Rubio: This is not the kind of mission you can do congressional notification on. Trump: Congress will leak. We don't want leakers.

“The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal and we’ve now superseded it, by a lot.” — Trump

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

1. Yes, Trump launching a new military operation overseas without Congress’ prior declaration of war or authorization of force is almost certainly unlawful. 2. No, there is no real chance the courts will stop it. Unfortunately our Constitution means little when the judiciary won’t enforce it.

Trump: We are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so. So we were prepared to do a second wave if we needed to do so… we probably do not need to do a second but we are prepared for a second wave, a much bigger wave, actually

“It has to be judicious because that’s what we’re all about.” — Trump added.

Here we go: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Smith “forcefully rebutted claims that his work was tainted by politics and delivered a granular defense of his office’s tactics and prosecution strategy — all while repeatedly restating his view that Trump was guilty of a historic crime.” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Jack Smith accused Trump and allies of “exploiting” the confusion and violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to further their “criminal scheme.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

“America’s economic premium has vanished. It’s not hard to understand why. Whether it be tariffs, foreign policy, healthcare, immigration, national security, energy, education…the Trump administration has trafficked in chaos.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“The president has not been shy about the rewards. In April, as a Saudi-backed golf tournament opened at one of his Florida clubs, he posted on Truth Social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE.’” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

RIP Tatiana Schlossberg, you lovely writer and presence. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022

And the robot doubles over in pain, too. 🤣🤣

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

“In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS

“For the first time in modern history, America is paying more interest on its debt, now more than $30 trillion, than it spends on national defense.” And a lot of that debt it is held in the Cayman Islands — with hedge funds as pivotal players. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

Here’s an easy way for DOJ to cut time redacting the Epstein files: waive any claims that information in the files is privileged. Stop hiding behind attorney/client, deliberative process, and work product privileges. Protect the victims. Release the rest of the files.

Griftocracy.

“Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There’s no way that whoever designed the Apple TV remote has young kids.

“It’s ok to be white” was an online slogan used by overt white supremacist groups just a few years ago. Now it’s being used on stage in front of cameras by the vice president of the United States.

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

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Police recovered large capacity magazines at Brown, which allow a person to shoot for long periods w/out reloading. My latest story w/ @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: newly obtained docs show how the gun industry flooded the market with large capacity magazines www.thetrace.org/2025/12/larg...

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

CBS News removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Yes, yes. The Trump administration’s goal throughout all of this has been to protect the victims.

“PEN America found that 6,870 book bans were enacted during the 2024-2025 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts. Some 4,000 different titles were targeted, though many bans attack the same books — often those highlighted by Moms for Liberty.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Epstein victims broke down in tears after newly released files showed the FBI ignored a child pornography complaint decades ago.

Caleb Williams is the mayor of Chicago.

Inevitable. And yet, and yet. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The vote all but assures that out-of-pocket premiums will more than double on average for roughly 20 million ACA enrollees when the enhanced subsidies expire Jan. 1. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/h...

Susie Wiles is not happy with an unflattering profile in Vanity Fair. But she has only herself to blame, Nia-Malika Henderson says 🎥

Trump’s approach of placing economic blame on Biden isn’t just a little spin on the ball: “It's an effort to completely mislead Americans on the economy his administration inherited, and the harm his policies have done.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Over the past generation, Republicans and Democrats have established a dominant grip on a wide arc of House seats linked by common racial, educational and economic features. And gridlock prevails. A data tour of a house divided: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

Trumpflation:

Isn't it obvious where this is heading? The Billion Dollar Ballroom.

When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.

The government finally posted the jobs report for October and November. What really sticks out to me is how the unemployment rate is soaring (white line) while growth in average hourly earnings (blue line) is tumbling:

"...rather than asking why Johnson...appears to be the incredible shrinking speaker, the better question might be whether he was ever in control of the House at all. ...Johnson assumed the gavel without any power base or wealth of institutional support." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a map in the 2026 elections that heavily favors Republicans, overruling a bipartisan set of judges who found that those maps discriminate on the basis of race.

“Not only did she confirm that Mr. Trump is using criminal prosecution to retaliate against adversaries, she also acknowledged that he was not telling the truth when he accused Bill Clinton of visiting the private island of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Wiles, the daughter of an alcoholic, also describes Trump as having “an alcoholic’s personality.”

Elon Musk was an “avowed” ketamine user, Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair. She also labeled JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist,” budget head Russ Vought a “right-wing absolute zealot” and criticized Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...