SCOOP: A suspected Iranian drone attack hit the CIA’s station in Saudi Arabia in what would amount to a significant symbolic victory for the Islamic Republic as it lashes out at U.S. targets and personnel across the Middle East, sources tell Ellen Nakashima and me

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W.B. Yeats #valentinesday

A statement from the family of Christian A. "Sonny" Jurgensen III

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Breaking NYT: Federal prosecutors have now issued subpoenas to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota — including Walz, Frey, and Keith Ellison — ramping up the Trump Justice Department's investigation into their response to the Trump admin's aggressive immigration crackdown.

There has to be any number of trophies and medals from Community Games, Irish dancing, junior B hurling championships, Cúl Camps, 5k runs, etc the Irish could send him? Distract him for a while?

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Oh my god this lady rules. I love this. Just make fun of these poseurs.

12 Jan 1588: b. John Winthrop, future governor of the #Massachusetts Bay Colony: 'wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill' #otd in Edwardstone #Suffolk (AAS)

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.

Someone within 2-3 hours of Baltimore please give this handsome lil man the best Christmas present ever

Just saw this and lol’d (I laugh to keep from crying)

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this shit is just beyond parody, man

SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...

New meme format just dropped:

Whoever made this, you nailed it.

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump era.

NANCY PELOSI IS RETIRING www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi announces retirement from Congress "I will not be seeking reelection to Congress,” she says in a new video. “With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

Prince Andrew to leave his home at the Royal Lodge - as King begins process to remove his titles

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

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There are these days when Sisyphus readily comes to mind. (Titian, Museo del Prado)

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol (video via Rachel Schilke)

The flash apparently official. CBS News died at 1pm central standard time, 2pm eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago.

Hoo boy, this Hegseth thing is humiliating. Gonna be a very long day of cringe-inducing performance.

I made the mistake of venturing onto Facebook… Where HHS no longer seems to know how to spell acetaminophen. Of course, that’s the least troubling part of their proclamations.

"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

New: Trump announces that he ordered another military strike on alleged drug smugglers on a boat coming from Venezuela, killing "3 male terrorists." This is Trump's latest step in transforming a law enforcement function into a televised military assassination program

Deseret News reporting Kirk has died, citing Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz

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credit to Holly Allen on our art team (not on Bsky I don't think) I did not realize you could actually check the signature against _a different friendly note he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein_

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

#BREAKING: C-SPAN is coming to YouTube and Hulu this fall! Press Release: www.C-SPAN.org/YouTubeTV Press Release: www.C-SPAN.org/Hulu

Trump: "I was just sent a picture from somebody who wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and our country but not so respectful of others. But he'll -- I'm gonna sign this for him. But I was sent one. That's a man named Vladimir Putin, who I believe will be coming."

The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...

Two former patients are suing a noted former surgeon and Mass. General for medical malpractice, alleging the gender-reassignment operations they underwent were experimental and unsupported by medical research. trib.al/rjNlzKa

Foundations step in to offer $37 million lifeline to public media www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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