“Perhaps the board isn’t aware that the Kennedy Center is the memorial to the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Would they rename the Lincoln memorial? The Jefferson? That would be an insult to great presidents. This too is an insult to a great president. Notwithstanding their short-sighted action, it is and will remain the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” — Tim Shriver, nephew of President John F. Kennedy

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2001746348123586700
- atrupar

https://twitter.com/RepJackKimble/status/2001680566257938648
- RepJackKimble

Pope Leo replaces New York's Cardinal Dolan in shake-up of US Church

https://twitter.com/PeterTwinklage/status/2001714200222273792
- PeterTwinklage

———— Venezuela ————

https://twitter.com/NotAvgLiberal/status/2001599221489652127
- NotAvgLiberal

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

Frustration Mounts at Justice Department Over Epstein

Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday.
A substantial number of redactions are needed, one of the sources said, and the documents each attorney is processing since Thanksgiving week can number more than 1,000 — a time-consuming task that likely will come down to the wire.

Oh, cry me a river. The ONLY things that need to be redacted are the names of the victims. Not the powerful men who abused them.

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/2001733939707453821
- MikeDrucker

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/2001745633363771832
- MEPFuller

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women

https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/2001741740600951151
- theliamnissan

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001780068452810753
- ReichlinMelnick

https://twitter.com/Uebey/status/2001784768883814639
- Uebey

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001704229505990856
- ReichlinMelnick

———— Connect the Dots? ————

https://twitter.com/sfoguj/status/2001793956624118239
- sfoguj

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2001843984067629352
- adamscochran

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/2001863727843545517
- WUTangKids

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2001691186504044816
- adamscochran

https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/2001675001242480698
- mikercarpenter

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/2001706276531630267
- JohnCleese

Europe to Lend $105 Billion to Ukraine

European leaders agreed early on Friday morning to keep Ukraine funded for two years with a loan of 90 billion euros, or about $105 billion, though they failed to agree on their first-choice option of using Russian state assets frozen on the continent as backing for the loan.

https://twitter.com/fellaraktar/status/2001770988854227417
- fellaraktar

https://twitter.com/ruthbenghiat/status/2001787623598432683
- ruthbenghiat

https://twitter.com/AceTheCat21/status/2001485191987237029
- AceTheCat21

———— Mors Imperii ————

Coast Guard Deletes Swastika Entry From Policy Manual

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday deleted language from its new workplace harassment policy that had downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to ‘potentially divisive,’ an abrupt turnaround after the more lenient interpretation of those items was allowed to take effect this week despite objections from Congress.

https://twitter.com/DittiePE/status/2001757164482773150
- DittiePE

Lies, Damned Lies and Trump Speeches

To paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, Trump’s speech was nasty, brutish, but, mercifully, short. Apparently it was short because the networks told him that they would only give him 15 minutes (although they didn’t cut away when he went over). It was a blizzard of lies. I can’t find a single factual assertion Trump made that was true.