This DOGE goon, Justin Fox, decided to kill funding for a documentary focusing on Jewish women used as slave labor during the Holocaust because it was "inherently related to DEI." HE CANNOT DEFINE WHAT DEI IS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbG...

Gerard Baker, so on point, in the @wsj.com: "It was said of Winston Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. Donald Trump’s trick with the mother tongue is to douse it in gasoline, set it on fire and drop it in a dumpster in the middle of his own parade ground."

The lack of seriousness boggles the mind.

‘As different members of the administration & their allies give shifting versions of why Trump moved against Iran now, the question arises: Has the president achieved his presumed objective of knocking the Epstein files off the front page?’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Sorry, LOL

Well worth a listen. Tangled web of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell père et fille, Putin etc etc etc

Hey @governor.ca.gov! Don't let your mouthpieces act like trashy Trump people. No one wants to see that. Your constituents deserve better.

Shockeroo!

Wonderful (and literary) wrap up of the Games by my very clever colleague @kbaxter11.bsky.social

Leave WHO, kill USAID, then replace it with an inferior system that will cost billions. So much winning.

Look what I found at my local Gelsons!

Brutal, just brutal. Should be required reading for the guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats.

Another hero. Olympics edition:

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

My hero:

Howard Lutnick really should resign. What a pitiful liar.

OMG the details from this @nytimes.com story about Epstein's penchant for gift giving: "Not all of Mr. Epstein’s presents were warmly received....

I asked ChatGPT why the Epstein emails are so full of weird diacritical marks. Here is the response:

Word for word, one of the best and most depressing accounts of the Epstein files. They show "a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny." www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

If I was still on Twitter, I would start a feed called @ScottJenningsPart. Who combs that dude’s hair? I cannot look at him on @cnn @abbyphillips without thinking “Hey! There’s Dennis the Menace all growed up!

Good news for democracy: www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Among the many things I find galling about Bezos gutting the WaPo: Management has the absolute gall to tell the journalists they are not giving readers what they want. Well, guess what? READERS WANTED A KAMALA HARRIS ENDORSEMENT. Bezos killed it and lost 250,000 subscribers. Fucking liars.

‘It’s important — really important — to exercise our right to speak and to assemble. It’s so fundamental to what America is. We can’t just take it for granted… We have to exercise our rights if we want to keep them.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Great piece @rabcarian.bsky.social - I interviewed Downing for my book “A Place to Go, A Place to Grow” re his tireless suport in South LA. Amazing storyteller w/an activist’s heart - even got MacGuyver cast & crew involved. We need more like him today! enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...

‘It has become clear that the administration is attempting a certain kind of psychological conditioning in the blue cities its agents are now terrorizing.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The extent to which the Trump administration is trying to pretend away what one former federal prosecutor called “the most documented crime in American history” is shameful. Commentary from @rabcarian.bsky.social at the Los Angeles Times.

RIP Bob Weir. Loved him, and have to say that his 1978 solo album "Heaven Help the Fool" is criminally underrated.

How do we live in a country so cold to human suffering? Bravo to @nickkristof.bsky.social for this heart breaking column. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Not a huge fan of criticizing fellow journalists, but this WaPo editorial on Venezuela is sub-literate: "Another bad outcome would be if the country falls into total chaos." Ya think? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Gee, maybe they can send the DOGE kids down there. After all, they did SUCH a great job here. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Had my annual mammogram today. Always reminds me of what John Mitchell said about WaPo publisher Catherine Graham during Watergate. #IYKYK 😂😂😂

California county fairs: A hotbed of scum and villainy. Who knew? Great piece by @jessicagarrison.bsky.social

Move to California if you must. Malibu, even. But when you write about it, please don't try to channel Joan Didion. My column on Olivia Nuzzi & her new book: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘For President Trump, it’s starting to look a lot like lame-duck season… The signs of lame duckery grow as Trump’s popularity dips… Now members of his own party are beginning to stand up to him.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘Expecting a thin-skinned man like Trump to be respectful to those who ply him with questions about his failures — especially when they are women — is a recipe for disappointment.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘So, what, exactly, was the point of shuttering the House? Was Johnson trying to protect Trump from “incriminating” information in the Epstein files? Or simply currying favor with an increasingly erratic president by doing his bidding?’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Guys, can we PLEASE not call rape "underage prostitution"? As in: "That account...conflicts with Trump’s denial of ever knowing about Epstein’s solicitation of underage prostitution before Epstein’s 2008 plea deal." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @iarnsdorf.bsky.social

This was Beyond the Valley of Predictable. Thanks to those who have quantified the death & destruction. SHAME SHAME on Musk and DOGE. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Steve Bannon updates the racist Obama birth certificate playbook for Mamdani: "I think this guy's citizenship should be checked. If the guy lied on his naturalization papers, he ought to be deported and put on a plane to Uganda." Mamdani was 7 when he moved to the US. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Solid column by @rabcarian.bsky.social. The Trump administration's extortion of UCLA goes beyond asking California taxpayers (ultimately) to pay $1 billion completely unjustified by law. Many substantive provisions of the draft substitute Trump administration policy preferences for the law.

‘In the Trump administration’s war on American universities, fighting antisemitism, while worthy, is just a pretext. Don’t be fooled.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘If there’s one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, it’s that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in crime, should never, ever be considered for the pardon or commutation’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

For the record, I do not give a you-know-what about @katieporteroc.bsky.social snapping at a reporter or a staffer. Are you freaking kidding me? Have you checked out the state of our democracy lately? I haven't picked a side in the gov's race, but give me a freaking break on this meaningless crap.

Excellent post by @markzbarabak.bsky.social on our Mean Girl assistant AG www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Just wow

Next time some Trump supporter says "BUT THE NAME-CALLING BY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS!" show them this: #Hypocrisy

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Morning smile.

Exactly

‘This is about protecting America’s children. This is about restoring trust in our government. This is about standing with survivors. This should be beyond politics. It’s a moral issue’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...