Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

"We will continue to emphasize how the rule of law makes America the last best hope on Earth - compared to countries where editorial teams are not installed by billionaires in order to grease the wheels of corporate deals with political leaders the editorial teams are then asked to report on."

News is not a “daily conversation.” News is news. If you want a daily conversation, go to your local coffee shop.

Rob Dannenberg, former CIA head of Moscow Station: "Putin looks at Trump and sees a weak guy, vain, with huge ego…. He's being manipulated in the way that a good case officer like Putin would manipulate this guy. He's not monogamous, he's greedy, he's fascinated by gold —

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently effective against the virus. www.wired.com/story/what-i...

The worst possible move. Another war.

Trump says he's dropping drug prices, 400, 500, 5000%. This is what actually happens. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Donald Trump and the Republican Party know that they are likely to be voted out of power in November 2026. The tools they are counting on to prevent this are the same ones being deployed by the largest technology companies: big data sets and vast computing power.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

Final broadcast of ABC News Tonight for 2025. I hope every rep and senator saw it. Millions are being forced to cancel health insurance because it’s unaffordable. That pressure doesn’t stop with them; it spreads. When people drop coverage, everyone’s rates go up. Call your Rep and Senators.

Improbably, I think Stranger Things stuck the landing.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:

WASH POST: “ICE to spend $100 million to recruit gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts… a ‘wartime recruitment’ strategy…” If you’re not alarmed about Trump recruiting this goon squad with payer funds you’re not paying attention. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Releasing a 255-page transcript on New Year’s Eve isn’t transparency, it’s an attempt to bury accountability while people are distracted. Read it. Share it. Text it to your family, friends, and neighbors. Truth doesn’t disappear just because powerful people want it buried.

And @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty tried to give themselves millions of dollars for receiving these calls🤔

The Social Security Administration ends the year in turmoil. A diminished workforce has struggled to respond to up to 6 million pending cases in its processing centers and 12 million transactions in its field offices — record backlogs that have delayed basic services to millions of customers.

The Kennedy Center adopted bylaws earlier this year that limited voting to presidentially appointed trustees — not those designated by Congress — a move that preceded the dubious vote to add Trump's name to the center. Legal experts say the move may conflict with the institution's charter.

Sens. Whitehouse and Durbin are demanding answers from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles about when, how, and under what authority she accessed the Epstein files before the files were released to the public — after she told Vanity Fair that Trump was "in the file."

The Trump Justice Department has roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein files documents still to be reviewed and released to the public. All documents were supposed to be released on December 19. The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

Jack Smith: I'm not going to be intimidated. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

Smith: We had also interviewed Boris Epshteyn… He corroborated that they were, in fact, trying to call senators. He dissembled and tried to imply that the president hadn’t directed him to do it, even though there was a text message saying specifically that they had.

ALERT: Attorney for Epstein survivors estimates only 1% of Epstein Files have been released so far youtube.com/shorts/DLO7Y...

SMITH says he had evidence that Trump directly ordered alleged co-conspirators to call senators on the evening of Jan. 6 to try to continue delaying the vote ceritification. He also had evidence that Bannon said Trump was still "on fire" on evening of Jan. 6.

Smith explains why he got Speaker McCarthy's phone toll records.

Smith: I can tell you that some of the co-conspirators met with us in proffers and did interviews with us. Giuliani sat for a proffer with us—he was available as a witness, and we would have welcomed President Trump calling him as a witness.

“He caused it … and exploited it” Special Counsel Jack Smith about Trump’s role on Jan 6 youtu.be/7TtqBvSAHWc?...

Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump: “The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit” youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...

Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.

Jack Smith, p. 27: "There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case … [W]hat he was not free to do was violate Federal law and use knowing-- knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function. That he was not allowed to do."

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

"I believe that President Trump wants to seek retribution against me because of my role as special counsel." House Judiciary Committee releases video and transcript of Jack Smith deposition. Joyce Vance has the latest.

Jack Smith: "I would prefer, if it's all right, not to talk about my safety, because I think doing so could, in fact, endanger my safety and those of people around me."

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Smith was asked over and over again whether there was any political influence in his investigation, in his decisions and pressure from Garland/Biden/WH to charge Trump. He repeatedly rejected the notion.

Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.

NEW: The Jack Smith deposition transcript is a devastating, point-by-point rebuttal to claims that the Trump prosecutions were “political,” as Smith details evidence of Trump’s crimes "beyond a reasonable doubt."