Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.

Oh FUCK this, Bari

I’m going to start complying with the spirit of laws only

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Genuinely, what is wrong with these people

How can those dumbasses be so corrupt that they’re messing up implicating Bill fucking Clinton

Elise Stefanik announces she is dropping out of the NY governor’s race and retiring from Congress.

Still laughing about the fact that dude slapped his name on a memorial building, like he absolutely cannot wait for his own death

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

he's re-running birtherism on the powerless

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

When the opening paragraph references Heart’s tribute cover of “Stairway to Heaven” at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony (look it up on YouTube) you know the rest is worth reading. Another great riff from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/kennedy-ce...

So the Trump FBI has let a serial killer get away

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Lmao

The math doesn’t make sense but also, they are not bringing the prices of drugs down from $100 to $13 either

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Lot going on today but my dog just rolled up and perched on my shoulder like a small bird

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.

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Much has been written about the journalists who have fled The Washington Post, but I think the paper's biggest loss might be a book critic, Carlos Lozada, who's just killin' it at the New York Times. Today's roundup of "grievance memoirs" is outstanding. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

"You can tell the pro-illegal immigration radicals are losing the argument when they resort to ICE voodoo dolls," said Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill

This is metal

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

The weed gummy I ate for the new Fallout is proving less helpful during this random presidential address

NEW: HHS terminates seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

New: The 61-year-old retired Tennessee cop who spent 37 days in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook meme has filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit against the authorities who ordered his arrest. "In America, we do not jail people for political speech." Gift link: wapo.st/490I014

I can’t explain why it’s so funny to me that he’s closer in height to the lamp than the door

At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

NEW: 4 months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing black sludge across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away. Yet the black goo still clings to walls, roofs, and soil of more than half of the majority-Black town’s properties capitalbnews.org/roseland-lou...

Welp. That clears it up

McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."

the mangione trial is probably going to the maximum hilarity outcome where he's very obviously guilty but the prosecutors and police basically tried to frame him, oj simpson style, for extremely unclear reasons

Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats. The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

Is this a reference to Venezuela’s nationalization of its oil industry? Should other countries that nationalized—eg Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, etc—now be worried about a US attack?

It sounds like the most deranged Latin American caricature of yankee imperialism come to life. It would be comical if it weren’t serious.

I’d also like to point out that you cannot surround Venezuela with an armada.