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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.

Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.

LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

And the winner for the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence is...

Risks of Revising Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Recommendation This Viewpoint from infectious disease experts cautions about the consequences of rescinding the ACIP policy to immunize all newborns against hepatitis B.

“Delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine dose beyond the newborn period introduces risks that have lifelong detrimental consequences and no measurable health benefit.”

Important and timely piece by an amazing team - Mike Abers, Angela Ulrich, & Rochelle Walensky. 👏👏

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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

It was a moment when everything we’d all worked on fell into place. Kismet.

I’m pretty sure I’ve said this to you before, but on behalf of the entire Freemaker crew THANK YOU!

(Also, this was just the boost I needed today. Thanks for that too!)

Freemaker Adventures, mostly.

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Middle school enhappifier Molly McGee sits on the sidewalk next to curmudgeon ghost, Scratch. Both look sad.

Honestly, everything went downhill after The Ghost and Molly McGee was cancelled.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.

Where are my Originalists at?

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Portland should sue Fox for a billion dollars. Go for the full BBC.

What If We Kissed Under the Pizza Hut Taco Bell Spotify video

I'm co-host a video game-nostalgia podcast called DIE OR PASS LEVEL that I'm terrible at promoting, but this week's ep is my favorite. I get a real education in Sonic lore??

If you're a @samcking.bsky.social fan (and who isn't) you're not gonna wanna miss this one!

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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Pivotal moments — good ones like Tuesday in NYC, bad ones like the Senate capitulation tonight — hinge on the same thing: primary elections.

2026 will be won or lost in the spring.

Just an idea for you to tweet (or whatever you use these days) An alternative strategy for limiting flights from major airports would be closing small (private jet) airports and sending those air traffic controllers to the main hubs. But that would impact private jets and that would be terrible.

Text from a friend:

This should be framed by Democrats as: the GOP has given a green light for the most violent criminals in the country to act with impunity.

Republican Youngkin wins Virginia governor's race in blow to Democrats, NBC News projects The GOP victory came in a state President Joe Biden won by 10 percentage points, sending a warning to Democrats about their midterm election prospects.

GLENN YOUNGKIN'S VICTORY IS A WARNING FOR DEMOCRATS The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey suggest that Republicans' appeal to voters has strengthened without Trump. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells November

Jennings: Youngkin gives GOP a blueprint on how to talk to voters again CNN contributor Scott Jennings explains how Republican candidate for Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin pulled off a solid campaign with issues that appeal to voters.

Republican Victory in Virginia's Governor Race Seen as Bad Omen for Democrats

We damn well better get a blizzard of "bad news for Republicans" pieces tomorrow.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Not to be glib, but it was always going to trend this way. People hated Trump the first time and he's even less competent now. There was never a reason to think Rs would outperform 2018

Which is part of why the preemptive surrender of so many elites has been so f*cking annoying

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

The guy obsessed with Biden’s auto-pen has no clue who he’s pardoned.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Now, now, don’t beat yourself up over it.