And don’t call this a “liberal problem” when Donald Trump commuted sentences for major fraudsters and Trump University paid a $25 million settlement for being a scam. If you do not want to look under the hood of your own car, stop pretending you care about corruption.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Whose inauguration? What?

“Over the long Christmas break, the president of the United States may have leaked classified information about a secret military operation targeting Venezuela, and did so while calling in to a New York radio show – hosted by a ‘Marty Supreme’ cast member – to brag…

An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution. Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

MTG tells the Times that when she threatened to expose the men who abused Epstein’s victims, Trump called to scream at her. “My friends will get hurt,” he said.

Jazz supergroup the Cookers say they will no longer perform their New Year’s Eve shows at the Kennedy Center, days after a Christmas Eve concert was also canceled.

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “I felt like I was watching a Helsinki redux when Trump said Putin told him he didn’t interfere with the election… Trump just had the audacity to say Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.” So weird how Trump keeps doing Putin’s bidding!🤷🏼

WOW. MTG revealed to the NYT that when she threatened to identify the names of men in the Epstein files who abused women, Trump called her and screamed. Everyone in the office suite could hear him yelling at her on speakerphone. He told her, “My friends will get hurt.”

Travel Mode not only hides your most sensitive data—it acts as if that data never existed in the first place. www.wired.com/story/1passw...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Forget Trump's nonsense. Voting by mail is safe and secure. Period. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

Trump, who didn’t spend a minute behind bars, is about to swindle about 50 percent more than the total amount of money paid to the 97 innocent people who were incarcerated for more than 1,200 years in Texas.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Still up. Glad I posted here and not YouTube. This is what Bari Weiss and CBS tried to hide from us.

That’s where the culture wars come in handy. Distract people with fear so that they tolerate the money grab from tax policies that favor the wealthy and deregulation of consumer protections.

So not a meeting. A spectacle.

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Samsung’s ASSBs use a silver-carbon layer as the anode and a nickel-manganese-cobalt material for the cathode. Silver is not only the most electrically conductive metal available, it’s also substantially more plentiful in the Earth’s crust than lithium. #Silver

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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

While Richard Nixon never went to prison, his attorney general, John Mitchell, was convicted of perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice and served 19 months in federal prison.

A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities.

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Very normal for a future president.

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

Just a few examples of FBI/DOJ documents that haven't been released: The 2019 prosectors' memos on co-conspirators they considered charging. The 2007 60-count draft indictment of Epstein. A raft of victim statements detailing abuse from powerful men. And much more None has been released.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

A day after federal agents arrested Epstein in 2019, they were also apparently trying to contact 10 people they called potential 'co-conspirators,' according to a newly released email exchange. All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

"anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman."

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

Never stop calling them KAVANAUGH STOPS.

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

Welp

Gold has been trading above $4,500 for the first time. #economy #markets #gold #investing #investors

TONIGHT: @davidenrich.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If the president can stretch a bipartisan law forcing TikTok’s sale,” write Jim Secreto and Brett Freedman, “allies and adversaries alike will assume that America will no longer enforce its security laws when it is easier not to.”

In Malawi, 14-year-old Mirriam's family relies on subsistence farming and couldn't afford to send her to high school. A scholarship through the #KINDFund — our partnership with @ms.now's @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social#KINDFund— changed her life. She's now pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor.

NEW in Bolts: Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

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Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?