Zero chance Newsom will be a Dem presidential nominee. Zero.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Just as with the Charlie Kirk murderer. The media lost all interest once it became clear he had no left wing ties.

Seems bad that every commercial is for gambling now

In the late 1980s, Jay M. Savage showed that amphibian losses in cloud forests signaled a global pattern, not isolated anomalies. His career blended field science, institution-building, mentorship, treating extinction as evidence — noticed by those who return often enough to see absence.

Great question from @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the Miami Herald reporter whose investigative series on Jeffrey Epstein led to his indictment in 2019.

From MAL without noise Nothing has been resolved. Trump is advocating for Kremlin propaganda - says Donbas has to be decided on via “referendum or parliament vote” and claims “90% people would support it”. He also says both US and Russia have interest in Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. So same demands

In other words, Trump still can’t get Zelensky to agree to Putin’s terms, and they’re still at square one.

NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

"Starbucks baristas are struggling to make ends meet. Many rely on SNAP and Medicaid because they don't receive enough hours to pay their bills or access benefits... [T]he average barista receives just 19 hours of work per week, leaving them one hour short of the cutoff to receive company benefits."

It’s 76F outside. Not only a record for the date, but tying the all time record for *any* December date in St. Louis. The previous record was set, what do you know, just 4 years ago.

Sunday Taquitos #8: Never Wrong Art by Ivan Ehlers.

The horseshoe “left" also often blames NATO and the west. Every one of them is a witting or unwitting idiot.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Same guy who “interviewed” Maxwell, who claimed she never saw Trump (or Epstein… or herself) do anything wrong, then moved her to a low security high privilege facility.

So in spring, Pam Bondi said there was nothing to the Epstein investigation, then “closed” it. Now, they “find” 1 million more docs. So did she close this without seeing these docs? Or was someone hiding them?

Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Okay, I’m several months late to the game, but the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson album is insanely great!

Yep. It's there. The press corps that she lies to every day is going to throw her such a shower!

You know how bizarre it is to see those 90s Joe Camel ads selling cigarettes to children? That's how sports betting ads are gonna feel in 30 years.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

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This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.

Enough said.

TYT closed the horseshoe a long time ago.

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Legal experts say the name of the Kennedy Center was established by federal law & its board does not have authority to change its name. It requires an act of Congress. Georgetown Law professor David Super said, “the administration is not concerning itself with laws..." #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

He was the best of his genre. The best of his era, regardless of genre. The best.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Just like they were going to flee NYC because of Mamdani. Fuck them. They want to give up the lifestyle because they’re too greedy? Good riddance!

Good riddance. They live in CA for the lifestyle. They don’t deserve it.

Great job Elon Musk!

4-year-old Kristina was buried today. She was killed on the morning of December 23rd when a russian suicide drone struck her apartment in the western 🇺🇦Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr. She was rushed to hospital but succumbed to her injuries a few hours later. Source: x.com/i/status/200...

Just a reminder that the actual Nazis thought they were the good guys.

War on Christmas.

The numbers are in. More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

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Remember, the Secretary of Transportation is absolutely terrified of this subway system. Just mentioning the ACE line will reduce him to tears. And yet ...

Proud to be a Hellcat, part of a group of badass women veterans running across the country to take back the House. In NJ-07, this fight is personal. My family is feeling the same pressures you are. I'm running to fight for you like I would fight for my own family. youtu.be/x_ffOT53mpU

In fact, the polls show views on immigration are shifting toward more generosity and compassion. Trump’s approvals on immigration are disastrous.

I saw James Bond trending and for half a second hoped they finally picked a new one. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett would be the most inspired choice.

The Trump Country Diner trope has returned

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

Two stories side by side in WashPost