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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES UNREDACTED

Donald Trump targets his political enemies in order to keep power. In 2026, that won't just mean going after people like James Comey and Tish James. It will require him to target voters who he needs to disenfranchise to keep control of Congress. The fight for democracy is more urgent than ever.

Pete Hegseth celebrates the holidays by murdering fishermen in the East Pacific, again. His kill toll is over one hundred all ready. Soon he'll be the nation's lead mass killer.

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And the 25th!

NEW: Our reporters published investigations this year on the Trump administration, health care, education and more. These are the stories readers spent the most time with in 2025.

If IQ or public accomplishment determined the winner, former Senator Doug Jones (D) would smoke former football coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who many Democrats say is the dimmest bulb in the U.S. Senate—a particularly competitive field this term. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."

I have been warning for years that once insurance companies had a reason to stop denying hormones to trans folks, they’d be coming for the menopausal among us next. We all rise or fall together.

"I had a good and very productive phone call with Führer Hitler of Germany prior to my meeting with Charles de Gaulle of France today. Führer Hitler was very clear about which parts of France not currently under Nazi control he wants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Winston Churchill."

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

Distressing yet accurate.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

How has Trump used the power of the presidency to enrich himself and his family? TIME details three approaches. time.com/7342470/trum...

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Robert Reich: "Americans witness the nightmare of Trump’s neofascism—its mindless cruelty, blatant attempts to silence critics, wanton destruction of much of our government, open racism and misogyny"—are beginning to mobilize, setting the foundation for its end. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “I felt like I was watching a Helsinki redux when Trump said Putin told him he didn’t interfere with the election… Trump just had the audacity to say Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.” So weird how Trump keeps doing Putin’s bidding!🤷🏼

Worth mentioning that this political moment already resulted in an unprecedented cancellation of a proposed Refuge expansion that had been developed over a few admins www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas...

“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…

It really does matter and he confirms two sentences later that it was us

"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Fraud is fraud. Period. The idea that the Minnesota fraud was not covered is ridiculous. The biggest reporting came from the New York Times, not some fringe outlet.

Trump's head of the Civil Whites Division at DOJ is demanding political loyalty.

“Over the long Christmas break, the president of the United States may have leaked classified information about a secret military operation targeting Venezuela, and did so while calling in to a New York radio show – hosted by a ‘Marty Supreme’ cast member – to brag…

Whose inauguration? What?

“Did the military do that?” “It doesn’t matter.” I suspect he just blew a deniable CIA covert op, because he’s a big dummy.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

What a quote.

The white Evangelical coterie around Trump love to present him as equal to God. This is, of course, a heresy, but a kind of heresy common to white Evangelicals in the South.

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela. And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously. Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen?? youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...

THREAD. @donmoyn.bsky.social’s detailed, multi-thread dismantling of the distorted and deliberately obtuse reporting in the @nytimes.com on the significance of Gov. DeSantis’ takeover of New College is essential reading. And pls don’t waste time commenting that you don’t read the Times.Millions do.

Trump won the election by 1 percentage point. And at least 1% of voters were single or "top issue" anti-trans in sports voters. That one issue decided a national election by a small minority. This is why he keeps repeating "transgender for everyone". It put him in back in the White House.

Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?

INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

🇺🇸 Trump: Putin wants Ukraine to succeed. And Zelensky’s reaction…

Just a reminder: US media figures on the take from the Kremlin, who also frequently read straight from the Kremlin playbook.

Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.

Feel like it’s important to note here that SCOTUS’s only job here is setting the floor. If future Fed admins don’t want to let this happen, they can put it in the contract. And if POTUS won’t do that, Congress can pass a law that requires pay. This is a case that is easy to negate SCOTUS on.

Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.

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Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Don’t listen to fools or you might become one.

This is a really nice analysis of the AI bubble, how we got here, and where we might be going. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...