On behalf of everyone who wants SCOTUS to uphold birthright citizenship, I beg Stephen Miller to keep tweeting.

fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the AG may not withhold these memos unless it "would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution"—which is extraordinarily unlikely. Nor can she withhold the emailer's name (who might be Maurene Comey). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Marty Lederman to eat for free in Chicago for the rest of his life

The president says NYT is a serious national security threat and must be stopped and we’re all just like yeah, it’s Tuesday.

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

About the card Jeffrey Epstein purportedly sent to Larry Nassar: * The postmark is from Virginia, not New York where Epstein was jailed * The return address is incorrect and doesn't include his register number * FBI sought a handwriting analysis. Don't know outcome. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

The answer to his question is yes!

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

The thing to do when a large chunk of your organization is fleeing because you’re cozying up to anti-Semites is to wish everybody of all faiths a merry Christmas.

Yes, a Latin American president involved with the drug trade better watch his ass or Trump might pardon him.

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

Candace Owens is a charlatan & a conspiracist. So is Tucker Carlson. But u know what? So is Donald Trump. And bcuz of his position, Trump is a much bigger threat. So it’s not courageous for voices on the right to condemn Owens & Carlson but still support Trump. It’s cowardly. And hypocritical.

OJ remained fully committed to life in Nicole.

As is the case with Musk, and even Trump, the most grotesque part is not their existence — awful people have always been around and always will be. The most grotesque part is nominally smart or honest or decent people taken in by them. Or, at least, pretending to be taken in, for advantage.

In sealed order issued 12/3, Judge Crenshaw found that @DAGToddBlanche's deputy, Aakash Singh, played a “leading role in the govt’s decision to prosecute” Abrego Garcia. Abrego’s attys’ failed to redact that language in a brief, correcting the error shortly thereafter... 1/2

Time for everyone to dig up their best take on Bari Weiss. Here’s mine:

Agree. Sharyn Alfonsi is standing up. People need to stand up with her and for her.

Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below

Whenever I hear about Bari Weiss I think of Barry White and (separately) the Don McLean song “Starry, Starry Night”

“Our viewers come first and that means not letting our viewers see the story we’ve promoted everywhere for days.”

If only they had hired Barry White

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

New Orleans gets one big snowstorm and suddenly they’re all Arctic experts

I knew something was wrong when 60 Minutes started airing Swan Lake

it doesn't work as payment in kind for rejecting netflix's bid for warner unless the admin knows about it

Meanwhile, this last-minute cancelation comes after Trump has been raging about 60 Minutes segments he doesn't like and complaining that the Ellisons aren't his "friends" anymore -- all while they are banking on Trump to side with their Warner Bros hostile takeover bid.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

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.

POV: Your spouse is neither white nor Christian but you need the support of people who demand both.

Lindsey Halligan is on this list

This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Page 16 in the Sunday NYT 101 years ago today www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...

I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.

Reup of this public resource we created Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) with links to all the publicly available documents

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Today’s NYT story left out Stefanik’s most craven acts — trying to overturn the 2020 election, and then stabbing Liz Cheney in the back. See this excellent CNN 2021 recap, via Daniel Dale www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/p...

Media literacy moment. - Chiding a journalist for not using the words “lie” or “liar” it pointless. The reasons why most journalists avoid it is simple. It’s difficult to prove someone knowingly lied in court. They can just say they got bad information. Why give them an easy way to sue you?

ELISE NAVIDAD

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Me: Back in my day we had to star 69 someone when we got an unexpected call Gen Z person: You did what

I’m ok with Trump naming everything after himself because it means he won’t blame anyone else if things go wrong.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Nero names the fiddling center after himself as Rome burns

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Heh www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/n...

“Dangles” hits different when these posts show up in sequence