This is how you know it's shady as hell.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

And people cannot afford medical insurance premiums.

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

These Boots Are Made For Walking Zaddy Zohran's sexy spouse's shoes are more Sinatra fille than père, but the way they looked last night got under Republicans' skin. I guess that's life in the city that never sleeps. by Maureen Dowd

Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way. by Ezra Klein

Trump’s unilateral operation last night was an illegal act of war without Congress’s authorization. Maduro is a brutal dictator who has oppressed the Venezuelan people, but our constitution does not yield for bad people.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

With due respect to @merriam-webster.com, I was right. January 1 and 2 weren't so bad...but then we bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its leader.

I bet I'm not the only American who no longer finds that the words "Chief Justice says" inspire any confidence. apnews.com/article/supr...

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

So in spring, Pam Bondi said there was nothing to the Epstein investigation, then “closed” it. Now, they “find” 1 million more docs. So did she close this without seeing these docs? Or was someone hiding them?

My first thought upon seeing this headline: Big tech wants french fries? My second thought (immediately following the first): Wow, I guess my wife and I have been watching A LOT of Britbox.... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...

“Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein”

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

Let's stop pretending these people ever gave a shit about antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...

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...

This is ultimately why those American Jews who thought we could remain in good stead with the Christian nationalists, as a specially protected minority who would receive special privileges by allowing ourselves to be used as pretexts to crack down on higher education, were so tragically mistaken.

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond? By garnishing their wages. When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond? By extending their tax cuts. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Bari Weiss refusing to publish “Bartleby the Scrivener” because Melville “was unable to get quotes from the title character”

I love this for her. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

If you think switching which corporate owned legacy media outlet you consume is the solution, you don't really understand how deep the problem is. It's not just ABS, CBS, WaPo or the LA Times. It's the system in which they work. The only solution is to support pro-democracy independent media.

What my wife and I are doing, however, is making WAY more recurring monthly donations than we did ten years ago. apnews.com/article/poll...

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

It’s long past time we stop pretending the right-wing crackdown on higher education had anything to do with “fighting antisemitism.”

Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

Reached for comment, Secretary Clinton said, "Phew, that's a relief!"

Funny coincidence... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

Washington Post's new headline is still wrong. 1. The release was not "huge." 2. DOJ missed the deadline to release all the files. 3, No mention of extensive redactions. Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

The care that went into releasing these files and the number of Epstein clients arrested show just how serious Trump’s DOJ takes child sex trafficking

Quick PSA: Republicans made tax breaks for billionaires permanent. Permanent! And they exploded the national debt by Trillions to do it. But saving healthcare for a few years? Republicans say that's too expensive. Nonsensical. Disgraceful. Contemptible.

The nicest thing I have to say about Cardinal Dolan is that I dont have anything nice to say about Cardinal Dolan. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Gosh these guys are nauseating.

Or the State of the Looney.

There's pretty stiff competition in a world that includes Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Markwayne Mullin, but I give grudging respect to Lindsey Graham's latest effort to be named the dumbest, least principled, most contemptible a-hole in the United States Senate.

A terrible post from a member of Congress. And I don’t want to act as if it would have been better had he said “the left” or “Democrats,” but when you don’t define who “they” is, neo-Nazis see “they” as a dog whistle for Jews.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Matt to call out Trump

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

“Instead of 3% or 4% GDP, it should be able to 20% or 25%. I don’t know why it can’t be.” Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about economics knows but the Stable Genius clearly does not.

There are reports of an active shooter situation at Brown University, but if you try to look up information about it, Google will automatically fill in your search field, demonstrating how common this has become in the US.