Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.

Heading into 2026 like

Thinking about those months of dialogue on whether or not it was against the rules to mention white supremacy. Remember that?

Ok, here's my best "new to me" board games of 2025: 1. Star Trek: Captain's Chair (2025) 2. Pagan: The Fate of Roanoke (2022) 3. Cyclades Legendary Edition (2025) 4. The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship (2025) 5. Luthier (2025) 6. Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game (2025) (1/5)

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Killing in the name of… nothing

The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.

There’s only one day left in the year for Trump to release his tax returns

This is functionally equivalent to - & equally illegitimate - as Russia invading Ukraine. As @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social notes: "the US wasn’t attacked by Venezuela, someone based in Venezuela, or anyone else. There’s no self-defense argument, and the US didn’t even try for UNSC authorization."

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

she just got the house to pass her bill criminalizing trans care for people under 18 years old. the only mention in this piece is about how she’s upset trump hasn’t done *enough* to harm trans kids. oh and a quote from her saying trans people are all “perverted”. what is going on at NYT?

Do you want a haunted ass? Because this is how you get a haunted ass.

Yesterday, I did a post noting that we don't know WHY Trump decided to move the mostly innocent Venezuelans out of CECOT, and so don't know why Stephen Miller lost that fight. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/27/w...

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

Make a Bond film casual From Duluth, Minnesota With Love

It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?

Merry Christmas folks.

"Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew — Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas — are dead. And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, I became a second mother."

they put the postal service in the fucking constitution it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit aaaaaaaaaaa

"It is going to get so much worse." For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US. A quick 🧪🧵

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vladimir Putin is the one who picked Steve Witkoff to be Trump's special envoy to Russia. Why would anyone think this is not a red flag?

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

"transactionalism" = corruption

Squint real hard, and you might just see the “WTAF?!” word balloon that pops above Rep. Massie’s head right after Margaret Brennan finishes her question.

the thing i keep coming back to — and i know this has been a quirk of his for a long time, but —  telling the exact same story over and over again is not exactly a great way to convince people you don't have memory issues

Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime. Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

“he’s a businessman — he will run the country like he ran his businesses”

Have seen this sentiment a lot. But it’s wrong because it inverts the core, fundamental causes. Nixon wasn‘t pushed out by his own because they wanted him out. Republicans were FORCED to push him out, by the weight of public opinion, which got his approval down to around 25%.

We all witnessed a federal crime so what happens now? Nothing I presume? Because we been talking about atrocities from the admin since day one and what’s been the consequence?

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

goofy's spitting here It's messed up what they did to him

I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1

The most insightful thing anyone has said about Trump, and it’s true of every fascist you can name. They lie about the past in every possible way, and are perfectly straightforward about what they want.

Given that it requires an act of Congress to legally change the name of the Kennedy Center and Trump didn't get one, this is by definition an act of vandalism. It's no different than if you were to walk up to the Ronald Reagan building and change it to the Walter Mondale building.

The Toy "An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat." Must be how it feels to work for the Washington Post or CBS News right now.

The Trump gang’s election fraud machine is kicking into high gear because they know they’re fucked.

Many women just wanted to have acting careers & not be sexually assaulted for it so we’ve all got stories

Trump and Republicans got rid of the CFPB’s rule to cap overdraft fees at $5. Now, big banks are taking even more money from struggling Americans to pad their own bottom lines. Trump isn’t looking out for you – he’s looking out for Wall Street.

All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

I'm old enough to remember when the networks refused to carry an incredibly important speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by President Biden about creeping fascism in the U.S. because it was "too political". Sure, but they'll broadcast every minute of Trump's propaganda bullshit. 🙄