You can do your part. If you witness ICE vehicles switching, altering, or improperly using license plates, report it to the Illinois Secretary of State’s Plate Watch Hotline, where violations are investigated:

In Illinois, ICE agents have been documented swapping license plates to hide their identity. Under Illinois law, this constitutes a Class A misdemeanor. The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.

Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021? Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol. Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles did more than embarrass the White House with her broad-ranging Vanity Fair interview, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace argued to the reporter who broke the story, Chris Whipple, on Thursday.

Where exactly is all this money going?

More extrajudicial killings. Even while coming under scrutiny by Congress, Secretary Hegseth is doubling down on his executions as judge, Jury and executioner on the high seas.

The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says. ~ Joseph Kennedy III

The worst administration ever

December 18, 2025

Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.

Federal agents breaking into worksites, chasing skilled laborers and bloodying them, trapping roofers outside in subzero temperatures—and yet the construction industry isn't making a peep. Our @crampell.bsky.social explains why: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...

Ro Khanna threatens prosecution for anyone who attempts to scrub the Epstein Files as his bill to force the release of those files goes into effect tomorrow.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

This Miller deep dive scared the shit out of me. He's evil.

This smells a lot like the pretense for the internment of Japanese-American citizens. I just finished @maddow.bsky.social podcast, "Burn Order". History is repeating itself.

Yes ma'am! bsky.app/profile/muel...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic

Global forest cover before and after industrialization 😲😪

1. U.S. Senator Mike Lee has promoted a video posted by Ian Carroll. Carroll is a conspiracy theorist who regularly spreads neo-Nazi propaganda. The video Senator Lee is promoting is filled with thoroughly debunked nonsense about “Pizzagate” and also repeats various lies about public figures.

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

Kaylan is a fighter for our community. Help her out.

Juxtaposition of Trump promise to release video with casual insistence that never said any such thing. Just a pristine example of the most mendacious public official in US history. youtu.be/oDlh7Tm3IdE

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The Trumps are what you'd get if the Beverly Hillbillies were assholes.

The Kennedys hosted Ella Fitzgerald, Pablo Casals, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein at the White House. Donald Trump hosted Kid Rock.

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Noem is incorrect. The shooter came to the US on a student visa and enrolled in a Brown PhD program in 2000. Whether he got a different visa later or not, his entry into the US was not through the DV-1 program.

The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

We're not talking about Samson here...

“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions” Adolf Hitler, 1939 There’s not much difference

Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.

I've been saying for a long, long time that Trump holdovers at the FBI WFO hamstrung the DOJ's investigations into Donald Trump. These new Grassley emails prove it. Example: Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago over multiple attempts to stonewall, and found evidence of multiple crimes.

This administration continues to break laws

📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z

This is great information. I have a feeling we will need this more than we realize.

This site can feel overwhelming, I get it. But know that you’re not alone. Don’t just doomscroll: take a break, recharge, and come back ready to act. Choose one or two issues you care about, connect with others, and work together to change what matters most to you. #DemocracyMatters Night 😴

Of course it's understated, once it's built, who'd stop it?

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests

#UkrainianView EUROPE DELIVERS $90 BILLION TO FUND UKRAINE FOR TWO YEARS Ursula Von Der Layen announced the move last night. The money will be raised on the capital markets through bonds. This as the complex arguments over what happens to Russian money in Euroclear still goes on, was largely seen

Thursday night, there were major developments in both the Brown University mass shooting, where the gunman was identified & found dead & the prosecution of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, which resulted in a conviction. All the details you need to be up to speed here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Central Park during the Great Depression (New York, 1933)

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. It is hard to think of another place as important, yet as poorly understood. The race is on to uncover its secrets

Stealing credit is still lying to Americans

WATCH: DuBois & Dickerson sign off from Bari Weiss’ CBS News(max) for the last time

The most corrupt president in modern U.S. history should be behind bars. 🚨 Newly obtained recording from late 2020: Trump is heard pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to convene a special legislative session to overturn his election loss.