During a White House Christmas call, Donald Trump told an eight-year-old girl that she sounded “beautiful and cute.” If anyone needed any further evidence, well here it is, recorded today by Donald Trump in the middle of everything going on.

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NEW: A federal agent has fired shots in Baltimore, and two people have been taken to the hospital. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

ICE are not legitimate federal agents. They are not law enforcement. They have no authority to commit crimes, violate rights, assault and kidnap Americans. Zero. They're criminals with badges and guns.

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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.

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.

The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

The Trump Regime thinks it can bully the world with it's vile Nazi ideology. It may find itself isolated and friendless very soon. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The DOJ is now online commenting on posts, claiming information they released in the Epstein files is fake and shouldn’t be trusted. The desperation is obvious.

Ford's whole EV plan hinges on its new "Universal Electric Vehicle" platform. But Europe, also known to be part of the universe, may be off the table. insideevs.com/news/782686/...

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

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The charitable take is that the DOJ bungled the Epstein file release. The honest one is that this is by design. Cause confusion as a cover-up. Keep the shiny object moving. If you can’t keep up, this is a solid recap of last night’s document dump — holiday edition.

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Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

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It’s called the First Amendment. You used it as your defense to incite an insurrection. Given your advancing dementia, look it up or have someone explain it to you.

Glutamate is the primary molecule that neurons use to communicate with each other. Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵 #neuroskyence

NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.

An Oregon couple was deported and forced to leave their toddler behind in the United States. Their child, a U.S. citizen, is now separated from both parents because enforcement moved faster than law, humanity, or reason. This is family separation by design, not accident.

I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…

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This hasn't received much attention but with 2nd seizure of oil tanker of Venezuela it will. The two tankers seized are oil China purchased. Seizures violate International Law. China has taken the issue to the UN. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”

This was a very strange thing for him to lie about

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.

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

At least 15 deaths can be attributed to Tesla's door handles, according to a new analysis. So what is Tesla doing about it? insideevs.com/news/782579/...

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

A “documentary” about Melania Trump (produced and directed by a MeToo figure), funded by Amazon (a company scrambling for President Trump’s approval), will premiere at a venue that President Trump has renamed in his honor. A perfect cap to Y1 of Trump 2.0. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

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.

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

Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…? Raping children and covering up for ‘em.

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

Today Donald Trump called for the execution of six U.S. lawmakers simply because they urged the military to uphold the Constitution. A president threatening death against political opponents for honoring their oath is not “fiery rhetoric” — it’s the language of authoritarian rule.

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office to New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall on January 1. trib.al/ylTzosO

Kash lied to congress.

It appears the Epstein file redactions can be undone by copying and pasting the text into Microsoft Word. The text was blacked out, not properly redacted. Call it incompetence or quiet resistance inside the U.S. Department of Justice. Either way, this is not how serious redactions work.

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

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They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.

This time last year, we said that if President Trump came after our rights, he’d have to get through us first. With over 230 legal actions filed against his administration and counting, we’re keeping our promise.