Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

this version's gone, i assume it will get spiked from anywhere with fast moderation. 404's article has a good chunk of options for where you can download it www.404media.co/archivists-p...

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Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Teenage boys are bombarded with ads to “undress anyone” and there’s zero political will to stop the sex crimes.

The US government must be in The Hague together with russians. They say it perfectly knowing that russia is preparing to attack even more countries, including NATO countries.

the story about cancelling the CECOT segment will be bigger than the CECOT segment could ever hope to be in large part because it personally offends the people who write stories for a living

I think Trump is clearly outrunning the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation but also the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation is worryingly high

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

Ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration and defense department liaison to Israel under Biden explicitly praising Trump for bombing Iran and hoping he does it again

the vice president is a klansman

what the hell happened here

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Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.

BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public) ~3GB in size drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...

Ace attorney fans one joke is defrosting

I genuinely do not believe left vs. center is a useful heuristic and especially not right now because what matters is fight vs. don't fight and all of the substack guys who like to talk about WAR as a metric for evaluating politicians are on team "don't fight if our data says it's not 95/5"

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

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sharing a screenshot showcasing, using the *same exact model*, of casten performing the best in the last two cycles but only talking about his worst cycle is data malpractice. Absolutely no integrity.

This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros. Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue." Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues" Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE was pursuing a car with a family inside including 3 children. Somehow thereafter this vehicle crashed. (Details are still unknown.) ICE had previously attempted to stop this car. After the crash, ICE snatched the father who had been driving. ICE also manhandled a child screaming for his Papi.

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compare to 2017/18 when Republicans only *failed* at repealing Obamacare, this time they actively hurt it. Building on the ACA + a public option is IMO a very potent and simple message that Dems of all stripes should embrace

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

yeah seeing that photo of Bill, suggesting the "files" are that detailed, has me pretty much convinced that photographic evidence exists of Trump with minors

a year ago, i was in the "they were friends and trump is a monster but i don't really think he's in the epstein files in substantive way" and i am now fully in the "there is substantial hard evidence that trump raped underage girls provided to him by epstein and he will do anything to hide it" camp

OOPS

So the Epstein Files are: –not complete –comically redacted –not in a “searchable” format The Trump-Vance administration had months to recover from the embarrassing influencer binder photo-op and this is what they came up with. This is what they think of you

If the president is a probable child rapist he should maybe be impeached, I don’t know.

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Leila Bozorg is great and was literally a board member of Open New York, the largest YIMBY nonprofit in NYC. this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn

Legitimation crises happen slowly, then all at once

I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.

if Markey turns out, as I expect, to be uniquely resilient to age attacks as far as octogenarian Democrats with serious opponents go, I wonder if anyone will learn the really obvious lesson there

Smallest # of votes with Trump: Wyden: 18 Smith: 17 Murray: 16 Van Hollen: 11 Merkley: 9 Murphy: 5 Sanders: 5 Warren: 4 Markey: 2

The Senate seems to be officially done with recorded votes for 2025. Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems: Fetterman: 141 Hassan: 124 Shaheen: 124 King: 123 Rosen: 101 Warner: 100 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Democratic state legislative recruiting continuing to go extremely well this year. A little over a week after getting a candidate in every Texas legislative district, they get a candidate in all but 2 North Carolina state legislative districts.

The Block The Bombs Act, which would legally suspend a large portion of American offensive military assistance to Israel, now has 60 cosponsors in the House of Representatives. It is also endorsed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the first ever Israel-Palestine related bill to acquire it.

With the track record of this administration, I'm expecting that whatever redaction method Trump used for the Epstein files release is completely reversible without much difficulty.