FIFA gave Trump a bullshit peace prize and as a thank you he’s going to launch a war against his World Cup co-host and make the games unplayable

Letter: America’s embrace of extrajudicial killing as part of drug enforcement is indefensible

Trump will absolutely use the Alien Enemies Act to violently round up Mexican immigrants when he starts a war with Mexico.

Political scientist Julia Azari argues that Trump, like Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon before him, became president in part because of white backlash against the pro-Black accomplishments of his predecessor. trib.al/YamabBH

Why did the Democratic Party refuse to release its 2024 "autopsy" report?

Blanche’s directives, while he still owned significant crypto investments, violated the conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, according to legal experts and former federal ethics officials.

There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

A robber is robbing his victim, renewed focus on the victim's wallet.

Despite Israel's continuous violations of the U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza, President Trump "is fully supporting whatever Israel wants to do in continuing its genocide, and possibly even following Israel into Syria, Lebanon and Iran," says journalist Rami Khouri.

For those too young to remember the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, this is actually nothing like that. The Iraq invasion (though built on lies) was approved by Congress. This is much more like Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, or Germany into Poland, etc.

One point I made in this post is that Diosdado Cabello, currently Venezuela's interior minister and one of the key players in the trafficking, remains in the newly unsealed indictment. He was the first person to condemn the invasion yesterday. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...

MAGA's supposed "anti-interventionism" is actually pro-pillage and pro-plunder.

Another point I made in this post comparing the 2020 and 2025 Maduro indictments is that Tren de Aragua is added (including its head as co-conspirator), but his inclusion is really thin. Effectively DOJ used indictment to ham-sandwich TdA claim IC disavowed. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...

Rubio sets out US demands for Venezuela’s remaining leaders ft.trib.al/9fBDUCx

Some men will invade sovereign nations rather than refraining from raping teens

Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)

Trump defense attorney DOJ employee #5 Stan Woodward has filed a notice of appearance in the Dan Richman case which suggests they're going to invent ANOTHER reason to stall so that they can throw this all to Aileen Cannon and she can resume shredding the Constitution.

"Over the last decade, I’ve participated in rigorous research, traveled the globe, and spoken to thousands of women, leading to an astonishing discovery: you are totally fucking fine the way you are."

"The GOP now fuses myths of white male victimhood with censorship that erases decades of academic scholarship detailing how Black Americans—not white men—face systemic discrimination in America." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

The “ceasefire” is nothing but a cover for Israel’s genocidal practices, supported by the U.S. and Western nations, and disguised by mainstream media.

Also, you can’t have deeply anti-democratic, egregiously counter-majoritarian institutions save “democracy,” because non-democratic institutions (aside from not being actors with agency who swore the damn oaths) are…not democratic themselves. We have to first become a democracy in order to save it.

2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional. Published April w/ @veritenews.org

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”

PSA: The Naked Gun is available to stream on Amazon Prime, Paramount+, and a few others. If you missed it in theaters, stop depriving yourself of a good time!

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

also, this happened this year: Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Billionaire Tom Steyer: “Bernie was right. Boy was I wrong. We don’t have a choice. We need single-payer.” #MedicareForAllNOW

😬 @tobymorton.bsky.social has outdone himself: www.trumpkennedycenter.org

Americans across the country are facing enormous scam risks because of their president. In a fundraising email circulated Monday, Donald Trump told his supporters that Democrats would steal their “tariff rebate checks” if they didn’t donate money to him within the hour. trib.al/wPYsHYU

Yeah actually shocker. This is fucking yikes man YIKES. While in Congress. Holy Jesus. This isn't pre Congress dad's failson times in Florida this is on the taxpayers dime pedophilia. What the fuck man

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia https://theonion.com/trump-urges-supporters-to-move-on-from-societal-disdain-for-pedophilia/

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

The newly released transcript details a secret October court hearing about Tyler Robinson's criminal case.

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off https://theonion.com/white-house-evacuated-after-trans-alarm-goes-off/

I love Marshall Mcluhan moments so much. Love you @leahremini.bsky.social

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INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

A 2024 ProPublica investigation, built on court and medical records, revealed how Weiner subjected patients who didn’t have cancer to chemotherapy and was believed to have hastened the deaths of more than a half dozen people. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death http://theonion.com/man-who-bumped-tesla-while-parallel-parking-sentenced-to-death/

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

Again, there is a very easy solution to this. It is entirely a choice. Other, more serious & professional choices are readily available.

The two parties are not remotely the same, & yet they are covered in our most prominent outlets in exactly opposite proportions to the actual degree of scandal, lawbreaking, authoritarianism, etc. It has been uneven for decades, but it’s reached new levels of farce & obscenity since Trump.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

WASH POST: “Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/NzwVe9q