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A lot of the links I post come from Balloon Juice, a top 10,000 blog!

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Balloon Juice - Late Night Open Thread: Dan Bongino Makes His Exit
He found the job to be too fact-oriented. [image or embed] — Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM Bongino’s announcement made a lot of people happy, and I’m not talk...
balloon-juice.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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chrishockman.bsky.social
He looked SO scared
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Oh man. They have now deleted this Epstein photo that they overlooked showed Trump.
As people have said, their incompetence may be our only salvation.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d
Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Computer, enhance
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
In 2016, when Russia first moved to demand payback for getting Trump elected, they tested two envoys to get to Trump. First, a buddy of Jared Kushner's. Then, W/DMITRIEV SPECIFICALLY, W/Erik Prince.

Prince & Bannon then deleted texts about what went on.

The plan has literally not changed at all.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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tomeaston.bsky.social
Jake Paul looking terrified as Anthony Joshua is about to knock him out. Paul’s caption reads fucking around. Joshua’s reads finding out
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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notdred.bsky.social
Boxing is problematic etc etc but Anthony Joshua cracking a smile as he lines up his kill shot on Jake Paul is giving me life
Former world champion boxer Anthony Joshua in a boxing ring, cocking back his fist to deliver a massive right hand. His opponent, MAGA influencer turned fake boxer Jake Paul, cowers in surprise as he prepares for his soul to leave his body
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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anthony.parts
the video's pretty good
December 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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cheapneonshades.coys.social
god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude
jake paul regretting the fuck out of all of his life choices that led up to this point, joshua with his right arm cocked same moment but looking at joshua, smiling because he sees the fear on pauls face
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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craigbrittain.com
Jake Paul was just KNOCKED OUT by Anthony Joshua.

It is a fantastic day.
December 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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chaclo.blacksky.app
Anthony Joshua punched Jake Paul so hard he hearing colors and seeing sounds right now.
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy
I’ve been under the weather. That partly explains missing two days of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)

Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
"Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler? Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values. Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that. Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany."
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Computer, enhance
Photo of a desk from the Epstein files with framed photos on the top and a drawer at the bottom where photos of Donald Trump are poking out EFTA00000468 from the Epstein files Photos of Donald Trump in a drawer
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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timmarchman.bsky.social
NEW: Here's what's actually in the DOJ's Epstein dump, which at a first pass is more notable for what's not in it than for what is.
Here's What's in the DOJ's Epstein File Release—and What's Missing
From photos of former President Bill Clinton to images of strange scrapbooks, the Justice Department’s release is curious but far from revelatory.
www.wired.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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fritschner.bsky.social
Just remembered the James OKeefe sting video with a DOJ official from early September: “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files [and] leave all the liberal, Democratic people”
December 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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cooperlund.online
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.

Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
May the odds be ever in your favor
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
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 5:26 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
Side-by-side black and white headshot photographs of two men, likely from the mid-20th century. One is Stephen Miller. The Other is Goebbels
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM