My "I'm not at work" Slack status has people making a lot of phone calls already answered by the status.

A must read from @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com “Indeed, Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era.”

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

That's PETE HEGSETH'S Boat Murder Jerkoff Porno Movie, YOU CAN'T WATCH IT www.wonkette.com/p/thats-pete...

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

To be clear, Karoline Leavitt is a hateful propagandist who is paid to lie profusely for a deranged criminal tyrant, anything she’s says is in worship of the orange felon. Tomorrow won’t be an address, it’s him dressing up nearly a year of destruction, crime spree and chaos.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Phang: Wiles says she doesn’t think Trump is on a retribution tour, but that he’s going after people who did bad things in coming after him… That sounds like retribution to me. I’m not quite sure what her definition of retribution is, but she might want to look it up in the fucking dictionary.

Josh Hawley kiss his wife normally challenge, difficulty level impossible.

I stopped after reading his Atlantic paragraph. A classic example of “When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” And he thought this LA example was suppose to support his theses? He didn’t stop to wonder why “higher-level writers were all white men.”

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

Next November, there will be no confusion about who raised healthcare premiums. None.

You don’t reform this. You prosecute it. And you raze the agency to the ground.

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg warned that public displays of misogyny and “tech bro” rhetoric are damaging corporate culture at the world’s biggest companies. “Rhetoric matters, who says what matters.” This interview will irritate the tech bros if they notice it. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/s...

SCOOP: The ICE detention operation at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is back in business after a two-month hiatus -- with the arrival of 22 Cubans from Louisiana who are designated for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

This is extremely important

What are the odds he’s going to be announcing the start of bombing Venezuela from the Oval tomorrow night? After all, the Epstein files are due in just 3 days, so he’s got to start a *major* distraction

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

Trump’s Chief of Staff admits the cases against Letitia James and James Comey were about revenge, not justice. That’s blatant due process violation. If I’m Mahmoud Khalil or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, I’m suing for malicious prosecution. & shame on the billionaire universities that chose capitulation.

if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better

It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.

Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her. This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.

Bishop Aymond used to be my bishop when I lived here in Austin the first time. I’ve met him. He wouldn’t be granting this dispensation without a VERY good reason. Turns out, that good reason is that people are scared of being kidnapped by the government. What does that say about us?

if you are still out here arguing that civilians at a holiday celebration are a legitimate target for "armed resistance" because of their presumed political beliefs, you not only lack any kind of analysis of power or productive theory of change, you have alienated yourself from basic humanity.

Excuse me, WUT! You don’t give a “shockingly candid” interview ripping your own administration and then act surprised when people quote you. That’s not a media problem. That’s a foresight problem.

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Apparently the WH Chief of Staff has been the victim of having her own words printed in a story.

Good. Other big states should follow suit since Congress under the GOP won't protect our rights here.

Susie Wiles is one of the most brilliant political operators in the business, having guided DeSantis and then Trump to significant victories, and the idea that she doesn't know how 'on the record' worked is like saying a pilot doesn't know how to land a plane.

NY AG Letitia James has sued UPS for stealing millions in wages from its seasonal holiday workers. UPS' CEO made over $24M last year — over 436x her median worker's pay. This is a reminder that states can step up and protect workers when Trump's federal government refuses to.

I was hooting about this months before the election, but it's even worse this time. He's so full of shit, and the only people doing well are ones who were already doing well. He's only caused the job losses, cut benefits for those who need them, calling us all names. This is not a President 😐

To say the US narratives about the region are legitimate without addressing the overt interference is not just dishonest but outright disinformation. open.substack.com/pub/extremea...

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

Linda Holmes sums up so much of what we loved about Reiner and his films, an enormous part of which is the enormous amount of love in them. For me it was When Harry Met Sally… which I saw too young and which defined “adult relationships” for me for good and for… misguided. It’s perfect.

Thomas Massie calls out Trump

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Help us push for an investigation into Trump's Epstein cover-up HERE:

TOTAL BACKFIRE: Pulitzer Prize Board just turned the tables on Trump. In his defamation lawsuit, they’re demanding his tax returns, financial records, and even medical & prescription history if he’s claiming damages. (Law&Crime)

“Unfortunately people only feel when it hits them personally.” #RIP

NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan. "It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Unfortunately, we’re all gonna realize way too late in hindsight that the appropriate move was for everyone to collectively mobilize against ICE as if it was a combat situation, rather than merely protesting and posting about it.

214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them. ☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Bowie. I think you will too. We unpacked how the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is dismantling decades of voting rights, campaign finance law, and congressional authority. youtu.be/LHv8zFi1bPk?...

If and when any of these incompetent fucks — Patel, Bongino, Noem, Hegseth — are pushed out, be unmerciful. Taunt and mock them viciously, and do not relent. They richly deserve that and so much more.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, said her son was pulled over by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents operating in the state as part of a Trump-ordered crackdown on migrants.