During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

"We demand to be briefed!" will go down with "Peace in our time!" 😡

Bingo

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Tony Dokoupil just last week said that CBS was going to represent the views of average Americans and not the elites. He then cancelled his vacation to come on the air and say that regime change in Venezuela is awesome, a position that maybe 20% of Americans hold.

As a others in the replies have mentioned - US media holding off reporting of a military action to protect our troops is standard. (Hegseth leaking to the media is another story). But the takeaway here is the US media was informed WELL BEFORE Congress or the Gang of 8 were. THAT's the story

MIke McDonald wanted to challenge a particularly generous spot on the most recent 49er 2nd down play. But the rules don't allow a team to "challenge the spot". He can challenge whether the spot correctly gave a 1st down or not. And if that happens, the spot is fixed. #NFL 1/2

Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN ticks through all the evidence we have that something has changed for the worse with Trump's health since October that the White House is covering up

A very good interview from a former editor at the NY Times. To my eyes, this confirms that AG Sulzberger was coordinating with other media barons on a plan of how to use attacks on trans rights to help Trump win in 2024. tl;dr AG Sulzberger is a terrible human being. Don't support him at all.

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.

A judge has tossed the racketeering charges filed by the Georgia attorney general against activists who protested against Atlanta's Cop City facility.

Reminder how useless the regular season rankings are. The ACC almost had no representative. Miami was literally the last team in the tournament, and they only got in at Notre Dame because, the committee, in their infinite wisdom, insisted that they needed FIVE SEC teams. #CFB

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

No,, Einstein did not give us the famous "definition of insanity." It didn't appear until the 1980s, guys. professorbuzzkill.com/2017/05/29/e...

Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...

I have no patience for voter-blamers. Not only do I unfollow voter-blamers, I unfollow people who share their posts. Sorry that the electorate is composed of "morons". But you sound like this guy to me.

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

After Stafford threw three picks on national TV last night, apparenty Drake Maye is now the #MVP favorite. Oddly, this is disconcerting.

As his numbers tank & his involvement with Epstein becomes even clearer, Trump is moving toward an undeclared, illegal war with Venezuela. It’s straight up Wag the Dog.

Feels odd that, for two months, we've been told the LA Rams are the best team in the #NFL, and now they cannot win their division. They could still win the Super Bowl as a wild card, mind you. And that would not shock me. The #NFCWest is loaded.

The year is ending and we're starting to see "Best Movie of the Year" discussions. We seem to be headed toward a "Sinnners" vs "One Battle After Another" discussion. While both are very good movies, I'm a bit nonplussed.

My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Watch. DOJ will eventually release the old FBI handwriting analysis of the Epstein/Nassar letter saying it's a fake, then point fingers at "dems" who "perpetrated a hoax" to "hurt president trump."

NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.

(block) is very useful on BlueSky. 👍

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

I swear, some comments are like "Ha! Ha! You didn't recognize the color blue!" And then if you respond with an arched eyebrow, somebody else will chime in with "If you didn't recognize the color blue, that's exacctly how you would respond!" Who are these people?

Ideally the Democrats should not nominate someone who has expressed the Trump/Vance intolerance for trans people, for instance

Read Major Leeg's substack for all the details. He's asking that this pic of trump w/ a female (she's redacted), found in the Epstein files & initially released by the DOJ, then retracted, *to be shared widely*. Thanks for sharing this pic, @majorleeg.bsky.social. 💙 substack.com/@majorleeg/n...

Did Bari Weiss order the NFL refs not to call the Ravens for pass interference just now?!

"Under any circumstances, getting tackled counts as pass interference." - Chris Collinsworth, #SNF

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Samuel L. Jackson to Bilge Ebiri.

Moderating a recent panel about transportation resilience, I asked whether self-driving cars make mobility networks more fragile due to the risks of malfunctions. Anyway, this happened in San Francisco yesterday.

I stand by this. The Packers dominated the first 55 minutes of the game but lost.

#DaBears completely stymie normal analysis.

A timeout there might have been useful. Better to have one timeout plus 2-minute warning than 2 timeouts but inside 2 minutes? Yes? #NFL

I don't understand how the Packers aren't way ahead.

I have made as many FGs tonight as Jake Elliott, though he has had three more tries. #NFL

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

I started something this morning...