A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

FYI: According to the federal DEA, China is the primary source of fentanyl in the United States. We haven’t bombed China nor arrested its leader. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

When I first saw this, I thought you'd written cows. And I though, huh, yeah, I can see that.

I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜

I would bulldoze the West Wing right now if it would get him out of there.

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

"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...

13 years since that unspeakable day in Sandy Hook. 13 years of growing a movement to make sure kids feel safe everywhere. 13 years of heroes living with pain and grief yet still speaking truth to power.

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

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Hannah reminds us why we have a cabinet with "talents" like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, RFKJr and Pam Bondi...

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With temperatures dropping and snow in the forecast, New Yorkers struggling to afford the rising cost of heat can now apply for assistance from the HEAP program. Learn more about eligibility and apply here: a069-access.nyc.gov/accesshra/

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

This is why I support freedom of expression. Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing. Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.

the red witch speaks

Nancy Pelosi smirks, only backwards, and in high heels. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Are we still doing diner journalism? Because today at a greasy spoon in Stateline, Nevada, a 65 year old birder named Maryanne told me that she likes that “Mamdonnelly” fellow and thinks that Donald Trump is a pedophile.

love me some grass and beef smoothie

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Just ran face-first into Bobby kissing a rosary in The Atlantic, the introductory photo of another lengthy meditation on this man. Can we not be done? Post-felching, can we not, for five minutes, stop attending to him?

omg why don't they just do their fucking jobs

you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.

too bigoted for the bigots

This deeply disturbing op-ed by David Brooks suggesting that Epstein's abuse of hundreds of teen-aged girls is some kind of elitist Democratic sidetrack born of Q-Anon conspiracy-think makes my blood boil.

my dog could parse the language

what the actual fuck except I know what

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com where are your breaking news banners announcing that the President of the United States has called for the execution of members of Congress?

I love this guy so much.

Trump can't stop naming our new bands. Yesterday he came up with Quiet Piggy, today he gifted us The Wokesters.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

blood money

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

It’s so unsurprising that MAGA thinks the biggest take down is accusing someone of not hating a Jew.

ftw

Has anyone said Megyn R. Kelly yet? Because I feel like it's right there...