There are lots of vacation photos in these Epstein files including Maxwell and Epstein in Moscow, Russia in 2002. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Opinion @franciswilkinson.bsky.social , Columnist MAGA’s Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance The Trump administration’s executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat... via @opinion.bloomberg.com

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

Sunday is a lazy day devoted to napping on the sofa in anticipation of Monday, which is also a lazy day devoted to napping on the sofa.

Thank you, @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, for giving necessary attention to what’s going on with public education attacks in South Carolina. My story is but a drop in the bucket of the broader plot to make America dumb again. Education strengthens democracy. Destroying it hurts us all.

They deported Yuanxin www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Not yet finished renouncing his wife and kids.

Book bans are back with a vengeance. Great reporting from @franciswilkinson.bsky.social

So to describe this in institutional terms rather than political ones is wrong. The continued degeneration of the GOP is the dominant independent variable in US politics, until Trump's re-election produced the culmination of the GOP's deterioration.

Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

There is a sense, in this biography, of him tending his own flame while attempting to urinate upon it at the same time.” I do love Dwight Garner. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Holy shit

Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

Weird how this keeps happening.

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

Owens could have had a lucrative career telling white conservatives that Blacks and liberals are the real racists. She found an even bigger market. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

“Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trump’s ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.”

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

ELISE NAVIDAD

Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Maria Lani, 1929 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

The party of lies is now the party of murder.

STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.  @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

“Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man, but I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man….” #Lola

The maga theory of the case requires believing that GOP leaders are so incompetent and stupid that after 5 years they still haven’t managed to produce any evidence.

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

Trump is, and will always be known as, a mass murderer.

💥📉 A fresh bombshell poll in Hungary by a reputable pollster shows Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz trailing opposition leader Péter Magyar’s TISZA, 36–53. Despite throwing everything at Magyar in recent weeks, the gap has only widened. Just four months to go until Hungary's parliamentary election.

With other men, Mr. Epstein might discuss tax shelters, international affairs or neuroscience. With Mr. Trump, he talked about sex.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

An adviser who spoke with Trump ahead of Weds speech said the president admires Putin’s year-end news conferences, which last more than four hours, but Trump takes press questions so frequently that a news conference would be less noteworthy than an address. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social has written extensively about the social-psychology of why people engage in self-harming decisions in the spirit of preserving social identity. Highly recommend reading his work.

One thing about Proto-Trumps like Rizzo and Wallace is they weren’t born into millions generated from real estate and tax fraud. The singular thing about Trump is he magnifies all their hardscrabble resentments while sharing none of their sources. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/erik...

One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.

Beginning to wonder if I’m post-literate

“Donald Trump may have finally killed off the presidential prime time address with his lecture at the American people Wednesday night.” open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Striking graph in @ronbrownstein.bsky.social column www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat... - causes are complex but multi-member districts are a great way to address this issue as well as the zero-sum politics it helps foster

“Cleveland fired Loehmann in 2017, not for shooting Tamir, but for lying on his application to the Cleveland police department. He failed to disclose that the Independence Police Department dismissed him after determining he was unfit to serve on its department, city officials said.”

Trials when

A previous Trump chief of staff called him a fascist.