Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Born deaf and blind, she's caught in Trump's anti-diversity crusade: A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump admin cut the program's funding over diversity goals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

And it's not just seniors. There will be the same devastating impact for disabled people. The staffing crisis is the same.

DHS is engaged in textbook scapegoating that mirrors Nazi Germany. There is no ambiguity here.

Veronica Escobar didn’t get to celebrate her son’s 8th birthday. Victor Madrid missed picking up his children at school for the first time. Patricia Quishpe was forced to spend her first night ever away from her youngest child. https://cnn.it/3MRvXf3

Meet an American hero.

Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives @lawrencehurley.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Student Loan wage garnishing kicks off next month too!

An FBI email from five years ago today, when we were still mid-Covid and everyone was really phoning it in for the holidays after a shit year: "Hope everyone has a great holiday and some rest before 1/6" www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...

"It is going to get so much worse." For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US. A quick 🧪🧵

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

“Flu, flu, flu. So much flu,” said one doctor in Michigan. “We are inundated." “I don’t think I ever remember seeing it really this severe, this soon,” said another in Colorado.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Sunday’s pursuit points to a troubling trend that’s emerged during the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts, which left some officials warning about the potential for escalation and violence. https://cnn.it/3MP4bA0

Epstein survivors are condemning the Trump Justice Department as having "violated the law" — both by "withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities."

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

"The crisis of democracy is a crisis of information—citizens make bad decisions, in part, because they are starved of the facts. And it can get worse." The world is not outraged enough that Trump is using his power to force CBS and CNN to mold to his views. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism. Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones. Or both! That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.

Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access." GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Baltimore’s Safe Streets program has helped prevent gun deaths. But other cities may have a hard time replicating the model without the type of federal funding that helped it expand. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The press release from Friday. www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

And there it is...

Hmmm

"effectively unprecedented"

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

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

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Looks like Yahoo is the only one still alive www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

Indistinguishable from a Grand Wizard addressing a large Klan rally

Did the internal censor you were required to hire to approve the buyout make you do this?

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

apnews.com/article/hepa...  US awards no-bid contract to Denmark scientists studying hepatitis B vaccine in African babies. Some see parallels to Tuskegee Study.

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

Maria Farmer on the report's release: "This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job.

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...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

There was such a major push in the 1990s against landmines, known for their lingering damage and harm to civilians during and after conflicts, that there was a big-deal Batman comic about their horrors. Sen. Patrick Leahy worked on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:...

This is known as medical colonialism. Let’s be clear this was not a CDC career scientist or staff decision. This is a direct result of RFK Jr and his political appointees.

NEW: A bill restoring money for pediatric cancer therapies was defeated in the Senate. My colleague @samsteindc.bsky.social — who has covered this wrenching story ever since the funding was first removed at Elon Musk's behest last year — reports on why Bernie Sanders helped defeat the bill.