NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

I. Warned. You. www.thenation.com/article/arch... (I also won the Mirror Award for best media commentary for this piece. Laura Bush had to hand it to me, literally and Arthur Sulzberger, who was getting a lifetime achievement award,had to listen. The Fox News peoplethere booed my remarks.

This piece is a species of what we might call “born yesterday” coverage that sets aside how these actions fit into the history of Trumpism and authoritarianism. This is reporting in the spirit of what George W. S. Trow called “no-history” in his remarkable essay, “Within the Context of No Context.”

1964, "A brand new Japanese guitar."

Thanks to Trump, I can post this again

Fixed: "In Private Letters, the Trump Administration Escalates Its Mafia-Inspired Extortion Efforts on American higher education, Pretending It Gives a Shit about Antisemitism, With the Help of @NYT Headline Writers, (and also the ADL...)" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

The right has spent over six decades consistently and relentlessly going after the media, in what writer Eric Alterman dubbed “working the refs.”

Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).

So they CAN write an accurate headline. I guess most of the time, therefore they are simply choosing not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w... (Note once again, though, Palestinians are still dying in the passive voice. That must be an order from on high...)

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ICE Agents Break Into Women’s Bathroom: “Pull Your Pants Up!”

Eric Alterman Kiingdom of Days: December 24 By Ken OTD 1985: Bruce and Julianne listen as a group of local teens sing Christmas carols at his front door. After they finish, the short, nice, and cute rock star gets his guitar and rewards them with a rendition of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town."

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Mental health is tricky, but nothing in voluminous emails so far disclosed indicate any sign of suicidal ideation and his brother has accused Trump of murdering him to prevent exactly the disclosures Trump has been desperately fighting for six months. Occam's Razor is Trump had Epstein murdered.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u... "The data shows otherwise" but Miller himself is an example.

Across the government, Trump officials and big-dollar donors are raking in all kinds of money or favors. But Democratic leadership has prioritized protecting their own corrupt incumbents and the party’s personal insider trading opportunities. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:

The kids are not alright on the right. "A recent Manhattan Institute poll found that 25% of current GOP voters under the age of fifty self-identify as holding antisemitic views, compared with just 4% of those over fifty." #cspan #cspanwj

It would be so easy to have an accurate headline on this @nytimes.com piece. Why oh why does the Times think it appropriate to pass along the adminstration's racist lies this way? Shame on the entire families of everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

This piece is excellent www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

And she assumed it would be easy because it was a topic she had an opinion on and so did not need to do any research. This is the epistemic world view of the ignorant, and, apparently OU leadership.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

I like how JD positions himself as an uncompromising man of principle willing to use the power of the state to defend those timeless principles, and also someone who is like “who am I to say that we shouldn’t include Holocaust deniers and white nationalists in our coalition?”

Here is Epstein himself saying Trump was a pedophile just like Epstein and molester Larry Nassar. That he was sharing such thoughts in letters while in prison might be why Epstein soon "committed suicide"

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

Whether it's middle-class parents giving their kindergarteners Bluey dolls or Larry Ellison giving his son David $40 billion to buy Warner Bros., parents of all economic stripes are splurging on gifts this holiday season.

It's time to bring back the meritocracy that my father championed. by John Podhoretz

"were expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States" and "create together about 10,000 jobs"

The right has spent over six decades consistently and relentlessly going after the media, in what writer Eric Alterman dubbed “working the refs.” The notion is that by relentlessly putting the press on defense with allegations of bias, the right has preemptively pushed the mainstream press to b

At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is

Trained historians produce knowledge. We research in archives to write books/articles that reveal something new about our human past. The process starts with secondary source reading to get the context for what we view in the archives. No part of this process can or should be outsourced to AI. Ever.

Bari's proud killing of the 60 Minutes story on Trump's Gulag was the sweetener on this offer, apparently www.wsj.com/business/dea...

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

Imagine trying to explain this to someone in the future "There were these people who talked about free speech in prestigious publications all the time and they promoted the career of a woman who turned CBS into state media."

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

We've heard from these Venezuelan CECOT survivors multiple times, in human rights reports and written testimony. The NYTimes version of it got a WH quote. This is the useless kind of thing Bari needed? www.propublica.org/article/vene... www.hrw.org/report/2025/... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

To some who celebrate

Calm down everyone. Brooks attended a Ted talk dinner that Epstein also attended and did not speak to him, then or ever. I attended about twenty Peggy Siegel screenings that Epstein also attended and also did not speak to him, then or ever. It's literally nothing.

WTF does that even mean? "Your honor, I complied with the spirit but not the intent of the law when I murdered all those worshippers in synagogue all day. I mean, it didn't mean Jews, right?" This from an alleged reporter? Jesus, Bari...

From trashing murdered director Rob Reiner to renaming the Kennedy Center for himself, an uninhibited Donald Trump has impacted the arts in notable, yet unorthodox ways.

Young Republicans say that "Hitler was fucking cool." The truth is more complicated.

Before she became a rabbi, and was "just" a mom, Emily drove me to Hebrew School. I will never forgive her for that. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

‘I have a female for him’

Please kill me

Donald Trump: “I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe.” This is an actual quote. He’s bragging about being able to differentiate between animals. Bury me now…

Make Rose Mary Woods Great Again.