Peter K

We just cancelled <all> federal area studies/foreign language funding at universities nationwide to ostensibly “save” $86M. How much of that did we waste on this one authoritarian farce alone?

They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again

Breaking: Indiana State Senate rejects 9-0 Republican gerrymandered congressional map, stands up to Trump’s pressure campaign of threats and intimidation. Huge victory for democracy & defeat for Trump in gerrymandering war he started

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

WALKINSHAW: Are you familiar with the Proud Boys?

GLASHEEN: I'm familiar with the name

WALKINSHAW: Does the FBI still designate them as an extremist organization? They did during Trump's first term

GLASHEEN: We are in the process right now of changing our, uh, categories for domestic terrorism

The most contagious disease on earth is one flight away. Blame RFK Jr for this shit.

Perhaps it's just the clips that are making their way to social media, but there seems to be more of an appetite for publicly confronting Noem over obvious lies, which, to channel @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a good thing.

Democrats warn their party may try to unravel any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal A new letter from Reps. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., also raised concerns about foreign investors’ involvement.

This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you."
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

We don’t want fishermen to start avoiding air strikes

Sources say Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has told people close to Trump he was unaware of the broadcast until the day it ran, as was Jeff Shell, president of Paramount Skydance, and Weiss. • "They're saying those guys went rogue and when Paramount Skydance found out about it, they were caught flatfooted," said one person with direct knowledge of the matter.

The sources say paramount's brass insists that "60 Minutes" staffers kept them mostly in the dark about the controversial interview that aired Sunday night - which provoked Trump to declare that Paramount Skydance and its management "ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP." "Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!" Trump added of the Ellisons.

David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.

Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.

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ICE's plan to lose the war has entered the Napoleon in Russia phase with winter deployments in snowy steppe without dedicated cold-weather kit

100 cups

I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.

Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.

The truth comes out.

At this point, after only a few years of legality, most men under 30 know somebody who absolutely destroyed their life and the lives of their loved ones through sports betting.

I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

There will always be a branding effort (and funding) to try to cluck reasonably at "the big scary left"

People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"

Some folks are saying—presumably accurately—that Stevens is only doing this to help her in the Senate primary.

I don't see why that's a problem.

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

Telegraph - Girls targeted in mixed changing rooms FOI police request shows women also at risk of sexual assault and mobile phone voyeurism at pools The Daily Telegraph10 Dec 2025By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR Women and girls are being sexually assaulted in mixed changing rooms across the country. Police data show at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week. Many of the offences were in mixed-sex changing areas, according to a report by the Women’s Rights Network. Campaigners warned that mixed-sex changing areas were a “magnet for sexual predators”. WOMEN and girls are being sexually assaulted in mixed changing rooms across the country. New police data show at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week.

Quoted here we have Sharron Davies talking about an FoI filed by the Women's Rights Network.

None of the people who committed these crimes were trans. Not one.

4.8% were cis male staff.

folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here

we are going to win

Trying a new oven wedge fry thing when I have #leftover baked potatoes. Made some curry ketchup too bc I’m worth it

Let’s get a new MacArthur genius grant going, Brisket category

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

Christopher Hale ® @chrisjollyhale X.com NEW: ICE's acting director has told a suburban Boston parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene — stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message "ICE WAS HERE." The parish priest is refusing, citing Pope Leo XIV's call to stand with migrants.

When ICE calls and demands to speak to your manger.

It’s a great standalone episode even if you’re not of the Trekkie persuasion. Season 5, Episode 2.

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight

sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

MTG keeps reminding me of Glenn Beck’s short-lived 2016 apology tour. Don’t rehabilitate any of these people, or take them at their word

Hades 2 is ridiculous so far. Crazy good. I have a few curmudgeonly gripes about the magic system but can’t really complain about anything else.