BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago, and so is the violence. Trump sending him here is not about safety. It’s about fear and force. We won’t give in. In Congress, I’ll vote to abolish ICE. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

100 TRUMP AND ELON HAVE STOLEN BILLIONS STOP GENOCIDE

I'm shocked... says nobody 🙄 www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

NEW: @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom announced the launch of the CA Innovation Council, bringing together the nation’s top tech policy experts together to develop and strengthen California’s technology policy. The council will address worker empowerment, tech fraud, and protecting children online.

Johnson was confident that blocking the amendment would not lead centrist GOP lawmakers to oppose the Republican health care bill scheduled to get a vote Wednesday.

🔥Time to INTERVIEW the TRUMPSTEIN-Raped BOYS Survivors, Too‼️ Still Wondering why Trump Repeatedly Does HIS Own “DOUBLE-DICK Dance‼️ 🔁

NEW: With the 2026 midterms 11 months away, the DOJ is frantically pressuring states to hand over the private data of millions of Americans. One expert speculates this unprecedented push is a "power grab and a fishing expedition...meant to undermine state authority over elections."

A note on my friend, Rob Reiner — a man of courage and conviction.

Sen. Schumer: “I reiterated my demand of Secretary Hegseth in front of all 100 senators—that he allow every senator to see the unedited video of what happened on September 2. He refused.”

Trump calls himself “THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT.” Voters say they’re broke. Consumer confidence is collapsing. And even his own supporters aren’t buying the spin anymore. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has led the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, returned to the Chicago area Tuesday morning in the city’s Southwest Side and western suburbs.

Eighty-five percent of the people granted pardons or clemency this year by President Trump are white, according to a new report compiled by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform.

The Trump administration is slashing the ranks of immigration judges, many of whom have high rates of asylum approvals, in a drive to speed up deportations

Via @timhenderson.bsky.social and Stateline: A shutdown-delayed jobs report released Tuesday showed an increase of 64,000 jobs in November, rebounding from a large loss of 105,000 jobs in October. Unemployment ticked higher to 4.6%, the highest since September 2021.

Military adviser tells allied nations to follow Ukraine in the rapid production of unmanned systems and warns China is a ‘dangerous enemy’

President Trump hasn’t lost a penny because of the BBC’s editing, and his $10 billion lawsuit against them is preposterous. The only way for the BBC to preserve its journalistic integrity is to fight back. Read our statement:

Trump’s chief of staff confirms Trump is in the Epstein files as she torches Bondi

“Stephen Miller, a top adviser to President Trump, sold shares worth $50,000 to $100,000 in the mining company MP Materials following a July announcement of a lucrative deal between the Las Vegas company and the Trump administration, government filings show.”

The Utah man arrested by ICE and wrongly accused by Homeland Security of being a “sodomite and a child abuser,” was granted bond on Monday.

Letter: Utah’s senators invoke values — then violate them. Consider their vote on health care costs.

Congress could pass an extension of the enhanced subsidies in the final weeks of December or sometime in the new year, and then make it retroactive to January 1. Convoluted, but not unprecedented. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3XXMbFU

If Not Now, When? It's time for the 25th Amendment www.againstallenemies.net/p/if-not-now...

Boris and Sofia Gurman were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January. But on Sunday, they were killed on a road just off Bondi Beach in Australia, after they tried to stop one of the suspected gunmen in the attack on a Hanukkah celebration.

Jobless rate rises, adding to Trump's economic messaging woes

FBI insiders have claimed director Kash Patel is overseeing a "shambles" and that "nobody will miss" his staff iif

Susie Wiles says Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’

Every single word of this!

Year One: no Cabinet firings. That’s not stability—it’s silence. An “army counsel” is exactly what the West Wing now lacks.

A former GOP speechwriter flagged a troubling part of a new "emergency" that President Donald Trump declared on Monday.

Trust takes Trump to court over ‘damaging’ $300 million White House makeover plan

#fight #for #freedom go.bsky.app/JRoe9Sb

Sadly republicans cheer this kind of abuse, the way they cheer for all abuses of women and children. It a bizarre evolution of this despicable political party.

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

You know who's very bad for our country? This "guy." #TrumpIsSick #TrumpIsVile #TrumpMustGo #USPol

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All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.

Good evening my friends! Let this beautiful song take your breath away today😊 #music #beautiful #songs blog.beautifulsongs.xyz/2025/12/lost...

NEW: President Trump sued the BBC tonight, seeking $5 billion for what he claimed was deceptive editing of his Jan. 6 speech to a crowd that then marched to the Capitol and helped fuel a violent riot. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.

We are going to continue to fight Rob! Rest in Paradise🕊️

I had some shit to say to the so-called president this morning. His vile, ignorant social media post about Rob and Michele Reiner's murder had to be addressed. Fuck Traitor Trump and the MAGA mouth-breathers who celebrate his daily bullshit. themouthyrenegadewriter.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

thanks for this excellent thread, seth!