The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/22/t...

"We also need to invite every American into the story, because they’ve lost something from Trump’s assault on government."

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

There's a lot of focus on how the dripping antisemitism on the right has created a useful rupture in various parts of Trump's support, and that's true. But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.

"Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. "

Another story about what a disaster Steve Witkoff is. nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sudden-trips-security-lapses-steve-witkoff-marco-rubios-clashing-diplo-rcna249464

If you haven't already, definitely read this WSJ story on how Putin hand-picked Witkoff for his malleability and cupidity. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

I'm not used to seeing my byline in a tabloid, but nonetheless glad to see the Boston Herald publish our op-ed on State's stupid and counterproductive visa policy for trust and safety workers. lnkd.in/g5_U7QvR

She's giving a de facto veto over news stories to powerful people just as long as they refuse to respond.

Her entire schtick for years has been treating powerful conservatives as powerless misunderstood victims, so this is expected

Oddly, a Yale professor nobody heard of was not granted the pocket veto which the White House had received by not responding.

The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss tried to spike has leaked. youtu.be/lenFGZ5WUTA?...

Wow, weird, when I go to The Free Press's website and search for "did not respond to a request for comment", it turns up a bunch of articles! Someone should tell Bari Weiss this.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Agents illegally detained dozens of US citizens and demanded that they prove their citizenship. We need to defend our private property rights against trespassing government agents.

Utterly lawless: "Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer." www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

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

Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives. Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.

News: Restrictions on the release on the release of Volume II of Jack Smith's report concerning Trump's Espionage Act prosecution will EXPIRE on Feb. 24, 2026. BUT Judge Cannon will let Trump DOJ try to delay it further and DENIES a First Amendment group's bid to intervene. Doc buff.ly/fuP30K4

How racist do you have to be to freak out Hans von Spakovsky??? reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This is a big deal in the conservative legal world: John Malcom and the Ed Meese center are leaving the Heritage Foundation, 15 staff departing in all. (Hard to translate this for a BlueSky audience, but it's a pretty significant move in the conservative legal world.) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Quick explainer for why this is a big deal, a thread.

Outside the conservative legal world, you generally hear that the Federalist Society runs everything in the conservative legal world. Although outsiders talk about the Fed Soc, behind the scenes there are several groups that have a lot of influence. One has been Heritage.

Heritage has had a lot of influence within the legal world in particular. It played an important role in judicial selection under Trump. It runs a program for conservative clerks. And as this NYT story indicates, it tends to draw a "who's who" into its orbit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

In some ways, the legal people at Heritage have been doing what people think FedSoc does. To have the legal people at Heritage say "we're out" not only signals a split at Heritage, but a split of a group w/lots of influence that has been at the center of things in the conservative legal world.

It'd be really useful if someone could map out the various shades of antisemitism on the right currently and how that overlaps with Evangelical beliefs.

You’ll recall I told you that if Bondi violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act, it would trigger a lawsuit. That’s what Schumer’s resolution does. It directs the Senate Majority Leader to file federal civil action against the government over failure to release the Epstein files. 1/

Schumer also disclosed that only 9,675 pages were released Friday Todd Blanche went on the Sunday shows and said “hundreds of thousands,” and corporate media repeated that number all damn day. END/

PS SOURCE: www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

You have GOT to check out these new poll numbers. I've never seen anything like it. My latest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMRl...

WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.

“We couldn’t report on the sinking of the Titanic until we spoke to Captain Smith.”

No comment IS a comment.

TODAY: Trump is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Kilmar Abrego's lawyers just got documentary evidence that Todd Blanche lied under penalty of perjury and are seeking sanctions, and the Epstein Files debacle. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

🧊✈️ GlobalX must be so disappointed this 60 Minutes report on CECOT was spiked last night. No such thing as bad publicity, right guys?

When Bari Weiss refers to her “North Star” I assume she’s talking about Trump’s butthole.

From today's new Gallup poll news.gallup.com/poll/700241/...

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“No one really knows what magnets are.” -DJT

just the stupidest people imaginable.

Of course a guy who’s part of the fossil fuel industry would say that

Burgum on wind energy: "It wasn't even actually green because when you look at the components, the magnets, the blades, everything that goes into building this thing, you can really question whether it was green in the first place"

Simple…Republicans are bought off by big fucking polluters.

Bingo. They lie for the $. We should start making them WEAR their sponsor’s logos on their cheap suits.

Biden's labor secretary had a fantastic deal with US Steel and labor unions to build all wind turbines here in the US with unions. That's all out the damned window now.

lol. No one has ever heard of battleships!

My phone keeps autocorrecting it to Barf Weiss.

New legislation from Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD) would "require the immediate removal of Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to prevent future actions to rename it or other historic landmarks or memorials."

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-...