In a poker game, the most frustrating opponent is one who is so inexperienced/incompetent/inebriated that they don’t even know whether or not they have a good hand. Which is also what it’s like trying to parse these DOJ social media missives.

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

Sally Jenkins is credulous enough to write Lance Armstrong's autobiography.

Sir, as a strong man with tears in my eyes, I’m begging you to quit the presidency to host award shows. Please, please make my dreams come true and become a full-time MC.

I don’t wish cancer on anyone, but let’s not start with the Ben Sasse hagiographies. He was terrible senator and an even worse university president, ripping off the taxpayers for millions of dollars while hiding behind piety.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Although reading the comments to the post I quote-replied, they’re all conspiratorial “oh, isn’t it convenient that he wrote a suicide note right before committing suicide?! SUSPICIOUS!” It was 2019. If the Trump admin was going to make a mock letter, do you think they’d implicate THEIR GUY in it?

Yeah, that letter from Epstein to Nasser reads like a suicide note to me. The phrase “short route home” is something I’ve seen in two separate notes from suicides I’ve tented.

Epstein Probably Killed Himself.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

me rn

the one on archive is actually more complete: archive.org/details/60mi...

Today's thrift store find, courtesy of my wife: a black galaxy Acrolite for $30. Original heads, played maybe 5 minutes total by some Phillips Exeter student. No rust, no damage, just a couple dents in the snare-side head and a broken snare wire.

The Hunter Biden laptop story has not been "verified" TO THIS DAY. Republicans came into possession of some of Hunter Biden's data, that much is true. But that cockamamie story about how they came from an abandoned laptop left at a Republican operative's computer repair shop? Be real.

Hi Sally, what did you think of last night’s 60 Minutes?

The founder of a university(*) ostensibly dedicated to free speech and free thought just spiked a meticulously-researched news story to appease the president. (*) well, “university”

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Once again:

This would be a better joke if it were the quadratic formula or something, I use the pythagorean theorem all the time! life is full of right triangles

Yes, it’s very, very difficult to use the same tools that the dumbest person you’ve ever met uses to make homoerotic memes featuring a ripped Donald Trump.

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

The next president needs to offer Judge Dugan an apology, a pardon, and the opportunity to push the plunger setting off the implosion of Trump's ballroom.

I don’t understand this story. When was the encounter, on the day of the shooting? Before? After? And the Redditor was suspicious because someone on a New England college campus wasn’t dressed appropriately for the weather??

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

wtaf. (IMO, the judge completely screwed up the final jury instructions on the second count.)

Masnica again argues that the government is stuck with the way the case was charged. To wit.

to be fair, I think anyone seen at a Coldplay concert should be ritually shamed

this is about forcing people with breasts to show them in the way approved of by fascists. it is in itself an act of sexual violence and coersion

The latest jury instruction all but guarantees an acquittal, but might as well get a good meal out of it.

Why is Dugan smiling? Here's how her motion for a judgment of acquittal summarizes the defense argument: "Agents never gave Judge Dugan E.F.R’s name or identified him to her. They also never showed her the administrative warrant"

Don't forget these collaborators' names.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

I was sure this was gen AI. It's not.

lmao blocked for forbidden physics 101 level technological competency levels

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

nobody ever officially found out how Tesla miraculously turned around Model S sales in the last month of Q1 2013, and now they don't even have to try to hide it... that's progress, baby! electrek.co/2025/12/18/e...

Nothing more libertarian than telling people exactly what they're allowed to do with their own bodies.

I'm sorry, Bari, did you say your new show is sponsored by BOFA?

My fellow Americans: for decades, fans have have wondered whether Steve Gadd's stick click at 4:57 in Aja was intentional or a rare flub by the master drummer. I'm here tonight as your President to address that important question. We start by

The inability to comprehend basic arithmetic should be impeachable.

Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT). Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC). 3 NVs on both sides.

Marco Rubio looks terribly unhappy and unhealthy and I love that for him.

you know, I've got a couple guesses

My arm is going numb but I can't bring myself to wake him up.

A lot of people are making snarky comparisons of Erika Kirk to Tammy Faye, but Tammy Faye was raising AIDS awareness on the PTL Club in the '80s and attending Pride in the '90s and '00s so maybe we can let her rest in peace?

lmaoooo