Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.

I worked for DOJ and I'm trying to figure out why they would issue a subpoena for a reporter's flight records. I'm wondering if they believed that a source leaked non-public information to Brown and they thought she was going to meet with the source. She should push to find out.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

And here’s the gift link to the article @donmoyn.bsky.social brilliantly takes apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

Agreed. Trump's comments made clear that he was intent on selling Putin to his audience, and was woefully misinformed about simply facts on the ground—like who controls Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station (Russia does).

8/ Putin and Russian military commanders continue to discuss the need to form “buffer zones” in areas of Ukraine outside of the four oblasts Russia illegally annexed in 2022. Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole.

check out the expression on Zelenskyy's face as Trump claims the war wouldn't have happened if the 2020 election hadn't been "rigged and stolen"

Can a MAGA translator please explain to Donald Trump that if the Justice Department has a million pages of reports related to a child sex trafficking ring, IT'S NOT A "HOAX!"

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

WTF are they pumping into his veins?

The law I helped pass is clear: the deadline for the Justice Department to release the Epstein Files was December 19, 2025. We will enforce the law.

College bowl games used to be prestigious, Keith O'Brien writes. Then the college football playoffs arrived.

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

A private company allegedly forcing captured foreigners to work for no money.

Son-in-Law Watch:

Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...

Against this pattern of threats, MAGA DOJ won't say it will investigate patterns of threats, and who's behind them. Why won't they?

The Army military intelligence officer corps is primarily composed of individuals who never actually did any intelligence collection themselves and only have a rudimentary understanding of how any of it works.

It is not at all vague and it has meaning. Other definitions have different meanings.

So what do we know so far? Trump called Putin before meeting Zelensky to agree a common position. Trump publicly stated that Putin seriously wants peace The Russians have stated that the US and Russia are aligned. So yeah--this looks like a pantomime so far.

That’s a relief. 🙄

One year into Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas. And don't get me started on missing farm workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

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.

Trump invites the press to his Mar-a-Lago meeting with Zelenskyy, then kicks them out of the meeting as soon as it starts.

"It cannot possibly be completed on the schedule Trump announced. I’ll go a step further: It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware."

Shaking hands with his left hand.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

A key point from Zachary Karabell that reinforces the TACO narrative. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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.

It’s fitting that DHS would be the source of this blatant violation, as Noem’s ethnic cleansing approach to homeland security is transparently rooted in xenophobia and Christian nationalism. newrepublic.com/post/204766/...

Well, he was probably contracted to appear at the Kennedy Center. Not, The Donald Trump and Kennedy Center.

Exclusive images of Mamdani’s luxury mansion

Good Lord. (And once again, I do not endorse this message.)

Just noting that Mark Kelly voted in favor of Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

By today's "heritage" standards, I'm only the grandson of olive-oil greaseballs and potato-eating drunks

The vast majority of Ukrainians are Christian. Putin is murdering them as part of a violent invasion to take over their country. Why doesn't Trump give a damn about the Christians in Ukraine?

Ukraine's 1st Unmanned Center hit Russian targets in occupied Crimea overnight. Strikes destroyed a Valdai radar, command post and naval drone base in Chornomorske, USF Commander Magyar reported.

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

They’re not sending their best.

Russian flagged bulker Irtysh delivered stolen grain from occupied Sevastopol, for the second time, to Houthi controlled Al-Salif. Irtysh returned from Houthi controlled port of Yemen, transited Bosphorus and returned to the Black Sea. #T

Also, the Russians made a host of references to concrete understandings which they had reached with Trump at Anchorage. The history of that meeting already needs to be rewritten. Finally, Ukraine shows what it can do with western cruise missiles--only they have very few.

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after independence in 1991. Today many Ukrainians believe that decision to give up nukes was a mistake. n.pr/4jkrm19

[One farmer who voted for Trump three times acknowledged, "For the most part, farmers — we've been willing to kind of go along. But I don't know about now."] Most of these people had family members who tried to talk sense into them in 2024. “They’re eating… 🐈 🐶 “ www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

For a post on big gaps in reporting on Stephen Miller's reign this year, I went to Wikipedia to see if IT cited some of the articles I remember but couldn't find. It incorporates almost none of the abundant reporting on Miller from this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

Over and over they make sure no adults are in the room.