3/ and that ICE has been deploying its ”holding rooms” in a manner that ”shocks the conscience.” #getsmart #holdfast

The suit alleges HHS made the cuts in retaliation for the doctors' group speaking out against the Trump administration's positions and actions.

Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

"When law enforcement officers of any kind wear masks and withhold their identity, it smacks of tactics that are consistent with an authoritarian government." "You use masks when you’re looking to carry out an illegal, extrajudicial operation. This is straight from the fascist playbook." 🎯

I'm a former LEO (Federal - not DHS) and these roundups have nothing to do with law enforcement. It's obvious these masked kidnappers have little to no training and I doubt most of them are regular payroll. There's zero regard for procedures or the detainee's due process. This is a preshow..

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

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

🚨 Congressman Ro Khanna has confirmed that he will be filing inherent contempt proceedings against Pam Bondi once Congress returns to session and will seek a special magistrate appointment from SDNY to review the DOJ's redactions in the Epstein files.

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

The level of political incompetence it takes to let Trump do this bit right now is staggering.

“omnidirectional incoherence…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

Kash Patel made the FBI buy a custom fleet of armored BMW X5 for him to ride around in. trib.al/9pBbwTB Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.

Republican lawmakers have admitted they got practically nothing done this year as Trump’s agenda stripped away their legislative output and dominated their work.

It’s code red for US offshore wind energy, and it’s not because of breezeless weather: The Interior Department suspended wind farm leases in federal waters yesterday, citing national security concerns. Such bullshit.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

The Trump Class Battleship. Conceived by the mind of a madman to combat enemies that didn't exist before Trump created them. Meanwhile I'm the U.S., people are homeless, have no medical care, and nowhere to turn to try to get back on track.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

We reached out to numerous trump advisers, senior administration officials, others close to trump and in the Republican elite to grade the trump doj’s handling of the Epstein saga from July to today. All but one said F or F minus Because that one said “F-minus-minus.”

Complaints from Trump loyalists and functionaries working in and close to this administration focused largely on three grievances: 1) the way the Trump administration has handled this since the summer has not only created a massive political scandal for him, but has fueled public suspicions…

In general, I think that the most cynical interpretation of this Court’s decisions tends to be the correct one. Seems like they are trying to get some of Trump’s stink off of them before the Democrats regain oversight/impeachment authority.

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

Respectfully, You say Trump is “Making America the Soviet Union,” but it’s even worse than that. He’s making the USA a *vassal state* of the Russian Federation. (Note: A vassal state’s “a political entity that, while potentially having internal autonomy, is subordinate to a more powerful state.”)

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

Schumer: The law was written very clearly, and it did not allow all these redactions—this blacking out of everything. It did not say you can dribble them out over a period of months. These guys are full of shit. They should simply release it all now.

Before ordering a second strike on survivors, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi “I would be completely shocked if she thought these strikes were lawful” said one former colleague. “I’m sure she knows this is illegal" theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...

Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

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

Trump tells Watters that his WH ballroom is “a monument to himself” because “no one else will do it.” And I thought he was completely lacking in self awareness.

Watch this, also stop watching 60 Minutes. Frontline > 60 Minutes amd Bari Weiss. youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...

Bombshell NY Times report links massive donor gifts to Trump favors

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Epstein files: There is still no ETA for all the files to be released. Trump and Pam Bondi are displaying utter contempt for the law. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

"If [Trump] is not in the files, which all the reporting says he's not..." WTF is @joe-scarborough.bsky.social smoking? 30 seconds to find: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...

John Brennan, the former CIA director, is trying to keep the Trump DOJ from steering its "grand conspiracy" investigation into Trump's political foes to Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

This where we are: On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition. It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.

What a mess! Wyoming has some of the least competitive ACA markets in the country. In places like Teton County, there has often been only one ACA insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming). That lack of competition drives prices way up. This is ridiculous.

To give you an idea of how "AI" has fucked up the holiday season, their insane demand for RAM chips that's barely even being used has caused a production drought for every other application. Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.

LLMs can be somewhat useful tools to those who already know their craft. But they are in no way necessary and can even become a crutch. LLMs are demonstrably destructive tools for those who have yet to master their craft, and should be discouraged until such a time as they do.

They look good if you don't know how this stuff works and don't bother checking.

Trump's absolutely correct that a new golden age is upon us—for white-collar criminals. My essay in @theguardian.com on how white-collar criminals just had the best year they've ever seen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Worked in occupational safety until recently. Asked an LLM to select respirator cartridges for different toxic vapors. It got it right about 90% of the time - which means it would have poisoned workers 1 time in 10. In any field where you have to be right every time, LLM/AI is worse than useless.

Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’

At CBS News, we must be able to have respectful disagreements about “the thorniest editorial matters.” Which is why I did not speak to the reporter whose story I spiked.

“It is purposeful chaos.” Measles on the rise and there's no end in sight. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.