Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/ePZQRmEaBiY

Phang: Wiles says she doesn’t think Trump is on a retribution tour, but that he’s going after people who did bad things in coming after him… That sounds like retribution to me. I’m not quite sure what her definition of retribution is, but she might want to look it up in the fucking dictionary.

Jared Kushner's Affinity exits Warner Bros takeover battle, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4aeYswW

This 👇. My go-to explanation since the boat strikes and navy buildup began in late summer: They're bootstrapping a justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people domestically.

WOW: In a special election for Kentucky State Senate District 37, Democrat Gary Clemons has won with a staggering 72.5% of the vote, defeating Republican Calvin Leach, who received 25%. Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.

They just lie and lie and lie, believing their Fox-fed supporters are total rubes.

Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."

“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs

That's a non-denial denial

Interviews this candid would get any other chief of staff fired. If Wiles survives this, it's another sign that Trump has absolutely zero control over his White House.

Rob Reiner leaves behind a rich political legacy that began long before Trump’s political career. Reiner redefined celebrity political advocacy, not only lending his voice to important causes but also implementing strategies that brought change.

President Trump filed his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC just hours before Britain’s government began a once-a-decade review of the broadcaster’s royal charter, which first set out its journalistic mission 98 years ago. The timing is hardly a coincidence.

Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀 Start the clock! ⏰ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

The lawless killing spree continues. The administration justifies this slaughter by claiming there’s an armed conflict. But it won’t even tell the U.S. public who the supposed enemies are. Of course, there’s no armed conflict. And outside armed conflict, we call premeditated killing murder.

It's impressive, in its way, to make cowardice not just part of your political identity, but ALL of it. When the book on Mike Johnson is written...it will molder in unopened cardboard boxes.

The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric. Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans on county election boards are advancing proposals to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) that would make it harder to vote — especially for student, minority and working-class voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Compare this to the United States, where the 1st graders shot at Sandy Hook in 2012 could have been students at Brown shot 13 years later, and where we have done nothing. It's not impossible to make gun violence rare. We just keep choosing not to try.

When reporters don’t challenge obvious bad faith, they don’t just miss a moment. They enable it.

The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.

I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

Have it ready on your phone. Print out a hard copy for them. Blow it up on a piece of poster board. Shove it in their faces and demand a comment. Make them own this shit.

PRO PUBLICA on the Trump regime insidiously using antisemitism claims to crack down on universities: “Trump’s DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded $1 billion+ in fines, pressed for changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism.” www.propublica.org/article/ucla...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values www.wsj.com/opinion/guan...

In case facts still matter…

Wow

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Horrific. people.com/rob-reiner-w...

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

ON XAI IN MEMPHIS: “There’s a horrible, sulfurous smell in the air… residents don’t want to open their windows… BOXTOWN is 90% Black… Musk did everything behind closed doors… environmental racism… not many jobs, no direct investment in BOXTOWN…”

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE. It is the GUNS. #SadButTRUE 💔

Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!

In a season shadowed by tragedy, we light Hanukkah candles as a reminder that even the smallest flame pushes back the darkness. May these nights bring comfort to those grieving, resilience to those shaken, and hope to us all. Chag Sameach.

Um... F*ck off?

The Washington Post, everyone

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

"In May, Oklahoma approved standards requiring teaching the conspiracy, led by Donald Trump, that the 2020 election was stolen and treating the Covid lab leak theory as fact." Well shit, look up your states' resent curriculum changes and keep an eye on them.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.