doing some research for the newsletter, came across this video from 2018 and it's honestly amazing how much better Trump looked and sounded 7 years ago

Brian Cole of Woodbridge, Virginia:

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Despite the heavy ongoing controversy, right-wing media continue to praise Trump's legally dubious boat strikes in the Caribbean which killed at least 83 people.

to the people who figured out lane kiffin had a fake PR dog: please look at kirk herbstreit next

unbelievably funny that they went scoreless after this and lost

Blown the fuck out

I think Quentin Tarantino is such a fucking loser for bullying Paul Dano And in public? Loser shit

The Roberts Court will be known as the last 9 justice bench.

I see a cold moon a risin' www.wired.com/story/cold-m...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Look I know all the online doomers/realists who were beating the bushes telling you "Nazi America is coming" wasn't a message normies heard on TV but Kamala Harris said Trump was gonna do all this shit during a debate or whatever and people still ignored her, so it's not like you weren't warned

Man, Pablo has been *cooking* lately, but this is another level

They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

how is this real

this is just unbelievably funny

He’s even started falling asleep at meetings now too

Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over. They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.

today the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtYou - here is an owl from Alaska definitely looking at us - photographed in the deep shade of a grove of trees (also a late #Stripes !) #EastCoastKin #Birds #Nature #Owl #Photography

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

I do like that the worse Trump and the GOP do polling wise, the more interested US mainstream press becomes in things like war crimes and what not.

hands down my favorite line from a book that provides no value add to the written word besides being, possibly, the most narcissistic memoir ever put to paper.

Last night, the sky over Alaska turned into a cosmic vortex… A massive swirl of purple and pink auroras lit up the frozen landscape — a formation so rare that even long-time skywatchers said they’d never seen anything like it. Captured by a local photographer during an intense geomagnetic storm.

I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

It is kind of funny that the only memes they can make are from kids stuff and not from a book that a grown up person would read

I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo. 85%

JUST IN: Pop star Sabrina Carpenter has fired back at the Trump administration after the official White House account used her song over footage of federal agents chasing down immigrants. "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."

Mint chocolate chip ice-cream does not need to be green to be delicious.

First day at the post office and I walked 15 miles

Blazers forward Deni Avdija has played like a star all season. Now he’s facing the next level in a star basketball player’s evolution: the opposing defense’s utmost attention. OKC threw the kitchen sink at Avdija on Sunday, and he still produced a monster triple-double in the 123-115 loss.

doctor: are you sure? he will get bigger mrs. cratchit: we’re naming him tiny tim

The president is a lunatic

/Sean Connery voice "Zane Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons."

franklin the turtle, welcome to the resistance

you got hoodwinked, homie. you've been bamboozled, bro. you have been conned, my cis cibling. it's ok! it happens! but you absolutely cannot get mad at the onlookers patiently explaining to you how 3-card monte works, it makes you look like a schmuck

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

i think one reason theyre murdering fishermen is because they think it makes them less gay and i know that doesnt make sense but im not joking i think that plays a part

How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

Similar to the Riley Gaines industry. There’s a really good recent Pablo Torre episode about this.

Objectively speaking Trump does not look good. His color is way off.

Did the VP accompany her body back to West Virginia or is that an honor only reserved for podcasters?

False flags at full mast

This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??

anyway, if burrow is really back and rodgers is out the answer is simple let joe flacco finish the season for the steelers