The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Tonight, Donald Trump has appointed Gov Jeff Landry (R-LA) as the Reichsstatthalter for Greenland. He will split his time between Baton Rouge and Nuuk. Not the Onion.

JD Vance cozying up to the sort of white supremacists who would consider his wife and children insufficiently white (and hence American) is pretty bleak, and says a lot about his character.

As CBS News falls apart please admire this marble bust of Bari Weiss that is installed at the fake unaccredited university she co-founded with Joe Lonsdale. Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.

If it’s going to air later with just some extra interviews why is it necessary to take down all the promos? (rhetorical question)

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

It is soooo normal for a country to have a TV news report about its gulag system removed from the broadcast

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

It means Donald Trump’s DHS is involved in international kidnapping, human trafficking and multitudes of human rights violations, For Profit off the backs of American taxpayers.

CBS is fully compromised !!! Remember, the executive producer quit, months ago, when he realized 60 minutes was giving away their integrity !!! 🤬. Legacy media is dead ⚰️

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

At this point they might as well rename it 60 Minutes for Trump and be done. The re-naming of cultural icons does serve one purpose: it lets everyone know that the thing we used to have is -- for now anyway -- gone.

As suspected, Bari Weiss killed the 60 minutes story on CECOT The new, unqualified editor-in-chief of CBS News told the show to add an interview with Stephen Miller-AFTER the White House rebuffed their request for comment MAGA’s takeover of another network is now complete bsky.app/profile/axid...

So all of Bari Weiss’s views, statements, “philosophy” is proven to be absolute garbage. Which we suspected all along. Turns out she is nothing more than a henchperson for a vile, fascist regime. It’s out in the open.

That’s part of it, but I also think another part is that they don’t want to have to pay people to do the thinking either. There are loads of us who love to be left alone in a library, thinking, reading, writing…but we can’t because no one will pay us to.

I really think that people not knowing how to learn things and then think about them is a huge problem.

If you want to take the fastest route to not understanding anything, you definitely want to use AI. Otherwise, nope.

Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.

maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all

Since a lot of people seem to be confused, this is what fascism sounds like in the American context.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

Vance comes down against “purity tests”—i.e., against criticizing the neo-Nazis. He’s happy to have them as part of his coalition.

This is fucking insanity

I did Nazi that coming

Trump is no longer making any pretense of sanctioning firms supplying the Russian military. He is shifting the US position steadily to a pro-Russian position, including support for Russian military operations in Ukraine.

I would like to see just one journalist quote Charlie Kirk’s problematic comments to Matt Shaw and ask him to respond.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

What they called the ’Trump vibe shift‘ was ‘Racist extremists who have been creeping into power since Reconstruction managed to get enough power to gain full control of the US government. Most billionaires went mask off far right extremist. The media then followed.’ It was not an organic change.

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They are so bad at everything. And yet they seem to succeed. I hate it. Everyone involved in this cover up definitely already has a pardon for it. You're only this sloppy if you know you can't be punished.

Inserting photos that aren’t in the actual evidence seems to point strongly at obstruction of justice by the DOJ.

Trump's DoJ is inserting bogus pics of Bill Clinton into the Epstein files and and gullible dipshits are falling for it.

Q: “Why do you think Trump is working so hard to stop the Epstein files from coming out?” REPUBLICAN Rep. Massie: “These files implicate billionaires, friends of Trump, political donors — and Epstein had ties to 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 intelligence agencies.”

Walking through libraries and bookstores today thinking “Featured in the Epstein Files” would be such a provocative display

When Trump came back to office, Putin studied psychological profiles of his circle and decided he wanted to deal with Witkoff not Kellogg. A year later, Kellogg is out and Witkoff, who Trump says "knew nothing" about Russia, has been to Russia six times. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Pentagon says it fails eighth audit, targets 2028 to pass reut.rs/4s7T594

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Trump’s rant against the Somali community in Minnesota is disgraceful Nazi incitement and then he pivots to endorsing Mike Lindell for governor

Nice @boingboing.net post about the Nerd Reich podcast: “…Connects threads that often get treated as separate stories.” “The takeaway is a billionaire class that promises utopia while building escape routes from the society they're breaking.” boingboing.net/2025/12/19/t...

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

Even when Trump tells lies, he shows the truth #Opinion

The Supreme Court has essentially removed the necessity for any pretext for anything Domestic Terrorist In Chief does. That body itself is an enemy of democracy. It's making violence inevitable.

ABSOLUTELY. RightWingNuts are TERRIFIED of the fact that by 2044 or 2045 (depending on which study you read) the US will be a minority white population. They can’t stand the thought, let alone the fact.

Betsy DeVos’s brother

This is exactly what my white empiricism paper was about!!! The paper they freaked out about!!!

This makes me realize that “Trump cannot be constrained and will do whatever he wants, so we all have to shift our standards and describe the world in terms of how he sees it” is the exact pathway through which American legal and political institutions have surrendered to MAGA

We all know the answer to this-every star shows how whiteness still dominates the academy. What these folks are doing is trying to tie the hiring of Black & Brown folks to the decline of the university, which of course would have maintained integrity if it used whiteness as the only credential.