This also goes for every American and Trump’s manifold crimes in the name of the US. Certainly including me.

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that bribe for hire Pam Bondi took an illegal $25K bribe from the orange felon when she was Florida’s AG to help him cover up the crimes he committed with his fraudulent fake university. She’s always been a crook.

The wide ranging disclosures of documents involving Bill Clinton should put to rest any arguments by the DOJ that they can’t release docs involving people under investigation, since Clinton is one of the figures whom Bondi, kissing up to Trump, ordered be the subject of a new investigation.

Putin has created a self-fulfilling prophecy. In 1991, the fear was that the West wanted to destroy the USSR as a great power. Now, two generations later, Putin’s aggressive attempts to restore Soviet power and even achieve the dominance the USSR never had are backfiring spectacularly.

Alright. Everyone can stop now. We have a winner.

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

Fitting that the Donald J. Trump Elise Stefanik announced her political retirement the same day as the Donald J. Trump Department of Justice partially releases the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Files.

Looted the rest of Europe to pay for it. (Cf Trump taking Venezuela).

And making deals for/stealing other people’s oil so our sunsetting technology can make a few more bucks for its owners and poison a few more of us with its effluents. Technological backwardness R US.

I didn’t ask for it, but this is history I needed. I remember doing the California missions year in elementary school and thinking the things were scarily prone to falling down. Turns out English cathedrals take earthquake damage too!

That means they had this planned for months and forced it through. Those letters and contractors didn't show up overnight. THIS IS ILLEGAL. The Kennedy Center cannot, by law, be renamed. Stop complying with illegal demands.

Would some twisted Trump War Room dream up using a manufactured war as a justification to use the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations and policy, then getting the Rubber Stamp of Approval™️from the dictatorship-enabling Star Chamber Six on SCOTUS? It's certainly plausible.

Has the world completely forgotten and abandoned Georgia? Are we waiting for it to be entirely swallowed by Moscow and China to even pretend to care or notice that Georgians who want freedom, democracy, and sovereignty have been facing violence, protesting in Tbilisi for OVER A YEAR?!

I have just demanded a full refund for remaining tickets at the Kennedy Center. I did not buy anything at the "Trump Kennedy" Center. I encourage you to do the same #refundKennedy

🪙 The Verkhovna Rada supported the renaming of the "kopiyka" to the historical Ukrainian "shah". On December 18, the relevant bill was adopted in the first reading. The second reading is scheduled for the end of December.

This headline is misleading, purposefully, for clicks. Blanche announced that we are getting "several hundred thousand" docs today. No they will not meet the complete deadline. Yes that's illegal. But they are producing an enormous volume of material, and we will see what's in them.

In a newly intercepted call, a Russian sailor from Belgorod reveals a grim ultimatum from the Black Sea Fleet: “Sign the contract, stay on the ship. Don’t sign, get sent to the infantry.” The sailor describes it bluntly: "810 means storming positions. You know what that means.”

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Because wars in Europe have never had any impact on the United States.

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

My incredible wife @pollymosendz.bsky.social’s mom, a fiber artist from Ukraine, runs a small business making handmade textiles and jewelry. She makes lovely things, and if you’re still in need of gifts, I hope you’ll check out the shop. www.etsy.com/shop/Silkand...

Lots of people do not understand what DEI statements are for in an application for an academic job. Colleges teach a lot of different people. A DEI statement, done right, gives evidence that you get this and can think about how to teach people with different backgrounds and current circumstances.

The day will come

i recognize it's just a performance arts center and we've all collectively stopped giving a shit but changing the signage of the kennedy center is explicitly prohibited by law

75. I agree.

Correct. In aviation, when making go/no-go decisions, question we always asked was: How would this look in the NTSB report? In disclosure, question always is: If this came out, would people think we should have mentioned it? If you're writing about this guy, need a "for the record" sentence.

The only renaming I endorse: The TRUMP-Epstein files.

Generous patron of the arts strikes again. (Gift article.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

The latest update

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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Powerful

We are nearing the end of the Trump era.

Just was switching off the bedside lamp and thought it’s so nice to be able to switch off the light when you want it and not when you being cut off by blackout because of Russian attacks

Logical follow-up to s—t bombing the cities from the royal AI F-18.

Suggested headline: TRUMP TOO BUSY YELLING NUMBERS AT THE CAMERA TO DECLARE WAR ON VENEZUELA YET

Why didn’t anyone turn his mic down?

The Nixon question was “Would you buy a used car from this man?” Trump makes Tricky Dick look so good.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.

Why is Trump screaming?

I’ve been wondering when this would happen. The handwriting has been on the wall since Musk and Trump ended federal funding for area studies. 1/5 dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.

Trump is doing everything he can to make sure that American citizenship is a privilege he can extend (or sell) and revoke at his whim.

Of course they have. The Russia-US Axis of Evil.

I read this thread and my eyes are suddenly wet.

I'm 98% sure he is talking about Star Trek 4 (the one with the whales) when the Klingon bird of prey became visible when they opened the hatch.

I know enjoying savagely worded & hate-filled reviews is not a positive character trait. I know eviscerations in the form of reviews are not edifying. I know I'm a bad person for experiencing second-hand schadenfreude. But I love them. Esp. when the authors deserve it. lithub.com/the-most-sca...

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

They hate anything related to the New Deal.