A year-end special from me: The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

This most difficult part of this exercise was only picking 25.

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents? GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

If they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.

The Redaction This Country Yearns For Most:

Even truth without justice helps authoritarianism rise. That is what we are seeing with the Epstein file dumps. The rich and powerful perpetrators faced no consequences, and accountability is treated as optional.

🔥APATOW: “Trump doesn’t go after ‘South Park’ because they know how accurate the criticism is, and they don’t want more people to know about it.” (H/T Daily Beast)

Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.

Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story

BREAKING: Democrats have raised the stakes in their war against Christmas by saying "Merry Christmas" like they always fucking have.

MEMPHIS: “Tennessee House Republican leaders will push a plan in 2026 to install a Memphis-Shelby County schools oversight panel to seize significant decision-making authority from the locally elected school board…” 🤔 GOP = Government Overreach Party www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...

We can’t blame any nation for not trusting the United States under Trump. I just hope they forgive us after he’s gone, quickly.

Absolutely 💯 True......

Merry Christmas, y’all. We are grateful for each and every one of you. 🎄

UPDATE: Bari Weiss hilariously tells CBS News(Max) staff she yanked the story (without even discussing it with the team) to “win back the trust” of Americans. (P.S. She means of Trump) variety.com/2025/tv/news...

From the Supreme Court trying to dismantle the Voting Rights Act to GA Republicans attacking voting access at every turn. I’ve stood with orgs like Fair Fight, the ACLU, and the NAACP to protect our voice—and in Congress, I’ll cosponsor the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and protect our right to vote.

Interesting aspect of this one: Trump had argued his decisions on the Guard were effectively unreviewable by the courts. Apparently, SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to put itself completely out of business.

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

Merry Christmas to my fellow radical left scum🌲🎅🏻🎄❤️

Except Mary, Jesus and Joseph were brown… Merry Christmas, everyone.

“Trump’s presidency is enabled, normalized, and protected by a wide class of political, legal, media, and economic elites who chose caution, self-interest, or fear over civic responsibility… The most conspicuous retreat came from Republicans in Congress.” open.substack.com/pub/marcfrie...

Not to worry, there’s a method to Trump’s madness. We’ll win the next war because the other side will be too busy laughing at us to fight back.

We're not supposed to be this angry every waking minute. We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur. These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators. Do not accept any of it.

This happened near me today. The area that shooting happened is in a commercial area which had local businesses locked down, & a major highway shutdown. Traffic was a major mess because of holiday shopping & travel. Prayers for the trooper's family. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/s...

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

This is what happens when the trump White House takes over the social media account for the DoJ. (Axios is reporting they have.) I hope this lands them in legal trouble.

How embarrassing it is to watch our once-esteemed Department of Justice behave like this.

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

This issue alone is going to cost them seats in places they don’t expect. They don’t understand the grass roots anger and hostility there is about this, and billionaire CEOs of Cantor Fitzgerald like Lutnick aren’t going to fool them with their con men sales pitches.

Hilarious. The second any Republican publicly disagrees with Trump about something he attacks them & goes after them. Has primaried dozens. Calls Greene a traitor. Attacked Indiana Repubs. This entire movement is viciously vindictive against anyone who dares to step out of line.

A draft dodger naming an entire class of ships after himself is some next-level narcissistic bullshit.

Are the Kansas City Chiefs moving from Missouri to Kansas to make Trump seem less stupid?

Abolish ICE and “defund the police” are nowhere near the same thing. Don’t conflate the two. That said, ICE needs to go‼️

Thinking it’s impossible for a person to be cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, AND a bumbling incompetent on the order of a Scooby Doo villain is a crazy take during the Era of Donald J. Trump, who is relentlessly all three.

They got caught. They’re backing down. But this isn’t over. There needs to be a class action lawsuit. Instacart admitted it was using AI to charge different people different prices for the exact same items. Algorithmic price gouging. That scam could cost a family of four $1,200 more a year.

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Sounds legit

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Trump's bid to deploy the National Guard in Illinois — turning away the White House's emergency request in an unsigned order.

I figured them asking to define "regular forces" was a pretty good sign that they thought it was BS. So glad they ruled this way!

There were to trials on the calendar well before the election. SCOTUS stopped them.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has DENIED Trump’s request for a stay to allow the deployment of a federalized National Guard force in Illinois. The Court said “regular forces” in 10 U.S.C. §12406(3) likely means the U.S. military, 1/

New in PN: Make America Weak "It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."

Department of Justice: "We have intentionally released documents that are misleading and untrue. Unless they make anyone other than Donald J. Trump look bad. In that case, they are 100% reliable. Trust us. But ignore anything that makes Trump look guilty, OK? Don't believe your lying eyes."

This keeps happening www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...

I'd rather drink goat's blood.