ashley callingbull would make a badass wonder woman.

I'm grateful for this review: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Two brutal killings by guards, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? The New York Times identified more cases of inmates who died after beatings in the past three years.

This is the key. You can win some elections, but you can't force people to like or respect you; ironically, Trump's people want that respect from people they claim to care nothing about. They don't hate the "elites" - they envy that club, and they're mad because money and power can't buy them in.

Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.

MN GOP openly admitted today that they conspired with the racist YouTuber who ginned up these racist attacks

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

Dr. Marvin Dunn, a Miami-based Black historian, is working on creating a historic park in Rosewood right now. It is worthy of support and publicity. @dunnfiu.bsky.social www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=17707

Incredible lol

ICYMI: "The first payments from a more-than $600 million fund to settle Flint water crisis lawsuits have been made." You cannot imagine how much it took to get here.

135 years ago, on the 29th of December 1890, more than 300 Lakota people were killed by the United States army in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Nineteen U.S. soldiers were awarded Medal of Honor for this massacre. Efforts to revoke these have been halted by the current American regime. #otd #history 🗃️

Trump: "I saw a very interesting President Putin today. He wants to see it happen. He told me very strongly. I believe him. Don't forget, we went through the Russia Russia Russia hoax together and he'd call me, I'd say 'Can you believe the stuff they're making up?' It turned out we were right."

@newsjul.bsky.social “US security guarantee”

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Steve Schapiro.

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

#StoryUpdate | More details are emerging about how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein allegedly groomed, assaulted, and raped a teen he met in northern Michigan. bit.ly/MyUPEpstein 

Head of CBS news

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

Yeah, it's effectively a debate over whether the Southern Strategy has been successful enough to now be abandoned.

Someone has to save the film and TV that studios won't: defector.com/someone-has-...

corporate oligarch media outlets reporting on the malfeasance of other corporate oligarch media outlets isn’t the way out of this btw. give your scoops to independent reporters.

Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" is featured in our special 'It's a Wonderful Playlist!' holiday mix | Listen to the 200-track playlist here: album.ink/HolidayPlay

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.

Final share as you head into your weekend.

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Hi @rose.bsky.team @esb.lol I’m irked about the ability to add me to block or moderated lists based upon who I follow. People I don’t follow or interact with just mass blocking, which impacts my experience here. I don’t have to agree with I people follow but frankly that’s my business. #MyTwoCents

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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

In 1987, Jennifer Jones became the first African American Rockette, bringing her exuberant and elegant dancing to the iconic dance line. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4pcE5EA 

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

@garretthaake.bsky.social fyi

Curtis Sliwa just strolled by me at Bway & 79th in full Guardian Angels regalia.

"Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed...Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing...They said they’d rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving"

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Sinners has been named Empire’s Film of the Year 2025 - and we spoke to Coogler about the vampire film’s success. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

“Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.” trib.al/W9yvjNi

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

It’s really tough to be a Detroit, Michigan football fan right now. #bleak

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”

ICYMI from this week

13 years and the pace of school shootings has only increased. #SandyHook #Brown thehill.com/homenews/sen...