A storied Wall Street law firm that hemorrhaged talent after bending the knee to President Donald Trump has announced plans to merge with a much larger firm in a bid to save its practice. www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-...

Medical debt should not exist.

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.

The trump administration is laughing at you. Read our reporting in here about how much the GOP elite across different cliques and branches of govt weren’t sweating last night at all because they all knew they had a Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche authored insurance policy built in

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

Trump is not even embarrassed about this. The man cannot feel joy, embarrassment or shame. Trump is a psychopath.

Trump’s aides demanded that FIFA’s made-up “peace prize” awarded to him be literally as big as the World Cup. The White House gave FIFA a list of demands regarding the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, which was invented by FIFA president Gianni Infantino to present to Trump.

The American government is killing people.

the index of consumer sentiment (current expectations) is at an all time low because trump voters are catching on to the facts the rest of us have been covering for a year

Judge Mark Wolf on why he resigned: What we have now under President Trump is utterly inconsistent with equal justice under law. I watched, virtually day after day, his direction to the DOJ to prosecute his perceived political enemies and to insulate his friends, his family….

Trump continues to reduce the venue sizes for his rallies to high school gym proportions for his shrinking cult.

An incredibly worth while read. Buckle up Buttercups

I received my Software Engineering degree in 1994 and I had an assignment in OS class that was virtually identical to this. This was normal.

“The most transparent administration in history” only released 10% of the Epstein files yesterday. The DOJ must be confusing transparency with cover-up.

Everyone I know has been "Put him in the undersea supervillan prison" since at least the mid-2000s, same as Trump, and for nearly identical reasons.

This true not just for economic vibes. The entire movement of, let's call it medical skepticism, relies on having a completely warped views of what health outcomes used to be even three decades ago

One of girls Epstein abused claims that Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14: “Epstein elbowed Trump playfully asking him, referring to Doe, "This is a good one, right?" Trump smiled and nodded in agreement. They both chuckled.” www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Every Democratic candidate for president should pledge to revoke whatever benefits people got by paying $1 million for Trump Gold Cards by executive order on day 1 with no refunds.

They’re trying to establish a hereditary nobility. The founders themselves made issuing titles of nobility illegal. We should mock these fools, who think a tiny drop of founders’ blood makes them better than other people.

I think it depends on the systems used by the library. On my library record I can see every book I’ve checked out or put on hold.

As many have commented, this information (luckily) doesn't exist. The information gets dumped as soon as you return your book. Which is another reason to thank your librarian.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

A huge part of the book-banning project aims to make work that provides a public good feel impossible and unsafe! It targets authors, absolutely, but it’s also trying to add unreasonable administrative burdens to the work of teachers and librarians.

If you’re *really* looking for people with a few drops of old aristocratic blood, you should start with African-Americans. But that would lead to a lot of uncomfortable conversations about the old aristocrats.

The fastest mile I’ve ever run came in at 5:49. I almost threw up after I was done. When Eliud Kipchoge runs a marathon, every one of his 26.2 miles clocks in under 4:40. He sustains this pace for 2 hours.

Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs. publications.iom.int/system/files...

The fact of the matter is that even if we removed all dehumanizing immigration restrictions, the vast majority of people would stay where they are because barring overwhelming danger most people don't like uprooting themselves to move to a strange place where they don't know anybody

The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected. There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.

Each vantablack rectangle in those files is extremely obvious proof that the same system that produced Epstein will produce more. Those vantablack rectangles have found a new guy to serve the same role, and that guy is right now receiving the same systemic protection and support he did.

The bare minimum necessary for a new Epstein to not pop up, is for the wealthy and powerful to actually exert consequences on themselves. This is something they will never, ever do. You can tell, by how many vantablack rectangles there are.

If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.

The daughter of the US Transportation Secretary wants to abolish the TSA* because of her recent experience at the airport.

Imagine my surprise to see that this guy, who write a piece in praise of RFK Jr, is one of the Danish researchers who will be doing this trial 👀

In Iran, people who criticize the Ayatollah are arrested and often die in jail. In Russia, criticizing Putin or any of his policies carries a 15-year term. China convicts democracy activists of "treason." Trump's America is preparing to prosecute protestors against his policies as "terrorists."

How can those dumbasses be so corrupt that they’re messing up implicating Bill fucking Clinton

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so fucked.

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

U.S intelligence report. So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.

The other thing UBI does, borne out by testing, is it enables people to start businesses without the threat of starvation if they don’t succeed at it. More people start businesses under UBI programs. Our corporate overlords hate competition.

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters

‘“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”’

Oh right, *this* guy, an actual doctor, and the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.