This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.

White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...

Every one of these insane proposals is the end result of our hugest cultural mistake: allowing insecure men to believe that they're smarter than the experts. I don't know if we should have euthanized these men or reindoctrinated or publicly shamed them, but they're KILLING us with stupidity.

So Crash Duffy wants to turn airports into playgrounds & exercise gyms instead of increasing the number of air traffic controllers, the number of customer personnel to process check-in lines more quickly; to fine-tune inspections during construction to check every nut & bolt so doors stay put. Hmm.

Nothing gets the blood flowing like running to the gate because your flight was delayed due to the lack of resilience in the national infrastructure.

Remember, part of Trump's National Security Strategy is to have "A resilient national infrastructure." This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.

Oh it goes way past that. Wait until everybody realizes the US does not actually have enough of its own water to grow its own food. Without Canada’s water, the US does not have food security. He wants our water the way he wants Venezuela’s oil

I think Americans know a relevant case study?

There are literal revolutions over this.

Nothing the Orban government does ever seems above board. Absolutely everything reeks of grift and corruption

This in a nutshell is why Trump prefers the company of dictators; it has nothing to do with the common good, only how to perpetuate the cycle of the rich getting richer at the expense of everyone else. The fact that millions of low-income Americans thought Trump was their guy never ceases to amaze.

💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.

Hungry must be threatened with an automatic cut-off of EU subsidies if it proceeds with these attempts to evade EU and US sanctions on Russia and Russian-owned companies.

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

Here's the motion to strike. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DOJ wants to force American Oversight to get rid of three pages of a FOIA complaint that lays out DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein cover-up. Here's some of what they're asking to strike. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

4. Why would a U.S. private equity firm (Affinity Partners) owned by a U.S. citizen (Jared Kushner) need to waive governance rights to avoid review by the Committee on FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the U.S.? Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.

This is the post I was going to write about Larry Ellison (and Jared Kushner's foreign influence peddling). Only written better.

I'm not sure ALL of the precedents they cite involve an accused criminal trying to get their data back, but at least two are. Meaning, they're saying they have to be permitted to make prospective unlawful searches of Dan Richman's data so as to permit them to charge someone else (Comey).

The EDVA filing asking Judge Kollar-Kotelly to lift her TRO on unlawful searches of Dan Richman's data is signed by someone unlawfully impersonating the US Attorney. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What if you were part of a big club called the United States of America, and it could negotiate on behalf of all 340 million citizens?

New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President. This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...

Still waiting… 🤬

Join me in posting support for Ukraine. Flood the zone with supporting graphics all day.

Obligatory reposting from @jefftiedrich.bsky.social substack:

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

This is so dark

it’s important to remember how jewish germans and jewish poles and jewish francophiles survived. they gamed out the system and decided at what point their risk tolerance could no longer be held in abeyance. trans americans would be wise to look at the survivors of the holocaust and other genocides

Two of these people are really depreciating the Irish-America brand

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Holy shit Pam Bondi will have to prosecute Pam Bondi for insurrection!!

JUST IN: Trump personally asserts executive privilege to protect 4K+ documents/messages from discovery in J6 civil suit. Court given very bare bones list. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... As first reported by POLITICO last week w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump is backpedaling on his support for the release of the Sept. 2 boat strike video. On December 3, he said he would have "no problem" releasing the video. Today, he said he "didn't say that" (he did) and now says, "whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me."

She has done great work!! Hire her!!

“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social

oh man that ruled haha

Not even for my birthday will the ACLU post the link to the relevant filings. So here they are: Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Before it was a vegetable, it was an herb," with the H pronounced, obviously.

It's about 1:30 where @crockett.house.gov calls out Trump directly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w928...

Quite an announcement video from @crockett.house.gov www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

I will never forget the face of the nurse in the hospital who told me my newborn baby had lost a terrifying amount of her birth weight because I was not giving her enough milk. I pumped for eight fucking weeks, every two hours, around the clock, trying to give her enough milk.

Trump just attacked a woman reporter for the sixth time in the span of a month.

This is so evil. I lived through the Soviet botching of Chernobyl and I am able to provide some primary knowledge on the government lying as a witness in closed inquiry sessions. Russian forces striking Chernobyl and causing this leak should void any concessions Russia wants from Ukraine full stop.

The hostile bid Paramount is launching to get Warner is backed by the Saudis, Abu Dhabi, and Qataris (and Jared). www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...

Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.

And got elected with SCOTUS' help.

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Help me out US-based ET people. When Judge Kollar-Kotelly orders Pam Bondi personally to certify something by 12PM on December 8, should that certification be in the docket by now? [Sometimes I get this time zone thingie wrong.] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's the expertise of the people Kash fired in September because they took a knee to deescalate a situation in 2020. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...