It never ceases to amaze me how "proud" they are of what they are doing. Bragging about it all over the TV. Right up until someone wants to actually see what they are up to. Then you get a door slammed in your face, redactions that cover entire pages, and you get called a "Domestic Terrorist".

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.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

Wow. The correspondent coming out and straight-up blaming Bari Weiss for killing that 60 MINUTES segment on CECOT. You'd like the reputational damage would be too much for CBS, but we live in humiliating times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

Here is a copy of the complaint, which describes how Epstein threatened to “burn her house down”

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.

One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters

Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”

My brother put on the Jake Paul boxing match and I’m not being overdramatic when I say this is everything wrong with America and quite possibly the world

We cannot survive another neoliberal president. We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president. This is unlivable and inexcusable. If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.

boxd.it/c8bagt Thanks again @thefridacinema.org. love ya guys.

The gym is 10% lifting and 90% disassociating/staring into the abyss.

I think Trump wants a war with Venezuela so he will have the emergency to cancel elections.

A President has no power to declare war, but Donald John Trump just did that by declaring blockade on Venezuela. In international law, such a declaration is equivalent to a declaration of war. If the GOP wants an escape, they could use that and impeach him before the weekend. As if.

Trump didn’t exactly refute the “personality of an alcoholic” allegations tonight

This is legitimately one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen on tv

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

Read this. Then read it again.

The interview was recorded, as most good journalists will do. Fake news hides the crimes and truth from the people; they don't expose it. Fox is a prime example of Fake News and the White House Press person is just another example of Fake News and Projection.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal

Yes, being quoted extensively after doing 11 (!) interviews with a reporter is quite an outrage.

bongino set to leave the admin the same day that the epstein files are supposedly being released to the public? lol

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.

We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes

Trump meant it when he said at rallies if they put him back in office, there won't be any more elections. He still means it. He is going to stop the 2028 election and maybe even the 2026 election.

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway

Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."

Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Whenever I got accused of “virtue signaling” on Twitter, I always replied with “I’m standing up for what I believe in. What do you believe in?” They immediately got defensive and either ignored me, blocked me, or replied with childish insults. Really shows that it’s just political favoritism.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

the US war escalation in the southern hemisphere is 100% about trying to destablize and control venezuela and cuba leadership. classic neo-con “spreading freedom” type agenda