No one ever tells me these things, so I just discovered that the Kindle ebook of first Coop heist novel, THE EVERYTHING BOX, is on sale for a lousy $.99. You can't even buy a three-legged hamster for $.99, so get a bunch of my books instead. 🐹

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We need a new Dem video reminding DOJ employees to obey the law not members of the Trump regime. Flagrant violations of the new law through over redaction tumbling out of DOJ. It is clear rank and file DOJers are being ordered to ignore the law passed by Congress. It's an extraordinary situation.

Forget the “economic data” we get from Trump regime. It’s all lies. Want the truth? Look at Trump’s approval on the economy. It’s at his lowest ever at 36%. 70 percent say they can’t afford basic necessities. More than 50% of Americans say we are in a recession. That is what is real!!

Trump: "We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has spent no money. They have no military protection. They say Denmark was there 300 years ago or something with a boat. Well, we were there with boats too I'm sure."

PAYWALL LIFTED. Trump essentially gutted the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of his crusade against the renewable energy source. $25 billion worth of projects were expected to power 2.5 million homes & businesses & create 10,000 jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

The madness of a nearly all powerful man may yet again determine the future of America. We freed ourselves from monarchy and became a democracy in part because of the madness of King George. Now, we may lose our democracy and devolve into a dictatorship because of the madness of Donald Trump.

Russian attacks have plunged Odesa Oblast into darkness and cold just days before Christmas, cutting power to more than 120,000 residents after strikes on three energy facilities on Dec. 22.

the orange team can't count... or read... or think...

MUST READ: DOJ is demanding states surrender their private voter data in the name of election integrity. But its rapidly expanding crusade to seize that data has been riddled with sloppy filings and a growing list of self-inflicted embarrassments that undercut the department’s claim to competence.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

As many others have pointed out: an incredible paragraph in the NYTimes today. Important note: This is not an editorial — it's an analysis piece from the paper's chief White House correspondent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

At this rate he’s going to crown himself by the 250th anniversary of the country in July.

Stein: What is typical after a storm like this is that the federal government provides about 50, 60, even 70 percent of the damages in relief dollars to help a region recover from a massive hit. So far, North Carolina has received about 11 percent.

Want a sober reminder of where we are in addressing the climate crisis? Over the last 50 years the oil & gas industry has made $3 billion in profits every day. $52 trillion in pure profit: buff.ly/3iXkJwm Time to unplug fossil fuels.#ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity

how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?" —Adam McKay. See 130,000 year greenhouse gas forcing increase CO₂ equivalents relative to 1750:

Lawless shambolic shitshow.

They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.

“The tens of thousands of pages made public omitt[ed] some of the most closely watched materials, including FBI interviews with victims and internal Justice Department memos on charging decisions.” apnews.com/article/epst...

AP: At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein with zero explanation or notice to the public apnews.com/article/rele...

While everyone else's stockings are hung with care, Mom's is often the last to be filled — if it's filled at all. Why? For many families, moms are the magic makers of the holidays, but so often their needs can be overlooked. https://cnn.it/4s8ElHb

Trump didn’t just meet the 14-year-old child Epstein was abusing--he put her in his beauty pageant. The dump of Epstein documents has raised questions about Epstein introducing Trump to a 14 year old victim in 1994. But Trump did worse than remain silent deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-didn...

FACT !.......

Blocking or muting everybody who defends Bill Clinton. It’s an insult to all victims.

NYT covers the Manhattan Institute poll of MAGA youth—According to a recent survey from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, almost a third of Republicans under the age of 50 openly express racist or antisemitic views, a finding based on a poll of about 2,800 mostly Republican voters.

President Zelensky and Portuguese PM Luís Montenegro honored fallen Ukrainian soldiers by laying flowers at the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv. Montenegro’s visit to Ukraine began on December 20 with this gesture.

Trump had his name removed from the Epstein files and put it on the Kennedy Center

Surfers hold a paddle out tribute at Bondi Beach to honor the 15 lives lost. This brought tears of relief to my eyes. I hadn't realized how beleaguered I felt as a half Jew for Jews worldwide, for my Jewish friends, and for my extended family until just this moment. www.tiktok.com/@news_eye/vi...

LEAK THE UNREDACTED EPSTEIN-TRUMP FILES!

A key thing to remember is they could release half a million pages of documents but hide several pages that are incriminating or bad for Trump, and probably get away with it.

Please have nothing to do with the "Trump Kennedy Center" except to write your congress persons (I did already) and heap public scorn on it. I will also boycott/avoid any "artist" who performs there.

Re: Epstein Files Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-...

Unlimited and unchecked power with no one elected or responsible or accountable wielding it is a very dangerous thing. Interesting article about the people who are really exercising the power of the presidency.

Pam Bondi's DOJ is saying they have the right to fire an immigration judge based on her sex and ethnicity if that's what they want to do. This is her boldest statement of official racism yet. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

Maduro is an authoritarian thug who should be in prison but we have no choice at this point but to hope he hangs onto power somehow. The U.S. toppling him would set yet another awful precedent and give these goons justification to do even more regime change.

In the briefing yesterday, the Admin didn't even pretend the strikes were designed to stop the fentanyl trade to the U.S.. Of course - because Venezuela produces no fentanyl. They transport cocaine - bound for...wait for it...Europe. So this is The War On European Cocaine.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most

One thing the film won't cover: Melania's years living in Moscow, 1995-99. Another: Melania's lesbian-themed photoshoot, a small part of which was published by Rupert Murdoch in 2016. A third thing: her time working with a Paris-based modeling agency connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

Absolutely everything about this Jimmy Kimmel interview with Michelle Obama is wonderful! What a marvelous human being! Or, to be more accurate, what a marvel of a human being. youtu.be/IqGNKbXBfPg?...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

An air raid alert is on in Kyiv, and I’m showing you the Didukh. A traditional Ukrainian Christmas symbol made of grain sheaves, it is brought into the home on Christmas Eve and represents ancestors, family continuity, and gratitude for the harvest.

16 December 1888 | A Czech Jew, Josef Vrba, was born in Neustupov. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- The ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.