WHY IS THIS REDACTED???

The Supreme Court blocked President Trump on Tuesday from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago as part of his campaign to use the military to police the streets of Democratic-led cities.

Some good news to end the year on. The Supreme Court today blocked Trump from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area — finally setting a limit to Trump’s executive power. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/finally-the-supreme-court-stops-trump

Wonder who is really waging war against Christmas?

Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

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.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

The Trump administration will resume wage garnishment for people in default on student loans.

We've engineered a society where people can just print money with the dumbest ideas in the universe, pretend they are transforming existence, and then buy access to the corridors of power.

In the grand tradition of American journalism, both sides must always be expressed. On the one side, there might be the moral courage of CECOT survivors who told us their story. On the other side, there might might be my service to oligarchical fascism in killing their story. by Bari Weiss

WHOA. I am genuinely *shocked.*

Nothing says “full transparency” like begging staffers to spend their holidays blacking out names in the Epstein files. Funny how there’s always time to redact, never time to tell the truth.

Now imagine if those many, many millions came from extorting elites from kompromat acquired from a child sex trafficking ring and Larry Summers looks exactly like a criminal accomplice. bsky.app/profile/ebha...

“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns. A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so. Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?

NEW: A passenger who was contagious with measles passed through Denver International Airport’s B concourse on Dec. 12. The traveler, on an unspecified airline, arrived at gate B45 at about 7:24 p.m. and departed from gate B84 at about 9:41 p.m. that same night

Director of Melania Trump film exposed in Epstein files drop Bret Ratner is photographed on his knees next to Jean Luc Brunel, an Epstein and Trump associate who *was also found dead in prison.* This is a massive coverup, possibly the biggest ever, across continents www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

A day after federal agents arrested Epstein in 2019, they were also apparently trying to contact 10 people they called potential 'co-conspirators,' according to a newly released email exchange. All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

One thing that really stands out about this week's California storms is the highly unusual risk of severe thunderstorms, both overnight Tue Wed and then again late Wed into Thu. Multiple low-topped supercells may generate very strong wind gusts and even a few tornadoes. #CAwx

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...

Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

At least two people died in a gas explosion at a nursing home outside of Philadelphia where residents were trapped, authorities say.

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

Here’s some more analysis on how the new ban on the import of foreign drone components is going to impact drone manufacturing (the impacts are not, I imagine, gonna be good) www.electronicdesign.com/blogs/nonlin...

We've never more clearly seen first hand how the bumbling incompetency leads to complete corruption and then being cartoonish evil to try and keep it protected. bsky.app/profile/lemi...

Seems not great a key leader of the J6 insurrection who was pardoned by the President, and who'd gotten a "stand back and stand by" shout out at a 2020 debate, is encouraging his followers to read Mein Kampf & explore "the JQ." I could see why some people might use the word "fascism" in this context

FUN FACT: In Tenney's NY24 district a 60-year-old couple making $82,000 will see their premium increase: 121% (up $704, from $581 to $1,285). bsky.app/profile/atru...

In the early 1920s the US armed forces tested the vulnerability of battleships in the age of air power. Here's a clip I've used in lecture showing the test bombing of the ALABAMA, with Gen Billy Mitchell briefly in it 🗃️

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.” Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.” Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Trump shares and endorses a post calling for Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp to be arrested

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This is NOT normal. As it reflects again our climate rapidly warming now from data center rollout for oligarch control. bsky.app/profile/nws....

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NEW: In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling.

NEWS Russell Brand has been charged with one additional count of rape and one additional count of sexual assault. These charges are in addition to two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of oral rape.

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters

This is why brand actually means something in 2025. Actual aesthetics matters little compared to “dude who lives this.”

AG Bill Barr, who volunteered for the job and whose father gave Epstein his predatory start at Dalton School, assigned strangling killer NYPD cop Nick Tartaglione to be his cellmate. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Accomplishing granting war power to the president for the Alien Enemies Act and using more military for mass deportations. Along with taking the oil and territory of course. bsky.app/profile/carl...

The purpose of a human masquerade "companion" is for mental manipulation and the minority control by oligarchs funding them and it's no coincidence they also make more money by harming the masses as well. bsky.app/profile/hype...

In all these cases, it's his own insecurity that's driving it.

It's a fair bet that once Trump dies, all of these stories will come out and they will not be anonymous. It will be clear as day that a twice-elected President of the United States was a barely concealed serial child rapist with an army of protectors and a group of victims too scared to come forward

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

During the holiday season, we all want to spend time with our loved ones.   And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.   Shameful.

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud