This "big picture" monologue/analysis(?) is a lot more problematic than the b-roll and graphic miscues: In it, Dokoupil says that China and Russia were "building a presence in Venezuela"? Says who? From where? How? And why?

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want? M: *yells*

This is not any big insight but it is especially important during wartime to remind ourselves that journalism does not serve the US military, or American interests, but rather "the public good," which includes all of humanity. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...

This is not a surprising finding, but it’s helpful to see it quantified.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

‘Worst I’ve ever seen it’: Bay Area flooding closes roads, strands motorists www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

it’s all i’ve got

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.

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

This looks like something you'd see in a museum about fascism after 100 million people have died to defeat it

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier. newrepublic.com/article/2026...

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

Really weird to see the United States Attorney General commenting on an active grand jury investigation—let alone referring to a potential subject of that investigation as a “bad actor.” justthenews.com/accountabili...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Over 1200 survivors raped or abused, and you have rich and powerful men doing this - and this country did nothing.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Your promise to prosecute rich & powerful men who were at Epstein's rape island would be more credible if you stop breaking Rep. Thomas Massie & my law. Release the draft 60 count indictment, 82 page prosecution memo and the FBI files.

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

On Sunday afternoon? After the promo was cut? And the first stop to try and place this line was Dylan Byers?

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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

This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

“In both pageantry and policy, Mr. Trump has established a new, more audacious version of the imperial presidency that goes far beyond even the one associated with Richard M. Nixon, for whom the term was popularized half a century ago.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Khanna: "The problem here is there are rich and powerful people who either engaged in this abuse, covered it up, or we're on this island. What the American people want to know is who are these people? Instead of holding them accountable, Pam Bondi is breaking the law."

Waymo suspended its autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco after a massive power outage disabled traffic signals and contributed to widespread congestion.

What a shameful question. First, it is not what Congress "asked for." It is what a federal statute REQUIRES. Second, WTF does "spirit but not intent" even mean? CBS bent a knee and paid Trump, it has a new owner who wants to please Trump, and sadly this is the result.

Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130,000 without electricity, no timeline for return of power www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

San Francisco PG&E outages leave 40,000 customers without power www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...

Person barricaded in Palace Hotel and Market Street closed as police try to resolve standoff www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

U.S. border agents caused a traffic incident, then exploded into the home of the driver, a U.S. citizen, arresting him for alleged damage to federal property. Here's the latest from Visual Investigations, on Border Patrol's militarized tactics in cities: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

this is the news tonight. No need to frame it otherwise. zeteo.com/p/trump-epst... New tonight for @zeteo.com

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).