Just watched the "Marjorie" episode of "The End of an Era" docuseries and man... that hit so hard. Anybody got some tissue?

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

“Frank Lloyd Wright had a long and productive life, but you still won’t see one of his houses just every day,” Betsy Bradley said. “Preserving the legacy of such a genius of commercial and residential architecture will have a profound impact on the city of Jackson.”

Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:

So agree; read @ashtonpittman.bsky.social’s dominionism series from back when national media pretty much wouldn’t notice, or touch, Christian nationalism: www.mississippifreepress.org/to-rule-hist...

Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

As an editor, the more important skill at this point is being able to *spot AI*. I've poked around with LLMs just enough to get a feel for what AI "writing" looks like so I can spot it. Thankfully, we have a team of reporters who would never use AI to write a story. But the future worries me.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Christmas decorations at the Mississippi Governor's Mansion feature interesting education-themed twists, including a Christmas tree adorned with pages from books. The decorations celebrate Mississippi's K-12 students and educators with the theme, "A Season of Success."

Ben Sasse was one of the few Republicans who broke with their party and voted to convict Trump during his 2021 impeachment. This was his statement at the time: outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/v...

Horrible.

You ever have those mornings where you just look in the mirror for a minute and wonder how exactly you ended up who you are www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“Because of medical cannabis in Mississippi, it allowed me another option. Today, I’m proud to say that I don’t take any opioids at all,” said Gulf War veteran Devereaux Galloway.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

Not a Clinton fan, but good.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Definitely a big deal

2 years old! Both parents deported, weeks ago! Her sister got the call, ‘We’re being detained. Take care of Sofía.’” Sofía wakes in the middle of the night crying out for her mother and “takes her mom’s photo and hugs it." Sister needs $ for basic expenses as they work on reuniting the family.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and trying to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law. buff.ly/ld2Qx8u

I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.

Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Robert Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie, all from Pennsylvania, and Mike Lawler of New York signed on Wednesday a Democratic-led petition to force a vote on extending pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies for three more years. buff.ly/63rEE7d

Bill Clinton demands the immediate release of any remaining Epstein files materials "referring to, mentioning or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton." Trump should make a similar demand of Bondi. (But by law, she should have already released ALL the files anyway, only redacting victims).

If govt or others won’t respond and you have the evidence, good newsrooms run with it. Otherwise, you’re bowing to an old censorship tool. 1st Amendment exists for us to hold power, and especially the government supposedly of the people, to account. Weiss uses moniker “Free Press” for opposite.

Bari Weiss: "we can't do any journalism someone else has already done" Also Bari Weiss; "Time to do our 33rd anti-Zohran piece without interviewing him!"

Truth. Gov’t pre-clearance is the exact opposite of having a “free Press“ end up holding democracy. By the way, I saw a consulting report recently about journalism that advised us not to use the words “democracy” and “journalism” in support appeals. What next: “free press” and “first amendment”?

CORRECTION: The MFP previously reported that Fountainhead had been unoccupied for decades. This information is incorrect, and the house was occupied until only two years ago. We have also corrected a spelling error in Robert Parker Adams' name. We apologize for the errors. buff.ly/n7EK9yp

There are plenty of obvious reasons to do this: Nobody under the age of 30 actually uses the site! You're rewarding Elon Musk! But the most important thing is that some politicians and consultants are stewing in bot-driven, expensive Nazi propaganda, and it's giving them really bad, cruel ideas.

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus. Weiss; What did the driver say. Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times. Weiss: I’m killing your story.

Oh, he took a side alright.

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

This was my approach when trying to get oral interviews with segregationists for my first book. “I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

True, but it's exactly the kind of "skill" that elite corporate media execs reward.

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

With this decision, CBS and Paramount deserve every bit of smoke and consumer backlash as ABC and Disney got for attempting to fire Jimmy Kimmel to appease Trump. Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.