Outrageous—oil executives notified of a military strike before Congress. And Trump's putting the lives of U.S. servicemembers at risk to help his donors get rich off Venezuela's oil. It's not about democracy or drugs. It's Iraq all over again, just more openly corrupt.

The threads attacking Sky Marchini and Parker Malloy are full of blockable accounts.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Tyler Loop, a 24 year old rookie kicker for the Ravens, missed a field goal last night and today there are *12,000+* death threats on his wife's Instagram post about their engagement. it's a profound social disease.

Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom

As I've been saying for years to others "Both sides are the same" or "All Politicians are corrupt" only serves to run cover for those that are worse at the expense of those that are better. Far too many times did the person saying such things also come with the smug aura of "I'm smart to say that"

I'm all for yelling at Democrats when they fuck up or fail to fight fascism or pass ugly policies, which is often! but treating them as if they are the only moral actors is a huge boon to republicans and makes fascism harder to fight.

Bondi should charge Maduro with denying the legitimate results of a democratic election. Be good to get some precedent on that.

So I guess we just spent millions to illegally immigrate a drug dealer, right?

“Rain”, Tones on Tail

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

A13. In case you're wondering how newsy it is to have the President dead to rights.

I searched “maga politics as permission structure to be your worst self” and this is the picture that came up

NYT, Tuesday: everyone is simplifying and exaggerating Christian nationalism! NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.

John Doar is right there in all the histories of the Civil Rights Movement, but not with much about him personally. One main purpose of Lost Cause-type narratives is to erase such figures, so it's particularly fitting to change that in the face of Trump's anti-CRT=>anti-woke revisionist history push

The subject of my next biography, journalist Wallace Terry, covered the civil rights movement for the "Washington Post" during the early 1960s, including Medgar Evers' fight for equality in Mississippi as an NAACP official.

I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.

abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.

Merry Christmas, Barcelona style

SCOOP:

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

There’s a line about driving I subscribe to: people who drive slower than you are annoying, and people who drive faster are aholes. It’s the same with criticizing Democrats. Too much or too little (a subjective, complicated thing!) and the people around you are just WRONG. I’m as guilty as anyone.

I wrote about the ways propaganda takes root, how attacks against trans people in the US and UK reflect different mythologies of protection, and why combating disinformation at the local level might be a more effective way to dismantle these frameworks than abstract online arguments with strangers.

I took several years off social media and I’m still adjusting to the effect of the war and genocide in Gaza on the discourse on here. People I used to agree with on just about everything will randomly post something wildly antisemitic or cruelly indifferent to Palestinians. It just sucks.

Bigger picture, Trump is part of a political lineage, from the founders to Calhoun to Pat Buchanan, devoted to rich white male minority rule. Inherently authoritarian and prone to fascism + political violence – esp when most threatened/ least bipartisan (Civil War, civil rights movement, now)

Looked up the author and she converted to evangelicalism because she became a fan of Tim Keller and JD Greear. She's saying not to worry about Christian nationalism while being a fan of people who platform the worst sorts of Christian nationalists. religionnews.com/2023/06/05/m...

Also See this from TWENTY FRIGGING TWELVE 2012 When @sarahposner.bsky.social and I were talking about this!!! OMG I have to tap out, my Blood pressure is going up.

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.

This administration is animated by abuse

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

"Wait for the more credible allegations" Bro that motherfucker is on tape criming 100% of the time, it's the Crimes Presidency for Criminals, and despite saying "I'm doing crimes" and then doing crimes, nothing sticks to him. YOU fuckin wait

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

This is a great systems-level read. Interesting how much of it also applies to the robber barons and big oil.

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump is such a magnet for arrogant idiots only capable of breaking things. Malevolent incompetence all the way down. It’s basically his whole premise, right? He gives you permission to be your worst, least qualified self. Basically the whole premise of white supremacy and patriarchy.

It’s like Bari Weiss said, “god give me the unearned confidence of a mediocre white man”, and Maga said “ok but it comes with a ridiculous salary and this stick for you to hit things with”

The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Hold up... that's dated 13 Aug 2019

I think we have established that Bari Weiss is an odious person. But wait... it gets worse. She's an admirer of Bukele and his concentration camps, and thinks its funny that people get sent there. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

These people are as crooked as Satan's pecker. Looks like that "Peace Prize" did the job! news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I wouldn’t have watched this if Bari Weiss and her oligarch patrons hadn’t tried to keep it from us. I’m glad I did. I almost have to thank her.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

I guess we finally found the men who go into women's bathrooms