As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Another gem. Salman Rushdie on free thinking and its foes, from ayatollahs to billionaires to Trump the.ink/p/salman-rus...

A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers. trib.al/z7ZUF62

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Flock exposed at least 60 AI-enabled Condor camera Livestream & administrator control panels "to the open internet where anyone could watch them, download 30 days worth of video archive, and change settings, see log files, and run diagnostics.” www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Nikki Minaj deleted her Instagram account after reportedly losing 10M followers. 10M people unfollowed her for grifting for Trump. I guess if she’s fake, she finally noticed, because her followers ain’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh god, poor jesus.

20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.

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

This would require the US to view Black folks as human beings. Good luck with that.

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Colin Allred does #solutionpolitics

Rich, powerful, corrupt men with reputations and careers at stake, involved in a years-long sex trafficking ring involving young girls; how could there NOT be murders?

Off-duty ICE agent has a taste of his own medicine. He is ok harassing and kidnapping innocent immigrants for a living but he’s upset when citizens face him for his actions.

BREAKING: Missourians ask a court to block the state from using the new GOP-backed congressional gerrymander in the 2026 midterms until they have a chance to approve or reject the measure in a referendum.

Rachel Maddow had a great opening to her show last night. She showed in Bulguria massive protests lead to it's government to resign. That's is what needs to happen here. Yes, we had 15 million people show up for the second No Kings. But, we need numbers like 100 million+. youtu.be/aqm07OUwbgY?...

Dear 2026: The bar is on the floor

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I’m skeptical about that letter Epstein supposedly attempted to send to Larry Nasser, and I’m worried that if it turns out to be fake, it’ll be used to discredit + undermine otherwise credible evidence. Can we all pump the brakes on it until it’s verified by a handwriting expert?

If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives. Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate. reason.com/2025/12/17/t...

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

Affordability = Economic Justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5df...

Boycott Walgreens.

‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

#satire #mtg

Vote them out. #solutionpolitics

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

Watch Tesla FSD v14.2.1.25 turn in front of an oncoming car and stop in the oncoming lane, forcing the driver to take over. Elon Musk says this defective software will be unsupervised by the end of the year. That’s 8 days from today. Do you believe him?

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Fun Fact: Donald Trump has sued over 3,000 people in his life, but he's never sued anybody for calling him a pedophile.

On the Larry Nassar letter from Epstein. FBI did request handwriting analysis of it suggesting they were not convinced it was actually from Epstein. That is in the files I believe. But what is NOT available (as far as I have seen as I post this) is what the analysis found.

“I was just trying to go to work.” NYT shows videos from Trump’s ICE goons causing an accident— then DETAINING the guy who stopped to get their insurance. Lawless. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The new DOJ documents raise serious questions about the relationship between Epstein and Donald Trump. And why are Epstein’s co-conspirators being protected? What else is the DOJ hiding? This is a White House cover-up and we are going to end it.

James Talarico: These predatory social media algorithms elevate the most extreme voices to provoke our outrage. Billionaires are engineering our emotions so they can profit off of our pain. These platforms want us at each other's throats because those billionaires benefit.

“You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss, your landlord, and your insurance company cares about politics. And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

I really like this kind of true Christian messaging.

Here’s a website teslaontrial.com #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk

From the Oregon Coast to the Mississippi River! www.singletracks.com/mtb-trails/t...

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Hey Dems! Most politicians do not lead. They follow. “Electability” is a pundit-created myth. Moderate Republicans are nonexistent. The fight is the point. Lessons from 2025 open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Every time I see some pro ai guy being annoying about how “everyone who hates ai is in a cult” and how we just hate progress I think about this kind of shit. This is what they’re defending. This is okay to them and nobody should criticize it.

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