HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?

Link to Mamdani’s inaugural tomorrow at 1p. (C-span): www.c-span.org/event/public...

She’s a white supremacist qanon conspiracy theorist who wants transgender people to be dehumanized. Outlets like the Bulwark are basically trying to turn the Democratic Party and liberalism into conservatism because they couldn’t police their own movement from Trumpism.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

‪ ‪ Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

“Over the last 48 hours, the faux-free speech warrior, faux-queer rights advocate, and arguably faux-journalist “editor-in-chief” of CBS News decided to drop the mask; she opted to go full fash, as the kids say.” - @petertwinklage.bsky.social for Zeteo’s First Draft:

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

The 60 minutes segment on CECOT, pulled for political reasons, was aired in Canada. You can watch it here: archive.org/details/insi...

And the danger of this sort of open bigotry in an administration that tried to overturn the will of a multiracial electorate and is eviscerating civil rights protections and voting rights, continues to treated by too many as mere politics and not a dangerous entrenchment of white rule.

The VP of the US can give a speech saying no one has to be ashamed to be white anymore — the type of mainstream political speech we haven’t seen since before the civil rights acts, and the rhetoric is treated as merely divisive with few pointing out the obvious truth that white men remain in power.

One can post white supremacist talking points all day every day while your company was facing multiple race discrimination complaints and your racism is viewed as so beside the point that you are offered a trillion pay package.

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation

🎅🍫 Why is your Christmas chocolate so expensive? 🌍 Because of climate change. 🖥 Watch economist James Meadway explain on @zackpolanski.bsky.social's @boldpolitics.bsky.social

BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law? MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.

a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect. now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts

It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this

if you are scared and angry about what’s happening and feeling isolated and helpless i cannot recommend enough going out to one of these marches and getting to experience righteous anger and joy with a huge crowd of people who all feel the same.

Y'all Cover up in real time. Pam Bondi or her direct subordinates, are committing a crime in full public view.

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

They're Cassandras who smelled the fascism all over Trump. trib.al/p6YSRah From janitors and Wall Street bankers, to lawyers and food delivery drivers. Much has been made of the cross-class nature of Trump’s strongest support. That the same is true of his strongest opposition is far less discussed.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 Research In Labor Economics (rle.iza.org) is planning a volume featuring critical analyses of applied economics research. We are soliciting up to ten new papers that rigorously review an applied microeconomics topic, area, or methodology. #econsky

Now this is an abstract.

Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

smh

"Pritzker’s scathing attacks on Trump ... have attracted attention in the party — especially because he started them in the days after Trump's election, when other top Democrats, such as CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, were still counseling caution" Archive link: archive.ph/WO3T7

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

Must read piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com

"When same-sex marriage was still years away, there was America’s Uncle, straight as can be, demanding a future in which LGBTQ families be given a full stake in the American Dream and hurry the fuck up on that, please and thank you." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/americas-u...

Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square

You don't hear conservatives saying that "good guy with a gun/bad guy with a gun" thing anymore. I wonder why?

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

“The FBI missed an attack on the Capitol in significant part because they treated right wing threat actors as informants rather than a far more urgent threat.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/12/c...

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...