The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Everything wrapped and ready except for niblings still need to wrap those and I’m missing one present for my sister’s father in law think I’m mostly done with xmas stuff

Doggo has two doggie bffs so he’s gifting them his favourite snacks for xmas

My chaos kitchen for the day until everything is packaged and wrapped and I’m missing one xmas present

See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Them: "You spend your whole day scrolling" Me: "It's my job. I'm a writer. Ideas are everywhere and I've curated my feed in order to find inspiration." My feed:

Thrilled to see my King in Yellow novel A GAME IN YELLOW appear in the new @raforall.bsky.social article from The Lineup among several fantastic horror books of 2025! I love the analyses here (and I did NOT make that WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME connection before 😆) the-line-up.com/2025-horror-...

Season 4 of THE WHITE LOTUS

More xmas gifts at the office

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Funny thing, i just remembered Trump demolished a wing of the White House without a plan for the ballroom that will supposedly replace it lol and i ‘m pretty sure will never be built because him and the republican party are incapable of adding value to anything

As usual reading goals discourse is back with bad takes lol, it´s entertaining cause it´s the same usual stuff every year

🎄#GothicAdvent

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yall the conspiracy theories around Nuno Loureiro’s death are unhinged and not just from US folks i’m used to those but Portuguese folks are showing their ass too

Mum has been having a hard finding a gift for me and tbh i don’t have anything in my life right now that i really need she’s giving me a bunch of audible credits cause she knows how much i love books and i’m a happy reader who’s gonna clear some stuff of my wish list

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Every year my mum makes us a xmas fig cake and it’s both gorgeous and delicious, she just stopped by to drop it off

Admiting my guilty pleasure of following book drama in the form of long youtube videos, any petty drama ngl but book drama is always my favourite

Some people are so incredibly caring and generous one of our clients drops us a box of Brigadeiros every single xmas

The forgot the AI in it

Bought 6 xmas gifts on my way home socks for sister, brother and two bils and my eldest cousin and a gigantic blanket for my dad, mum says he needs one the others are way to small

One more example of "the Woke Right" narrative, where the right tries to frame members who have gone too far as actually sort of leftist. In Fuentes case, it is the overt nature of the anti-semitism. Dreher has no problem working for a govt whose leader (Orban) engages in dog-whistle anti-semitism.

there were like 4 distinct massive tragedies this weekend why was this weekend evil

Time for this year's annual lists (since 2016: tinyurl.com/karthik-annual) 5 fiction books I loved reading in 2025: 1. Mickey7 + Antimatter Blues (Edward Ashton) 2. Professor Everywhere (Nicholas Binge) 3. Old Soul (Susan Barker) 4. The Endless Vessel (Charles Soule) 5. Annie Bot (Sierra Greer)

Tbh not sure for how long i can keep doing this my hands hurt and i think age is getting to me

2 more days and i finished all my xmas cookies I’m exhausted and have royal icing on my ear

We’ve never seen someone adopt a pet and not start talking in a silly voice immediately.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

Time to clean get some proper food shower and relax for today

Cookie decoration weekend started strong first the xmas trees, about 400 of them and then 300 stars

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

A little something regarding Saros ❤️

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Sweet potato fries with Sriracha Mayo are perfect

Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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