So lovely! 🥰

The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous. It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.

“Human warehouses.” Hmmm, what’s another name for that kind of facility? I could swear I’ve heard those called something else before.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) turned up the heat in his demands for House Republicans to allow the closed-door testimony from former special counsel Jack Smith to be released in a post on Wednesday morning.

When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts. The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the 79-year-old president’s most senile moments in his first year in office: trib.al/IC8v7t3

Of course Trump can't rename the Kennedy Center for himself--& we are suing to stop him! We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent @repbeatty.bsky.social with Washington Litigation Group The congresswoman and I joined @cnn.com to discuss the case & why it matters

If we want an independent media that isn’t the plaything of oligarchs, we’re going to have to build it together. That's why were offering 30 days free right now for Bulwark+. Get it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/48QbKyS?utm_...

12 Artists Who Showed Some Spine in 2025... just wonderful and read to the byline/description at the end! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The horrific materials in the Epstein files—combined with a chaotic release and a politicized Department of Justice—are a "recipe for inspiring potent distrust and resentment," @cwarzel.bsky.social argues:

@msnowreports.bsky.social Maybe don't block your YouTube videos about the US for US viewers??? Check this one...people in the US are blocked from viewing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJhB...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Scarborough: "Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there really damning about Trump or Bill Clinton. So one of the great mysteries is not what Trump's hiding, it's why if he's not in the files - which all the reporting says he's not - why is he so obsessed on blocking access to them?"

A former nursing home owner pardoned by President Trump in a $39 million fraud case still must report to prison this month to serve time on a state conviction, an Arkansas judge ruled Thursday.

It’s already happening: CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss just killed a story on 60 Minutes that examined the Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants to a prison in El Salvador. Here was the trailer for the cancelled segment → trib.al/ZLnU7ll

NEWS: CBS cancels 60 Minutes to placate White House. Epstein survivors blast DOJ and demand Congressional action. Trump makes push to takeover Greenland. An important update. Unlike CBS, I will never cave to this White House. Support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

Okay first this is extremely funny and just as predictable. Notable, can you Imagine what you’d have to get in a segment on CECOT to think wow, Trump comes out of this torture gulag thing looking pretty good! lol. Predictable, stupid, absurd.

A really great email as far as I’m concerned.

Bari Weiss was paid millions of dollars to destroy CBS News. Well, she's done her job.

If your tent is big enough to fit Nazis it should be much smaller.

You’re welcome for your now 20-year-old lessons on inherent contempt. At the place where I taught you about the Nuclear Option: Daily Kos.

If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.

Yes!

Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

Overwhelming amount of media world chatter and concern about "60 Minutes" tonight. Why would CBS News promote the story about the Trump admin's deportations to CECOT on Friday, only to shelve it today? Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says it is "not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

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.

Bari Weiss is the Pam Bondi of journalists.

"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden. "The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

On @pivotpod.bsky.social last week @profgalloway.com rightly criticized @facethenation.bsky.social host Margaret Brennan for doing right wing talking points instead of asking factual questions and it looks like it’s gotten worse this week. What a major fail and an embarrassment.

As some people said at the time, one of the reasons Rs refused to vote to remove Trump after he was impeached was for precisely this. So Democrats would wrongly learn the lesson that trying to impeach a Republican for breaking the law is pointless and destined to fail so they shouldn’t even try.

Trump has taken abuse of the pardon power to staggering new heights He’s won’t even rule out pardoning Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell I break down Trump’s 10 worst pardons of 2025 in my @contrariannews.org column this week — TN contrarian.substack.com/p/will-trump...

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no public notice. apnews.com/article/rele...

WHOA. This is wild -- she was up by 30+ points on her Republican primary opponent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Serious question: Why can't he rename the city of Washington? Who could stop him?

The day will come

I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic

“The research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic."

Have you called Trump a "fascist?" If so, he might officially designate you a "terrorist." TRUMP IS A FASCIST. substack.com/@milestaylor...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Noooooo

‘Hey, look, from one guy who’s deep in the Epstein list to another, I think the law is really whatever you say it is. You know what I mean?’ - Alan Dershowitz, probably