This is the kind of story the defense department would like to review ahead of time.

Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out?

Farage: I have no opinion on it.

Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released

Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?

An important rule when laying out a homepage is to group together stories of common interest, as Fox News so deftly does here.

It should tell us something that OTHER federal law enforcement are now opening their interactions with the public by saying, “I’m not ICE!” In case you were wondering how toxic ICE has become….

There won't be a Bureau of Economic Analysis by Q2...

Which trail. Beautiful dog and pics.

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

The SSA is shifting all public comms to X amid major staffing cuts: www.wired.com/story/social...

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.

We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

I may be mistaken, but I don’t think most Americans thought they were voting for a foreign policy where Russia is our boss and Canada is our enemy. Yet that’s what we’re getting.

It’s not a war plan it’s an attack plan.

It’s not rape it’s sexual abuse.

If there’s not enough evidence to assure conviction, then it’s a hoax.

Very tired of a decade of this dumb game, but glad to see them have a hard time playing it this time.

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

It’s not the biggest EO, and unlike some it won’t kill or imprison people, and yet in its explicit appeal to white supremacy, and noting thr unease I feel now writing that publicly, I find this one of the most chilling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

They showed no grace; no magnanimity of spirit; no diplomatic acumen. They were small bullies with big titles and they disrespected the history and legacy of the nation they lead.

Today, Donald Trump acted more like Russia's Putin than America's President.

Such PR on those shows. I used to think it was useful to try to get them on the record. It it just seems hopeless these days.
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
George Orwell

Study: Republicans Respond to Political Polarization by Spreading Misinformation, Democrats Don't This Journal of Marketing study finds Republicans react to political polarization by sharing misinformation. The study calls for stronger fact-checking, media literacy education, and less polarizing r...

Study: Republicans Respond to Political Polarization by Spreading Misinformation, Democrats Don't

www.ama.org/2024/12/09/s...

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

Trump Names Charles Kushner as Pick for Ambassador to France The announcement elevated Mr. Kushner, the father of President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and the recipient of a presidential pardon at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.

"Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission"
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...

Opinion | Kennedy’s Antivax Views and Friends Can Cause Real Damage What he did during a measles epidemic in Samoa shouldn’t be forgotten.

"In recent days, Mr. Kennedy appears to have tried to change the conversation around his vaccine views to focus on America’s junk food diets. But his views on vaccines shouldn’t be forgotten."

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

An example of great reporting today: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Opinion | Our democracy needs a different model for journalism Informed voters are increasingly an endangered species. ProPublica’s nonprofit model could help save them.

“It has partially filled the demand for local reporting that has resulted from the brutal realities of the newspaper industry’s consolidation. It has also found relevance by being serious and focused, [avoiding] legacy outlets’ impulse to lure readers with games and frivolous lifestyle columns.”