a liability. That's a fact.

This is New England's version of the Louvre heist. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

This is exactly how wormholes work. This is how home fires happen.

youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

Hopefully more of this won’t be necessary in 2027. But I doubt it.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Today's GOP:

You have to get past 30 paragraphs and several pictures in this NYT White grievance story for a single-sentence mention in passing of African-Americans affected by Republican gerrymanders www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...

Republicans quoted: 9 Democrats quoted: 0

Wishing a v merry Xmas to all who observe

A v seasonal podcast featuring one of the excellent AGs I'm lucky enough to work with -- AG Charity Clark, who's AG of the state with... well, if not most, a LOT of Hallmark Xmas movies taking place there. Anyway, merry Xmas Eve! open.spotify.com/episode/1C20...

Many thanks to whichever friend who set the clocks on my microwave and oven to the correct time during my holiday party

Christmas fucking miracle right here

For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.

Today is 22 December 2025. Greenland: Danish Panama Canal: Panamanian Canada: Canadian Russia: at war against Ukraine 12 large grade-A available at Safeway near me: $2.69 Tomatoes: $2.08/lb Haitian immigrants who have eaten household pets: 0 President's felony convictions: 34

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Okay everything is terrible but at least we get a little more sunlight every day for the next six months

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

On a related note here is a photo of Barbra Streisand’s house.

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

Welp saving the hell out of this picture, this is ART

All new jokes for 2026!

All the lying they're doing in court not helping, either www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Good morning

Next Dem president might be tempted to look into the funding for Vought’s Center for Renewing America to see if there was some oil industry patronage involved.

Feeling crummy after a lil procedure had unforeseen complications, but Nurse Nebs is on the job

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

I dunno seems like a pretty good political opportunity for folks running for offices that help determine tax law

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

Seriously on what planet would this be a good thing

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Refused to sell out his friend to a cop. He's a real one.

Wow big upset in Virginia HD-77 firehouse primary Former ACLU Attorney Charlie Schmidt has won the Dem nomination That makes him very favored to be the next delegate in January 6 special election Former Richmond City Council President Michelle Mosby was thought of as favorite

Wrote a letter to Republicans and Trump supporters. If you are one, I hope you read. If you know one, I hope you might send this to them. The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right? My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:

Useless bro running DOD + Useless bro running DOT =

“His insomnia leads him to sit and read in his armchair. Like in the old days, when the computer didn’t limit his time so drastically.” —Enrique Vila-Matas being brutal @ everybody alive

i will once again remind y'all that roku has a 24/7 dick van dyke show channel and it is the most necessary counter to modern fuckery and dipbaggery