The President of the United States is a criminal. Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.

Journalist Caolan Robertson from Kyiv: "Midnight on New Year's Eve here in Ukraine, the start of 2026. Complete silence, no crowds, no fireworks, there's no cheering. Every other capital in the world right now is exploding with sounds, with light, and here it's silence.

European, UK and Canadian intelligence services have formed a consensus view: Trump is completely in the tank for Putin, and his words and acts cannot be trusted. US security guarantees to Ukraine are worthless. The analysis has been shared with Zelenskyy. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

In 2022 Russia bombed the Mariupol theater and killed hundreds of children who were sheltering there. Today Russia re-opened the theater and danced on the graves of murdered Ukrainian children.

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

I'm a former federal prosecutor who handled criminal prosecutions for DOJ. This comment by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is exactly correct.

When we were wearing masks, I not only didn’t get COVID, I didn’t get sick at all for well over a year iirc.

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

This is the key. You can win some elections, but you can't force people to like or respect you; ironically, Trump's people want that respect from people they claim to care nothing about. They don't hate the "elites" - they envy that club, and they're mad because money and power can't buy them in.

"I didn’t ever really get to take care of my daughter—I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her [...] I don’t know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother."

He's using the CIA as an end-run around Congress. Trump installed Michael Ellis as General Counsel of the CIA back in September and got him to write a memo saying these attacks are legal. Ellis was part of the group that hid the "perfect" phone call with Zelenskyy that led to Trump's 1st impeachment

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

Tatiana Schlossberg has passed away at 35. Please read this beautiful essay she published last month. It's one of the best things I've read in a long time. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

Donald: "Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed" Prez:

Heads up that this is authorization for Trump to create his own version of the Wagner Group. Which would bring the number of “armies” at his disposal to four: *regular armed forces (most regulated) *ICE (minimally regulated) *private mercenaries (?) *MAGA thugs/militias (rogue) All pardonable

It is very important to remember, to not let them erase, that "1/6" was not single violent dat, it was an organized, calculated PLOT that played out over weeks. The mob violence was only one part of it, and possibly even disrupted the real parts from happening

“Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet… Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back (in NASHVILLE) — even though the illegal-influence & money-laundering investigation remains open.” www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.

The idea that the blame should be focussed on trusting Trump is dodging the truth. The US population chose Trump, even after Jan 6, 2021, even after he talked about leaving NAT0 and after he talked about his respect for Putin. It is the action of the USA as a political entity.

“Earlier, if we engaged in combat, we could jump out and act,” he said. “Now, everything is dominated by drones. So is there any point in having people just sit in a hole?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...

First story of this episode is really interesting - it’s an interview with a confidential military hotline operator for members with concerns. Seems to be a big uptick in enlisteds worrying about unlawful orders, etc.. pca.st/episode/529e...

“Is he dead yet?” should be the first question asked at every White House press conference. “OK, but it’s happening soon, right?” should be the second. And then maybe “how fucked are you all once he’s dead and can’t pardon you anymore?” if they’re still at the lectern

David’s been making this point for a while: Trump wants to provoke Venezuela into war not because he cares about regime change per se, but because he wants to use the Alien Enemies Act to facilitate mass deportations, including of Venezuelans, and the courts say it can’t be invoked outside of war.

Buildings are usually named after dead people. It's a tradition Donald Trump should honor.

This should be the message from everyone. Trump needs to go to Ukraine and see for himself. And bring the attention of the eyes of the world with him.

The Russian ‘press’ also thought Trump was selling out Ukraine yesterday - and they’re thrilled

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

The deranged speech of Russian propagandist Solovyev: "War has revealed many things. War has restored meaning to my generation, which at one point thought the Motherland no longer existed. It has become clear that a man is made for war. In war, everything best comes to the surface.

Zelenskyy: I told Trump: On one hand, Putin tells US he wants to end war, and on other hand, his messages contradict this. He's bombarding us with missiles, openly discussing it, rejoicing in destruction of civilian infrastructure, and giving his generals orders about where to go and what to conquer

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

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.

Nothing about this is normal. I don't even know where to start other than to say again -- this is not normal.

No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions. "He was worried they'd invade Russia." No he wasn't. He just wasn't. That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Are you ready?

When it comes time to write the history of Europe in this period, there will be one area of consensus. One of the greatest errors European states ever made, was in trusting the USA.

Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

Wild scenes. Absolutely wild. My brain can't comprehend this kind of behavior