Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

I voted once for Trump in 2016 - I've learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine... ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they're doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

🚨 Congressman Ro Khanna has confirmed that he will be filing inherent contempt proceedings against Pam Bondi once Congress returns to session and will seek a special magistrate appointment from SDNY to review the DOJ's redactions in the Epstein files.

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

This (unrelated to Epstein) but very much about raped women who were pressured into dropping charges, then charged with filing a false complaint - some spent up to a year in prison.

Yes, this happens. I had a restraining order against my abuser and was arrested for "misuse of 911" when I needed help & called. He walked. Listen to survivors.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

I think "Bluesky has the juice" is a perfectly fine take but another compatible and maybe more actionable take is "it's useful for legal academics to be vocal and personal in their criticisms right now," because "Kavanaugh stop" didn't start with any random poster

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exactly the lack of imports skews the numbers higher. We were front running the Oct tariff deadline in September so exports were actually good but imports were down. So inventories are dwindling and sooner rather than later the price increases will come.

🚨BREAKING: Missourians filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a court to stop the state from using its new congressional map until voters have the chance to approve or reject the measure in a referendum. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... this is from months ago

‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I am so exhausted and drained from gun deaths. Right in the holiday season families now are grieving. People trying to go about their day were forced to witness a traumatic event. 6abc.com/post/active-...

Debunk the immigration crime myth www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... "...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...

When government is actually organized crime, war becomes the tool of thieves. The west should approach it as such. From the Kyiv Independent

Former Netanyahu spokesperson Eli Feldstein, reports that Netanyahu tasked him with a secret plan to help him evade responsibility for the October 7th attack.

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

Googling quickly confirms that while Epstein was at MCC he was having "near-daily" lawyer meetings and that his whole adult life he had a 20-strong team of "executive assistants" he could dictate to. DOJ saying the Nassar Letter is fake because it's not his handwriting is insane.

so worth it. We need more of these reminders right now.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Who was America's first self-made female millionaire? Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, born #OTD in 1867. She built an empire with a line of beauty & hair care products for Black women. Known for her philanthropy & activism, she supported #civilrights causes & was a patron of the arts.

James Talarico Exposes Insane Bill to Replace School Counsellors with Untrained Religious Chaplains in Texas

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

In case you wanted to hear some positive news... This year, 33 states passed 89 strong gun safety laws to curb gun violence.

20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Over the past 1,000 days, Ruzzian forces have advanced less than 1% of Ukrainian territory and are failing to achieve their strategic military objectives, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said.

@maryltrump.bsky.social: “[Donald Trump] is terrified. He knows his poll numbers are terrible. He knows his policies are unpopular... He knows on some deep level he’s losing his cognitive abilities at an alarming rate”

California: Fields once ready for harvest have become graveyards for abandoned crops. The labor force has vanished, driven away by the fear of ICE raids orchestrated by the Trump administration, leaving agricultural workers too afraid to show up for work.

Fun Fact: Donald Trump has sued over 3,000 people in his life, but he's never sued anybody for calling him a pedophile.

Russia is prepared to confirm in a legal agreement that it has no intention of attacking the European Union or NATO. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday. Sometimes something unplanned happens. Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.

Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point in Texas may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries.

Trump has stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants This is underhanded, dirty stinking horrible dishonest filthy behavior. These are people who trusted our system and already had legal status.

As federal employees, we often have no grey space in which to operate. If I had received explicit instructions on “how” to redact these files, I would’ve followed them to the letter, even if I knew it wasn’t being done correctly. Sounds like DOJ was more focused on the “what” to redact than the how.

Trump didn’t force the companies who got rid of their DEI policies to do it. They *wanted* to.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

The future of the Heritage Foundation looks more like Project Veritas than a thinktank.

In a letter to UNSC Venezuela asked to formally denounce grave act of use of force, hijacking and piracy committed by US on 10 Dec 2025 in int waters of the Caribbean, against private vessel engaged in lawful int trade transporting Venezuelan oil, whose crew members were kidnapped and remain missing

NBC wrote about this letter 2 1/2 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Here's another; Somalis aren't numerous enough to be a separate category on this chart.

Spouting lies with no receipts. Here's one to the contrary.

tЯump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military. The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now. This is blatant corruption...