My wife and I have been wishing we'd started a list last year of the bonkers actions that mattered most to us. This is even more comprehensive and a great help in spotting patterns and discussing impacts with those you know who might not be aware of these. Thanks, @rosenzweigp.bsky.social

Wow

John Singer Sargent, View of Capri (1878)

For the last year, I've been keeping a list of what Trump is doing. It's over 20 pages long. Here it is, in all of its horror: medium.com/@RosenzweigP...

Donald Trump has hollowed out and repurposed the Justice Department as a vehicle for culture war belligerence and as an instrument for political retribution. Please read (and share widely) @rosenzweigp.bsky.social's new @theunpopulist.net piece on the DOJ's decimation.

My latest on the destruction of the rule of law: Trump Has Hollowed, Weaponized, and Perverted the Department of Justice open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone, A Lovely Night (LaLa Land): youtu.be/_8w9rOpV3gc?...

My appearance on CNN last night re: Minneappolis: next.frame.io/share/db10c7...

Don’t Back Down, Europe open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Depressingly accurate www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Baryshnikov/Kundo, Dancing to Sinatra (T. Thwarp, choreographer): youtu.be/_7jj8McPlVY?...

Before and After the Trigger Press That Killed Renee Good www.lawfaremedia.org/article/befo...

Worth every second

Just wow. @dancescholar.bsky.social -- you will enjoy.

Many of ICE’s tactics are “plainly illegal,” the former federal judge Nancy Gertner argued in December. The legal precedent that permits such lawlessness was the expectation of well-intentioned immigration enforcement:

My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

OK, YOU should still absolutely not release a video talking about the charges against you. Powell gets the one-in-a-million exception because he knows what he’s doing and is resisting authoritarian trash.

The most expensive flatware set in existence, though, to be honest, I'm not sure why that is ...

In some ways the fact that Trump was able to imitate this criminal probe of the Fed is a bigger deal than the impulse itself. This isn’t just retaliation angst a foe like Comey or James. It’s a direct attack on key institution of the American Republic. As I said, it’s not a surprise but it shows …

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social Support Michael's work at open.substack.com/pub/deadder/

"That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday, is real. We are all carrying a lot of new weight in the era of Trumpism."

What a great actor he was ....

"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at. Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!

1000x this -- 18 USC 111 requires some use of force by the alleged criminal actor. It can be minor (don't even touch ICE) but it must exist.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social captures exactly how I feel, more eloquently than I could say: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

Here’s a great explanation from Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

Walter Iooss, Jr., Bjorn Borg:

Facts.

I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

Looking forward to my first trip to Japan later this year

Seems like the right time for a joint Anglo-Franco military exercise with the Danes on defending Greenland. Perhaps with a leave-behind residual military deployment (say a brigade) -- against the Russians and Chinese, of course.

Missing since 1977: www.npr.org/2025/12/28/n...

His surrealist period

I know in this age of Trump what’s right & wrong no longer matters, & the law no longer matters. So I’m probably just shouting into the wind, but…what we just did in Venezuela is immoral & illegal. And it makes us no different than any other dictatorial regime that invades another sovereign nation.

Monty Python, Dead Parrot: youtu.be/TaFDzTzKAT0?...

Boris Schatz, Old Man:

Will Never fly @JetBlue again. Would not hold connecting SJO flight for 15 minutes for late arriving passengers from DCA. We arrived 3 minutes before departure. Flight left early! One woman is missing her own engagement. Horrible customer service. Seriously. I am so done.

Because, of course, unilateral cyber disarmament is a good thing: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dism...

George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (NY Philharmoic): youtu.be/cH2PH0auTUU?...

Since you can't see him at the Kennedy Center this year ...

Must b read

giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost

Reposting for 2025 --- Christmas in the Trenches and a fond wish for peace in the New Year: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chri...