The president is increasingly erratic, forgetting promises he made just days ago and lashing out angrily at reporters for asking routine questions. Seems like the news should talk more about this

WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house. This is what a police state looks like.

Trump, five days apart. A pathological liar.

Good to see the Washpost putting this as grafs 2 and 3 of tonight’s Hegseth story. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump calls Somali immigrants “garbage.” His VP cheers him on. Meanwhile, families are being torn apart, asylum is being shut down, aid is being gutted, and the military is firing on survivors in the water. Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

SCOTUS is literally in a hearing rn where the likely outcome is that they will tell us that it is illegal for Congress to appoint independent and non-partisan figures to oversee public decisions in areas where there are obvious conflicts of interest for politicians

Nepo Mogul brings in Saudis, Jared Kushner and his ultra rich daddy who is pals with Trump to prove how “unfair” Netflix is. Hollywood could not write this nonsense: Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

Justices in the Trump versus Slaughter argument looking for a way to strike down FTC structure, but still keep Fed structure in place. Kagan scoring strong points pointing out there’s no logical limiting principle, and they are necessarily contemplating huge addition to executive power.

Breaking: Kushner and Saudi Arabia are part of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. This could give them control of CNN and more: www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

No rule of law in the US. The King decides who deserves punishment. Rolling Stone: “Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.”

Here apparently meaning that, if you lose a competition, that you can appeal to the refs for a second chance.

Before Covid, I would often do hits on CNN. I would get called in to talk about something or other, and one time I was sitting in the Green Room with another guy, when a third guy walks in and is fondly greeted, leading to one of the most telling exchanges I've ever heard:

Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Peter Imanuelsen is a holocaust denying antisemite who has called for deporting all muslims and said it's a good idea to execute homosexuals so it's extremely unsurprising that elon follows him

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

SIMPLE MATH

A remarkable threat from the Deputy AG: DOJ’s No. 2 official suggested Thursday that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they’ve publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

It might be funny coming from a person who does interviews for a living, but these tech guys need to sit down (in this case actually) and shut up. The more they talk, the more we see and what we see is unearned aggrievement and deep insecurity that manifests as exhausting arrogance.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

Ann Wagner is so scared of Missourians getting to vote on the illegal mid-decade redistricting she went anti-semitic. She wants this gerrymandering so bad to save her. We are going to beat her on any map. 13 years and nothing to show for it but $26M in her portfolio. @wellmanformo.bsky.social

An inconvenient truth for Dan Bongino

New from me: Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sad!

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Please help make @drannieandrews.com Senator from South Carolina and the Entire Known Universe secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_w...

"who these people are" is deliberately weasel-worded to dance around saying they know actual individual identities, which they obviously don't

Ha!

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

Trump’s just going to pardon him just like the 1,600 other J6 insurrectionists.

Temu Vecna never saw a killing of brown people he couldn’t endorse

It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth put American lives at risk through his incompetence, an official watchdog concludes.

Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.

Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?

“I might be second in line to take over the presidency from the oldest POTUS in history — but I have no idea what the laws of war are, nor do I read laws or the news, who has time — there’s all these tunnels here, I just wander the tunnels looking for empty cubbies to hide in”

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

"First, Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere...He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

When gave the more than 800 senior officers a “long and pointless harangue, it was not only disrespectful; it was cringe-inducing, like watching the angriest kid in your high school come back 20 years later as the principal and unload his adolescent gripes on all the teachers in the staff lounge.”

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

‘We now have confirmation, with the OECD saying in a new report that, without AI capex, U.S. economic growth declined in the first half of 2025. People keep wondering why the employment market is weak, but the economy somehow chugs along. This is why.’ paulkedrosky.com/ex-ai-capex-...

🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"

Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who got 45 years in prison last year for conspiring to import cocaine to the US. Prosecutors said he ran Honduras like a "narco-state" and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. He walked out of prison today.