Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that." (Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)

The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously. Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen?? youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...

At first, Trump was going to fix inflation and prices “on day one.” Then it was, ‘Well, by the end of the year ...’ Now it’s maybe never. Because even though Republicans control the entire government, they can’t do anything, don’t cha know.

BREAKING: The FBI just uncovered a $1.7 BILLION healthcare fraud perpetrated by immigrants. I'm kidding. That fraud was committed by Rick Scott's Columbia/HCA. MAGA just doesn't care because he's a white American.

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

All I want for Christmas is to learn of Trumps death 🙏🏽

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

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?

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

The “60 Minutes” scandal neatly encapsulates the triumph of the past decade’s free-speech hypocrisy, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

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

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5

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

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

Bari Weiss has “a curiously narrow definition of free speech”—one in which free speech means whatever conservatives want to say, Adam Serwer argues.

the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that was cancelled last minute had apparently already been sent to Global-TV which aired it in Canada. I suppose that risk in very short notice changes didn't occur to bari weiss as someone who knows nothing about her job (it's a 14 minute video, recorded on a phone)

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $21 billion to Americans cheated by big banks and giant corporations. So naturally, Trump and Republicans are trying to shut it down. Trump sided with companies scamming hardworking Americans. I won’t stop fighting back.

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-...

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Clean version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG32....

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

WELKER: Is the DOJ taking directions about who to prosecute from President Trump? BLANCHE: No. Of course we're not. And also, Mr. Siebert wasn't fired because he refused to bring cases. He resigned.

Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women? Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them. Welker: So those women with Trump were victims? Blanche:

Massie: "Blanche is using a different theory that wouldn't survive first contact with any court, which is he's trying to say that prior laws override our law. That's not the way this works."

Your Friday reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.

Elise Stefanik dropped out of the governor's race and is exiting Congress. But we'll always remember her for that balmy day in Plattsburgh, New York, when she was roundly booed by her constituents while honoring a deceased county clerk. Not just boos, but shouts of “Traitor" and “You’re a Nazi.”

Schiff: "Part of this is a consequence I think frankly of Chief Justice Roberts giving the president absolute immunity when it comes to his instructions to the DOJ. He can pretty much order them to do what he wants and know that he will never be held criminally liable."

It turns out that Trump’s $1776 for troops is coming not from tariff money, but funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members. Cool.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

russia saying the west is a bunch of degenerates yet still sending all the elite's children to live and study there remind me of magas who despise multiculturalism but love their tacos and pho; enjoying the fruits of liberal society while railing against its existence

Blanche on Epstein files: "Today is the 30 days. I expect we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today, including photographs...now, the most important thing is we protect victims. We are looking at every single piece of paper making sure that every victim is completely protected"

For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/Du4KkLTo

The president continues to preach austerity and hate to people struggling to make ends meet. No wonder voters are turning on him. He's the Trump who stole Christmas.

Brendan Carr uncomfortable chuckles as Markey accuses him of being the chair of the "Federal Censorship Commission"

Trump says we need to go after drug cartels. Meanwhile, he disbanded a DOJ task force that took them on. And he pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Trump doesn't care about drugs — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. It's a power grab.

This clip reminds me that so much of national politics today is Democrats making great arguments and patting themselves on the back for it, while Republicans respond with nonsensical word salad, then do whatever they want anyway.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself." snyder.substack.com/p/what-a-ter...

Elon Musk said he’d spend less on elections after a falling out with Trump. He's now reportedly donating to Republicans again ahead of the 2026 midterms. Musk pulled the strings early on in Trump 2.0. It now appears that he wants even more influence within the GOP.