Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

North American Aerospace Defense Command keeping it real this Christmas.

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

lol what

If the American public is paying attention to this segment of the Epstein files, it simply has no reason to ever again believe the FBI — or the DOJ for that matter.

“There,” said Toad. “Now I feel better. I am not in the dumps anymore.” “Why?” asked Frog. “Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.

I finally found a decent home for all those Courtlistener and Recap stickers that came in the mail. I promise free ammo to the first person at the range who recognizes them.

Stupid policing = bad policing = dangerous policing

2025, the year of fools.

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

Justice Alito seems to have missed that the government's account of the Marimar Martinez shooting has been completely discredited.

‘Our President Also Shares Our Love of Young, Nubile Girls.’ Newly released Epstein files reveal a purported letter sent to a fellow sex offender just days before his death.

Restoring Bivens rights: one bill "would allow citizens to sue for damages resulting from constitutional violations committed by federal officers," while the other "would create a cause of action against federal law enforcement agencies and police depts for constitutional violations."

to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself. Example: “They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In case you didn't know where to watch it. 👇 archive.org/details/60mi...

After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

3/ On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because: "The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'" On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states: "An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."

Two Democrats say the Trump administration's double tap boat killing in the Caribbean is either (1) a war crime or (2) plain old simple murder. @notus.com: www.notus.org/congress/dem...

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

A sloppy redaction just revealed that the DOJ's top brass closely oversaw the quickly spun-up criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. @notus.com: www.notus.org/courts/abreg...

This isn't a coherent reason to pull a story. If they reached out for comment in a reasonable time frame and got none, they should run the story. If they want to pursue follow up interviews with admin officials, OK. But this is a bizarre justification for pulling a finished story.

I have a friend who recently got trapped in her Tesla with her kids. Another sign of our dystopian hellscape.

Oh this is going to be fun.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered? Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

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“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

When you go out Christmas shopping this weekend, don't forget to stop by Cava and grab a takeout bag. I hear it's great gift wrap for $50,000 bribes.

Picking up where I left Friday on the Epstein files, because even journalists need a moment. I'm pretty sure we all know that behind that redaction it says WHITE House.

Genuine LOL at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

One of the girls was 14 in 2005. Another one remembers being scared her dad would find out. In yet another episode, Epstein was molesting a teenager while her parents drove in the front seat.

The Epstein files is the shiny object distracting the American public from the growing immigrant gulag archipelago. Take it from a Trump appointed judge: “ICE has been deploying its ‘holding rooms’ in a manner that shocks the conscience,” Judge Brown wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Computer, enhance

DOJ published a list of Epstein's island employees. Hello, witnesses.

5 years ago today Trump called supporters to show up in DC on Jan. 6. There was a DC court hearing today where a federal judge heard the DOJ — back under Trump control — say Trump at his eventual Ellipse speech “was speaking, at least in part, for the broader interests of the United States.”

Mirror, mirror, in my claws...

Easily my favorite news story of the week. www.northernjournal.com/alaskas-gove...

Yes yes yes

As we await Epstein files, a taste of what to expect from something that came out in 2023 w/ exBarclays banker Jes Staley. "That was fun. Say hi to Snow White," he emails Epstein in 2010. "What character would you like next?" Epstein says. "Beauty and the Beast." Related court file with context:

American jobs will be created when Trump erects statues of himself and American jobs will be created when they're eventually torn down and academic economists will use this to teach college students a flipped version of Frédéric Bastiat's "parable of the broken window."

Little burn in court just now. Trump lawyer mentions that an aspect of Jan 6 presidential immunity case will end up in the appellate court soon. "Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't do it the first time," Judge Mehta shoots back. Lawyers then laugh maniacally.

As @andrewperez.bsky.social and I write here: zeteo.com/p/the-epstei... “It is true that the… Washington, DC, building is named, by statute, after President Kennedy, and that Congress doesn’t allow the board to just officially change the name unilaterally. However, the… bsky.app/profile/jonf...

I'm listening to US District Judge Amit Mehta discuss presidential immunity at a court hearing in DC. He's considering whether Trump is beyond the reach of the law for riling up the rioters on Jan 6, 2021. Mehta ponders "what evidence matters on a tweet-by-tweet basis." Our timeline is bizarre.

It's been a year since @newsweek.com published an op-ed saying under Trump II "America in 2025 will be stronger, freer, wealthier, healthier, and happier than it has been for a long time and possibly ever." Inflation is still 2.7% Fed budget grew by $600 billion www.newsweek.com/next-year-wi...

@fisheyeview.bsky.social wait, did you really operate that mars rover camera? that's so damn cool. i'd love to hear about that.