Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans

FWIW, RUMINT, but pretty reliable:

1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.

2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”

3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.

4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.

Maybe I would care more what she thought if she’d stop voting to confirm his appointments.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Reprehensible coming from the president. And a blatant lie. They didn't refer to "the president's orders" they referred to "unlawful orders".

We all know he's unfit to be president. It's time for the gop to fix it's problem.

Go home boys, you're drunk...and the plan is already kaput.

How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.

“Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”

macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

I think the people wondering how the Nuzzis & the Lizzas of the world get so famous are maybe making more discriminating choices. But fact is, more people prefer such ego bombs than the many, many excellent journalists w/out white mustangs or tell-all bamboo metaphors.

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.

time.com/7336204/meta...

What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.

I’m going to hell for this meme

lol, Putin disowns his own Christmas list for not having enough ponies with manes that he can braid on it

can we drop this fucking charade now?

ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

😂😂😂

My kind of jewelry

Elon Musk's Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

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Somehow MARK SANFORD ends up looking like the reasonable one here.

That’d be like Marjorie Taylor Greene telling people “hey, cool it with the conspiracy theories.”

<puts hand to earpiece>

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today The Department of Justice fired at least five San Francisco immigration court judges on Friday in the largest cut of immigration judges in the city so far

5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.

It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.

missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...

Listen, if the 100% inappropriate Hellen Keller jokes we made in middle school don’t get me sent to hell, nothing will.

a close up of a man wearing a shirt and tie ALT: a close up of a man wearing a shirt and tie

Shame isn’t always bad. Fear of shame usually keeps people within the left and right lateral limits of societal norms.

Normalizing everything? Well thats how we get a dude writing thousands of words for money about how Bobby K Jr smashed his fiancé.

Can’t be worse than what we do now

April: Lizza leaves Politico to found Telos, says "Their style of political coverage is not meeting the unprecedented moment of democratic peril we are facing"

April-Nov.: Breaks no news, makes videos with resistance types (Steve Schmidt! Joe Walsh!)

Now: Breaks actual news about...Nuzzi (sigh)