Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular. Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop

Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.

If the Vanity Fair Profile makes anything clear, it's this: Susan Wiles knows who Donald Trump is and happily works for him.

LOL. If you're keeping score at home, Hegseth has released every strike video -- including the first strike on this boat -- but claims the murder/war crime video is "top secret."

This should be the standard response to any lawsuit from him.

If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff. Speaking as a chief of staff.

Just say women. This is taking forever.

All right, I read both parts of the Vanity Fair interview & my assessment is: meh. There's no secret depth here, no story behind the story. These are simply ugly, dull-minded people. Apparatchiks. The thing about the banality of evil is that it's really ... banal.

Trump recently said that he wants to let the USMCA trade agreement expire or work out a new deal. He said Mexico and Canada had taken advantage of the U.S. due to stupid people running the country. During his campaign he called the USMCA "The BEST trade deal ever made."

Awfully tedious getting “just do popular things” lectures from people who recommend conceding to the stance with 17% support on a high stakes issue against the stance with 79% support.

The administration is entirely post-truth.

Too many people try to over-analyze this guy. But I agree - he's simply a badly brought up five year old that has been given almost unlimited power.

This thread is a demonstration of how mental health professionals go about the process of diagnosis.

A reasonable person could read this post as a raised middle finger to Christians celebrating the Christmas holiday and remembering the story of a small family fleeing from one country to another to escape a tyrant's wrath.

📌Nothing the grotesque and rotting Trump has done the past 24 hours should surprise anyone. If you don’t know that this is who he is, and has ALWAYS been, you are rotting right along with him.

President of Ukraine: Let's look at Russia's history since 1991. It keeps bringing war and hatred from Chechnya to the Balkans, from Moldova to Syria, from countries in Central Africa to Ukraine. Russia chooses conflict over peace.

Rob Reiner leaves behind a rich political legacy that began long before Trump’s political career. Reiner redefined celebrity political advocacy, not only lending his voice to important causes but also implementing strategies that brought change.

I have some bad news about the Pentagon.

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

THE DAY AHEAD: “It’s a dangerous path” … the warnings from former intelligence official about Trump’s social media post on Rob Reiner youtube.com/shorts/1sC6x...

Mike Johnson refuses to comment on Trump’s post about Rob Reiner and runs away from reporters.

While many Republicans running for Congress in swing districts are going to try to distance themselves from Trump, Miller, Kash, Hegseth, RFK Jr, et al, they enabled ALL of it. They all supported Mike Johnson for Speaker, who abdicated all oversight and congressional authority.

This is a good one.

Please take 7 and a half minutes and watch this.

President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods are costing Ohio farmers heavily, according to a new report. It shows that Ohio farmers lost nearly $76 million of their exports to China this year compared to one year earlier — a 74% loss in one year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/o...

Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her. This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.

The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 8.3% in November, the highest level since 2021 and a 2.1 percentage point increase from the start of this year

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

I'll have more to say but the Black unemployment rate for November was 8.3%.

A sociopathic narcissist exploits tragedy/suffering of others to satisfy his dysfunctionally competitive, vindictive need to "win"....and to Self Aggrandize. In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy). 1/

This is extremely important

This is a super important, data-driven corrective to some common mistakes by pundits and politicians. Don't miss the punchline:

Someone inform JD Vance of the interesting things unarmed immigrants can do

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

The “Republican Party” today most resembles a cult—its members may be properly characterized as Trump idolaters, followers, zealots,etc. —but this assemblage of supplicants lacks not just a concrete policy agenda but other fundamental elements of a political party. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

"There is no man smaller than a coward at a hero's wake." Irish proverb

Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism

#robreiner #mentalhealth #news

Oh man

Classic Trump narcissism: People are categorized as to whether they’re with him or against him, & if they’re not with him they’re mentally ill.

Is there no journalist who will treat this as the deranged, psychopathic rantings of a madman that it clearly is? All it would take is one. Q: Mr. President, what the actual fuck? Do you know how evil, deranged, and indecent you sound? Get banned from the White House, go down in history.

Or that anyone has ever said or written. With difference that this guy is Cdr-in-Chief of nuke-armed military, able to upset world econ at his whim or self-dealing, and literally demolish the White House We'd think this would be the "have you no sense of shame" moment. Isn't it pretty to think so

The decision not to commemorate slavery‘s abolition, women’s suffrage, & the civil rights movement with coins on the U.S.’s 250th anniversary tells us (again) what we already knew about the sentiments of the current regime. They think those three successes were bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

So many of us loved Rob Reiner's movies. He left such a profound impact on so many. What an absolutely black-hearted and despicable statement from the President of the United States about a man who was just murdered. Trump is deeply unwell and unfit to serve.

Feverishly working on this

I'm remembering that it was the great Mark Knopfler who wrote the soundtrack for "The Princess Bride." youtu.be/fEN1CxYdQGE?...

Trump's statement about Rob Reiner comes a lot closer to saying he deserved to die than anyone who was accused of saying that about Charlie Kirk.