Maximillian Potter
@maxpotter.bsky.social
Writer-editor @protectdemocracy.org
Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com
NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” http://amzn.to/2H5ikFW
Ghost in some memoirs.
Facts are facts.
My opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/maximillianpotter
Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com
NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” http://amzn.to/2H5ikFW
Ghost in some memoirs.
Facts are facts.
My opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/maximillianpotter
Meanwhile in the world of things that matter. Dafuk?!
December 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Meanwhile in the world of things that matter. Dafuk?!
So here’s the reality check game for the Eagles. Last 2 games, when pundits were saying: The Eagles are back. … Nope. They played two shit teams. Eagles coaching is bad. *Bad*. … This is not an Eagles coaching staff that will coach this team beyond a playoff game. Maaaaybe.
December 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So here’s the reality check game for the Eagles. Last 2 games, when pundits were saying: The Eagles are back. … Nope. They played two shit teams. Eagles coaching is bad. *Bad*. … This is not an Eagles coaching staff that will coach this team beyond a playoff game. Maaaaybe.
Because it endures as one of the best duets of all time and … AND … this video was shot LIVE in ONE CONTINUOUS take. When the choir drops in … come ON youtu.be/8MPbR6Cbwi4?...
Justin Timberlake - Say Something (Official Video) ft. Chris Stapleton
YouTube video by justintimberlakeVEVO
youtu.be
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Because it endures as one of the best duets of all time and … AND … this video was shot LIVE in ONE CONTINUOUS take. When the choir drops in … come ON youtu.be/8MPbR6Cbwi4?...
You don’t say.
Economic concerns are fueling the overall sense of pessimism as 2025 comes to an end.
Seven in 10 Americans said the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, including nearly half of Republicans and three-quarters of independents, according to the poll.
Seven in 10 Americans said the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, including nearly half of Republicans and three-quarters of independents, according to the poll.
December 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You don’t say.
Whereas Ron, here, is of the Northern European types, and, boy, they’ve been here a long while and let me tell you those Northern Europeans, they are freeken pros at fleecing. You know, like Trump. As one of the Irish-English types, let me tell you, they have done some fleecing. Good. Lord.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Whereas Ron, here, is of the Northern European types, and, boy, they’ve been here a long while and let me tell you those Northern Europeans, they are freeken pros at fleecing. You know, like Trump. As one of the Irish-English types, let me tell you, they have done some fleecing. Good. Lord.
Yeah. The fact that the guy who unleashed a violent insurrection against Congress and our democracy while trying to overturn an election…was not only *not* held accountable but is the sitting president, enabled by Congress …kinda may be a problem for a while. Just a little.
December 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Yeah. The fact that the guy who unleashed a violent insurrection against Congress and our democracy while trying to overturn an election…was not only *not* held accountable but is the sitting president, enabled by Congress …kinda may be a problem for a while. Just a little.
I’m no economist, but considering this nation’s record-breaking credit card debt, the insane interest rates and rise in consumer spending…a lot of Americans are gonna get crushed by credit card debt in 2026.
www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards...
www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards...
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m no economist, but considering this nation’s record-breaking credit card debt, the insane interest rates and rise in consumer spending…a lot of Americans are gonna get crushed by credit card debt in 2026.
www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards...
www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards...
Body count.
The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
@theintercept.com is keeping count of all U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
@theintercept.com is keeping count of all U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Body count.
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
On a lighter note, one might even dare say a *joyous* note—at an Xmas dinner a family friend asked my oldest kid what he does for work; son responded and said, “When we were growing up my dad would say look for ways to nudge the universe and I feel like I’m doing that.” That was my gift this year.
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
On a lighter note, one might even dare say a *joyous* note—at an Xmas dinner a family friend asked my oldest kid what he does for work; son responded and said, “When we were growing up my dad would say look for ways to nudge the universe and I feel like I’m doing that.” That was my gift this year.
Generations to the end of time will never forget the Congressional Republicans and cabinet members who not only did nothing to stop this obviously corrupt loon but what’s more … enabled him, participated.
December 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Generations to the end of time will never forget the Congressional Republicans and cabinet members who not only did nothing to stop this obviously corrupt loon but what’s more … enabled him, participated.
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
'I just want to find 11,780 votes’ — Trump.
Having this guy decide which voters are “eligible” is pretty much the opposite of what should happen.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Having this guy decide which voters are “eligible” is pretty much the opposite of what should happen.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
'I just want to find 11,780 votes’ — Trump.
Having this guy decide which voters are “eligible” is pretty much the opposite of what should happen.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Having this guy decide which voters are “eligible” is pretty much the opposite of what should happen.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
It’s only and entirely because he is who he is and what he’s done and not done and the way he has lived every day of his life — that this interaction is nauseating and raises a context that no one should have to consider when a president talks with a child.
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s only and entirely because he is who he is and what he’s done and not done and the way he has lived every day of his life — that this interaction is nauseating and raises a context that no one should have to consider when a president talks with a child.
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“Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?”
Approximately 42% of Americans have less than $5000 in savings.
79 years later and this question, defending the working class against unchecked greed and exploitation, hasn’t aged at all.
Approximately 42% of Americans have less than $5000 in savings.
79 years later and this question, defending the working class against unchecked greed and exploitation, hasn’t aged at all.
December 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?”
Approximately 42% of Americans have less than $5000 in savings.
79 years later and this question, defending the working class against unchecked greed and exploitation, hasn’t aged at all.
Approximately 42% of Americans have less than $5000 in savings.
79 years later and this question, defending the working class against unchecked greed and exploitation, hasn’t aged at all.
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The FBI was supposed to deliver all the Epstein files to @AGPamBondi's desk by 8 AM on Feb. 28, 2025. That's almost ten months ago. This seems like something @JusticeOIG would need to dig into www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The FBI was supposed to deliver all the Epstein files to @AGPamBondi's desk by 8 AM on Feb. 28, 2025. That's almost ten months ago. This seems like something @JusticeOIG would need to dig into www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
Pyromaniac running the fire department sends email to dedicated, experienced firefighters lecturing them about the fires she has set.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Pyromaniac running the fire department sends email to dedicated, experienced firefighters lecturing them about the fires she has set.
“If you make truth unknowable, accountability becomes impossible.
Trump built his career on fraud: cooking the books, inflating assets, falsifying ledgers. Now he governs the same way.”
Succinctly phrased, accurate. A framing that could be and should be in every piece about Trump.
Trump built his career on fraud: cooking the books, inflating assets, falsifying ledgers. Now he governs the same way.”
Succinctly phrased, accurate. A framing that could be and should be in every piece about Trump.
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“If you make truth unknowable, accountability becomes impossible.
Trump built his career on fraud: cooking the books, inflating assets, falsifying ledgers. Now he governs the same way.”
Succinctly phrased, accurate. A framing that could be and should be in every piece about Trump.
Trump built his career on fraud: cooking the books, inflating assets, falsifying ledgers. Now he governs the same way.”
Succinctly phrased, accurate. A framing that could be and should be in every piece about Trump.
Fair question.
Imagine the reaction from this administration and his supporters and the Trump talking-heads if his phrasing had been invoked in a post about him.
Imagine the reaction from this administration and his supporters and the Trump talking-heads if his phrasing had been invoked in a post about him.
Is the president of the United States calling for CBS to murder Stephen Colbert? Wtf
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Fair question.
Imagine the reaction from this administration and his supporters and the Trump talking-heads if his phrasing had been invoked in a post about him.
Imagine the reaction from this administration and his supporters and the Trump talking-heads if his phrasing had been invoked in a post about him.
“… because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.”
THIS is the reason why Trump has done whatever he can to block the release of the files.
Trump’s “why” is never complicated and always the same: Himself. His self-interest.
He is protecting a network of pedophiles to protect himself.
THIS is the reason why Trump has done whatever he can to block the release of the files.
Trump’s “why” is never complicated and always the same: Himself. His self-interest.
He is protecting a network of pedophiles to protect himself.
How have only Epstein and Maxwell been prosecuted for the biggest human trafficking scheme in modern U.S. history?
The answer is pretty simple: Pam Bondi knows she can’t go after Epstein’s co-conspirators because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.
The answer is pretty simple: Pam Bondi knows she can’t go after Epstein’s co-conspirators because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.
December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“… because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.”
THIS is the reason why Trump has done whatever he can to block the release of the files.
Trump’s “why” is never complicated and always the same: Himself. His self-interest.
He is protecting a network of pedophiles to protect himself.
THIS is the reason why Trump has done whatever he can to block the release of the files.
Trump’s “why” is never complicated and always the same: Himself. His self-interest.
He is protecting a network of pedophiles to protect himself.
The projection is OFF the charts.
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The projection is OFF the charts.
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As we wrote in @columjournreview.bsky.social, the Orban playbook was to pressure media companies, find an ally to purchase them when that pressure made them financially vulnerable, then have the ally install loyalists to turn the outlet in regime propaganda. #BariWeiss www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...
On anticipatory obedience and the media
Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.
www.cjr.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As we wrote in @columjournreview.bsky.social, the Orban playbook was to pressure media companies, find an ally to purchase them when that pressure made them financially vulnerable, then have the ally install loyalists to turn the outlet in regime propaganda. #BariWeiss www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...
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NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.