A valid list.

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him. "We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say. "I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells. "Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have." Philadelphia, PA

UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

Lutnick may actually be dumber than Trump.

‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dozens of patients’ lawsuits accuse cosmetic surgery chains of failing to promptly treat painful infections and other serious complications — including for four patients who died, a new KFF Health News investigation has found. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

I'm not sure it's safe to assume he wrote it. He was at MCC; the postmark is from Virginia. The return address for MCC is wrong and doesn't include his register number, as is required. And it's not clear to me that an inmate could get or send a card like that.

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:

ICE goons break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male goon. The goons only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

The funniest thing, having seen the piece, is that the part Bari thought was most expendable was the one where a group of very smart people painstakingly show you how to independently verify a story.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

2026 is not looking good. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/h...

Putin picking his own US negotiator is the kind of thing you’d get called a hysterical conspiracy theorist had you predicted it

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months? Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA? But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis. Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Lincoln Towing could heal their decades-long and well earned horrific reputation with this one weird trick

The Epstein Files, everybody!

A biting critique of Big Philanthropy and local news. "These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no consequences when their calls go badly wrong."

Great story here about a popular new way to cut the line. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/

Trump continues to think that stealth planes are like what Wonder Woman flies.

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

news peeps please consider

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.

MELIA's story from the shelter. I do not work for them. Just sharing. Please open your home and heart. Training is funded to whomever adopts her. Hempstead Animal Shelter [email protected] (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793 ⬇️ www.facebook.com/reel/7083278...

“Show me your papers” is a hard stopping moment in every film about fascism and depression. And now we have it here at home.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

While the vast majority is stressed about an affordability crisis and the POTUS does nothing to help, Trump focuses on construction projects: Next Renovation Target: D.C.’s Golf Courses www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...

The company we keep.

Finally, an elf is featured on a US coin.

Notice the pattern: help a narrow group loudly, hurt everyone else quietly. Tariffs help a few steel workers but raise prices for every firm using steel. Tax cuts favor the rich while squeezing social programs. Politically noisy wins, economically costly losses.

The turkey pardons are no longer the fakest pardons a president has claimed to issue.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Seems like there might have been valuable evidence in the wreckage after the first or second strike. So it seems like you'd want to gather that before destroying it. Unless it seems like you're trying to eliminate evidence that might show the strike was a mistake. Gift link: wapo.st/4a6lypq