Bedoya: There’s the first bidding war: how much are you going to give Warner Bros. Discovery? The second bidding war is: what are you going to give Trump? Every one of these mergers is a chance for Trump to get his hooks into these networks, and their ability to make fun of him or criticize him.

As a political observer pretty much my whole life, I remember Watergate. This is a gazillion times worse. I hope people are paying attention

European leaders condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates. Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five leading figures behind digital safety law campaign targeted. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

Media Takeover: "Mr. Trump has privately said Larry Ellison assured him that he would turn CBS News, which the Ellisons took over when they bought Paramount, into a more conservative outlet, two people with knowledge of the president’s comments said." NO PAYWALL www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

DOJ: Nothing suggests Donald Trump is a sexual predator. ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?

This should be the bombshell news that ends his presidency. But we’re living in an alternate reality.

"'I am so disgusted with this administration,' said Haley Robson, who voted for Trump, told CNN. 'I think Kash Patel and Pam Bondi both need to resign, and I would love to see Number 47 [Trump] get impeached over this.'" {gift link} www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses. GOP aims to build seven large-scale holding centers to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show. (Note: If you think these prisons will be used only for immigrants, think again.) NO PAYWALL. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

Wow! Almost as much as drug prices have fallen under pedo. 😉

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

The repulsive GOP--Gangsters Oligarchs & Pedophiles--is doubling down on its attack on our democracy.

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

WA Gov. Bob Ferguson backs WA income tax on millionaires for the first time, as large Democratic majorities in the Legislature question his proposed austerity budget. Reported on Dec. 23, 2025 at 1:53 pm www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I’ll take immigrants over pederasts any day.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This is wild. Why would a line like this be redacted: “Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

running out of words for the depravity on display here

The $79 Trillion Heist prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

You love to see it.

I wonder how those 1,000 FBI agents tasked with reviewing and redacting the Epstein files feel now that they've been sucked into a criminal conspiracy to violate the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Now would be a really good time to lawyer-up and seek whistleblower protections. Just saying.

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

In Big Oil's Pocket . . . China will bury America with its highly successful green projects, while old man Trump, stuck in the past era of stinky polluting coal & oil, sends our soldiers off to war for oil in places like Venezuela.

Ruining so many federal employees lives for nothing.

CBS burying the 60 Minutes CECOT story is exactly why the Ellison family shouldn’t be allowed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? NO PAYWALL www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Garcia: First, let’s be very honest about what’s happening. This is a White House cover-up. They are now involved in an illegal cover-up of the Epstein files. They’re defying Congress. They’re defying their own base. They’re lying to the American people.

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

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."

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

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The 10 best global albums of 2025: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

In 2025, America saw the highest number of measles cases in over 30 years. That’s just a preview of what’s to come as RFK Jr continues his rollback of vaccine guidance.

Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.

Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office to New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall on January 1. trib.al/ylTzosO

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...