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"a less neurotic Charlie Brown" - at least Reagan understood tariffs
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jbf1755.bsky.social
I keep thinking—as a historian—that it’s rare when doing research to find a politician who reveals his nasty innards so blatantly—with no sense of self or shame.

Future historians who didn’t live through this will be absolutely open-mouthed.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
everything is so fucking stupid
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Making this claim from the NYT Opinion Pages Home for Bland White Guys is certainly a choice.
kleinman.bsky.social Simply Loving To Permanently Be Online @kleinman.bsky.social · 3h
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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hal10000.bsky.social
I hit the roof yesterday when someone MAGA dipshit said liberals mocked Charlie Kirk without consequence. Some people's lives were completely wreck. Because they said something MAGA didn't like.
sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 6h
Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail — all because he posted a meme after Charlie Kirk's murder. He was held on an outlandish $2 million bail.

And now it's time for Sheriff Nick Weems and Perry County to face the consequences for violating Bushart's First Amendment rights.
LAWSUIT: Ex-cop sues after spending 37 days in jail for sharing meme following Charlie Kirk murder
Larry Bushart was arrested for a social media post and held on a $2 million bond he could not afford. Now, he's fighting back.
www.thefire.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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hal10000.bsky.social
Wait, people can't even adopt *children* from those countries? This is some high grade white replacement racist bullshit.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The full DC Circuit will rehear the case over the Trump admin's effort to "shut down" the CFPB en banc, with arguments set for Feb. 24.

The 2-1 panel decision in August siding with the Trump admin was a Katsas, joined by Rao, majority. Pillard dissented.
United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 25-5091 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-00381-ABJ Filed On: December 17, 2025 National Treasury Employees Union, et al., Appellees ≤ Russell T. Vought, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Appellants BEFORE: Srinivasan, Chief Judge, and Henderson, Millett, Pillard, Wilkins, Katsas, Rao, Walker, Childs, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the petition for rehearing en banc and the response thereto; the motions for invitation to file amicus curiae briefs in support of rehearing en banc filed by the Constitutional Accountability Center, the 41 nonprofit organizations, and the 36 members of Congress; the lodged briefs; the letters; and the vote in favor of the petition by a majority of the judges eligible to participate, it is ORDERED that the motions for invitation to file amicus curiae briefs be granted. The Clerk is directed to file the lodged amicus briefs. It is FURTHER ORDERED that the petition be granted. This case will be reheard by the court sitting en banc. It is FURTHER ORDERED that the court's judgment filed August 15, 2025, be vacated. The partial stay pending appeal entered on April 11, 2025, and later modified on April 28, 2025, is in effect. It is FURTHER ORDERED that oral argument before the en banc court be heard at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, in Courtroom 20. It is FURTHER ORDERED that, in addition to filing briefs electronically, the parties file 30 paper copies of each of the briefs and the appendix, in accordance with the following schedule: Brief for Appellants January 9, 2026 Joint Appendix January 9, 2026 Briefs) for Amici Curiae in support of Appellants January 16, 2026 Brief for Appellees February 2, 2026 Briefs) for Amici Curiae in support of Appellees February 9, 2026 Reply Brief for Appellants February 17, 2026 To enhance the clarity of their briefs, the parties are urged to limit the use of abbreviations, including acronyms. While acronyms may be used for entities and statutes with widely recognized initials, briefs should not contain acronyms that are not widely known. See D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 43-44 (2025); Notice Regarding Use of Acronyms (D.C. Cir. Jan. 26, 2010). Parties are strongly encouraged to hand deliver the paper copies of their briefs to the Clerk's Office on the due date. Filing by mail may delay the processing of the brief. Additionally, counsel are reminded that if filing by mail, they must use a class of mail that is at least as expeditious as first-class mail. See Fed. R. App. P. 25(a). All briefs and appendices must contain the date that the cases are scheduled for oral argument at the top of the cover. See D.C. Cir. Rule 28(a)(8). Because the briefing schedule is keyed to the date of argument, the court will grant requests for extension of time limits only for extraordinarily compelling reasons. A separate order will issue regarding allocation of argument time. Per Curiam BY: FOR THE COURT: Clifton B. Cislak, Clerk /s/ Michael C. McGrail Deputy Clerk
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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jael.bsky.social
the sarah mcbride speech in front of the capitol about the anti-trans legislation is one of the more affecting moments i have ever seen in the fight over trans liberation in congress

literally walked thru her transition

the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
I fucking loathe these smug ass art-hating self-congratulating ghouls & the system that allows them to fail upwards into unfathomable wealth on the backs of 1000s of overworked creative people whose livelihoods get passed around like trading cards every time these dillwads have a stonks circle-jerk.
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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zachsdorfman.bsky.social
This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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shanewatch.bsky.social
every day, this criminal administration somehow excavates a new nadir
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 5h
White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’
White House adds insulting plaques below Biden and Obama portraits
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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peark.es
Trump Administration setting denaturalization quotas.
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Naturalized Americans of Citizenship By Hamed Aleaziz (New York Times) -- An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.” The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times, marking an aggressive new phase in the president’s campaign to make the country less friendly to immigrants. The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. If the cases are successful, it would represent a massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era, experts said. By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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anthonymoser.com
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
Moser tells Rolling Stone that to even claim LLMs "hallucinate" fictional publications misunderstands the threat they pose to our comprehension of the world, because the term "implies that it's different from the normal, correct perception of reality" But the chatbots are "always hallucinating," he says. "It's not a malfunction. A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it's accurate, maybe it isn't, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
So wait. We’re declaring a war of conquest to take oil company assets nationalized half a century ago?
explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h
-laughs nervously-

What the fuck?
> Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by Stephen Miller (@StephenM), verified. The post reads: “American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.” Below is a quoted post by Marco Rubio (@marcorubio), verified, sharing a screenshot of a statement attributed to Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The statement claims Venezuela is surrounded by a large armada, accuses the Maduro government of stealing U.S. oil assets, financing terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking, designates the Venezuelan regime as a “foreign terrorist organization,” orders a total blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, and calls for stolen assets to be returned to the United States immediately. The timestamp shows “5:46 pm · 17 Dec 25” and “229K Views.”
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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vokabre.bsky.social
The whole story — the door remaining locked, the open heating, the emergency button failing is making my safety engineer senses quite upset.
unseenjapan.com Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 3h
More on the tragic death of a husband/wife in a fire at a sauna in Tokyo's Akasaka. There's evidence that the couple tried pressing the room's emergency button. However, the owner admits the buttons were turned off. Further, they confessed, they've never once turned them on.
NTV News story: サウナ夫婦死亡　非常ボタンの通報装置の電源入っておらず　オーナー「今まで電源入れたことない」
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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corabora.bsky.social
The form includes a photo/video upload. Note that 5th Circuit judges ruled last week that taking photos in restrooms is unlikely to be protected under 1A, regardless if someone is transgender.

My story for KXAN about this: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
By contrast, circumstances in which a prosecution under that subsection would likely be constitutional readily come to mind. For example, it is highly unlikely, to say the least, that there is a First Amendment right to distribute, without their consent, images of a person’s genitalia or other anatomy (whether they be an adult, infant, pre-teen, teen) while utilizing bathroom facilities. It is also far from clear that there is a First Amendment right to capture and distribute an image, without their permission, of a fully clothed adult while in a public bathroom. Think of a celebrity, for example, who ducks into a women’s bathroom to avoid paparazzi or overzealous fans. What if the celebrity were in the restroom simply to relieve and refresh themselves? Is there a constitutional right to follow and photograph that person in a restroom when they are seeking privacy? Is any citizen, celebrity or not, fair game for photos or videos while in a restroom? Does the fact that a person is an elected official change that equation? The law is certainly not clear that politicians may be pursued, even in a public restroom, for the purpose of obtaining and publicizing their image.
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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jucikadaily.bsky.social
We're 4% away until we clear debt, let's keep the momentum going!

gofund.me/16ef32cb1
December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
Apprehension of Indian immigrant driver by border patrol at O’Hare
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
According to UNICEF Israel kills a classroom full of Palestinian children every single day through bombardment, deprivation of resources, and starvation.

28 on average
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Bye Bye, Bingo Bongo: Blubbering Buffon Backtracks Bureau Billet. Back Broadcasting Bloviations Betimes?
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino announces he is leaving the agency in January.
Dan Bongino • O @FBIDDBongino X.com I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose. Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
NYT continues that stubborn tradition of discussing Trump's promise of tariff revenues w/o disclosing that Trump may have to pay half the revenue raised back to importers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Appearing last week in Mount Pocono, Pa., Mr. Trump highlighted the roughly $12 billion in emergency aid that his administration had newly earmarked for farmers. He said the aid, meant to help farmers struggling financially because of the president’s own trade war, came “right out of the tariff money.” Mr. Trump had previously teased that he would tap the same tariff revenue to provide “a little rebate” to all Americans, a refrain he repeated into December amid concerns that U.S. duties had edged consumer prices higher. At one point, the president pegged the amount as “at least $2,000 a person,” excluding those with higher incomes, though the administration did not unfurl any additional details about its plans. The calls for a tariff rebate resembled an idea that Mr. Trump had proposed at the start of his term, when he mused about paying a dividend to families based on savings extracted by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as it slashed the ranks of federal government. That ultimately never materialized. Similarly, Mr. Trump has not made a concerted push in Congress for tariff rebates. But some conservatives have encouraged the White House to pursue other paths altogether, perhaps by temporarily reducing the amount that workers and employers pay in payroll taxes, a longtime goal for some on the right. “You never want to just send checks to people that aren’t related to working,” said Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who advised Mr. Trump in his first term and raised the idea in a meeting with him recently. He said checks alone could “increase inflation, not reduce it.” Tariff rebates could also prove expensive, cutting deeply into the roughly $200 billion that the government has collected in customs revenue this year, according to new figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday. If the administration were to follow through with a version of Mr. Trump’s proposal — $2,000 rebates to people who earn less than $100,000 annually — it could cost the government almost two times more money than it has collected in tariff revenue this year, according to the Yale Budget Lab.
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Elon musk tweet We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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mae.seal.observer
I am not trying to fearmonger but if one of these people is your representative please call them and tell them to vote no on "Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492"
Screenshot from erininthemorning.com "Previously, a handful of House Democrats have shown support for other anti-LGBTQ+ provisions primarily centering on transgender people: Henry Cuellar (TX), Donald G. Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Shomari Figures (AL), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared F. Golden (ME), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Adam Gray (CA), Susie Lee (NV), John W. Mannion (NY), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Kim Schrier (WA), and Thomas R. Suozzi (NY)."
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
A great piece by my colleague @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Democrats need a theory of power, but democracies need a theory of accountability
No, the Trump administration is not a model for how to get things done
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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nicocolaleo.bsky.social
I hate to e-beg, it's embarrassing and I feel pathetic, but all I want for the holidays is to help my disabled mother with her medical bills so she can continue getting the care and treatments she needs. Please donate or share, I appreciate it so much!

LINK:
gofund.me/15682d815
Donate to Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother, organized by Nico Colaleo
Hey everyone and Happy Holidays 2025- This is Nico Colaleo (creator of Ollie &… Nico Colaleo needs your support for Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother
gofund.me
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM