On Christmas Day, russian terrorists are conducting airstrikes on Ukraine using attack UAVs, right up to the Polish border. It’s been 11 years, 10 months, 5 days since the russians invaded Ukraine. Other Western democracies still refuse to shelter the skies or fight the aggressors.

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.

The headline should be: 'More evidence that Trump is the most corrupt president in US history.'

Having a normal Christmas morning

"Some girl with a funny name" is the most important detail in this from the standpoint of assessing credibility That's obviously Ghislaine Maxwell and also obviously not the way anyone making a wholly false report would refer to Maxwell

Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s Microsoft trades and Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s Broadcom options exercise were among the notable trades, as bipartisan momentum grows to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks.

Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the transfer of child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a nicer prison where she gets custom meals and a comfort puppy was "a Bureau of Prisons security issue" that he won't discuss. The transfer is obviously part of the Trump-Epstein cover-up.

The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.

This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"

What a Christmas Day for Ukraine! Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out coordinated strikes against multiple Russian targets today: Temryuk seaport (Krasnodar Krai), Maykop airfield (Adygea), a repair unit in occupied Donetsk Oblast, and the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov.

Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn

this holiday trump took time away from his wife, 5 kids, and 11 grandkids to post a tsunami of text about a dead pedophile that he is definitely not at all concerned about

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."

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

Colorado officials have dismissed the validity of Trump’s pardon, as Peters—whose arrest went viral across social platforms—was convicted of a state crime, where presidential pardons don’t apply.

It's always about power. Being able to scream any hateful thing you want is a way of expressing power, just like being able to throw a giant messy tantrum when anyone says anything you don't like, and getting catered to. Their ultimate vision of power is a cranky toddler with a full diaper.

Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people. A reminder that this work really does matter.

MAGA like to say there's no evidence implicating Trump in sexual crimes with Epstein. That's a lie. There is direct evidence, like this affidavit from a civil case that was dismissed when the girl got death threats against her. Trump can attack the credibility of the accusations, but they exist.

Much like replacing a smoke detector or coming down with the flu, it’s best if we only have to deal with redistricting once per decade. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/hol...

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

Trump is stealing almost $4 billion from a program to prevent homelessness in Vets, by falsely claiming it isn't working. As usual, the facts contradict Trump's claims. www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Denmark’s MP is mocking Trump’s idea of “buying Greenland”

From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.

OSHA violations 1910.212(a)(1) - no guarding at "point of operation" 1910.213(c)(1) - no hood / blade guard 1910.213(s)(9) - no push sticks / push blocks 1910.213(c)(2) - no riving knife or spreader OSHA Pub. 3157 (woodworking) - loose clothing OSHA 5(a)(1)) - "general duty" aka being an idiot

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.

Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives. Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.” But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism.  #holdfast www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

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Stephen Miller and his like minded ilk certainly seem to be pushing for some kind of final solution, yes.

"According to the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan agency, households in the bottom decile of income distribution will lose about $1,600 per year as a result of the law, while those in the top 10 per cent will see a $12,000 annual gain." www.ft.com/content/4927... Not so beautiful

Will 2026 be a year of peace dictated to us, or the peace we have earned?

The overwhelming majority of the American people and even the Roberts Court agree: this unlawful weaponization of our National Guard must end. It is long past time for our servicemembers to return to their homes and stop being deployed against their own communities. www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

Annexing another country?? You know who annexed neighbors? Nazi Germany. They annexed Austria first followed by the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) then Bohemia and Moravia. When will the Senate and House of Representatives stop this? How many people will die from a completely needless war?

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

DOJ appears to bungle Epstein Files redactions

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

I'm renewing my call for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop protecting pedophiles and produce all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the Senate Finance Committee for further investigation, which contain an ironclad paper trail on Epstein’s organization.

So after burying a story from FT on Dec 23rd about a 1330% exposure from Private Credit to subprime debt... And a clearly fraudulent GDP figure... CNBC runs none of that, says rate path 'uncertain' despite not acknowledging it's due to fraudulent figures... Just... vibes. The kayfabe is in.

Trump's own aides are furious. They say his Justice Department is so incompetent at covering up the Epstein files that it makes their guilt obvious. Even loyalists grade the blundering effort an "F." New documents contain explosive claims about Trump.

💚 Colbert!

Excellent news! The Coast Guard Commandant already promised the community (in writing!) to keep the helicopter in Newport. But having the legal decision backing that up is terrific. The Newport rescue helicopter is essential for the safety of our commercial fishing and our recreation communities.

Via @tengrain.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.