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December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
Why did the other loser son Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money? Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?
Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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edzitron.com
Time to escalate my calls: I think something is rotten at Meta, and they are in trouble
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Today is the day. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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karlbode.com
I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
www.techdirt.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee.

Will Jordan release the video to the public?

If not, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
moleatmal.bsky.social
scarylawyerguy.bsky.social scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 1h
Trump's flunkies are going to do their North Korea Dear Leader routine, but the failure is with the mainstream media, which has made an affirmative decision to do a 180 on concerns over a President's age, physical condition, and mental acuity, ignoring with Trump what they destroyed Biden over
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
As Trump's physical and political decline worsens, the cultish flattery from top aides has proportionally grown. As @moiradonegan.bsky.social says on the pod, Trumpworld is now puffing him up publicly to compensate for his deterioration.

Moira is so good here:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
In Donald Trump’s case they include: a former burger magnate; his eldest son’s former fiancee; the owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team; a producer of Broadway musicals; PayPal’s co-founder; and a convicted felon who is also his son-in-law’s father.
‘Like Maga disciples’: meet the Trump envoys raising eyebrows in Europe
US president has been blatant in his appointment of relatives, close friends and big donors – almost none of whom have diplomatic experience
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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jenmercieca.bsky.social
I would absolutely never allow my 12 year old daughter around Trump.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Release the files and let the chips fall where they may. We’re not worried about party, but there’s one main character who’s been gaslighting and trying to prevent the release. That screams a lot of things, but innocence isn’t one of them.

🚨New photos just released by House Dems.
December 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Squashing the report of their screwups to avoid criticism, will only invite more criticism.

newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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josepagliery.bsky.social
The article also claimed fiscal policy "should reduce or eliminate lingering Biden-era inflation."

Inflation is literally exactly the same in Nov. 2025 as it was in Nov. 2024.

www.bls.gov/charts/consu...
12-month percentage change, Consumer Price Index, selected categories
www.bls.gov
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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josepagliery.bsky.social
The article claimed the federal budget would be cut by a third.

You can see how it's actually grown by 6%.

www.usaspending.gov/explorer/bud...
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Nobody wants this. Except Trump, Ellison & Weiss. Audiences consistently say they want more news coverage about things that impact their daily lives. Any news org that actually wants to grow it's audience would be focused on doing just that instead of whatever this is ⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."

Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
David Brooks Said ‘Count Me Out’ Of Epstein Story, Then Wound Up In Epstein Photos
There's no indication The New York Times columnist did anything wrong. But wow, the timing of his column and the photo dump is unfortunate!
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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scalzi.com
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.

Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
apolline.bsky.social Apolline Dsc @apolline.bsky.social · 19h
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Back in July, he was on PBS trying to suggest that the whole Epstein thing was overblown and people should move on. Gee, I wonder why! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
David Brooks: Yes, I can't believe anybody — people are voting on this. Like, there are some QAnon people who are upset. And there are people in the Trump administration who did exactly what Jonathan said. But I just can't believe any vote — people vote and they make decisions about politics based on their real lives, not some crazy conspiracy theory. And every August, we — Washington goes crazy with some stupid story. And then in September, we think, what was that all about? And so this year, we're a little early. We're doing it in July. But the idea that there's something there incriminating Donald Trump, his friendship with Epstein ended in 2004. The Democrats, Joe Biden administration, they had these files for four years. You think, if there had been something, you think they would have done something. The Justice Department, the courts, they have all said there's nothing actionable here. And so the problem is that — what Jonathan described, and then that Donald Trump went ballistic about it and ordered his own administration to somehow solve the problem. And then the underlying problem is that America seems to go through child abuse panics with some regularity. When I was a baby reporter, there was something called the McMartin preschool case in Manhattan Beach, California, where an entire preschool was accused of this gigantic sex ring with children and the trial that went on for years before everybody was acquitted because there was nothing there. But there's something about child abuse which is so horrific, it seems to captures people's minds and especially conspiracy mongers. (Crosstalk) David Brooks: Yes. Jonathan Capehart: And so that's also what we shouldn't lose sight of in this whole conversation. While, politically-, in Washington, we're all talking about how this has damaged the president, how Democrats are trying to take — use it to their advantage. At the root of this were girls as young as 12 who were trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and by Ghislaine Maxwell. And that should — we should never lose sight of that. David Brooks: Yes, that's a good point. And that's one of the reasons they don't want to release the grand jury, because it's incriminating sometimes to the witnesses, to their families, pictures of them with their faces blacked out, with their clothing on. So that's a very good point. Geoff Bennett: And I hear you say this does not represent a shift in the loyalty calculus among Donald Trump's core supporters. David Brooks: I would be shocked. I would be shocked. But there's obviously an active group around MAGA itself that they care. But I — people vote based on their lives, not on anything else.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Anyway, here's a photo of Brooks with his wife, who happens to be 23 years younger than him. This photo looks like a dad dropping his daughter off at college.
Brooks with his wife.
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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parkermolloy.com
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. David Brooks in the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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fivetoephil.bsky.social
Virtually no sex change surgeries have been performed on transgender minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria until they are 18.

Gender-affirming care decreases depression that trans and nonbinary teenagers feel, and it makes them less likely to consider suicide.

newrepublic.com/post/204610/...
Snake Oil Salesman Says Trans Kids Are Result of “Junk Science”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lectured trans kids as he banned health care for them.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
It's so bizarre. If you're a GOP politician, pundits tell you to act manly and voters will follow. If you're a Dem politician, pundits tell you that it's OK to be a wimp as long as you check the right boxes. It just cannot be that voters divide neatly like that. Both policy and character matter. 2/
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
So odd that GOP politics seem driven only by perception of manliness, not policy, while Dem pundits act like all that matters are positions on specific questions polled, not character or strength. Voters responded to Sen. Van Hollen's support of Abrego because he cared, acted, and seemed strong. 1/
mattyglesias.bsky.social Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23h
I said that raising the salience of immigration was counterproductive to the goal of winning the senate races needed for a majority and I don’t think anything has happened that should change my mind about that.

But good progressive soldiers don’t like to acknowledge tradeoffs.
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
This is basically the Platonic ideal of a penny stock scam

www.wsj.com/business/dea...
Trump Media to Merge With TAE Tech in $6 Billion Deal
President Trump’s media company Trump Media & Technology Group agreed to merge with fusion power company TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal worth more than $6 billion.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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thcarter123.bsky.social
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The Crusader in a Suit: Kevin Roberts and the Catholic Civil War Behind America’s New Right
As Pope Leo XIV moves to dismantle Opus Dei, a battle for the Church’s soul enters politics, and Kevin Roberts is the man to watch.
substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM