If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now

UPDATE: After testifying in-person at Anchorage muni transpo planning committee, Sen. Bill Wielechowski successfully lobbied the Gov & DOT Commish to reconsider the cancelation of Anchorage safety projects. Public comment on the plan opens soon and we need to blow the roof. #FairnessforFairview

Peter Thiel's cronies are freaking out about my book. Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack. Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy" 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

I didn't even think about this. Trump isn't just freeing villains. He's stealing from the victims to reward their crimes. We live in disgusting times.

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

NEW: Rep. Cory Mills owns a defense company that appears to have been illegally exporting weapons to Ukraine—while Mills sits on the committee with oversight of those sales. This has gone unreported and for a long time unknown in Congress. My latest here: sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine. www.science.org/content/arti...

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

"intelligence official said the campaign noticeably calmed in late 2024 and early this year. Their analysis showed Moscow likely paused the campaign to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump's new administration. It has since resumed at full pace." Doesn't bode well for 2026. #hybridwar

Good god

Getting rid of disparate impact liability under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act would mean cutting millions of people of color off from recourse for anything but the most obvious and explicit discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

SCOOP: House Democrats suspected a few in their caucus would support a bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth So Sarah McBride reached out to Republicans Four Rs — Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Kennedy, Evans — joined Dems in opposing the bill www.notus.org/congress/mcb...

Please make sure every military member you know knows this.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

“… as I tried to push my button to voice my concern, to ask questions and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted,” said @repbeatty.bsky.social. “Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end it was a unanimous vote.”

More about RFK Jr.'s colonialist medicine. The study team describes period before universal vaccination-at-birth in 2027 as a "unique window of opportunity". In a sense they're right. It's a unique window of opportunity for a wealthy country to experiment on citizens of the global south.

What we already knew should have ended any possibility of this person being remotely near the levers of power in this country for all time, as well as a conviction *for literally trying to steal the election in his own voice & words ON TAPE*.

Boy math

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

another piece on the Prarieland case involving what that authorities are calling the "North Texas antifa cell." once again, not just is this "group" a fabrication on their part, *it*was*not*an*antifa*action*at*all*. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

About to watch a livestream of my child's first band concert because in-person events were canceled due to the very real threat of federal agents using the opportunity to take away students or their families

“.. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was named by Congress.” 🤡 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

I spoke w/ half a dozen migrants who said ICE misled them w/ promises of a $1,000 "exit bonus" that never came. The company handling the payments is linked to a former State Dept official. thelensnola.org/2025/12/18/t... Investigation co-published by @theguardian.com and @thelensnola.bsky.social

YES this is such a misunderstood dynamic and it drives me crazy

i made a helpful reference

All those words when he could’ve just said: fuck your health care and your grocery bills. Get a third job, peasant.

Oppose Justin Olson’s Nomination to Indiana Federal District Court “I am sure that normal people in Indiana who do not want their federal judges to be alarmingly anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-disabled, anti-sex weirdos therefore have nothing to worry about.” Text SIGN PSPEEF to 50409 @resist.bot

one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out. "If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?" www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions. So far, the answer is a hard “no.”

to celebrate Don Jr’s engagement here he is proposing to his first wife Vanessa in a mall jewelry store in exchange for a comped ring nypost.com/2004/11/12/t...

Ah, yes, one famously restores trust in public health and protects people from infectious disease by installing the man who personally ordered Louisiana’s state health department to stop promoting vaccination.

Anyone who sees Bovino in Rogers Park, let us know. We’re doing ICE watch. Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

Bari Weiss’ anti-woke “university” is chaired and co-founded by Joe Lonsdale, the tech billionaire who recently defended Trump’s illegal boat bombing campaign on the grounds that it’s “masculine.” I wasn’t aware of that, but it tracks. The same few moneyed elites pushing these ideas in many places.

FFS: “The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money,” It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.

The House vote will presumably happen in early January, *AFTER* ~24M Americans receive their first 2026 premium bills. It will presumably pass the House narrowly. I don't know if the Senate would be required to re-vote on it or not, but it will almost certainly only get 51 votes again there.

Must read but grim "Other task forces were dispatched around the same time in Indianapolis, Dallas, and Little Rock, Arkansas—all purportedly focused on crime but co-led by DHS. More than 1,000 local law enforcement agencies nationwide are collaborating with ICE through 287(g) agreements."

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect. Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.

JFC it's impossible to make this shit up. These people are such grifters and greedy bitches, they will literally get people killed to push their BS & somehow make a buck.

🚨 House GOP Bill: No #ACA tax credit extension after all; CBO projects 300K to lose coverage due to end of #SilverLoading in mostly red states: acasignups.net/25/12/16/hou...

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.