Something to bring a little joy today. Mr. Koufax, we salute you!

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

I had this awful flu and I am absolutely dreading the future Bob Kennedy and his minions are handing us.

Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin. archive.ph/2025.12.28-2...

Sharing operational details of an attack beforehand with a random journalist on a group chat is for rookies. Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela. And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Jason Alexander was on my SWA flight to Burbank. He waved at all of us as he was deplaning.

Trump’s hand-picked US Atty in the SDFL is judge-shopping to get a politically motivated prosecution of former CIA Director, John Brennan, before Trump-favorite, Judge Aileen Cannon. I’ve got the latest details of Brennan’s extraordinary legal move to get rid of Cannon. youtu.be/_S1qfEe2YW4?...

Thread.

Get the shot, if you haven’t already. I was vaccinated but got the flu. It was awful. Avoid it if you can.

Son-in-Law Watch:

Heroes on the half shell!

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/NTMmKZQ

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

That was tough.

Someone at FBI/DOJ was monitoring reporter Julie Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social), who broke the Epstein story, right around the time of his arrest on July 8, 2019: these flights were on July 6 and 8. The public deserves to know when her records were searched for. Before the arrest, or after? 1/

What the fuck?

Shame on the United States. We need to take our democracy back.

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.” For nearly two decades, the government has been hiring workers for border enforcement at rodeos.

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.

ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his groceries for themselves. A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused. trib.al/EBdU1Rf

A 📹of Mariupol during the holidays in 2021,before Russia "liberated"the city Look how beautiful it was.In a few months,a Russian bomb will hit Mariupol drama theater,killing hundreds Thousands of Mariupol residents were killed by Russia,tens of thousands fled.The city is full of ghosts 📹SunVideo

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Or the archivist who hid a file in a woman professor’s archive from me and then when I complained to higher ups, made a copy of the file, put on a trench coat and hat, and dropped it at the door of my research partner’s husband before scurrying off.

Nailed it.

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DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al

I own Pablito Velarde’s ice bucket. She was a longtime neighbor. When she died, her son had a yard sale.

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents? GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

ICE has long used the latest spy tech to pursue immigrants — but now it’s also targeting anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them. bit.ly/3Kq348R

December 26, 2025

It me

Noem is incompetent.

Oh, hey, that's my article.

Here it comes!

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

Inside Medicine: The sentence I’m recommending for new vaccine hesitancy “the politics have changed, but the science has not.” by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social bit.ly/4slp7im

Seeing lots of people post clips from Sinatra in "The House I Live In" as a response to Stephen Miller being a racist about Sinatra. Just a random reminder that "The House I Live In" is in the public domain. Every once in a while it's good to remember the public domain is good...

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Please read and share my latest piece about the abuses of the pardon power in the @nytimes.com.

She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv. Merry Christmas, friends! 📹: miarodriges / Threads

Journalism USA #60minutes

How many of those documents deal with financial transactions?