Jan 2nd - Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine worked together, cornering the frozen concentrated orange juice market and bankrupting the Duke and Duke brothers 📽️📅 Trading Places (1983)

FRENCH MINISTERS REPORT SEXUALLY-RELATED CONTENT GENERATED BY GROK ON THE X PLATFORM TO PROSECUTORS — GOVT STATEMENT

Um, sir, is this you?

This is the way.

Thursday?

Mike Johnson makes Christian identity the center of his politics. For Karoline Leavitt, it’s Christian and female identity politics. Stephen Miller’s all about identity politics. The podcasters who go on and on about men and masculinity? Identity politics. The main complaint is which identities.

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...

Donald Trump’s year-in approval rating is lower than that of any president in the last 5 decades. It’s even lower than Biden’s approval rating when he left office. @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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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

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Did they find them on the “tariff shelf” cause sure sounds like Trump thinks that’s a big, real place in DC.

When this regime moves on Greenland, remember things like this. The EU (and the rest of the coalition being formed) can cripple the US economy, but they have never threatened that, only ask people and companies obey the law.

The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.

Having already weakened substantially in 2025, the dollar limps into the final week with the DXY index depreciating to below 98 again. #economy #markets #dollar #currency

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Consumption in Q3 a move to stock up prior prior to tariff starts?

Denmark is building a global coalition to protect Greenland from the Trump regime. They will be successful.

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

He failed a *counter intelligence* polygraph. Not the lifestyle poly, just the CI questions. The bar for that is *ridiculously* low.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means. www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Told you so.

Congrats to the MAGA GOP for destroying free markets and innovation.

Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.

Hegseth says the US can be taken out by wind; that news will have the rest of world running scared.

To save you all the time of googling: yes, of course this guy is hopelessly unqualified, he's some Kristi Noem flunky with no experience particular to cybersecurity. He's a business IT guy whose first job at all relevant was appointment by Noem to be South Dakota's chief tech officer in August 2024.

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

Todd Blanche ADMITS he had a hand in moving Ghislaine Maxwell, which required a waiver of her sex offender status.

This is gonna be a football game!

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Hiding behind a blue tarp to add the name to the Kennedy Center. Illegal. Pathetic.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

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"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."

It’s a really hard time to not be a fan of that “Sweet Caroline“ song.

JPMORGAN: “.. we think the November [CPI] readings understate true inflationary pressures, and are poised to rebound in December .. “.. rent and OER .. gives a November increase that is about half its true value. “.. once the December data are released, some firming of these series are likely.”

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

You know what’s not shocking? The COWARDICE.

Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man