This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

*most guys of all time

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

[Nazgul approaching the hobbits on Weathertop] My sister: This is more Catholic than Wake Up, Dead Man

The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.

Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

“Do or do not. There is no try to make baby Yoda deviled eggs.” 🥚

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

Great thread

Top Putin general linked to Salisbury poisoning 'blown up in Ukraine drone strike on Russian tanker' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Another reminder that FBI tasked 934 agents and other personnel to review & redact Epstein files between March & May & prepare the docs for public release. FBI paid $851K in OT/premium pay for a week's worth of work. Via my #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

I really think this is a post in favor of Team Dementia. Trump a couple years back would know not to hit on a random caller.

(R)Rep.Massie: "Trump is blaming me for a bill he eventually signed….Meanwhile Bondi is working fervently to redact, omit, and delete Epstein files she is legally required to release." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.

every year we get this story. every year places like CNN leave out an extremely important detail, Republicans are succeeding in killing the post office by faking a funding crisis

During the first regime, they kidnapped a man who sold fruit in my neighborhood. Thankfully, teens at a local school who bought fruit from him found out and were furious. They and their parents helped get him safe. He is the loveliest man. Anyone in the neighborhood would have let him stay with us.

… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?

Stephen Miller has more blood on his hands than anyone he has caused to be deported.

As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.

There's a much better chance someone in this administration would sexually assault my child than anyone they sent to CECOT

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

man, what an unbelievably poor leader. no "thanks for all of the work that you do", no "i wish you and your loved ones well", no "i look forward to what we'll do together in the coming year", just "i must have the last word on this, i was right, and you can't stop me, merry christmas, pissants"

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Dynamic pricing means the business is trying to figure out your personal pain point so they can extract the maximum profit from the transaction. Boycott any business that does not display its prices and tell them why you’re doing it.

Nine days before Christmas, a group of clergy huddled around a young mother, praying for a Christmas miracle that a judge would set bond for her husband at a hearing the following day and release him from immigration detention. My latest reporting: religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...

kind of interesting that we've seen more investigative reporting on erika kirk, head of one of the most influential conservative pressure groups, from a tiktok personality than the highly paid investigative teams at ny times, wapo, cnn, etc

The camps were fine crashing the economy was cool being globally isolated was no biggie but this is going too far, now he's really lost Nate Silver

Please comment on why you think it's a good idea to push "A.i." on school kids when these products are being used to create non-consensual porn of children? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

We reached out to numerous trump advisers, senior administration officials, others close to trump and in the Republican elite to grade the trump doj’s handling of the Epstein saga from July to today. All but one said F or F minus Because that one said “F-minus-minus.”

The government official who sent migrants to gulags is now urging the the firing of the journalists who reported the story and objected to it being killed. bsky.app/profile/thet...

yeah same. and I suspect this tends to indicate why Covid was such a deranging event, we endured this once in a century trauma but there was no societal grieving process bsky.app/profile/mark...

One last thing: Whren doesn’t say that it’s sometimes OK to profile people on the basis of race. It says that’s an EP violation if you can prove intent to do it. So, no, it’s not right to read this as saying “racial discrimination is cool if it’s one factor among many.” He‘s backtracking, full stop.

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Great piece.

So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov): 18% approve, 66% disapprove

Because Vance is a public figure he is apparently more immune than I am from making insane, factually incorrect initially harmful statements. The president can sue you but according to the Supreme Court you cannot sue him

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vladimir Putin is the one who picked Steve Witkoff to be Trump's special envoy to Russia. Why would anyone think this is not a red flag?

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

Just a reminder that Trump has, on camera, bragged about walking in on Miss Teen USA contestants changing and explained his 17-year-old daughter asked him not to “date” girls younger than her. I’m not sure what’s true in the Epstein Files, but when you recall those facts it all seems plausible

Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.