For some enterprising media journalist, there is a book just aching to be written about how Bari Weiss (CBS), Will Lewis (WaPo) and Chris Licht (CNN) irreparably destroyed their storied news organizations at the behest of the billionaire owners seeking to suck up to Trump.

(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.

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/...

Calling it corruption is critical to healing the country.

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Stephen Miller's argument that the U.S. shouldn't take immigrants from "failed societies" overlooks the fact that the failure of other societies is what drives people to seek a better life here. It's what Miller's own ancestors did.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

They had contempt for Biden because they believed he had values; they have respect for Trump because they know he doesn't. Mentality of whipped dogs.

Use anything but Global. They are a tainted Conservative run news organization. Use this, no ads and free; archive.org/details/3mam...

The 60 Minutes segment is now on youtube. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...

🏛️⚖️ “Under the inherent contempt power the individual is brought before the “House or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned or detained in the Capitol or perhaps elsewhere.” www.congress.gov/crs_external...

A significant portion of content these like-minded billionaires pump into the ether is about how George Soros, college professors, public school teachers, and journalists are supposedly colluding to brainwash you.

Ideally the dumbest person in America and the President would be two different people

FBI Designates Brown University Shooting A Cold Case

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I don’t even know what to make of this level self-delusion, cognitive dissonance and moral cowardice www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

So help me God, if what orange guy said about Rob Reiner gets swept under the rug, we are f*cking doomed to 3 more years of this shit. Please, please don't let the MSM just casually move on from this!

Trump in reference to the Brown University mass shooting: “All we can do now is pray." Thoughts and prayers play no part in reducing mass shootings. Easy access to guns & the hatred to use them, has everything to do with mass shootings and gun violence. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

But we’ll hear a lot from all of the latter about how brave they were come 2029.

This is quite the graphic right here.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Nothing on NYT front page about Trump calling for Democrats to be executed. Nothing on WAPO front page about Trump calling for Democrats to be executed. Nothing on CBS News front page. ABC News. CNN. NBC News. You're all failing. Shame on all of you. Front and center. No excuse.

Going for the gold!

Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year's midterm elections. @ariberman.bsky.social explains.

The Pentagon reporters who have been kicked out of the building continue to break huge stories every day while the right-wing New Media continue to post selfies of themselves hanging out in the Pentagon.

Harry Enten: "The GOP should be running for the hills, as the blue wave is building. Tuesday's result in TN-07 is part of a larger pattern of Dems outrunning Harris 2024 in 6 specials by 13+ pts. 5 of 5 times since 2005 the party that outperforms in specials ahead of midterms win the House."

There was a 13 point swing last night in TN-07. If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.

The attack ads write themselves

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

And I’m sorry, but if my parents had ever said anything remotely like this to me, that would’ve been the last time we ever spoke. My Dad was a lifelong Republican but he was not a fucking sociopath.

How it started / How it’s going

Bondi: "President, you first 100 days has far exceeded that of ANY other presidency in this country. Ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you."

At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.

They're stealing my bit

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: MAGA is stunned into silence as news confirms National Guard shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the U.S. in 2021 and was vetted and granted LEGAL ASYLUM by the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION in April 2025. Their entire narrative just collapsed.

Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?

Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.

"The history books will look back on what the country lost by not having a televised trial before November 2024 and historians will wonder what Fani Willis was thinking. And they'll just scratch their heads," Kreis, a law professor, told The Guardian… www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.