Tim O’Brien
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Senior Executive Editor, @Opinion.bloomberg.com. Political Analyst, MSNOW. Author: “TrumpNation.” Priors: New York Times, Wall Street Journal. www.timothylobrien.com
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There’s no way that whoever designed the Apple TV remote has young kids.
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There’s no way that whoever designed the Apple TV remote has young kids.
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“It’s ok to be white” was an online slogan used by overt white supremacist groups just a few years ago. Now it’s being used on stage in front of cameras by the vice president of the United States.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“It’s ok to be white” was an online slogan used by overt white supremacist groups just a few years ago. Now it’s being used on stage in front of cameras by the vice president of the United States.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
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December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Police recovered large capacity magazines at Brown, which allow a person to shoot for long periods w/out reloading.
My latest story w/ @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: newly obtained docs show how the gun industry flooded the market with large capacity magazines www.thetrace.org/2025/12/larg...
My latest story w/ @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: newly obtained docs show how the gun industry flooded the market with large capacity magazines www.thetrace.org/2025/12/larg...
Newly Obtained Documents Show How Gun Manufacturers Swamped the Market With Large-Capacity Magazines
At least 717 million devices like the one used in the Brown University mass shooting have been produced and distributed during a 30-year period, including a decade when they were banned.
www.thetrace.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Police recovered large capacity magazines at Brown, which allow a person to shoot for long periods w/out reloading.
My latest story w/ @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: newly obtained docs show how the gun industry flooded the market with large capacity magazines www.thetrace.org/2025/12/larg...
My latest story w/ @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: newly obtained docs show how the gun industry flooded the market with large capacity magazines www.thetrace.org/2025/12/larg...
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
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“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
CBS News removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
CBS News removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Yes, yes. The Trump administration’s goal throughout all of this has been to protect the victims.
WELKER: Why didn't the DOJ meet the Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files?
BLANCHE: It's very simple and very clear. The statute also requires us to protect victims.
BLANCHE: It's very simple and very clear. The statute also requires us to protect victims.
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes, yes. The Trump administration’s goal throughout all of this has been to protect the victims.
“PEN America found that 6,870 book bans were enacted during the 2024-2025 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts. Some 4,000 different titles were targeted, though many bans attack the same books — often those highlighted by Moms for Liberty.”
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MAGA’s Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administration’s executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“PEN America found that 6,870 book bans were enacted during the 2024-2025 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts. Some 4,000 different titles were targeted, though many bans attack the same books — often those highlighted by Moms for Liberty.”
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Epstein victims broke down in tears after newly released files showed the FBI ignored a child pornography complaint decades ago.
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Epstein victims broke down in tears after newly released files showed the FBI ignored a child pornography complaint decades ago.
Caleb Williams is the mayor of Chicago.
December 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Caleb Williams is the mayor of Chicago.
The vote all but assures that out-of-pocket premiums will more than double on average for roughly 20 million ACA enrollees when the enhanced subsidies expire Jan. 1.
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House passes GOP health bill without subsidies
The vote all but assures that out-of-pocket premiums will more than double for roughly 20 million ACA enrollees.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The vote all but assures that out-of-pocket premiums will more than double on average for roughly 20 million ACA enrollees when the enhanced subsidies expire Jan. 1.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/h...
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Susie Wiles is not happy with an unflattering profile in Vanity Fair.
But she has only herself to blame, Nia-Malika Henderson says 🎥
But she has only herself to blame, Nia-Malika Henderson says 🎥
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Susie Wiles is not happy with an unflattering profile in Vanity Fair.
But she has only herself to blame, Nia-Malika Henderson says 🎥
But she has only herself to blame, Nia-Malika Henderson says 🎥
Trump’s approach of placing economic blame on Biden isn’t just a little spin on the ball: “It's an effort to completely mislead Americans on the economy his administration inherited, and the harm his policies have done.”
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The Affordability Crisis Is Real and Tariffs Caused It
President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania last week to double down on his economic messages: The affordability concerns of Americans are a Democratic “hoax” and if anyone is unhappy, it's a Blam...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Trump’s approach of placing economic blame on Biden isn’t just a little spin on the ball: “It's an effort to completely mislead Americans on the economy his administration inherited, and the harm his policies have done.”
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Over the past generation, Republicans and Democrats have established a dominant grip on a wide arc of House seats linked by common racial, educational and economic features. And gridlock prevails. A data tour of a house divided:
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A New Way to Understand America’s Congressional Doom Loop
A simple 2x2 matrix can explain why the House of Representatives has found it harder and harder to get anything done.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Over the past generation, Republicans and Democrats have established a dominant grip on a wide arc of House seats linked by common racial, educational and economic features. And gridlock prevails. A data tour of a house divided:
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The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise
Trumpflation:
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Trumpflation:
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Isn't it obvious where this is heading?
The Billion Dollar Ballroom.
The Billion Dollar Ballroom.
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Isn't it obvious where this is heading?
The Billion Dollar Ballroom.
The Billion Dollar Ballroom.
When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
CNN suggests Susie Wiles might not have known she was on the record 😆
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
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The government finally posted the jobs report for October and November. What really sticks out to me is how the unemployment rate is soaring (white line) while growth in average hourly earnings (blue line) is tumbling:
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The government finally posted the jobs report for October and November. What really sticks out to me is how the unemployment rate is soaring (white line) while growth in average hourly earnings (blue line) is tumbling:
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"...rather than asking why Johnson...appears to be the incredible shrinking speaker, the better question might be whether he was ever in control of the House at all. ...Johnson assumed the gavel without any power base or wealth of institutional support."
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Johnson Is an Ironic Target for Republicans
Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives, is under fire from all directions — from Democrats, naturally, but also from fellow Republicans angry with him for, well, just about everything.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"...rather than asking why Johnson...appears to be the incredible shrinking speaker, the better question might be whether he was ever in control of the House at all. ...Johnson assumed the gavel without any power base or wealth of institutional support."
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The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well