It is over six months before the New York primary, and tonight I have already seen a TV ad from Rep. Dan Goldman. He just got a credible challenger, @bradlander.bsky.social, mere weeks ago, but Goldman is already out there. That’s how much money Goldman has.

FBI says Patel needed to replace the standard-issue Chevy Suburbans with armored BMW X5s to appear “less conspicuous” at the types of places Kash likes to go. 🙄

2025 has taught me you don’t have to be smart to be ruthless.

Does “Winter Song” qualify as holiday music? Asking for a friend.

The song says, “Stay away from whiskey and wild, wild women,” and, thanks to Trump, half of that just got a whole lot easier.

Does Todd Blanche always sound like he’s lying, or does he only sound this way when he’s not telling the truth?

They call it a “solstice” because it’s a poultice for your soul. This is true—and I know it’s true because after I post this in about eight more places, GoogleAI will verify it.

Dear colleagues, Two thousand zero zero party over oops out of time. So, I’m afraid, tonight, and until further notice, we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.

Of all the weird, awkward and downright absurd sponsor logos pasted onto NBA jerseys, is there any more head-scratching than what you see on the LA Clippers?

When our richest monetarily are our poorest morally, we are going to need more than a few good election cycles, we are going to need to organize for systemic change.

Can you be devious and incompetent at the same time? Trump and his flunkies are out to prove you can! _DOJ releases additional Epstein files as it removes others_ … and one of the things removed is an image that includes a photo of Trump.

This goes part of the way (maybe) to explaining why all the wording about who ID’d the gunman used in the Providence briefing and in the early press reports was so convoluted. Did investigators, the police, the FBI think it made them look bad that they were out-sleuthed by the unhoused.

My thought today was that 90% of the redacted names that weren’t Epstein’s victims or Trump himself were just potential targets of Trump blackmail.

It may be a holiday-season, Epstein-obscured, Friday news dump, but I'm still gonna tap the sign....

Everyone has the feels because they didn’t read past the headline. What Romney actually wrote is a call for “entitlement reform.” “Social Security & Medicare benefits for future retirees should be means-tested…” Means testing is costly, arbitrary & creates an “out” class. We should still eat Mitt

Future poli-sci classes will teach the TikTok “ban” as a quintessential case study on just how influenced members of Congress are by well-financed lobbyists. Dem leadership looks especially stupid as it set the table for tech bros, pro-Israeli govt interests, Republicans & the surveillance state.

Early, ardent support for the invasion of Iraq turned a struggling writer at the rightwing Weekly Standard into a highly paid columnist for @nytimes.com… and earned him an invite to Epstein island. For too damn long, David Brooks has been an inexcusable, bloody stain on the pages of the Times.

So, that screaming, hyperventilating sack of flop sweat in the Dip Room last night knew this was about to publish? 🤔 _‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women_

Good news everyone! Trump still has a chance to die a pauper!

Ha! @crampell.bsky.social just had the same observation, though I guess by the time she was in school, they started calling it a “Gish gallop.”

By ocean AND sea!

This👇. When I try to explain masking to others (even friends), I get a lot of “yeah, I get it—you don’t want to get sick.” I don’t want to get sick, but more importantly, I don’t want others to get sick & don’t want to be a part of a cycle of illness that makes a healthy life harder for everyone.

Bongino stepping down to spend more time with his lips pressed up against his Shure SM7B.

Yo La Tengo pays tribute to Rob Reiner by covering Spinal Tap’s “first hit” during their annual Hanukkah show at Bowery Ballroom. (And stick around for some bonus Velvets!)

I fully support & appreciate all new studies on the effects of COVID on the brain, but it gives big smdh energy because we’ve known much of this since the earliest days of this pandemic. I’ve been seeing brain studies for 5 yrs now & yet it still fails to be part of basic warnings about this virus.

All true, but it’s also true that I’m too tired of all the performances to dig up my posts from when a group of Senate Dems caved on the govt shutdown promising future votes on extension of ACA subsidies—y’know, where I, like others, said they’d never even get a House vote. Talk about performative.

In college, so very long ago, where I majored in int’l relations, we studied the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I was told by a State Dept veteran not to accept the spin in books from various JFK officials and insiders. A naval blockade was—and still is—in no uncertain terms, an act of war.

I always know a guy believes he is telling the whole, unvarnished truth when his voice gets higher and he starts talking louder and faster, don’t you?

“Whether he was an American CIA asset, a Mossad asset, whether all these rich, important men went to that nasty island and did unforgivable things to young girls, I mean, I kind of knew it, but it’s never anything I paid a bit of attention to.” Susie Wiles “knew” about Epstein, but ignored it?

Like with so many unqualified, self-dealing clowns in Trump’s circus, Patel is not just situationally inept, he has made it impossible to trust anything from his part of govt. Kash is just in it for K$H, but the bigger plan, to undermine faith in civil governance, is well-served by his incompetence.

Covid rates are already surging past the summer wave in the northeast, & the rest of the US isn’t far behind. It happens every Dec & Jan, but that doesn’t make it any easier for those who are sick or those who will get sick because too many refuse to acknowledge the public part of public health.

It’s an electoral no-brainer—one that has been poll-tested and proven at the polls for well-more than a decade. I can’t but think of this as a broadly cynical (and even desperate) move from Trump, but loosening cannabis laws should have been universally embraced by Democrats years ago.

This human over here has been saying for weeks “slop” is the obvious word of the year. I congratulate my fellow meat bags for making the correct call.

Challenging Trump directly on his mental & physical decline will get you little beyond abuse, but consider, when challenging other Republicans about the POTUS Rob Reiner post, start with “We know the president’s ability to judge what’s appropriate has further degraded with his recent stroke, but….”

File under: You know it’s bad when…

Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!

One thing to remember about Indiana is it has a part-time legislature. These lawmakers have other lives—lives they can go back to if they lose a primary, lives that might suffer a reputational hit if they are seen to be easily bullied by or overly subservient to an increasingly unpopular Trump.

I didn’t really need another reason to dislike Jimmy Buffett, but hey, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.

There seems to be a big sale this week on straw men. Order now to guarantee Christmas delivery.

Well… like the original 1932 photo, many featured here are immigrants. And perhaps also like “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” this Time cover can be used to organize skilled workers (not pictured) to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

Just Today: Indiana Republican-dominated legislature rejects Trump-GOP redistricting. Grand Jury rejects Trump DOJ attempt to indict Tish James for 2nd time in a week. 20 GOP House reps join Dems, vote to repeal Trump EO, restore collective bargaining for fed workers.

<<the operation was funded by "a few generous donors," none of whom – to his knowledge – were US government officials. "The US government did not contribute a single penny to this operation, at least not that I know of," Stern said.>> OhhKayyy…. So who paid for this “private” mission?

🤬Another year where effin’ @npr.org blows my chances of winning Whamageddon by using “Last Christmas” as interstitial music.🤬 I mean seriously, you want to be public radio in the public interest—stop doing that!

Disney is famously aggressive in defending its IP rights—and that’s putting it nicely. But now, why should any court rule in their favor?

Man who has a publicly funded fleet of private vehicles tells those who don’t that his personal political fortunes are more important than their lives.

Congrats to NBC for showing the effects of measles & not just a generic vax picture. 111 cases in SC, mostly in unvaccinated ppl. Nearly 2K known cases in the US in 2025. And anyone exposed needs to quarantine for 3 weeks. This is a current health crisis & a potential economic disaster.

Top 3: Dog Day Afternoon, Dog Day Afternoon & Dog Day Afternoon

This will be interesting if it remains a two-person race. Goldman would have lost to @yuhline.bsky.social if a bunch of other delusional Dems hadn’t split the vote in the ‘22 primary, even with Levi Strauss & Co. heir Dan spending millions from his ample personal fortune.

Shifting winds? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

The dog whistle is dead. We just use vuvuzelas now. <<Asked what would happen to the oil on the seized oil tanker near the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said: “Well, we keep it, I guess.”>>