I'm guessing John Roberts has a crypto account somewhere and gets a cut of each pardon. I'm not being sarcastic.

Sliwa is there. He says his people should give Mamdani a chance. “He has a mandate… the Masters of the Universe did everything to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

It’s official: Mary Sheffield is the Mayor of Detroit! The first woman mayor in the city’s 324-year history, Mayor Sheffield will move Detroit forward.

Trump’s hand bled from a high-five with Pam Bondi, report reveals

This is exactly the sort of thing every Democratic politician should be saying. Despair is conservative. Hope is progressive.

Mamdani‘s been mayor for a day. Already I have a terrible headache, my apartment is a mess, my kids are estranged from me, and I feel increasingly alienated from a cold and unfeeling society that doesn’t recognize how right I am about everything. I told you so. —Today in the @nytimes.com

New York Times editorial board fucking S E E T H I N G at this callout rn

JACK SMITH: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election, prevent the peaceful transfer of power, retained classified docs, obstructed justice… I’d charge an ex president again regardless of party.”

I like how Trump’s excuse is to claim: uh, I stopped hanging out with him, eventually

"All serious historians agree."

AOC: My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. and it is my deep honor and privilege to welcome you to the inauguration of our new mayor of New York City. Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3. I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.

(1) NYT not connect the corruption to a broader narrative of corruption, and impact of corruption on US, limiting impact of this work (2) even worse, NYT won’t bother to mention this corruption in future articles about Trump making deals for US that intersect things outlined in this good article.

Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left dozens of people presumed dead and another 100 injured during a New Year's celebration.

“Trump’s staff have also counseled him to try to keep his eyes open during public events,”

Yes, it's good that The Times collates Trump's tangled grifts but, again, the #BrokenTimes fails to take the next step: Labeling it corruption to enable explanation of emoluments and illegality. Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The New York Times lays out a "tangled web" of Trump, Trump administration and Trump family business connections and paths to enrichment. The scale of the web is vast and the figures massive. In addition to all the crypto, one segment discuss AI entanglements. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gross.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Jfc just imagine if and when Ellisons get CNN.

"7 a.m. (New Year's Morning)," László Moholy-Nagy (c. 1930)

On this day 134 years ago, Jan. 1, 1892: Ellis Island opens as America's primary gateway for immigrants, which it remains for over half a century. As immigrants have chosen to become American rather than merely happening to be born here, surely they should be considered the true heritage Americans.

Guys. This was an offhand remark and although I *want* this to happen i understand that both it never will and would be a general mess even if it did.

the clock also started ticking on this kind of garbage right wing social media concern trolling. it's 2026. we're done with this claptrap.

Our airplane landed at EXACTLY midnight like the wheels hit the tarmac at exactly 1200 holy shit! I should've been recording that everyone went bananas that was cool.

Everyone is like yea this betch is bad but is she like as bad as American Republican women? I genuinely don't know!

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

People like to say whatever early Biden immigration policy was was too far left and out of touch and Trump’s is clearly too far right and out of touch and surely there has to be a moderate position for the average Joe american. Yea that was Obama’s and entire right spent years saying it was…

These people will have to be confronted someday and it better be on our terms.

Here, in case you missed it, is the first entry of @radleybalko.bsky.social's highly detailed takedown of the attempts to exonerate Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Fact-based and overwhelmingly persuasive. But "The Free Press" didn't think that mattered.

Every part of this is embarrassingly lame.

The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast. There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

🧪A few more hours to go…

Seems bad that no one in chain of command besides Holsey has moved on any of this?

This isn’t just a cat in a hat, it’s a cat in a hat at the beach.

Rampant corruption across the GOP and American conservatism.

ARE YOU READY TO RUMMMMMMMMBBBLLEEE

None of these guys did why is that

They still lack a triumphant white ethnostate to celebrate. The Confederacy, the Nazis, the Rhodesians, the Russians - all material failures. You can help deny them their victory.

"What we have seen is the normalization of behavior that previous administrations understood to be out of bounds...Several of the rules and norms that helped make the American military the best in the world have been weakened, ignored, or broken." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Robert De Niro sent Ukrainians a holiday greeting — a simple public gesture of solidarity at a time when silence is too common. Symbols don’t stop missiles. But they keep Ukraine visible, remind people what’s at stake, and push back against fatigue and indifference.

Nothing beats a super smoky smoked brisket thrown into your mac n cheese squirted with bbq sauce and mixed up to perfection.

🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at exactly 11:38:48 PM then Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray will say “Ah, Victory” at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.

nah Now, ordering federal LE to shift focus into red states, especially with regard to tax evasion and wire fraud, well

Robert's SCOTUS majority is blatantly corrupt. The conservative justices are Fox News Facebook brained far right radicalized freaks and should be ignored.

Spending New Years in airports ugh. Will be in OHare for the countdown I suppose it could be worse!

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

Generally I don't like the idea of sending in the military, but much like with gerrymandering, Rs aren't going to stop unless they experience the same thing they want to do to Ds. So until they agree to a truce, blue states should erase every red district and draw up plans to occupy Oklahoma.