💔 Toretsk. Another ghost town in Donbas that no longer exists. The war brought the most terrible destruction of cities in Europe since World War II.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

NEW: A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a @startribune.com and ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"It’s clear that the president considers the rules-based democratic and economic order a barrier to his goal of establishing an autocracy. Given his dictatorial ambitions, it makes perfect sense for his regime to cozy up to strongmen while treating America’s principal democratic allies as enemies."

Trump’s reckless tariffs are driving holiday prices up 26%, leaving fewer gifts under the tree and more out of your pocket. Once again, working families are left paying the price for this administration's choice to put profits over people.

SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces. We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.

This video sadly feels remarkably relevant in light of recent events.

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

Time for a New American Revolution youtu.be/zJ49gA2cqS0?...

This appears to have been written just days before Epstein's suicide in August 2019.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The Trump admin just halted five additional wind farms off the East Coast, jeopardizing billions of dollars of investments. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Over the weekend, JD Vance said: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.” That’s a longtime theme of white supremacists in America, as Vance no doubt knows. In this thread, I cite similar racist rhetoric using the “apology” theme. 1/6 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

From the indispensable @propublica.org: "The central clues that prosecutors relied on to connect him to the murder crumbled as soon as anyone checked. But it took dozens of delays, agreed to by a revolving cast of lawyers, before the state finally dropped the case in 2022."

Bari Weiss speaks about wanting to have "contentious disagreements" on news stories But Sharyn Alfonsi said that when she found out Weiss was killing the 60 Minutes story about CECOT, Weiss refused to discuss it That's not honest journalism It's catering to a political agenda The MAGA agenda

Axios is reporting that administration officials did provide comments, but CBS didn’t use them. We don’t know if this is true, or if the comments were along the lines of what Karoline Leavitt recently told a reporter: “Your mom.” www.axios.com/2025/12/22/6...

This looks like

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates. Truly preposterous.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Dad!!!!!!

The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do… archive.org/details/ceco...

archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Clearly RFK Jr. is not aware the individual pediatricians he thinks parents should discuss vaccines with are the same pediatricians who have been collectively calling out his bull$hit for decades. Vaccines are safe and effective. Pass it on.

Andrew Cockburn: “A New York Times/Siena College poll in September revealed that more Americans supported the Palestinians than Israel, and 40 percent believed that Israel was deliberately killing civilians.” harpers.org/archive/2026...

The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Precisely. Many decades ago CBS News was separate from CBS programming. The "suits" had no power over the content of the news. The news division was completely separate and had total autonomy to tell the truth. No longer. I wouldn't believe CBS News if they told me the Sun was shining at noon.

NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found. One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”

Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

That’s suspicious. That’s weird.

Corrupt FIFA, Corrupt DOJ youtube.com/shorts/jq48e...

Tulsi Gabbard will always defend Russia. She’s the Director of National Intelligence and writes long tweets lying to defend an aggressive enemy of the United States. What will she say when Russia moves the war inside EU borders?