Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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?

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

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...

So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov): 18% approve, 66% disapprove

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Send my your flu remedies/symptom relief please.

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns." A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us. "It's a war!" wapo.st/4s6YnC5

For non-academics: this means the student is likely done at OU because the TA gig is attached to tuition waivers for graduate school. Sunk time at OU will be lost and the options are to quit or start over somewhere else.

OK I've watched it. One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.

idk, I don’t think I should have to walk past armed soldiers on both ends of my metro trip to something called winter wonderfest but ymmv

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

It blows my mind that there are right wing Jews attending this event who seem to have no idea what’s happening here. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!

Roblox? bruh

The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.

This is what is filling the vacuum in hostile states - because they are the ones with the funding. As we prepare for 2026, won’t you consider a donation to make sure ACTUAL comprehensive sexual and maternal health remains an option? wawchealth.com/donate/

Wait I have an idea

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

Former CIA Director Brennan asks Chief Judge in SDFla to stop govt from steering grand jury probe to Judge Aileen Cannon, citing "irregular activity" & Cannon's "demonstrated pattern of favoring ... Trump's litigation positions." By @charliesavage.bsky.social . (gift) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Weiss: “We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But what about charged?” These are the same people who say a rape didn’t happen absent a conviction.

All of Bari Weiss' notes on the CECOT piece are on the order of "We spend a lot of time on the people that O.J. Simpson killed. This implies there are other people he didn't kill. We need to flesh that out." www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Yet another example of how the Trump Admin's takeover of DC was never about reducing crime. It was and is about turning DC into a testing ground for running cities in line with their far-right agenda. I'm thankful we have a hard-working @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social who will defeat this lawsuit

Trump Admin: Look at all these guns we seized while occupying DC! Also Trump Admin: ah, but you see, those guns belonged to black people, so they are bad guns. These are the good guns.

Great. Just great.

“why are women using ai less than men” bc our ideas have to actually be good

The political commissar does not want the regime news to report on the president’s foreign gulag. that’s where we are.

“We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

"I learned, and saw firsthand, the value of a local store versus a chain, how much of the money spent in the neighborhood stays in the neighborhood, how it recirculates, supports others, and nourishes the cycle. For all of us."

the vice president is a klansman

We are told @dcpolicedept.bsky.social is not coordinating with federal abductions but today MPD 4D made a stop and arrest for an individual charged with not having a front license plate while MPD let the federal agents they were coordinating with drive without any license plates. #FreeDC

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

It’s easy to be cynical about the media but entire GENERATIONS of mostly not-famous journalists at places like CBS and the WaPo spent their whole careers doing the work that created the credibility those places had which made them important enough for self-serving billionaires to decide to ruin them

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

in 2010 my premium was $500/mo for a policy w/a pre-existing condition exclusion rider, so doctor visits, Rx meds, etc. related to that was out-of-pocket w/no cap. I went to Europe every year to stock up bc same meds were OTC there. Meds + airfare + hotel was cheaper than 3 months of the Rx here.

Omg lmao

She did tell us she’s a motherfucking monster

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --