Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

About god damn time.

Trump quits pivotal 1992 climate treaty, in massive blow to global warming effort

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

So, they’re basically just making messes and fomenting as much chaos as possible, so that they can claim that there are too many messes to clean up and too much chaos to deal with for them to actually do what they’re legally required to do.

FOER: “This is one of those moments in Trump’s presidency when an event that would otherwise be recognized as a death knell for democracy somehow fails to elicit the outrage it deserves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.

NEW: Rep. Cory Mills owns a defense company that appears to have been illegally exporting weapons to Ukraine—while Mills sits on the committee with oversight of those sales. This has gone unreported and for a long time unknown in Congress. My latest here: sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Is the White House letting Trump do all these crazy things, and dumping most of the Epstein files, because they know he is close to death, and they are hoping that death gives them a reset? They know most Americans buy into the idea of not speaking ill of the dead.

The New CBS.

Trump is definitely invading Venezuela, on the eve of the deadline to release the Epstein files. The President of the United States of America is gonna send Americans to die in an entirely unnecessary and unprovoked war, because he’s a pedophile who is trying to hide his crimes.

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

Brendan Carr booted Jimmy Kimmel for making a statement that wasn't even offensive about Kirk, while Trump is throwing a party over Reiner's death. One country, yet different rules for different parties? Enough of that noise

This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Is the antifa in the room with you right now?

Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?

"First he came for the female reporters, and I said nothing because I wasn't a female reporter." The silence of media bosses is an embarrassing scandal.

Look, I was in the lie business then. It's a craft you and I love but I had to take another position. I'll be back. Don't worry.

i strangely find myself admiring Rand Paul on this

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Blending family and governance

Billionaires Trying to kill us all, part 80

This #GildedAge is playing out as scheduled. 🥇 @forbes.com @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Just think: If his dad hadn’t been such a sociopathic dick, Trump would be happily developing real estate in Boca Raton right now, boring his clients with stories from the 90’s.

“The incalculable damage left by Bush and Cheney’s day-in-and-day-out contempt for national and international law includes the power to sweep forward in time and trivialize into a matter of personal preference any future president’s adherence to the law.“ Elaine Scarry in 2008:

I hadn’t seen the very beginning part of this coverage before I don’t think - familiar ICE Goons‼️⤵️ bsky.app/profile/laur...

🚨👀 {𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} ProPublica tallied 170+ U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents in 2025 sweeps — many dragged, tased, or held >1 day w/o calls; ~130 arrests often dropped. Kavanaugh said citizens are ❝promptly❞ released; DHS denies profiling. The cases tell a different story.

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

This man left Costa Rica in Dec 2024 to look for work. He was in perfect health. Snatched by ICE on Dec 27, held for 8 months in Texas, and now dead. Picked up in perfect health, then deported back on an ambulance flight, and died shortly after his return. Something monstrous is going on.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Thanks John Roberts!

Mamdani is already reducing crime in New York.

Given their free time, House Dems should find a venue, invite citizen replacements for their GOP counterparts, and rent a venue where they can start writing and debating the bills that they promise to pass in 2027. Begin with progressive tax reform. It will end the shutdown in a week.

So much coverage these days seems like the media wishcasting a return to "politics as usual," like they see this shit and say "wow these guys don't know how bad this looks, I'll fix it" when those guys know exactly how it looks and just don't care and in fact want it to look bad.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

A deep cut (a WWII poster) from the SF March:

SF was wall to wall signs today

Senator Jeffrey Merkley claims that Trump is orchestrating a fabricated riot in order to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina. Elon Musk does too. Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come. There is zero oversight. Congress not involved. One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

Letter From The Editors is on point www.idsnews.com/article/2025...