The funniest thing about the latest Heated Rivalry is Shane’s mom being surprised someone would want to leave Boston.

hey merry Christmas

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Trump's DOJ is trying to overturn D.C.'s ban on assault weapons ... while claiming to be SO concerned about crime in the District that it must flood our streets with National Guard troops. I think a president worried about D.C. crime would not be trying to arm criminals with especially lethal guns?

I wonder if it was worth it www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

"Six of the pardoned January 6th insurrectionists are charged with committing child sex crimes, ranging from sexual assault to possession of child pornography."

BREAKING: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied DOGE's effort to prevent turning over much needed—and long overdue—information to CREW on its structure and operations. This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!

This is so beautiful. I love gay people. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

A bunch of people Trump pardoned for January 6th are going on to commit new crimes.

Finally, a platform to debate the least suppressed ideas in American life

Really good story on the people defrauded by a private equity executive Trump recently let out of prison. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Let's make this very clear and simple: The Constitution bars anyone from being elected to the White House more than twice. No wishful thinking or book by the president's former defense counsel changes that.

NEW: We just filed a lawsuit, on behalf of a coalition of nonprofits, asking the court to prevent the Trump administration from unlawfully defunding the work of the CIGIE. Without inspectors general, waste, fraud and abuse goes unchecked.

Andy Garcia in Ocean's 11:

what is going on with people these days

I was at a milestone party recently and two of the age 50+ people who made toasts said "I asked ChatGPT" to start their remarks.

Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power, weaken long-standing rights and protections, and entrench inequality. It’s crucial that lawyers push back.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The caption on this absolutely cursed TikTok reads “George Santos + Anna Delvey + Martin Shkreli + thong song has to be a political first.”

what is the point of these

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording www.404media.co/border-patro...

There were over 9,300 comments submitted and they were overwhelmingly opposed to the administration's unlawful actions.

Thousands of elected officials, organizations, individuals, and state and local agencies just sent a clear message to the Trump administration--leave our personal data alone. My write-up of the recent DHS public comment period: www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.

Candy Crush did its version of Wrapped this year and I'm excited and not at all embarrassed to report I'm in the top 1% of players in DC.

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

My mom’s instagram has no pics, no bio, no anything. She just reposts stories that offer free stuff if you repost. I think she has it right.

Kushner said he wouldn't have a foreign policy role in this administration just like the Trump Organization said it wouldn't make new foreign deals, just like Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never engaged in a conflict of interest.

Ok but there's nothing more relatable than falling asleep during meetings that are just report outs.

In my day, if you got a bad grade, you would simply team up with your best friend Dionne to get your debate teacher and your English teacher to fall in love so they would raise your scores--not launch some national discourse about it.

imagine going public about getting a bad grade on a college paper

I'm the guy at Facebook who decides you should get a push notification for an 8-day-old news story from a page you don't follow.

sure why the hell not gizmodo.com/trump-crypto...

Noah is a great boss and an incredible leader who has built CREW into a critical organization fighting to protect our democracy. I'm excited for his new adventure and for CREW's next chapter!

Hey here’s @citizensforethics.org’s great resource page on the 22nd amendment and its history. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

This Amy Poehler / Ina Garten interview is a damn delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMH...

Mike Huckabee continues to peddle sleep pills as a paid pitchman while serving as ambassador to Israel. “Ambassadors need to sleep, too,” the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem told me when I asked. But the makers of Relaxium changed their tune when @notus.com came calling. www.notus.org/money/mike-h...

President Trump has clearly abused interim appointments of US Attorneys to put loyalists in place who will, among other things, follow his instructions to investigate and prosecute perceived enemies. So today's decision to dismiss the Comey and James cases on those grounds is welcome. 🧵

"This is X in 2025: potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

what my loofah is doing when i'm not there is none of my business

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

Listen, I respect that she's being honest here.

President Trump said he plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns from national security officials that it could help China steal the technology. When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵

Just had a matchmaker reach out on LINKED IN.