starting the new year with: —massive D overperformance in Iowa to hold a state senate seat —Trump giving up on national guard in blue cities —Mamdani sworn in seems like a series of good omens, maybe.

"Mar-a-Lago spa’s practice of dispatching workers to Epstein’s home has not been previously reported ... The Mar-a-Lago bosses told the message therapist Epstein preferred spa services in the privacy of his own home, and warned the employee Epstein sometimes exposed himself during massages."

The next big right wing panic will be investigating why mommy goes bye-bye when my eyes close. This is a joke, but when it actually happens it will get more earnest coverage from NYT and WaPo than Trump pardoning the BTK killer for sending him his commissary money

if anyone was actually interested in running government like a business this is one of the first things they’d do

One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.

All this stuff just happening totally in the open.

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying

Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.

I will go to my grave baffled that they built a whole cult of Trump Loves And Fights For You around a guy who has very transparently not given a single shit about another human being a day in his life

The most interesting thing about Trump, contra Kat Rosenfeld, is that he shows no loyalty to anyone and keeps selling out everyone he steps on to get where he wants and whenever one of his stepping stones like MTG get the temerity to think they have a reciprocal relationship they're all surprised!

This is how you do it folks

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd. You weren’t the only ones who willfully forgot Trump’s first term, ignored various things he and his team said in the four years after, and voted for a made up version—or didn’t vote while claiming it wouldn’t matter—but no one did it as hard as you.

Just in case you needed to get caught up on current events:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

very hard to imagine trump protecting a friend, esp when it's not politically expedient. outside of his children, he's treated every relationship as disposable or transactional, in service of self-gain or self-preservation.

suing Ovaltine because it should be called Roundtine

Wow, seems terrible. If only they put a Smart Businessman in with near-total, unconstitutional remit over federal spending, I bet he could find out and then stomp it all out easily!

Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.

BREAKING: A video montage of all the times Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 24-hours is going viral after Trump said he has “no deadlines” to end the war. Someone made fun of Trump by speeding up his speech.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Shades of Damian Mizdow

Over 20 adult women accused him of sexual assault. He was on record about his privilege of going into the dressing rooms of the *teen* pageants he owned. Most of the most damning Epstein quotes were on record. They voted for a misogynist, accused rapist over a qualified woman. Twice.

See one thing every media outlet loves is a story about another outlet fucking up. It’s like catnip.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

always amazed to see the ways people will debase themselves for free

This person analyzes American politics for a living www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

Her whole thing is “No, it is the executives who are actually oppressed.” Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.

25 approval with independents is crazy

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.

hey, just want to circle back on this, you utter joke of a pundit

so, in one of your first major acts, you’ve single-handedly destroyed your network’s reputation of objectivity and given the entire staff incentive to leak every single embarrassing, craven, humiliating thing they can to anyone who will listen. now what?

god, bari weiss is such a comically odious, clumsy toad who has no idea of all the ways this will blow up in her face

chatterton doesn't really post here but i would love his thoughts on of his most famous episodes given today's events.

the one thing that i don't think Bari Weiss (the fucking moron) recognizes is the fact that if there's one the press loves, it's about reporting on internal reporter drama

she's just doing what she was hired to do

This should likely go in my little Bari at CBS thread but I just don’t know what she thinks pulling a story two hours before air is going to do for her cause. The people who watch 60 Minutes for the journalism are the kinds of people who care about this shit, and the people who would cheer it don’t!

🤷‍♀️ youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY

And there it is...

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today