“The speech outlined a plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, which the Washington Post called ‘the most significant presidential intervention to alter the U.S. immigration system in nearly three decades.’” (That plan was later died when it deadlocked 4-4 in SCOTUS.)

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022

Fascinating Q&A with the photographer behind *those* Vanity Fair photos from WaPo wapo.st/49ixYtq

Designating fentanyl a WMD will worsen fentanyl misinformation, which does not prevent overdoses -it makes them deadlier- & harms anyone who could ever need pain treatment, anesthesia, & more. Patients already refuse one of the safest, best studied, easiest-to-dose pain meds because of such misinfo!

We literally had an impeachment vote that every republican voted against. the fact that these people don't even seem to know about this kinda shows how pointless these votes are.

"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."

Making the most depressing point I can make yet again: the US media is going to treat Donald Trump with far less vitriol in response to him starting a random war in Venezuela vs the sheer level of vitriol that they hurled at Joe Biden for ENDING the War in Afghanistan.

Whoah I agree with a Bret Stephens column.

The absolute vacancy of Donald Trump remains, perversely, one of the most compelling things about him

I am incapable of eating pecan pie without thinking of this scene and talking like that

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Read this one. It’s powerful 😭“I can’t breathe, but I’m breathing. I’m howling at the gods every moment. Then I talk to a friend or myself and quiet down and I realize the gods are not to blame, the tsunami of tragedy is the response of human beings”

I would like to let people know they should be careful now that Google Maps now automatically uses Gemini AI, and apparently there’s no way to opt out. I got sent on some random unplowed snowy backroads in Quebec this weekend. Check your route details before heading out….

On Saturday, CBS hosted a televised townhall with Erika Kirk, the widow of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, who was murdered in September. All of which raises the question: Where’s the network townhall for Melissa Hortman? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Even James Woods managed to say something civil and complimentary — unlike Orange Caligula.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

“New data provided to The Tyee reveals that seven B.C. hospitals operated at more than 20 per cent over capacity last year.” Reporting by @michellegamage.bsky.social and @tyolsen.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Think about what it takes to stab two people to death in the same home. That’s…a horrific scene to play out. And to think it may have been their own son?

This logic is part of what led @derekgottliebphd.com and me to revisit HBO's Chernobyl for our Control Room podcast. The Soviet nuclear disaster offers a bleak look at what happens when authority is divorced from expertise.

This entire weekend

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him. Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.

Celebrating the 100tb birthday of our national treasure Dick Van Dyke. The time when the audience lost its mind at his cameo during the Disneyland 60th celebration.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

Not only is Nuzzi not a victim, but the kids dying of whooping cough and measles as a direct consequence of Nuzzi's unethical behavior (for which she was rewarded with a lucrative book deal and Conde Nast sinecure!) certainly are

I volunteer Nate Fisher as a test case for this proposition.

When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.

Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein than I have of Donald Trump playing with his son Barron.

Happy 100th birthday!

i will once again remind y'all that roku has a 24/7 dick van dyke show channel and it is the most necessary counter to modern fuckery and dipbaggery

What? They see it like a criminal trial because the process is intentionally set up to parallel a criminal trial. The House is the Grand Jury while the Senate is the trial jury. I think they even sold it that way in the Federalist Papers and the like

this is crazy, these people are 2nd grade-level liars

lol

Imagine writing a first person story about a secret affair with a member of the Kennedy Family who is currently one of the most powerful people in the country and not being able to sell a book about it to Americans

Many people are hoping the Lizza series will end soon. I’m hoping it extends for hundreds of entries as it imperceptibly morphs into a romantasy novel about poignantly horny wizard-journalists who discover a mysterious tear in the fabric of magic itself

Heck of a time to be in the process of dismantling King County's climate office, honestly.

It’s not surprising that Trump is bribe-able but it is a little shocking at how cheap it is to bribe him

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The alkaline diet in particular has become a dangerous, yet widespread, piece of misinformation.

There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.

Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero

This would be fucking hilarious if it wasn’t such a depressing sign of how deep in the sewer we are.

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She voted for hepatitis?