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“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions ... I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat." trib.al/Hvncp7B
Jack Smith Testifies That He’d Prosecute Trump All Over Again
The former special prosecutor is standing by his prosecutions of Donald Trump.
trib.al
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions ... I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat." trib.al/Hvncp7B
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"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event.
'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event."According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65...
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event.
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From the Editorial Board: Bookstore declines appear to be reversing. Barnes and Noble opened nearly 70 new stores this year.
Editorial: The bookstore comeback is good news for readers
Bookstore declines appear to be reversing. Barnes and Noble opened nearly 70 new stores this year.
trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
From the Editorial Board: Bookstore declines appear to be reversing. Barnes and Noble opened nearly 70 new stores this year.
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles may have given up the game, admitting that the Trump administration’s strike on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean Sea is an effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela, rather than a war on drug trafficking. trib.al/vvRtkd9
Trump Chief of Staff Admits Real Reason Behind “Drug Boat” Strikes
Susie Wiles gave an explanation that contradicts the administration’s public talking points.
trib.al
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles may have given up the game, admitting that the Trump administration’s strike on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean Sea is an effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela, rather than a war on drug trafficking. trib.al/vvRtkd9
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Based on the events of the last few weeks I think we've learned that
- Russia, Russia, Russia was a clear-eyed and prescient warning.
- Trump is at the center of the Epstein scandal, not its periphery.
Either warrants his resignation or removal.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
- Russia, Russia, Russia was a clear-eyed and prescient warning.
- Trump is at the center of the Epstein scandal, not its periphery.
Either warrants his resignation or removal.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
Some thoughts on the importance of Congressional Democrats developing a clear strategy to more forcefully challenge Trump's malevolent lawlessness 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/its-not-a-...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/its-not-a-...
It's Not A Presidency. It's A Crime Spree - And It Needs To End
It's time now for Congressional Democrats to develop a clear strategy to more forcefully challenge Trump's destructive lawlessness
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Based on the events of the last few weeks I think we've learned that
- Russia, Russia, Russia was a clear-eyed and prescient warning.
- Trump is at the center of the Epstein scandal, not its periphery.
Either warrants his resignation or removal.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
- Russia, Russia, Russia was a clear-eyed and prescient warning.
- Trump is at the center of the Epstein scandal, not its periphery.
Either warrants his resignation or removal.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
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HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
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“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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JD Vance's speech to TurningPoint USA is the most fascistic rhetoric I've heard. He offers no positive agenda for the country. Rather, for him, the path forward consists entirely of riding the country of people who are insufficiently Aryan, and especially those with dark skin color (like his wife).
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
JD Vance's speech to TurningPoint USA is the most fascistic rhetoric I've heard. He offers no positive agenda for the country. Rather, for him, the path forward consists entirely of riding the country of people who are insufficiently Aryan, and especially those with dark skin color (like his wife).
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“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.
"I know they killed him"
Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3.
I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.
Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3.
I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.
Exclusive: She survived ICE custody; her husband died during detention
Guatemalan widow shared a hug, a tickle and these words with her husband: "Cheer up." It was the last time she saw him alive while they were in ICE custody.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.
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Gripes and infighting on display as Maga stars gather at Turning Point conference
Gripes and infighting on display as Maga stars gather at Turning Point conference
Figures at event include Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Trump Jr as cohesion of political right shows signs of stress
The stars of the Maga conservatism converged for the four-day AmericaFest conference in Phoenix this weekend amid reports that the coherence of the political-religious right, a year into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, is showing signs of stress.
The sold-out Turning Point USA event brought together figures from the right including Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Shapiro and Glenn Beck, to kick around the dominant themes of conservatism. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Gripes and infighting on display as Maga stars gather at Turning Point conference
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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There is no try. Only do.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plan to draft articles of impeachment against AG Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to release all Epstein files as required by law.
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There is no try. Only do.
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Olympian levels of raging Trumpian depavity, madness, and GUILT.
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Olympian levels of raging Trumpian depavity, madness, and GUILT.
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What’s that you say? FDA chief Marty Makary is a shitbird conspiracy theorist who thinks HIV came from a lab leak?
But of course. It’s why he got the job.
But of course. It’s why he got the job.
FDA Commissioner: HIV “May Very Well Have Come From a Lab”
During a recent podcast appearance, Dr. Marty Makary promoted lab origin conspiracy theories involving HIV, Lyme disease, and one dead raccoon.
www.importantcontext.news
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What’s that you say? FDA chief Marty Makary is a shitbird conspiracy theorist who thinks HIV came from a lab leak?
But of course. It’s why he got the job.
But of course. It’s why he got the job.
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Upset by the vandalism at the Kennedy Center?
Angry at your health care costs and grocery prices rising?
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Angry at your health care costs and grocery prices rising?
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December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Upset by the vandalism at the Kennedy Center?
Angry at your health care costs and grocery prices rising?
Help us flip the House. Donate to my Leadership PAC Blue Momentum, which supports candidates in swing districts: secure.actblue.com/donate/lieu-...
Angry at your health care costs and grocery prices rising?
Help us flip the House. Donate to my Leadership PAC Blue Momentum, which supports candidates in swing districts: secure.actblue.com/donate/lieu-...
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A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
A Mysterious Death of a Teen Worker at a Nebraska Hog Farm
A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
nyti.ms
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
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For now, drivers pay to access just 6,300 miles of America’s 160,000 or so miles of highway. But the share may be about to grow rapidly
Toll roads are spreading in America
The decline of petrol taxes is to blame
econ.st
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
For now, drivers pay to access just 6,300 miles of America’s 160,000 or so miles of highway. But the share may be about to grow rapidly
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“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
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“Do you think that Trump would be turning Washington into Pyongyang if he believed there was a chance that, during his lifetime, a future Democratic administration would swoop in and undo it all? Humiliating him? I do not.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Do you think that Trump would be turning Washington into Pyongyang if he believed there was a chance that, during his lifetime, a future Democratic administration would swoop in and undo it all? Humiliating him? I do not.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.
Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center
The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.
n.pr
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.
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I've actually wavered a little on how much I believe messaging can affect this at this point, mostly because the Trump folks have a vastly more effective messaging apparatus on their side, namely the entire right wing propaganda machine, and everyone is still "the economy turbo-sucks"
it's kind of funny from a economic policy perspective, Bidenomics was actually fairly successful (full employment, IRA + other state-driven investment)
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
Pretty sure a president who could communicate well and wasn’t a bazillion years old could have explained to the public why this is Actually Good.
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I've actually wavered a little on how much I believe messaging can affect this at this point, mostly because the Trump folks have a vastly more effective messaging apparatus on their side, namely the entire right wing propaganda machine, and everyone is still "the economy turbo-sucks"