who needs opposition research when you have Trump's chief of staff?

median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30) JD Vance lies as he breathes

Yet another excellent courtroom exhibit.

Palin erasure!

“She kind of became this party trick for wealthy Westside executives who wanted to have a certain kind of conversation that they thought they couldn’t have in public” jesus

This applies to so many things (h/t @serwewx.bsky.social)

I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.

I know Kash wouldn’t be any help catching the shooter at Brown, but I still find doing a podcast about your love life during a manhunt shocking.

This makes a little bit more sense if you consider that the only thing they care about is celebrity, and they're absolutely obsessed with the fact that they're wildly unpopular and fundamentally impossible of making any media or culture that's even the tiniest bit resonant with the normal world.

The Republican platform is simple: They want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it .

Epstein files: Ahead of Friday's deadline to release the files it's notable that FBI already reviewed/redacted the files this year, as I previously reported. Big question is whether the files were reprocessed over the past month & certain redactions, protecting names aside from victims, were lifted

Lies, you mean. L. I. E. S.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness. I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...

"To Putin, he is a tempting mark & full of weaknesses that are easily exploited. He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong. For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"

As you look at this ugly example of gender affirming medical intervention, remember that Trump never stops talking about Leavitt's "lips that don't stop-op-op-op, like a little machine gun."

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"When they admit it’s not justice they’re after but pure revenge, believe them.” Attorney for New York Attorney General Letitia James responds to Susie Wiles conceding that the Justice Department's highly unusual case against James “might” be “retribution.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Note that per WaPo, Hegseth considered but opted against an ArcticCom.

@daveminca.bsky.social wants to know more about why Pam Bondi's has so much success helping corrupt Republicans out of legal jams. min.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Americans are dealing with soaring costs and a stagnant job market, so naturally, Donald Trump is laser focused on building a gilded ballroom and renovating DC’s golf courses.

Oof. @governor.ca.gov's press office has a website dedicated to Trump and all his criminals. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...

“They say” is not a reason to comply with fascist foot soldiers in fact it is a reason to rebel.

“Now these root causes must be eliminated, and it’s good that the Americans have understood this. They clearly said that there can be no NATO. And they clearly said that the lands where Russians have lived for centuries must once again become Russian,” Lavrov said

Lavrov: United States promised Russia that it would help facilitate the transfer of territories and that Ukraine would not join NATO

This is the propaganda Russians are religiously fed every night.

A new Russian military unit that replaced the Wagner mercenary group is carrying out abuses including rapes and beheadings as it teams up with Mali’s military to hunt down extremists, dozens of civilians who fled the fighting have told The Associated Press.

You know how many media outlets covering this? One. Me. Not even kidding. And this about the AI and internet governance and safety.

Just saw footage of Merz greeting Witkoff and Kushner, who attempted to walk by him failing to recognize German chancellor.. in Berlin.

Why would DJT oppose Putin when he is using his methods? One would guess that violating UN Charter would actually be of a benefit to someone with such ambitions.

Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of 8 nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to keep Arctic export routes open.

Polish PM Tusk confirms the US is calling on Europe not to seize Russian assets to aid Ukraine He noted that the Americans might have some interests in the funds

DOD is making Chaplain Corps “great again” by streamlining religious narratives.

"Dignified"

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

“Why should I care if criminals are killed?” I see this comment everywhere. Here’s why it matters: these boat strikes aren’t war, they’re law enforcement. When the government can execute people without trial, the rule of law collapses. Due process protects Americans and U.S. service members.

He got it to at least 11 today with his Truth Social post - and even higher when he dug his heels in while speaking to the media about it.

Also necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act

Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."

Susie's father, Pat Summerall, was in fact a notorious alcoholic.

Pathological liars permeate the GOP now. It must be part of their oath that they take to Dear Leader.

Total bullshit. Meanwhile, Vance is giving product placement to a major Trump donor.

🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Imagine being the Reiner family and going thru this not just with the media attention it already would attract but then with the added layer of the president of the United States reveling in the supposed hilarity of your gruesome loss

they also want hot hosts they can objectify

Bari Weiss was hired by a billionaire to blow smoke up the ass of the extraction class and amplify their cultural division propaganda there's no actual real-world market for it

This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.

This professional wrestler has a stronger moral and ethical grounding than the leaders of most civil society institutions, and I think it’s worth reflecting on why.