And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Our Constitution (Article VI) expressly forbids any “religious tests” for holding public office, so it would be impossible for a Bible or any other religious book to be “required” for swearing in.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Happy New Year, you guys! It's time for our 2025 Year in Review, and a look ahead to 2026 -- what records are going online next?! www.reclaimtherecords.org/about/year-i...

#Florida GOP behaving as expected. www.ms.now/opinion/byro...

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Tennessee Republicans are planning to take over control of Memphis schools from local leaders: tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/24/h...

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

Um, holy fuck, they appear to be trying to rename immigration judges "deportation judges"---this ad just showed up in my Facebook feed

concentration camps.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

A man who has never served a day in his life is taking away Veterans' freedom to choose in cases of rape, incest or when the health of the mother is at risk. Trump is putting millions of Veterans in danger. And he did it during the holiday season thinking we wouldn’t notice.

Over 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers operate across the U.S., often designed to look like medical offices. OB-GYN researchers found 91% of their websites misleadingly imply they provide medical services and 80% include false claims about abortion. buff.ly/66WK4Kx

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

In a swipe at the EU, the US denies visas to a former EU commissioner and others over the enforcement of EU anti-hate speech laws on social media. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The self-proclaimed head of USAGM, Kari Lake, who this year destroyed nearly all of the Voice of America, tells the agency's few remaining journalists the White House National Security Strategy will "guide our interview subjects, story selection, and coverage going forward."

Christmas can be a beautiful season, but it can also feel painfully loud when your heart is quiet, tired, or hurting. If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters. #EastCoastKin

This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A little on the nose, narrative-wise

‘Carol’ as in ‘Christmas carol’ originally referred to dances performed in the round. It later referred to the song of merriment that accompanied said dances. ‘Carol’ is your mom’s friend who sells labradoodle sweaters on Etsy.

A member of the Kennedy Center board has sued President Donald Trump to force the removal of his name from the performing arts venue’s facade.

On this day, in 1823, the classic Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"—more frequently known today as "The Night Before Christmas"—was first published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York. It gave us many of the details of the "Santa story." #TheNightBeforeChristmas #💙📚 #Booksky

ICE is one of the most heavily funded federal police forces in US history and has a budget larger than most national militaries, yet internal chats show that their primary concern is videos for social media. We’re told we can’t afford health care, but don’t worry, ICE needs views

The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:

What a mess! Wyoming has some of the least competitive ACA markets in the country. In places like Teton County, there has often been only one ACA insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming). That lack of competition drives prices way up. This is ridiculous.

Attorneys urge judge to visit #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp in person to assess detainees’ lack of access to lawyers www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/22/f... via @apnews.com

Trump has told career foreign service officers serving as US ambassadors in some of the most challenging nations to leave. More on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel. https://to.pbs.org/4av8N83

Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU. That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies. I'm launching an investigation.

NEW: Watchdog group Public Citizen files federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Trump Administration seeking copy of contract to construct new White House ballroom Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump administration said Monday it is pausing leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the East Coast due to unspecified national security risks identified by the Pentagon. https://to.pbs.org/4pWVORA

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Good advice here #genealogy ##FamilyHistory

Staff at “60 Minutes” are threatening to quit after the network’s MAGA-curious chief pulled a chilling segment on the Trump administration’s deportation drive.

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

My god. From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

In 2019, Rob & Michelle Reiner joined VoteVets to film a powerful ad featuring Rob’s father, Carl, a World War II Army Air Force veteran. In it, Carl and other veterans called out Donald Trump for failing to uphold his oath to the Constitution. The Reiners' support meant the world to us.

“We’re entering a new era,” said Dr. Maximilian Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins University who’s studying some of the possible new treatments. They offer “the chance to control disease in a way we’ve never seen before.” https://to.pbs.org/4oNrmJ6

Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.

"Since July, many users around the world have reported being locked out of their Meta accounts — sometimes permanently and with little to no explanation."

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.

New Fox News poll shows Trump's approval on: Border Security: +2 Crime and public safety: -5 Immigration: -10 Foreign Policy: -15 Economy: -22 Healthcare: -25 Spending: -25 Tariffs: -28 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...

Fox News poll shows approval for members of the Trump administration JD Vance: -8 Rubio: -5 RFK Jr: -12 Hegseth: -19 Kristi Noem: -13 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

"Message pads, notes and other material from the Florida case that has been on the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s website since at least 2018. They didn’t even release the victim interviews; just pictures of the tapes of the interviews. Think about that. A photograph of a tape cassette."