SCOTUS (in its current incarnation) is an under discussed THREAT to our democracy. Reformation is imperative.

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Comforting to know that the company this ghoul founded has access to all of our data.

Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

Two of the most famous screeches in music history are from House of Pain’s Jump Around and Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain. Which one of them was sampled from a horse (and not Prince)? [kottke.org]

A long and fascinating read. Don Jr carrying on his father’s legacy of facilitating and protecting those who systematically rape, subjugate, and traffic women. Oh, and likely subject the US to significant security risks.

"for more than 50 years, the court was often in sync with the masses..However, when we analyze decisions during Roberts’ tenure as chief justice, starting in 2005, we find a negative relationship, indicating that the court has tended to move away from public opinion." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

Important @motherjones.com piece here:

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

And these are just the stories we’re hearing about

Lebron forgoing an attempt to extend his 10P streak in lieu of a game winning (early season no less) assist to Hachimura for 3. I’m not a Lebron stan, built kinda cool.

You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

“If their stated purpose was to address violent crime or public safety, you would think they would focus on people who have been doing things that would endanger public safety,” she said. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Anybody know how much this guy (or a proxy for him) gave to the Trump campaign? Or his family’s crypto company? Or his ballroom? Or his presidencial library?

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Did someone* try to assassinate Zelensky with drones targeting his flight to Dublin? Because flying four large drones into the expected flight path (the plane was early) looks like an assassination attempt. *Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.

Apologies for yelling, but— ERIC TRUMP'S NET WORTH HAS INCREASED BY ABOUT $360 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.

Also, most importantly: It was an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.

Is nothing sacred with the Genuflecting Ole Party?

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc. If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he’d be a free man in Trump’s America.

We asked Indivisibles around the country what they want to see from Democrats in 2026: Nominate real fighters, secure stronger leadership, and demonstrate that the Democratic majorities of 2027 will not be held back by the 2025 status quo.

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.

NVIDIA's CEO spent the past year lobbying Trump to greenlight the sale of advanced AI chips to China, which could undercut US national security. Now he's heading to Capitol Hill to push his agenda in secret meetings. Huang should testify publicly.

Please - Enough of Deputy Dawg

Kavanaugh stop

"First, Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere...He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

And that was the last time we ever took Grandpa out for dinner

Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China. These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.

I guess we’ve answered the question of what it would take to knock the Epstein files off the top of the news cycle…

This is not a regime that acts like it will ever lose power

I remember when this guy was seen as one of the more diehard conservative intellectuals

Trump is illegally attacking boats allegedly carrying drugs. He brags about being tough on drug dealers. Meanwhile, he pardons the former Honduran president — a man convicted in American court of bringing hundreds of tons of cocaine to the U.S. You can’t make this stuff up.

It’s just going to be wide open, unapologetic bigotry from here on out.

It’s a goddamn Christmas miracle!

Affordability is a hoax started by Democrats

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

MAGA is a hate movement. Megyn Kelly said: "I not only wanna see them killed in the water...but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out" Combine that w/Hegseth acting like a teen pulling the legs off a spider:

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

First, Lindsey Halligan. Now, Alina Habba. This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.