In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators. Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket. Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.

the White House, last week: "Donald Trump does not actually control his Truth Social account or what gets posted to it" newspapers around the country, this week: "President Donald Trump says on his social media account that..."

trump wrote the post himself and everybody knows it.

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

He lied to the Senate in his confirmation hearing. Democrats must move to impeach. We know it’ll fail but they need to get in front of cameras and mention this every chance they can. This is exactly the sort of thing voters mean when they insist Dems do something. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Every American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

I could make a point about how a version of whiteness that excludes Scandinavians underlines how much white nationalism is an identity construct. But that would be so close to critical race theory that it would be illegal for me to say it on many US campuses thanks to Rufo. bsky.app/profile/zack...

Thank you, Sal Buscema for all the years of joy you brought. Thank you for all the punches the bad guys richly deserved.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines. Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

White supremacist talking points. No dog whistles.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes what a "radically truthful" journalism would look like. www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-to-bui...

There is no evidence that the officer who shot the woman was injured at ALL, despite Trump’s claim here that he is “recovering in the hospital.” Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

They’re trying to cover up a murder that is playing on a loop on every phone.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The Ghost and Molly McGee. I know the show was meant to have more seasons but they really pulled off this ending. I was a sobbing mess!

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Watching a great holiday episode of The Ghost and Molly McGee. The McGees and Scratch are with Libby and her mom at their bookstore when the power goes out in town. The store’s generator only has enough gas for an hour but somehow lasts for eight.

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

And the winner for the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence is...

“Delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine dose beyond the newborn period introduces risks that have lifelong detrimental consequences and no measurable health benefit.” Important and timely piece by an amazing team - Mike Abers, Angela Ulrich, & Rochelle Walensky. 👏👏 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Freemaker Adventures, mostly.

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Honestly, everything went downhill after The Ghost and Molly McGee was cancelled.