"Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner were at the negotiating table today. No actual experts on Russia or Ukraine on our side of the table." Why is the president's white nationalist immigration advisor involved in negotiating foreign policy? Via @simonwdc.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

It's so hard to rank Trump's most idiotic statements because there are so many, but this one is near the top. The man who invaded Ukraine and has committed war crimes there wants Ukraine to succeed? If success is adding Ukraine to Russia's territory, then yes.

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This, too, is the essence of Trump. What a disgusting human being.

This is the essence of MAGA right here.

The strike was for show, just like most of Trump's actions.

And Donnie is empowering Trump.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Yell at your Republican senators for confirming this nitwit.

I will add that Trump's entire political career has been farcical.

My latest on Trump's Christmas gift to Russia olgalautman.substack.com/p/trump-deli...

Maybe it's partly that I am already familiar with a lot of these topics and they interest me, but I think Olga Lautman is doing some of the most important work out there in helping us understand Trumpism.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Will she encourage Donnie to pardon Cole?

Boy howdy, Gym Jordan and James Comer better get Donnie in for testimony under oath!

You meant the press that would write favorable things about you is invited.

As a lover of grasslands, boo on the woody encroachment!

What an uncomfortable day for the Bondi-Patel crime syndicate, having to announce a crime their boss inspired. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

As Donnie makes the United States more like Russia.

Violence experts have warned for decades about a specific psychological failure that gets people hurt. That same failure is now playing out at a national scale.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

OK, but I think "blurring the lines" is generous. He is using the power of his office to further enrich himself.

Ha!

Indeed.

Let's share these instances of Trump's golden age widely. I propose using Trump's name interchangeably with "failure."

"Election Fraud etc." His mind is gone.

Katie is good at this.

Ha ha!

If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

"Infinity migrants." He is not a serious person.

Here is my take. In Nigeria, he can claim a win that will appeal to American evangelicals and Christian nationalists, and he can claim a win against Muslim extremists. The Christians in Ukraine don't matter to Trump because he is aligned with Putin and his Christian nationalist allies in Russia.

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

Thanks to @magaziner.house.gov, who named and shamed Noem in a televised Congressional hearing on Dec 12th — it only took him one minute to plead the case of Donna Hughes Brown. When big social media influencers highlight the work that Dems are doing to help Trump’s voters, voters will take notice.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

As more states pass proof of citizenship laws, report points to Kansas as cautionary tale | #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/a...

Since Trump is hosting, they won't be honors. They will be dishonors. The dishonorees will have permanent Trump stains on their careers.

When idiocy, ignorance, narcissism, and dementia join forces.

Jeffries: And so, because of this provision, it will trigger the next step, where the DOJ is going to have to explain why the document production has been incomplete, justify as best they can why they have withheld certain documents and information…

Ha ha ha! This move would be made much easier if Trump would just use his magic hurricane Sharpie to make the KC metro area part of Kansas!

How awful.

Looks like Elon Musk, Bondi and now Rubio are conspiring to protect X now in its qwest to undermine Western democracies. I say this because what is happening is conspiratorial against CCDH and European leaders for standing up against algorithmically tricked out white nationalist propaganda. 🧵

Jeepers. Gross national ignorance (a metric I created but haven't figured out how to measure yet) in the U.S. just ticked up a notch.

This looks like fascism. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

And Kavanaugh gives the Hate America Party an assist!

MAGA does a lof of stupid things, and it's deliberate. I must remind myself that these aren't mistakes. This is who they are. Their decisions aren't made in the context of traditional conservative-liberal or Republican-Democrat partisanship. Many decisions are made with the intent to destroy.

We're looking at a level of corruption that exceeds any other U.S. president by many orders of magnitude. Given the breadth of his corruption in the U.S and the power he wields to corrupt worldwide, he should be placed near Putin, Viktor Yanukovych, Mobutu Sese Seko, and the like.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could just redact Trump's political career from existence, to just skip over Trump I to Biden and then to whoever comes next? Unless its Vance, then...crap, this is hard.

The MAGA movement is evil to the core.

We're at the stage of fascism where they are threatening to harm states if they don't help them rig elections.