look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise." I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.

Someday we'll be able to play this loud. youtu.be/Dkq7WZTzkLQ?...

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

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.

What a beautiful day to upload the entire banned CECOT 60 minutes episode to my 140,000 follower Twitter account. If I get suspended because of it, it was 100% worth it.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

A lot of folks say that A Muppet's Christmas Carol is the definitive adaptation of A Christmas Carol, but I can't agree with that for one important reason. The exclusion of The Ghost of Christmas Present revealing Ignorance and Want to Scrooge. The sin of Man, and men like Scrooge.

Oh, they are very angry at Bari Weiss.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the controversies that dominated the Turning Point conference, but he did not define any boundaries for the conservative movement besides patriotism. n.pr/4qlRL0Q

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

And there it is...

Something that should be noted is that this, right here, is the side effect of the absolute institutional rot and destruction that Vought, Trump, et. al have created by chasing out career civil servants who are competent. The DOJ just doesn't have the people or admin cycles to do this cover-up

It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.

It's that time of the year again

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

About that FIFA "peace" prize.... Bloomberg reporting SG Sauer "ordered Brooklyn prosecutors to abandon 2 FIFA bribery convictions amid pushback from their Trump-appointed US atty--potentially unraveling dozens of other int'l soccer corruption cases & 100s of millions of $ in recovered penalties."

DC resident on Trump putting his name on the Kennedy Center: "We should all be shocked that a convicted felon, a thug, and by all means a grifter has just stuck his name on top of a national monument."

Lol Is it not possible that the way that time progresses and different administrations take the office the place in which they reside are seen differently? bsky.app/profile/figg...

lol so reading further it sounds like maybe the report said "hey so our whole messaging and marketing apparatus is basically a pile of do-nothing jobs for the failchildren of donors and officials? And they don't actually know how to do things? Can we correct this???"

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

Keeping a society safe and free is gardening, not nature watching.

Bari Weiss seems to be a spoiled child who was told that she was the smartest kid in school, and throws a metaphorical temper tantrum when she doesn't get her way. So to see the lack of response to her self aggrandizing is pretty funny!

I'm eating and overhearing three 20 something year old women talking about Candace Owens and her whole conspiracy theory about Charlie Kirk. It apparently involves "the king of France's or whoever rules over there's wife" and they don't think the guy in court did it.

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

CNN wasn't included in the Netflix deal

When I was in elementary school I saw an oath ceremony, I think it was also because there was one of the original Declarations of Independence, that they sent through the colonies on display at the time. It was a great thing. I despise this. The anger I feel towards these people isn't enough.

By transitive property of Ossoff's loss in a highly nationalized House race, I look forward to Senator Aftyn Behn.

Anyone who is dooming about this simply does not have the appropriate psychological disposition to safely use social media.

Some background! I wrote about Tennessee in 2023, asking whether it's still a democracy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

among other things: TN-07, the Congressional district that voted today, is the result of gerrymandering - Nashville, which used to have its own congressman, was split into thirds, and TN07 contains one of the thirds. The rest of it is rural.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Gretchen Whitmer can go to hell

Politico on how Gretchen Whitmer autographed a newspaper with the photo of her hiding in the Oval Office the next time she visited the White House. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Say what you will about Nuzzi's ethics, but with her effectively trying to boost Trump via her support of her beau, she certainly seems to have a face cosmetically made for Fox News.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Because people are treating it like a juicy spectacle and not like a significant failure of journalism and a condemnation of the industry.

OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

“America’s Future Is Being Sacrificed for Short-Term 'Wins',” with “Wins” in quotation marks in the title. Ouch. @ianbremmer.com for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social: prosyn.org/gDQDuXV

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Based on all available information, it is frankly absurd to think Democrats did not tacitly approve of these members voting for this bill in the Senate. So. Which Democrat Senators should be primaried for this?

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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…