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“I voted once for Trump in 2016 — I’ve learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine… ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they’re doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.”

Ouch — the Trump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its “smallest audience ever”, roughly half of the previous record low

TRUMP: “What would you like Santa to bring?” LITTLE GIRL: “Not coal.” TRUMP: “You mean clean, beautiful coal.” *laughs because he knows he’s lying to a child on Christmas Eve on behalf of his fossil fuel billionaire donors*🫤 🎄

What the fuck do you mean "how we get there?" We pass the law, we take the best of the already-existing government health care systems, combine them under one roof, and make private insurance companies completely unnecessary. "How we get there?" We just DO it already, Mark. Jesus. 🤣

I do think people can be needlessly rude but you can't have 6 billion dollars and act like universal health care is impossible and expect not to be told to suck a turd etc

Heritage's Project 2026: Trying to stay alive

Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

The Heritage Foundation is dead! Merry Christmas, everyone! www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-f...

No one has more contempt for the intelligence of Trump supporters than Trump & the members of his administration

music.youtube.com/watch?v=LkdY... 😎Ian

Having a normal Christmas morning

In 2024 the GOP made it an entire narrative that the Biden Administration was “weaponizing law enforcement” and then the Trump Administration made actually weaponizing all levels of law enforcement a central part of its existence

The level to which the most viciously - and violently - anti-speech government and administration in American history pretends to care about free speech takes monumental levels of shamelessness

Chris Christie absolutely nailed it on Marco Rubio. He’s always been an empty suit with no principle other than advancing his career, even if that means latching on to global fascism and white nationalism

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

I’ve heard most journalists and politicians say that Trump hasn’t been directly accused of wrongdoing or implicated in the Epstein Files. But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

He’s such a hateful piece of shit.

Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy

ICE is out of control.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Because we've seen the piece now, and Weiss' stated reasons for taking the extraordinary step of pulling a scheduled, promoted piece at the last minute are pretty obviously frivolous.

This idiot is shooting off conspiracy theories to a kid calling norad

YES NORAD! Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Hegseth: Why are you tracking some fat idiot NORAD: That's Santa, sir Hesgseth: Oh and he's got a beard. This guy's a loser NORAD: He's the father of Christmas, sir Hegseth: Father of deez nuts NORAD: Don't you have Christmas plans, sir

NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker. That's hilarious!

us to NORAD: welcome to the resistance

Looks like Santa's currently flying around Mexico. Oh, and what's that body of water to its east? Thank you, NORAD! ✅ Gulf of Mexico #USDemocracy #MomSky

Awww… these Xmas bubs are so freaking gorgeous. 😻❤️😻❤️🎄 So happy to donate to @chimphaven.bsky.social youtu.be/Ox737mNeWWw

I would rather have an actual TdA gang member in my home than Kegseth. First, I'll spend less on booze, and second, the TdA guy has murdered fewer people.

If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today. But MAGA is a grift machine for losers

And as several theologians and religious studies scholars have noted, what that student did — lazily waving in the direction of the Bible, never even citing Scripture much less delving into it — would’ve gotten an F In their courses. She’s not a victim.

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

Not wanting to host a stranger at your home, of course, is the standard for locking someone up in a foreign concentration camp. Do I want the Salvation Army singers at my house? No. Off to the forever prison then, those are our only two options I’m afraid.

I'll never pass up an opportunity to share this stunningly accurate portrait of the Australian mining billionaire who's obsessed with opening a mine in Alberta.

AI could never capture a billionaire's soul like this.

His entire career is based his anti-woke views! Without them he’d be an expat who couldn’t get published because his writing is almost comically bad. The anti-woke grift is all he has!

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

If I were still teaching US History, I would gather images of the oval office over time and ask students to analyze what the decorations, including the choice of portraits, busts, etc, tells us about how a particular president understands the history of the US. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

The University of Oklahoma fired an instructor for failing a student who wrote a reaction paper without having read the text she was supposed to react to. By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.

which mar-a-lago bathroom were they in

You’re not having real conversations on X. And if you’re finding you’re seeing more hate here than you are on the white nationalist platform that has restored actual Nazis, I’m afraid that’s a you problem.

I’m nobody special and I’ve had right wing extremists try to ruin every aspect of my personal and professional life, including showing up in person and leaving written death threats at my work and home. This “problem” is an inherent part of right wing extremism; it’s a feature not a bug.

the White House comms strategy on this one was very much: NO NO NO HE HAS FRIENDS AND IS VERY NORMAL bsky.app/profile/andr...