As the president outlined his plans to capture Greenland and hijack Venezuelan oil, his real agenda became obvious. It’s extortion, conquest, and theft. Remember when he was the peace president? Today's Morning Shots, from @saletan.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

Bombing Nigeria won’t make us forget about the Epstein files.

Trump starts his Christmas day with over 100 ranting social media posts www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Note the date. We knew a long time ago.

The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they’re violating state law and could be cited if they switch out or remove license plates on their unmarked vehicles.

The courts are trying to stop this piece of 💩 but he keeps defying the laws. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The President of the United States is a liar.

ICE are not legitimate federal agents. They are not law enforcement. They have no authority to commit crimes, violate rights, assault and kidnap Americans. Zero. They're criminals with badges and guns.

Merry Christmas, First Amendment.

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

"A nasty failing man with zero talent who gets the WORST ratings." www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

Bari Weiss Declares CBS Will Have Zero Tolerance for News open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

As we expected. This was a robbery of America. We said it at the time. DOGE promised to cut government spending. It went up under Trump, new report shows www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Trump is banning fact-checkers--yes, those people who do the research to learn the truth--from entering the USA. When Trump says he supports free speech, what he means is supports his right to lie. Those who tell the truth are therefore his natural enemies.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies. European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA. In the US, he is attacking news orgs.

If you’re surprised by any revelations in Epstein files re: Trump that is because the media failed you in an epic way in 2016. One did not need to look hard to find decades of depravity concerning his behavior but they chose to look the other way because HRC had some emails.

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

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I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

Except Mary, Jesus and Joseph were brown… Merry Christmas, everyone.

After more than two months of ceasefire noncompliance, Israel has killed and injured more than 1400 Palestinians, and continues to severely restrict aid and critical supplies needed to repair water, and sewer infrastructure system.

Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a crime

Why do all official U.S. government social media posts now sound like they were written by bratty 7th-graders trying to mimic Jim Jordan?

Over the past year, Trump has increased the net worth of his businesses by $3 billion. Think of how the crypto and artificial intelligence industries now dominate Congress. It is a fusion of public power and private wealth alien to the American experience.

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism.  #holdfast www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

We all want it public. Jack Smith wants Congress to release his closed-door testimony on Trump’s cases www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Peace on earth, goodwill to men.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

When ICE breaks the law and goes after people legally following the legal process, they don't show up. This judge warned that people could be deported if they don't show up, while ignoring that ICE is making a mockery of the courts and deporting people who are even there to be sworn in as citizens.

I like Presidents that are not pedophiles.

DOJ: Nothing suggests Donald Trump is a sexual predator. ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

The Kansas City Chiefs are relocating from Missouri to Kansas and getting a new $3 billion stadium. 60 percent of it will be publicly funded — despite the owners boasting a nearly $25 billion net worth. This isn't the first stadium scam we've seen recently...