I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

millennial terrorist googling: wirecutter gas mask. j kenji lopez alt pipe bomb recipe

There is the stupidest piece of conventional wisdom in DC circles that is something like "Actually with social media nowadays, protesting isn't covered like it is used to and therefore no longer serves a purpose." Complete bullshit.

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

This how it works: felons pay other felons as intermediaries to purchase a pardon from a 34-count felon now exercising the pardon power.

Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.” Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?

"The new US security strategy seeks closer ties with right-wing forces in Europe. Now, several AfD members of parliament are traveling to an important networking meeting of Republicans." www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

As a terminally earnest journalist and critter, I think about this often:

Decent people do not unleash hell on people just because some random person on the internet has decided they resemble a photo of the suspect. If they are pretty certain, they contact the police, not the world as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/t...

Nearly half of the revenue for large American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite The Nutcracker. Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

“People take him too literally” is - literally - the attitude that is destroying the world

Perjury. Contempt of Congress. Lying to the public. It’s all there in the files. Documents show that federal investigators knew of at least 10 co-conspirators. Why were they never prosecuted? Why is the Admin shielding their names? Why did they lie to Congress? We will get to the bottom of this.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

a little Christmas baking inspiration

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

Any investigative materials, tips, or raw correspondence that post-date Epstein's 2019 arrest and especially after his death should be taken with a grain of salt. Conversely, stuff that predates Epstein's 2006 arrest is probably reliable

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’ ‘They keep making it look like we have something to hide,’ a White House official complains to Zeteo, writes @swin24.bsky.social, @premthakker.bsky.social, and @andrewperez.bsky.social. Read it here: zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison. new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

The people who showed up to vote for a write-in dem candidate in a Trump+50 special election 2 days before Christmas are democracy's strongest soldiers.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

The real thread between the entire right wing is their fealty to traditional sources of power. From the unitary executive to unrestrained billionaires, they believe rich and powerful men should be allowed to do **anything** they want.

The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com

it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true

The terrors being created on the Ukrainian battlefield...

one thing i will say is that i am no longer surprised by things that seem “too on the nose” when it comes to either trump or epstein. neither of these men have ever, in their entire lives, been subtle about anything.

""I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife,"

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Motion to rename the Streisand effect the Weiss effect.

The video has been taken down from YouTube. You can still download it here: is.gd/paU8Ko

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

in the days since members have fled the discord, the chatbot wished people happy holidays and of course the anthropic exec responded and you just have to read this lmfao www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Let's get a roll call of Bari Weiss apologists...

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

2025

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

‼️ALERTA‼️ Bloomington, IN/Nashville, IN/ Spencer, IN...Area... Welcome to the sunlight Zachary Lee Platter (Age 36). Of Neo-Nazi group blood tribe.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

As long as Bari remains in charge no one should be considering CBS as a credible, fair and balanced news network.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.