"Their futures gleamed somewhere in the distance. All good things were possible. This faith, this optimism, was at the heart of Reiner’s case for a new tax on cigarettes, with the proceeds used to finance services for pregnant women and young children."

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Ukraine’s new Flamingo cruise missile, with a reported range of up to 3000 km, is said to outperform the US Tomahawk and is already striking targets deep inside Russia.

Ukraine has successfully struck a Russian petrochemical plant and a rubber factor supplying the Russian military. More details have been released about Ukraine's strikes on Taman and Russia's naval port. JD Vance has declared France and the UK's nuclear weapons as a security threat to the US.

The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

I'd rather drink goat's blood.

It feels like felon is shouting again.

🙂

God, if you are listening...

NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.

Well, genius, a President is a politician. The fact you trust a pathologically lying, narcissistic, sociopath tells me a great deal about your poor choices.

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

THIS is what I'll be watching tonight instead of the Orange Atrocity on C: BS.

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.

Russia and China pledge support for Venezuela as Trump ratchets up pressure on Maduro www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

FAFO

Today Donald Trump called for the execution of six U.S. lawmakers simply because they urged the military to uphold the Constitution. A president threatening death against political opponents for honoring their oath is not “fiery rhetoric” — it’s the language of authoritarian rule.

Year of tears eh boys and girls?

Ben Sasse was one of the few Republicans who broke with their party and voted to convict Trump during his 2021 impeachment. This was his statement at the time: outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/v...

Ben Sasse was an early champion of investigating Jeffrey Epstein and the way he was treated.

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122... Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.

AI is often sold as 'do something you already know how to do more efficiently' but is often bought as 'do something you don't know how to do with no idea if you are doing it efficiently at all'

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Boycott CBS.

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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

His entire rant had to be fact-checked to see if there was any truth in anything he ranted about. As usual, if his mouth is moving, he's lying.

Looks like this was shared on GlobalTV in Canada and someone recorded it and sent it to multiple groups for wide distribution. Love it!!

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Jeff Landry is a moron with zero foreign policy experience, knowledge, or qualifications. ZERO. Nothing. More insanity.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

I remember this very well. He was right of course.

#GVerse #BreakingNews #Update The Associated Press is now reporting that at least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ's Epstein File website since they went up.

INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE This could’ve been avoided 30 years ago. Maria Farmer’s 1996 FBI complaint has been unearthed in the Epstein files. It was the first time he was reported to the authorities. And they buried it. “If the FBI had listened to me in 1996, there would’ve been no more victims.”

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.