I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Bari Weiss' condescendence is exceeded only by her lies. "slow news week"?! "We are out to inform the American public and get the story right"?! "No amount of outrage ... from ... the White House – will derail us"?!

"The sanctity of our military"?! WTAF?! sanc·ti·ty /ˈsaNG(k)tədē/ noun The state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly. Our military is *not* a religion nor a manifestation of spirituality.

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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Pompous and arrogant is no way to run a network

The “60 Minutes” we have known is dead. The fearless program that many of us grew up with was strangled by corporate titans seeking favor with the Trump White House. I don’t know what is next for the storied franchise, but it will never be the same. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...

A federal judge has ruled the Trump regime broke the law when it deported over 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT without due process in March. Here's your reminder of what due process is — and why it's the cornerstone of our democracy.

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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

NEW: A federal agent has fired shots in Baltimore, and two people have been taken to the hospital. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

Flying For Holidays? Airline Protections Have Been Rolled Back, Officials Warn Holiday travelers are being warned to understand their airline rights after federal regulators rolled back consumer protection rules tied to flight delays and cancellations. dailyvoice.com/ny/albany/ag...

Bloomberg reports that Russia has rejected the 20-point peace plan proposed by the United States and Ukraine and is already working on its own counterproposal. Oh wow, how unexpected. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carols in the Kyiv metro. Sending you a bit of Christmas spirit from Ukraine.

President Zelenskyy: After Chinese satellites filmed Ukrainian territory, Russian strikes were recorded on the corresponding energy facilities🤬

Following Russian strikes on Odesa’s port infrastructure, sunflower oil spilled into the sea, triggering an ecological disaster and causing mass bird deaths.

My dear people, since ancient times, Ukrainians believed that on Christmas night, the heavens open. And if you tell them your dream, it will surely come true. Today, we all have one dream. And we have one wish for everyone:

American businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett, together with Ukraine’s special police unit "White Angel," visited frontline areas of Kupiansk in Kharkiv region, where constant shelling continues and civilians are being evacuated.

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

THANKS TRUMP: Dollar set for worst year since 2017.... WE NEED FOR TRADE WARS: Against a basket of currencies, the dollar index fell to a 2-1/2-month low of 97.767. It was on track to lose 9.8% for the year, which would mark its steepest annual drop since

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts. newrepublic.com/article/2047...

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year newrepublic.com/article/2047... via @newrepublic.com

An anti-democratic (with a small “d”) Supreme Court ruling means that Texans will vote in the 2026 midterms using a map that a trial court found had been aggressively redrawn to target the seats of five Black and Latino members of Congress.

2/ The Democratic and Republican Parties have not always had the same ideals that they have today. In fact, America's two dominant political parties have essentially flipped ideologies in the time since they were founded. www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-f...

What a mystery!

Andrew and Epstein is the story that will not go away share.google/npF1qPyIY2wD...

‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office The New York Times recreated the president’s office in 3-D, using hundreds of photos taken in October. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Trump’s mass recall of ambassadors is even worse than it sounds Trump is breaking precedent with his targeting of career diplomats. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Jeffrey Epstein's wills listed former bank CEOs and other Wall Street figures as possible estate executors www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary blames Trump’s Canada trade tensions for Jim Beam’s shuttering of distillery: ‘Self-inflicted mess’ U.S. spirit exports to Canada fell 85 percent in the second quarter of 2025 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

CBS News’ Scott Pelley unsurprisingly displeased with Bari Weiss’ handling of 60 Minutes segment Bari Weiss isn’t making any friends at CBS News, as veteran correspondents suggest that she take her job "more seriously" because it isn't "part-time." www.pastemagazine.com/tv/cbs-news-...

For me, the real lesson of Frank Capra’s delightful holiday film “It’s a Wonderful Life” was never as powerful as it is this year. That lesson: it’s our choice. We can wallow in despair at the hell that Trump and his sycophants have created, as in the fictional “Pottersville.”

Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th.

It’s a Wonderful Life We can create kindness and decency, despite Trump robertreich.substack.com/p/its-a-wond...

The AI bubble could take down our entire economy if and when it bursts. Please have a look at our latest video and share:

The AI Bubble Will Burst Be warned robertreich.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...

Check out this article from USA TODAY: Live updates on Epstein files: Trump named in latest documents www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Biden tried to forgive student loans. Trump is going to seize their pay. Any questions? These 2 CNBC headlines really say it all about who Trump cares about👇🏽😕

The Ellisons want Trump’s support for their hostile takeover of Warner Bros. But Trump has been unhappy with recent episodes of 60 Minutes — hence the CECOT segment removal. Business leaders and the press surrendering to Trump is a danger to us all. A tyrant can't be appeased.

The new DOJ documents raise serious questions about the relationship between Epstein and Donald Trump. And why are Epstein’s co-conspirators being protected? What else is the DOJ hiding? This is a White House cover-up and we are going to end it.

Trump’s 'National Security Strategy' declares the US will focus on 'cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.' That amounts to a declaration the US will promote regime change in countries that remain governed by pro-democracy parties that support the EU and NATO"

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

Political cartoons for December 23 Tuesday's political cartoons include an eye on CBS, cracking the middle class, and Donald Trump's name on everything

Political cartoons for December 23 Tuesday's political cartoons include an eye on CBS, cracking the middle class, and Donald Trump's name on everything