Imagine how he would have handled the roster Epstein files.

Trump's empathy toward the dudes in the Epstein Files honestly knows no bounds. I thought he was going to break into song,

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Damn. From a republican who decided to tell the truth and put himself at risk for retaliation from Trump. Two thumbs up for the guy with the spine.

What did possibly go wrong?

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The files "have already demonstrated that the narrative painted by Patel in hearings, Bondi in press statements, and Trump himself on social media wasn’t accurate,” Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who co-authored the Epstein legislation, told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Colleges and universities should run similar ads.

In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

Giving 1993, in a good way.

Gross.

"the State Department said in a statement, when asked about the recalls. 'An ambassador is a personal representative of the president, and it is the president’s right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda.'" Nope. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Discuss: "The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Puck news confirming exactly what we all assume happened at CBS News(max) — Bari Weiss happened

BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law? MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

"Providing for the renaming of the National Cultural Center as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts..." www.congress.gov/88/statute/S...

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Now Stefanik, all on the outs with Trump. It’s almost like he doesn’t respect women.

Christ.

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...

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Oh.

It goes without saying at this point, but the delay is illegal.

They will "rename" it the same way they "renamed" the Department of Defense: giving it a sanctioned nickname and then changing all the signage at great expense (and implicitly requiring another great expenditure to undo).

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

May the odds be ever in your favor

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

The whole thing is great, but Xennials may want to jump to about 16:35. youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s Wednesday night.

More sad, sinister news from UNC.

I'm old enough to remember a nation scandalized by reports that outgoing Clinton White House staffers had pried the W key off some computer keyboards on their way out the door in 2001.

He's wasn't aware he was supposed to be in control of the House nor that there was a House to begin with.

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

It continues to be a rough few weeks for conditional party government. apnews.com/live/donald-...

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

I very clearly remember my little sister and I shouting "Inconceivable!" back and forth at each other the whole ride home from the movie theater.

The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says. They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization. They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.