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People who comment on the Fox News website have way worse grammar than people who comment on the New York Times website.

‪The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Writers: It's not about you. It's about the reader.

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Trump would much rather have you talking about a Vanity Fair article than the decades he spent sexually assaulting little girls w/Jeffrey Epstein or all the money he launders for the Russian mob. Remember that and react accordingly. He’s adept at media manipulation & distraction.

Here's Bill Gates' then 20-something Russian girlfriend (when Gates was in his 50s), who some years later became connected to #Epstein. Here she is with a Russian spy. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Scenes from a personalist regime: the President's media company is pivoting, slightly, to nuclear fusion at the same time the President is deregulating nuclear power.

And here's Trump with Felix Sater, a known associate of the alleged head of the Russian mob (Semion Mogilevich), who's believed to force women into sex slavery. Also pictured, guy from former Soviet U busted for "hooker ring." www.nydailynews.com/2010/10/01/d...

Yes, in one of the Epstein emails he talks about a guy named Tigran/Tigrane who, per Google search, probably ran Noah Models in St Petersburg Russia. Then there's the French modeling exec arrested for rape, etc. who killed himself in jail. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

Russian mobsters force women and girls into sexual slavery in part by STEALING THEIR PASSPORTS. Why THE FUCK did Epstein have a woman's passport?

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Devin Nunes, who has a degree in agriculture, is the scion of a dairy-farm operation and ran a deeply unprofitable social-media firm, will now be co-CEO of a nuclear-fusion company. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A "surprise merger." A same-day 30% gain.

Every other business empire map of Presidents would have been empty

This is not America. This is not America. This is not America. This is not America. This is not America. This is not America. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...

Simpler times

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Today, 4 Republicans finally joined Democrats to force a vote to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Speaker Johnson has a choice: allow a vote to protect 22 million Americans’ health care, or own the massive premium hikes coming January 1. This crisis is preventable.

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American journalists, I am begging you: someone hold up a map and ask Trump to point to Venezuela.

Actual data suggest we’re experiencing the result of a nationwide multi-family construction surge during the Biden era; a cresting wave of newly completed units has been coming on the market since the summertime. www.theguarantors.com/blog/owners-...

My boss today, sending me an article to edit: "The client will be very picky about grammar and style, since he fancies himself an expert, because he has a BA in English literature." Me: "Who's gonna tell him they don't teach grammar and style in English lit programs?"

A Lord of the Rings cover band called My Life With the Mithril Kill Kult

Even if an ACA funding bill somehow passes the House, there's a torpedo waiting to blow it up in the Senate: Abortion. Republicans have made "Hyde" language a red line. Dems say hell no. Thune and Schumer both call this an obstacle. from 5 weeks ago: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

My latest. Moscow’s effort to suborn Trump is the most successful covert influence campaign in decades. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...

Both passenger-side tires blew just before I took the freeway, after caregiving at Mom's. Brought my car into our local tire shop, and the owner said in the last three weeks there's been a rise in both passenger-side tires getting punctured. Guessing it's a TikTok trend.

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Jared Kushner runs from Bulgarian scrutiny

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Once again, it all should have ended when he started monetizing his own hotel in 2017, three blocks from the White House. The Constitution is more clear & specific about corruption & emoluments than about literally any other topic.

I wish journalists would spend more time trying to find out who's buying Trump crypto & giving the Trumps business deals and investments and less time on "Breaking: Trump said something repulsive and topical (again)."

Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece: First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

... John said, confiding to Betty. ——> ... John confided to Betty. #amediting

A broken clock is wrong most of the day - weeder

Me: I know pantyhose are a little dated but I love how they even out my skin tone Teller: So is this not a robbery? Me: No, it is

It's an obvious and fitting WOTY choice. Jess & I also both chose it. I love how it's used to make so many other words: — slopaganda — sloperations — slopographers — sloptimists

Donald Trump is showing us what's possible. Anything is possible. The president can send troops into cities. The president can make $5 billion off of crypto in plain sight. The president can tear down an entire section of the White House and build an Epstein ballroom.

day 2468 of hitting the pizza button on the microwave and still no pizza

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

Religion is what happens when mansplaining gets out of control.

Most people who say "I'm bad with names" mean they can't remember them. But I'm bad with names in another way. Anyway, meet my son Dipshit

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how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

I and so many have been saying this forever. Trump & Putin are trying to upend global alignment entirely around a corrupt new alliance of autocrats with them at the center.

One thing I've learned as a media critic involves scale. The tools of criticism work within certain boundaries like the metaphor in use here: five-alarm fire. Our imaginations can handle that. The PR team will respond. "I'm running my ideas for CNN past the president" is too huge to be criticizable.

Would you provide 5 years of all Social Media history, all email addresses you have ever used, and all phone numbers, just to be able to take a vacation somewhere? That's exactly what the Trump Administration is demanding that ALL foreign tourists do. The level of insanity is beyond description.

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that