“.. Chavez came to power in 1999 when audited reserves were about 75 billion barrels of reserves. The year he died in 2013, they magically jumped to 300 billion unaudited.” 🇻🇪

Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

As Mark notes, everything Trump does is transactional. This isn’t about some sense of personal loyalty to a supporter any more than his Jan 6 pardons were, because Trump has never in his life felt a scintilla of loyalty to anyone. It’s about establishing a precedent he thinks will be useful to him.

Rioters? Agitators? Immigration agents' claims against US citizens mostly fall apart in court. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c...

If you give this administration a presumption of honesty, you are acting like a credulous sucker. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Drain. The. Swamp.

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

There isn’t a pretense of a fake justification for a made up war. No washed think tankers making an argument, no wack op-ed commentary, no reason at all, nothing.

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Analogizing the EU to the Nazi regime is embarassingly ignorant of history, and it's shameful that our new national security strategy seems to say that those promoting international cooperation in Europe are bad and those trying to rehabilitate violent nationalism are good

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

It is unending: In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to the National Park Service website. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

2 HONEY 2 CRISP

this administration really does shine an unflattering light on the influencer class, by and large a group of people with no discernable expertise or skills. get famous railing against FBI guys using jets, become FBI director and use the jet for an absolutely stunning amount of influencer fucking off

I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

Sir, this is a McDonald’s.

Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice. #KavanaughStop

You know, populism and what not.

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?

The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.

A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WSJ does the math: the United States President Donald Trump is mentioned in 1670 email threads with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...

Just another day working as a journalist in Chicago under Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Photo by @mandophotos.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001. No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

“.. Guests were seen mimicking ‘Roaring 20's’ era attire, a period just before the Great Depression that historians note for its staggering income inequity.” 🤡 @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

About 28 percent of the people the administration has deported have a prior criminal conviction.

“.. Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% ..” www.nber.org/papers/w34413

My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Hey, remember when Elon Musk was going save hundreds of billions of dollars by revoking Social Security benefits for dead people? Didn't happen, because hardly any dead people were getting Social Security. Instead, there's been a big *increase* in Social Security recipients since Musk's DC stint.

The United States had an asset of inestimable value: It was the place some of the most talented young people on earth dreamed to go. They've gotten the message: the US government sees them as unwanted jetsam. I spoke with the @csmonitor.bsky.social about the economic costs to the US—>

One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.

China's dominance on batteries illustrates its edge over U.S. www.axios.com/2025/10/20/c... via @axios.com and UChicago

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning