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Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
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Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair.
"That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know."
Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...
"That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know."
Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...
Vanity Fair Reporter Brings The Receipts To Fact Check Susie Wiles' Claims
www.huffpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair.
"That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know."
Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...
"That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know."
Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...
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'One of the people detained was a pregnant Somali woman. Abdisalan Abdi, who owns a money transfer business, watched the woman as she sat down to prevent herself from falling or slipping. Officers grabbed her by the arms and dragged her through the snow'
minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/16/k...
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Karmel Mall, once a bustling center of community, falls silent • Minnesota Reformer
Khadijo Warsawe, a single mother of three and a restaurant owner at Karmel Mall, said the fear of ICE arrests has halted her livelihood. Once a lively gathering spot filled with the aroma of homemade...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
'One of the people detained was a pregnant Somali woman. Abdisalan Abdi, who owns a money transfer business, watched the woman as she sat down to prevent herself from falling or slipping. Officers grabbed her by the arms and dragged her through the snow'
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minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/16/k...
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Whether it’s trans rights, or genocide funding, or all sorts of corrupt corporate laws, there’s only so many times you can fuck over your voters before you make yourselves our enemy. It’s madness to think you deserve unconditional support just for sometimes being a bit better than actual Nazis.
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Whether it’s trans rights, or genocide funding, or all sorts of corrupt corporate laws, there’s only so many times you can fuck over your voters before you make yourselves our enemy. It’s madness to think you deserve unconditional support just for sometimes being a bit better than actual Nazis.
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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MAGA appears close to a breaking point:
*Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliating Trump over his vile Rob Reiner tweet
*MAGA leaders warning Trump is losing base
*Trump's own pollster warning MAGA isn't energized
On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2044...
*Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliating Trump over his vile Rob Reiner tweet
*MAGA leaders warning Trump is losing base
*Trump's own pollster warning MAGA isn't energized
On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2044...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Humiliates Trump Over Reiner as MAGA Cracks Up
As Representative Greene and other MAGA figures start turning on Trump, the author of a piece on Greene and MAGA explains the deeper reasons MAGA seems to be approaching a breaking point—and why it w...
newrepublic.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
MAGA appears close to a breaking point:
*Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliating Trump over his vile Rob Reiner tweet
*MAGA leaders warning Trump is losing base
*Trump's own pollster warning MAGA isn't energized
On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2044...
*Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliating Trump over his vile Rob Reiner tweet
*MAGA leaders warning Trump is losing base
*Trump's own pollster warning MAGA isn't energized
On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2044...
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The people who hate woke the most famously have the hardest time defining it. This clip of Musk trying to put it into words is amazingly excruciating.
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The people who hate woke the most famously have the hardest time defining it. This clip of Musk trying to put it into words is amazingly excruciating.
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At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers.
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers.
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
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This is Philip Roth on Trump shortly after his first inauguration www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
December 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is Philip Roth on Trump shortly after his first inauguration www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
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That's a non-denial denial
December 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That's a non-denial denial
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Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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“The science is endangered now, just like the whales.”
Social: These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them
Inside the desperate rush to save the southern resident killer whales
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The science is endangered now, just like the whales.”
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In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness.
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
Trump’s war on democracy is failing
And it’s his own fault.
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness.
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
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Timid Dems have totally misread public opinion on immigration. Trump has strong approval on "the border" b/c people think 1) that's where the chaos is and 2) he closed it and that's good. But they don't like what he's doing on immigration writ large. Which means there's plenty of room to attack him
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Timid Dems have totally misread public opinion on immigration. Trump has strong approval on "the border" b/c people think 1) that's where the chaos is and 2) he closed it and that's good. But they don't like what he's doing on immigration writ large. Which means there's plenty of room to attack him
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When Europe and Russia disagree on an issue at the UN, it's long been the case that the US sides with Europe. This year, not so much. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When Europe and Russia disagree on an issue at the UN, it's long been the case that the US sides with Europe. This year, not so much. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
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Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
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Has anyone ever, so publicly, admitted their impotence in their job as much as Wiles did?
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Has anyone ever, so publicly, admitted their impotence in their job as much as Wiles did?
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Incredible insight into Rubio and Vance dynamics here:
“I’ll give you $100 for every person you make look really shitty compared to me,” Mr. Vance joked. “And $1,000 if it’s Marco.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
“I’ll give you $100 for every person you make look really shitty compared to me,” Mr. Vance joked. “And $1,000 if it’s Marco.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Incredible insight into Rubio and Vance dynamics here:
“I’ll give you $100 for every person you make look really shitty compared to me,” Mr. Vance joked. “And $1,000 if it’s Marco.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
“I’ll give you $100 for every person you make look really shitty compared to me,” Mr. Vance joked. “And $1,000 if it’s Marco.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel?
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
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A sociopathic narcissist exploits tragedy/suffering of others to satisfy his dysfunctionally competitive, vindictive need to "win"....and to Self Aggrandize.
In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy).
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In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy).
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The timing of this post and the reference to the murders being "due to the anger ... caused others through … TDS" suggests strongly that Trump believed that **one or more of his supporters** had committed the murders—and that they had committed the atrocity **justifiably**.
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A sociopathic narcissist exploits tragedy/suffering of others to satisfy his dysfunctionally competitive, vindictive need to "win"....and to Self Aggrandize.
In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy).
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In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy).
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Are we in a recession?
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Are we in a recession?
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
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Trump's own chief of staff bolting for the exits and going into desperate career preservation mode is a ~sign~
Susie Wiles tells Vanity Fair Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper has been “sort of political” and the VP has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
Susie Wiles Talks About The First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)
In the first half of ‘Vanity Fair’’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated…
www.vanityfair.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump's own chief of staff bolting for the exits and going into desperate career preservation mode is a ~sign~
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I have some bad news about the Pentagon.
FOX: The ACA has never been more popular. Republicans are losing on this messaging. How do you talk to Americans who say the Republicans don't have a plan?
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have some bad news about the Pentagon.