Sen. Andy Kim is a force to be reckoned with.

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

Politics. Brought to you by banks.

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

"The $1,776 per person bonuses [...] will be covered with funding approved in the Big Beautiful Bill [...] confirmed by the Pentagon. The payouts — which will cost roughly $2.6 billion — will be a “one-time basic allowance for housing supplement to all eligible service members,”"

NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over." Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

I truly can’t believe we didn’t stop everything to make sure he never walked free

This is one reason why we got that horror show speech today. Notice how little attention this got. apnews.com/article/jack...

President Trump says that checks for $1,776 each are going out to nearly 1.5 million servicemembers. I have questions. + When did Congress approve such a plan? + Where is the money coming from? + How is it non-taxable? Did Congress vote to do that? I'm sure there must be specific bill text.

👉 Donald Trump’s businesses have sought to bring in at least 2,033 foreign workers to staff his clubs, resort, and winery since 2008.

Yeah, no @nbcnews.com, that's not what he did.

How Dan Bongino got canned because he pissed off Pam Bondi. Meanwhile, longtime FBI agents were left agog that he had lasted that long, given his inability to even feign competence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

I'm old enough to remember when the networks refused to carry an incredibly important speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by President Biden about creeping fascism in the U.S. because it was "too political". Sure, but they'll broadcast every minute of Trump's propaganda bullshit. 🙄

and, reiterating, refusing obama's immigration address on what i recall were the grounds of being too political and or partisan: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014...

If the 25th amendment were triggered by any objective metric of presidential insanity or unfitness, Trump would have been launched out of the White House ten seconds into tonight’s speech. Or 11 months ago. Or daily since.

Trump is attempting to bribe his way to a military loyal to him, and not to the United States.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

Brendan Loper, The New Yorker

I partnered with @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social to test a bunch of AI editing tools, and something ~very interesting~ happened. We asked Gemini to generate a professional photo of an actor crying at the Oscars. It did — including a fake copyright notice from a real AP photographer.

Simpler times

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

A federal judge Wednesday blocked a policy from the Department of Homeland Security, finding that it violated an appropriations law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to federal facilities that detain immigrants. By @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social

He’s gotta go.

3/ News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.

Remember, just a few yards away from Trump is the guy carrying the nuclear football. Sleep well.

And don’t forget they blamed it on DEI!

2/2 If you heard this from someone in a bar, at an assisted-living facility, in a sanity-competence hearing, etc you'd know you were not dealing with a person in control of facts, reality, or himself. Every medical professional knows this. Every normal person does.

Don’t be fooled. This isn’t a family of crime fighters. It’s a family with a slave-catcher mindset, and they made a money move.

American Academy of Pediatrics has consistently pushed back against RFK Jr's anti-vax policies & this is payback for their unwillingness to "lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health.” #IllnessPolitics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Full story: AOC tweeted a poll showing her beating JD Vance. It's a sign that she has larger national ambitions. But when asked why she did, she simply said "Because JD Vance is a goober, man." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" Article 1, Section 9.

Can only imagine what Fox News would have done if Biden or Obama behaved this way.

Rubio’s failed leadership in real time.

This is high-school-level juvenileness.

House Republicans are going on vacation and letting your health care subsidies lapse.

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...

Yes!

Trump published this ad in 1987 only a few weeks after he returned from his first visit to the Soviet Union, an invited visit the Soviets paid for. The ad calls for the US to dismantle its military alliances around the world - a basic Soviet goal since 1945.

OH WAIT YOU MEAN THE ONE THEY BLAMED ON DEI??!!?

They want America to be a white, Christian empire. Loud & proud baby. Who knows, maybe their ultimate plans involve trying to bring back slavery.