Powerful point from Justice Sotomayor in today’s oral argument in NRSC v. FEC: “every time we tinker with Congress’s design [for campaign finance law] we make things worse. Indeed.

Jared Kushner, we learn here, is negotiating supposedly on behalf of the United States, but in the pay of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... violating a series of laws, some of them criminal www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said his ruling follows a new law requiring the Justice Department to make all Epstein-related records public by Dec. 19.

The release of these files is taking far too long. A federal judge in Manhattan has now signed off on the Justice Department’s request to unseal the grand jury materials from the Ghislaine Maxwell case.

Dave Granlun

A sleepy President Donald Trump again appeared to nod off, this time during a White House Cabinet roundtable on Monday afternoon.

This is the post I was going to write about Larry Ellison (and Jared Kushner's foreign influence peddling). Only written better.

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

I first explored this 18 months ago and it wasn't hype. You're being watched and the data is being used to raise your prices. AI is taking the guesswork out of pricing & extracting from customers. prospect.org/economy/2024...

Rigged economy

The EDVA filing asking Judge Kollar-Kotelly to lift her TRO on unlawful searches of Dan Richman's data is signed by someone unlawfully impersonating the US Attorney. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I toured the Scarborough ICE facility to get answers about why attorneys are being denied access to their clients. The contractor in charge of the check-ins wasn't even there—despite my request. They claimed there’s not enough space for attorneys, but that's bullshit. There's plenty of room. (1/2)

Everyone with an ounce of decency should be signed up for this. Family members who despise them and know their jobs need to have somewhere they can out these goons. Some sort of repository with photos so facial recognition can link them to crimes and then come the revolution, break out the lawsuits.

Thanks To Trump's EPA Head Zeldin The mysterious poisoning of Texas farmlands & livestock PFAs (perfluoroalkyl & polyfluoroalkyl, called “forever chemicals”) are an imperishable poison that is seeping into the waterways & lands of TX farmers with destructive force. share.google/x3m5d83EEeHJ...

This is nothing short of mandatory right wing indoctrination at Texas high schools & colleges. Wow.

Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.

"During a Dec visit to Washington, Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said.

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.

The US is 1 of just 6 countries *in the entire world* that does not have federal paid family leave when families welcome a new child to their home. The US is failing families. 13 states have stepped up and created state-level programs. Are you lucky enough to live in one of them? #momsky

A country run by banks will always be in debt Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease A state run by war will never know peace A nation run by media will never know the truth

It’s all so exhausting but stay engaged even when the news feels like a migraine wearing a trench coat. Authoritarianism counts on exhaustion. Democracy depends on very boring persistence.

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

The GOP U.S. Supreme Court is not a court-it's an arm of the GOP. In 2028 we need Democratic presidential candidates to make reforming this corrupt court one of the top priorities!

Greed is the disease... #EatTheRich

I've noticed too that the Kirk shooter has just gone POOF from the cultural conversation. Only way that happens is because he's NOT, after all, the woke Antifa trans-lover the right needs him to be.

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

The march backwards continues.

Media spins this as a feel good kindness from strangers story instead of the obvious fact we all live in a dystopian hellscape where elderly ppl must continue working late into their 80s bc the broken economic system absent of safety nets won’t allow them to retire with dignity.

A U.S. envoy coached a senior Russian official on how to influence an American president into embracing a plan that advantaged an aggressor and weakened an ally fighting for its survival as a sovereign state. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (U Toronto 2025):

An additional 500 National Guard members have arrived in Washington, D.C., bringing the total deployment to 2,750 troops, according to the National Guard and bringing the cost to taxpayers to roughly $1.6 million per day.

Why does the Christian West ignore Palestinian Christians’ plight? Israel may well wipe out Christian presence in Gaza as part of its genocide, and Western leaders would not care less www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

Christian, if you’re applauding the mass deportations of distraught, exhausted human beings seeking refuge, you probably shouldn’t be singing sweet songs about a baby with “no crib for a bed.” johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christian-...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/07/j...

✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.

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trump has been slurping putin's dick for decades...

Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.