What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

“Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the president and his team: Mr. Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vice President JD Vance has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade” and his conversion from Trump critic to ally…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Trump's Reiner post is "deranged, pathologically narcissistic, crude, stupid, and cruel. No human adult outside a psych ward expresses such thoughts." Except our president. Today's Morning Shots features @monacharen.bsky.social and @markhertling.bsky.social and your regular crew:

Breaking: Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Epstein Files: “[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file... [He] was on [Epstein’s] plane... He’s on the manifest.”

“[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file... [He] was on [Epstein’s] plane... He’s on the manifest.” - Susie Wiles https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-susie-wiles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.X5Un.RzkcVPQ2qNhM

CBS is nothing but TrumpTrashTV now.

She also acknowledged that the administration’s continued push for prosecutions has been driven by the Trump’s desire for retribution.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

What is the US$ based on? The people who voted for this:

Another Trump drug dealer pardon.

Arizona GOP and the Neo-Nazis

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Trump is such a repugnant excuse for a human being.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Horrible

Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.

Rubio betrayed Ukraine and America. Rubio is a traitor.

Someone had a wild weekend!

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This 'architect' destroyed the historic East Wing. Both he and Trump are destroying our history for their own aggrandisement. www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...

Witkoff is a Putin stooge - Witkoff is corrupt. He should be removed from this job and investigated. Follow his money.

After I called out the big banks for adding ANOTHER $20 billion to Trump’s Argentina bailout, their plan is on ice. But they are still exploring a $5 billion loan – potentially guaranteed by U.S. taxpayers. No bailout for Argentina’s rich hedge fund investors.

True

This is sick.

NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social

A judge dismissed cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday after finding that the prosecutor was illegally appointed. https://to.pbs.org/3LQJ3Jb

This. Is. MURDER. ICE murdered this poor man. Trump/Miller/Noem/Hohman are MURDERERS.

So typical of today's GOP

Turning the military on citizens. Attempting to rig elections. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political opponents and calling for their executions. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Important to notice: killing random people at sea has a purpose: desensitize the electorate to the dictator killing people. Which can then turn into normalizing threats to kill political opponents, which then leads to actual political executions.

Looks like they had a great time and that's what's important.

"We’re only at the end of the beginning of the Trump administration’s Epstein drama. I think we’re also only at the end of the beginning of a broader reckoning about the meaning of the Epstein saga." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

The majority of the corporations known to have donated to the fund for Trump's new White House ballroom are represented by three lobbying firms. www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...

This White House is morally depraved. Truly despicable www.propublica.org/article/andr...

MORE protecting and defending sexual predators from this White House. Truly despicable.

Incredible impact from @mattburgess1.bsky.social whose work put a spotlight on Starlink’s use in scam compounds in February.

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

SO. MUCH. CORRUPTION.

MORE Trump corruption. I hope the complicit prison administration ends up charged with crimes.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy. Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.

Of course it was always about the Epstein files.

Right-wing White Supremacy indoctrination and suppression of criticism.

It is way past time to bring down these corrupt oligarchs.

Megyn Kelly is supporting pedophiles and insulting the victims.