Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files.

This photo has been removed from the DOJ Epstein webpage. By whom? For whom?

Uhhhhhh this is way worse than you think it is

Elise Stefanik drops out of the Governor race and won’t run for reelection in the house! If Trump is so innocent, why are the rats jumping ship?

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

Ugh, this again. Please tell your senators to grow some common sense and reject KOSA. With all the book bans and other censorship pushes going on right now, preserving access to potentially life-saving resources on the internet (not to mention preserving privacy!) is more important than ever.

The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Useful guidance.

Had to pick up relatives from EWR today. Took NJT & Airtrain out, Uber back. 1. Penn Sta. wayfinding is cruel. (26m to EWR) 2. EWR's AirTrain was clearly designed by a Misanthrope. (20m more due to train designed for Rye Playland at an airport) 3. The Uber back to NYC took nearly 2 hours.

Controversial highway project canceled by Murphy www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

The…"Shooter Awareness industry" that's cropped up since Sandy Hook? May have started well intentioned, but now is somewhat perverse. A very young relative told me one holiday "We had to hide under our desks in case a man with a gun came"-after being told the drill was "disguised" by their parent.

Per Trump’s preferred naming format in the Epstein Files, I understand the Center is now called: [REDACTED] And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

As a reminder, inherent contempt means that the Sergeant-of-Arms of Congress (who doesn't answer to the DOJ) is granted the power to arrest and imprison those charged. This threat could actually have teeth.

At the risk of being cheesy in a dark time, but… Bodily autonomy for one and for all. Hate out of health care (for all). Eff the gender police.

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Those metallic letters in the correct font didn't happen overnight. This has been planned for a long time. So when Donald says he is "surprised" and "honored" by the name-change, he is lying. It was his plan all along.

Everyone involved should be named & shamed. (& we shouldn't have to wait around for the contractors to get stiffed to learn who they are.)

Honestly, it’s the perfect role for a VP. They’re usually the more partisan one and they usually need something to do. Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

" ‘Between democracy and totalitarianism,’ says Mussolini, ‘there can be no compromise.’ The two creeds cannot even, for any length of time, live side by side. So long as democracy exists, even in its very imperfect English form, totalitarianism is in deadly danger.

What the absolute fuck - this is pure child abuse - in our name and paid for with our tax dollars. Apoplectic and heartbroken. Good thing I can count on my senators chuck and Kirsten to do anything at all. For fucks sake. @schumer.senate.gov @nadler.house.gov

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation. Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.

Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school. These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...

An obscure Texas law makes it a felony to "solicit" nonpublic information from a government official "with intent to obtain a benefit." Police in Laredo tried to use it against Priscilla Villareal to make a crime out of common journalistic practice. She won at the Supreme Court, but now can she sue?

i mean TikTok is about become Twitter Two Electric MAGAloo, amirite?

The U.S. government acted to put an end to gender-related care for minors across the country on Thursday, threatening to pull federal funding from any hospital that offered such treatment. If finalized, the proposed new rules would effectively shut down hospitals that did not comply. trib.al/b3HHaQE

Holding the door for someone is a common courtesy. Stopping your car + not hitting someone with it while they cross a street is not an act of kindness or courtesy to be praised but the bare minimum of responsibility as a driver. Let's not mistake responsibility for courtesy.

The Wave.

"he looks like an alcoholic california raisin" The House Democrats publicly released a new trove of photographs they’ve obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein via Dropbox and left the comments on... so anyone who is signed into Dropbox can leave their thoughts...

Some Trump backers were willing to break ranks for once and deplore his rant on the Reiner murders. Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio has a theory as to why. /1

my favorite novelist Hwang Sok-yong published, at the age of 82, his newest novel "Grandma", told from the perspective of an old hackberry tree observing Korean history over 600 years. I really, really hope this gets translated to English soon www.koreaherald.com/article/1063...

Art. I, Sec. 9: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequences of Appropriations made by Law." Yet he claims he's already sending out his supposed "Warrior Dividend" without an appropriation from Congress. He simply doesn't care about Constitutional limits on his power.

From the Times article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

This profile about Melissa Hortman starts with an anecdote about a 3-hour detour to explore MI's $.10 deposit program. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The only Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission says chairman Brendan Carr's belief that the FCC isn't independent leaves news media vulnerable to political pressure. n.pr/4oZVyji

Safest year on the subway since 2009, when Bloomberg was mayor. free link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/n...

Denaturalization is extremely rare. Per the Times, Justice Department figures say that only about 120 denaturalization cases had been filed since 2017. “Setting a quota for denaturalization is vicious and cruel, and designed to send a message of fear,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

I have been doing some analysis.

“.. Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops .. come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.” @defenseone.bsky.social www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

"Not since the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge."

Trump's promise of $1,776 for service members last night -- which was supposed to be a tariff thing -- is in fact theft from increased housing allowances. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!

"Trump, 6 years older, was a real estate scion who relished publicity and exaggerated his successes. Neither man drank or did drugs. They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency." #Epstein

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.