Reporter: China has been doing naval exercises basically to test encircling Taiwan. Can you explain to us what your knowledge is of that? Trump: Well, I have a great relationship with XI and he hasn't told me anything about it.

My year in review, gif edition.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re... #NewCollege #Florida #ruined

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...

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... #tariffs

4/ We also gather tips through our site and secure channels, read all submissions, verify them and route the strongest leads to our reporters. See what makes a good tip and submit yours here: www.propublica.org/tips/

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

www.news4jax.com/news/politic... #consequences

Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.

I’m launching a Substack. Why? Because Trump is completely unfit for office, his enablers are cowards, and the truth needs to be said plainly by someone who knows how these guys tick. Subscribe if you're with me. open.substack.com/pub/gtconway...

While transplant patients can research to pick and choose doctors and hospitals, they generally have no control over which generic version of critical drug tacrolimus they get from the pharmacy. That can make a difference between life and death.

JFC. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...

'Beach Fishing.' (c1950) Edward Seago's painting of England's east coast has an undeniable sense of calm; that large amount of open space draws our gaze towards the fishermen and to the sea beyond.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

They're not waiting on the Supreme Court to tell them they can ignore the clear, plain text of the 14th Amendment that everyone born in the US is a birthright citizenship. They are trying to erase the citizenship of anyone with skin darker than Stephen Miller's through administrative action alone.

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

New article: Epstein and Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... perfect description of that “speech”

Trump didn’t exactly refute the “personality of an alcoholic” allegations tonight

Another day, another disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Trump Administration setting denaturalization quotas.

This is horrible. Trump and his crew shut down USAID, which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and they had no idea what they were doing or what would be the consequences. Completely immoral. (From the VF story on Susan Wiles.) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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.

ICE is thug scum

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

Check this out!

The top U.S. military officer overseeing operations in Latin America met privately with lawmakers, days before he is due to step down prematurely amid tension with the Trump administration over its deadly counternarcotics campaign there.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Breaking: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

The @ucs.org Union of Concerned Scientists is hiring a science policy director. For the right person, this is a dream job. apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.

Mr “Peace Prize”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... “Hegseth is unqualified and incompetent, and he should have been fired months ago.”

Breaking news: Government officials said they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers in Latin America.

The U.S. manufacturing slump deepened in November - Reuters

Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began. "I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."

You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.

"The appalling spectacle of Republican Senators refusing to uphold their oath of office is not a difference of opinion on foreign affairs. It is the coerced behavior of the influence of the Russian Federation. Because Trump is compromised, and they follow Trump, they are compromised."

Attn @radiofreetom.bsky.social

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Maybe Hegseth and Trump could also send 500 National Guard members to Kentucky, to help administer pertussis vaccines. Since saving lives is their thing. www.wlwt.com/article/kent...

Pay up!

NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/11...