So CBS gave Trump essentially 3/4 of the Evening News tonight, airing an interview that would be right at home on Fox News (dayside, not primetime.) Not a single question about Justice Dept resignations or Epstein Files. Not a single Trump lie corrected. youtu.be/5WkrKoxFghE?...

RFK isn’t going to let anything get in his whey.

Hear hear! 👏 @martinsandbu.ft.com tells Europe to shed its fear for Trump’s wrath and to plot its own course. “Truly strategic thinking for Europeans is not ingratiation but making clear what they are willing to fight for”

Trump and his entourage have clearly stated their intent at harming Europe. The only plausible argument for the ongoing denial of that reality is to DELAY the inevitable, while PREPARING urgently for it. But denial makes the needed preparation slow, uncoordinated, and confusing for the public.

European countries are facing a serious “are you sovereign or not?” moment. Yes, it’s unfair. Yes, there are risks in standing up for yourselves. But there are awfully big risks in ongoing appeasement too, telling yourselves this US government doesn’t really mean the threats and can be persuaded.

"You give an outlet that spent the entirety of [Biden's term] bitching [about access to POTUS] two hours to watch the President ramble incoherently, and in return (...) you describe the most dangerous kind of malignant Narcissism as the opposite of what it is." www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...

This keeps happening every day. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/est...

This is how you do journalism in the face of authoritarianism. The facts are appalling. All you need to do is state them plainly. Well done @chrislhayes.bsky.social

"The pursuit of liberty" styled as a form of "hunger game", just like the oligarchs ordered. Is it a fluke that Trump has animus only for nations with free universal healthcare and targets their consumer protection laws? Europe is to Trump what Ukraine is to Putin. A dangerous counterexample.

A system which cannot impose consequences for the most egregious breaches (stealing everything, trying to violently overturn an election) is a system which incentivises its own destruction.

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela? 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

Tulsi Gabbard in 2019: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

"We won't let Venezuela decide who will rule, also we might just keep the PSUV in power, look I need a nap alright?"

I think Taibbi will be pleased that a war was started in order to banish the word "collectivism" in a foreign country and spare said country of the deadly consequences of uttering it.

NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/ theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...

Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."

Among important details picked up by @emptywheel.bsky.social: the pipe bomber started wiping his phone on Dec 15, 2020, one day after a visit to Capitol Hill mentioned in his arrest affidavit, but disappeared from his detention affidavit. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...

Does Trump actually believe that $1.7 billion is his carrot and withholding it his stick? If so, he should repeat "adapt, shrink or die" over and over again as he looks in the mirror. $1.7B is spare change for the rest of the world. You can't cut off funding AND control the agenda. Sad.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Just a thought: if the US had single payer healthcare, not only would healthcare costs go down, but every eligible voter would receive a healthcare card with photo ID in the mail. Would that satisfy the GOP? Of course not. Especially as it would allow for automatic voter registration, as in 🇨🇦

Much of Todd Blanche’s Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The ongoing theme of the Garcia case is that of an authoritarian regime so unwilling to admit it was wrong that it will weaponize every act of the administrative state it controls (incl immigration judges now) to impose their lawless outcome

Corrupt MAGA FBI agent: "When you look at the data... [Antifa] is the most immediate [domestic] threat." Rep Thompson: "Where does Antifa exist." Corrupt MAGA FBI agent: [waves hands] "We are building the infrastructure right now." Fascist clown show. www.youtube.com/shorts/5abd1...

Not only did Trump help Canada dodge the bullet of a Pierre Poilièvre government, but now Liberals are one Conservative defection away from gaining a majority in Parliament. Thank you, Sir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARx-...

Two links to save time for anyone who might be inexplicably interested in reading Olivia Nuzzi's navel-gazing book. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Jimmy Fallon to award President Trump The Tonight Show Peace Prize.

I don't think she's the interesting character she thinks she is, but I'm SURE she's not Marcel Proust. Horribly vapid. "I did not yet grasp this." Lady, what you don't grasp is that you're now an adult - a very ordinary one at that - and the world doesn't gravitate around your imagined greatness.

More than any president before him, Trump has embraced an expanded meaning of the “commander in chief” that extends far beyond its narrow military meaning to cover all kinds of authoritarian nonsense, but as soon as there’s an actual military scandal, he’s running away from it as fast as he can.

X (falsely) complaining of EU censorship while then censoring the EU

France’s Macron Warned Other Leaders About Potential Trump Betrayal newrepublic.com/post/203995/... via @newrepublic.com

… and he SERVED ✨

"Donald Trump and JD Vance’s America is a Christian Nationalist America, so of course even Jewish holidays are part of the same Judeo-Christian (but really, just Christian) heritage we all share." www.wonkette.com/p/jd-vance-w...

thanks so much!🙏🙂

Democrats’ New Slogan Is a Donor-Class Disaster.

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Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached. Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at? Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.

Neo-Nazi Jon Minadeo just will not stop messing with the kids! Here, in this pre-Thanksgiving chat, this girl tells him she's 15. She is talking in hushed tones from what appears to be her bedroom. Instead of moving on, he tells her not to trust her adopted Black brother. 1/

Bolsonaro and Trump both attempted coups. Bolsonaro got 27 years and Trump got a presidency.

Breaking on MS NOW: Rep. Eric Swalwell is suing Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, accusing him of violating privacy laws.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...