Published yesterday: The Trump Organization requested a record 184 foreign workers this year. me, for @forbes.com

Simpler times

And then ran a full week of “Biden politicized the military & gave a Trump rally” headlines

NEW: Jack Smith told lawmakers he developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn his election loss. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Radio transmissions reviewed by CNN show that the pilots of a private jet narrowly avoided a collision with a United States Air Force refueling tanker near Venezuela on Saturday – one day after a similar incident nearby.

The student they're targeting is a queer Palestinian student. It's all over X and they are spreading baseless lies he committed the shooting and conspiracy theories that Brown and Providence police are in on it to cover it up.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

Wiles lies to try to duck blame. "In the interview, Wiles took issue with the quote about [Musk's] drug use. 'That’s ridiculous, I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know.' But Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k. These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day"). Unemployment is now up to 4.6%. This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.

After sharing these surprisingly candid views of the Trump team, I wonder how much longer White House chief of staff Susie Wiles will have a job. 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Rob Reiner’s documentary “God & Country" looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism. What happens when a faith built on love, sacrifice, and forgiveness grows political tentacles, conflating power, money, and belief into hyper-nationalism? tv.apple.com/us/movie/god...

Our local news recently reported that a nonprofit is collecting toys for kids whose parents were deported. FB commenters were overwhelmingly negative. Many suggested ICE raid the toy drive and arrest the kids, too. I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

Trump’s response to the Reiner tragedy is sick and cruel. If anyone suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s Trump.

This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

2. Rob Reiner reacts to the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk.

Feverishly working on this

This is a real headline on the New York Times website. Support independent media.

Republican congressman 👇🏽

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

hope everyone gets a chance to read this and the whole series it's part of

Javier has never known the weight of a criminal record. He is a citizen and a father. For what reason, then, did ICE storm his private property—armed with assault rifles and bulletproof vests? They said it themselves: “Get him. He’s Mexican.”

Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

“The fact that the United States has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism does not mean that its democratic decline has reached a point of no return. Trump’s authoritarian offensive is now unmistakable, but it is reversible.” @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

As peptide (the off-shelf, not approved by FDA peptides) use explodes with young men, you get more and more of these videos. This man says he injects himself with seven different peptides.

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

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1/ MUST READ: @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, MAGA influencer—and newly minted member of DOD press corps—Jack Posobiec threatened to smear him. Quite the coincidence! ow.ly/EpQp50XHpYo

Southridge High students walked out in solidarity today—joining a wave of young people refusing to be silent while ICE storms their communities. After months of armed, masked agents targeting teens, they’re drawing a line: We protect each other. We show up. And we won’t let fear decide our future.

Over the last decade, a community health center in Virginia filed more than 7,000 lawsuits for unpaid bills. It sued one couple for $59 last January, an amount that ballooned more than 600% within months due to interest, court costs and lawyer fees.

House Intel Chair Rick Crawford on why he doesn't want video of the second Sept 2 boat strike released: "What the trained eye can detect from these videos may reveal sources and methods that would imperil troops." (But releasing video of the first strike didn't?)

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

Respectfully, to other reporters: If your coverage of Gregg Phillips' appointment to FEMA does not mention his extensive past relationship with the QAnon community, then you're leaving out a significant part of his background for readers/viewers.

Breaking news: The House approved a must-pass defense policy bill, advancing lawmakers’ effort to force the release of a video showing the controversial military strike that killed two men who survived an attack on their alleged drug smuggling vessel.

"Billionaires are currently taxed..." Too low: 61% Right amount: 18% Too high: 6% YouGov / Dec 8, 2025

As part of a longer rant Tuesday about how much better the country is now than under President Biden, Trump once again turned his ire on Somali immigrants, and that, “If they don’t go to jail? Scott Bessent is toast.” Bessent, notably, doesn't have the power to put anyone in jail. trib.al/eWnC1sb

This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks! 50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it. I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

A driver sustained minor injuries when a plane crashed onto their car while landing on Interstate 95 in Brevard County, Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

“I Factchecked Trump’s Big Politico Interview – Because Politico Didn’t!” 15 lies listed and debunked. Read my critique of the Trump interview:

BREAKING: The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins. Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.

AEI: The new National Security Strategy places a priority on the threat of drug cartels as part of protecting the homeland. The question is whether spending nearly $1B to date on striking individual drug boats is the cost-effective, strategic way to attack this threat? www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

Oops. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

Phil Williams is 900 away from 100K. You should give him a follow if you're not already. Check out his report that will air Monday at 6pm Central. He's the real deal.