Having a normal Christmas morning

the two ways of acting with muppets: 1. play it as if they are also human actors (michael caine) 2. play it as if you are also a muppet (tim curry)

Merry Christmas, Mr. President!!

“Finding” a million additional Epstein documents on the day everyone is distracted with their families is as competent as Pam Bondi’s coverup is ever going to get.

Two very different Christmas messages

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Seems… not great?

It's just not that hard. I wrote a comic about Obamacare 11 years ago now and this page doesn't need any changes. Yes, there are specifics to be worked out. None of them are all that difficult. None of them are more of a problem than doing nothing--than sticking with our broken system--is.

This is called “missing the lede”.

My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.

My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good

CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit

My thought of the day is that Trump appears to think that battleships are still the primary capital ship of a modern navy. And that is not the case.

I agree with you in principle, I just need a detailed .pdf that lays out the political and policy path you propose, accounting for all possible contingencies. No, I will not fund your research into this matter.

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

Stop it. You’re not having real discussions on X. You’re talking to Nazis & bots. Also, you’re a billionaire posting on social media. You’re not having “conversations” with people. You just don’t like that they’re responding without fawning over your assumed wisdom.

You’re a celebrity multi-billionaire. You don’t have real conversations.

This is a long thread about a long quote from a longer quote refuted by longer quotes but the TLDR is these authors were in such a hurry to pull a quote they completely misinterpreted the context and ended up 180-degrees in the wrong direction.

And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.

In the context of any other president, just an adorable side comment. In the context of President Pedophile, it hits a little differently!

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Guarantees I won’t read it

It was entirely predictable but if Kamala D. Harris randomly conjured up a battleship on a wholly unrealistic timeline with weapons not actually in production with the same cost as a carrier, these guys would be hurling slurs not seen since reconstruction, instead it’s just:

If you work at CBS and have thoughts on Bari Weiss’ lectures, please reach out. aperez.03 on signal. thanks and happy holidays 🙏

We need to cut the shit with the “don’t trust the press” thing. Liberals generally trust mainstream news until they’re openly lied to. Conservatives distrust the mainstream news because it doesn’t tell them their preferred lies.

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

People who talk like this will be excited to go to work in the morning when the administration proposes their Final Solution.

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

Maybe it wasn’t good to sell off such a large chunk of the global economy to companies that charge enormous fees to literally produce nothing of value.

We could teach more of all the kinds of history if we weren’t systematically defunding the humanities and the public universities

When it was clear that Bush II lied about why the U.S. invaded Iraq, he said it was the right thing to do anyway because the dictator was toppled. Trump is setting up the same scenario in Venezuela: Pretend it's about drugs when it's about oil and conquest, then brag about overthrowing a dictator.

Sounds legit

Everything in there is true except the stuff about Trump which is completely false. Oh, ok. GTFO out of here pedo clown.

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

Once again no one has less respect for the American electorate than Donald Trump

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?

Dude did a fake presidential run to build interest in a media company, accidentally became the president, accidentally committed a bunch of crimes because he's stupid, then had to try to become the president a second time so he wouldn't go to jail and it worked

a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.

Stephen Miller's legacy is assured

Too late bozo.

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

I probably shouldn't do this, but this appears to be the source of these numbers. Look at Page 8 of the PDF. Also - yes, the graph is highly misleading. So no, this is not to say ZeroHedge is "telling the truth." www.bea.gov/sites/defaul...

fwiw i think that paper on the price of money (unfortunately by Summers) and the NBER paper on excess inflation and political effects go a long way to shape the vibecession

Imagine being a Chinese admiral or general who trained your entire life for Gotterdammerung and then France blows up America for you because a senile reality TV show host doesn't understand how the Mercator projection works and therefore thinks Greenland is 87 times the size of the solar system.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

@charlotteclymer.bsky.social is spot on: “It's 2025, and we're sharing bootlegs of a “60 Minutes” segment broadcast in other countries because our own nation is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers.”

Trump wasn't wrong, he was just early

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.