John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”

Read this New Year’s thread and break your heart

The CIA's favorite neurotoxin is saxitoxin, produced by a ton of shellfish. They not only made a heart attack gun out of it, but the CIA director showed it to congress 5 years after they were supposed to have stopped playing with or possessing saxitoxin. allthatsinteresting.com/heart-attack...

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just the dumbest of asses

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Anyone know why Doris Burke is pronouncing Donovan Mitchell as “Dunnavin”?

SCOTUS could have limited immunity to non-corrupt official acts, but it chose the broader protection for Trump. So, taking a bribe in exchange for an official act cannot be criminally prosecuted. No American has ever received this form of immunity. The opinion is an abomination.

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

The whole thing is the epitome of anti-Christ in a very fundamental way

The genocide will continue until morale improves.

Oh look, it was exactly the things the uppity leftists said it was.

If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.

who cares about nielsen ratings, streaming is the future of- wuh oh

Not saying the people running State are foreign agents but also if you were a foreign agent running State this does feel like the kind of thing you’d do.

The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Paper linked below. The grading criteria, given to students in advance, was based on whether the student demonstrated they read the article and if they provided a reaction to some aspect of it. The student made no effort to do either; they blathered about the Bible. drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

My TikTok video on this ad from TikTok was removed from TikTok by TikTok for violating TikTok’s community guidelines.

You know how sometimes people will make sensationalist claims to the FBI for the fame and clout of them coming out six years later in a report no one was sure would ever be publicly available

Putin is Trump. Trump is Putin.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Oh, so, suddenly it's a CRIME to fly on a PRIVATE JET with the world's most famous PEDOPHILE and a bunch of UNDERAGE GIRLS who were SEX TRAFFICKED and then FIRE everyone at the FBI who INVESTIGATED YOU and replace them with LACKEYS whose only job is to COVER FOR YOU while you STEAL MONEY from TAX PA

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

An utterly deranged human being.

Trump really lives and governs like a terminal Make a Wish kid whose wish was to be American Hitler.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

The premise of “we will not air anything that the White House refuses to comment on” gives the entire game away, but ok. State media it is.

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

The pulled “60 Minutes” episode on the CECOT prisoners is down on that YouTube link but up now here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably

“The United States of America had boats in Greenland in 1725,” said President Goodbrain

What will happen is the journalists with ANY integrity left will quit, those willing to prop up fascism will stay and they’ll hire more lickspittle whose views align with Weiss to have an even more blatant government propaganda arm. All bad.

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

For people who don't work in the press, you try to give everyone a chance to comment. If these were ordinary citizens ducking comment, there is some grace as they don't routinely deal with the media. The government has processes and teams that respond to these requests. There is less grace there.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

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

For-profit health insurance is a grift and among the most ghoulish things in society. The answer these people want is “if you’re poor or sick, you die.”

Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.

The framing of this question is genuinely insane. By any objective measure the DOJ is willfully breaking the law. To pretend that the reality is the exact opposite is unbecoming of anyone with a brain stem, much less a journalist.

They’re not even trying to be subtle about it.

“Brett Ratner, the director of “Melania,” the new documentary about Melania Trump, was spotted in DOJ’s Friday release of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair reported…Brunel died by apparent suicide in 2022 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, as did Epstein in 2019.“

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

What was their kickback?

They are very good at this.