Happy Solstice to one and all! May the peace and beauty of the season heal your soul and give you hope. Enjoy! Can you spot the #schnauzers on the beach? #schnauzergang, #dogsofbluesky, #wintersolstice, #lakeontario, #peace

“Clinton is in the Epstein files!” Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know. The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.

5. These people are all incredibly stupid but also venal but also certain they can get away with it. Maybe they can, but it’s game over for Trump with this latest Epstein dump and the ever shittier polls, so the timing of these nincompoops is exquisitely boneheaded.

Black Friday

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Tulsi Gabbard's dangerous attempt to sow fear, pit people against each other, and smear the Muslim Americans of Paterson, NJ is dishonest, cruel, and un-American – it endangers an entire community. In Jersey, we know our state's diversity is our strength and we stand up for our own.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman. Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

First, they raised prices with their tariffs. Then, they kicked millions of people off their health care. Next, they took food away from hungry people. Ask yourself: Who benefits from all this pain and suffering?

We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.

SCOTUS will stop it, but I want the fight and I hope they do it.

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“democracy is the default system for nearly every species of animal and the historic majority of human societies prior to the so-called Agricultural Revolution” Morbidly Rich Idiots Destroy Democracy (and How to Beat Them) www.commondreams.org/opinion/morb...

My essay on this whole deal.....

Yes. Well this is what Rev. William Barber has been saying on loop.

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Again, if you still don’t think #thisisfascism… wake up. How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?

25A is the way.

We have a terrible track record of overseas military interventions & nation building. I fought some of those wars. What have they gotten us over the last 20 years? Thousands of American lives lost and trillions of dollars of debt.

How can Democrats regain the working class? By fighting corporate America's ability to: —Raise prices higher than their increasing costs. —Suppress wages and bust unions. —Bribe lawmakers to cut their taxes and dole out corporate welfare.

Many of the Christmas songs that Miller’s Christian Nationalist pals will be enjoying this season were written by Jewish immigrants who, like Miller’s ancestors, were considered at the time to be unassailable threats to American civilization who should be prevented from becoming Americans.

NY AG Letitia James has sued UPS for stealing millions in wages from its seasonal holiday workers. UPS' CEO made over $24M last year — over 436x her median worker's pay. This is a reminder that states can step up and protect workers when Trump's federal government refuses to.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

SANDY HOOK SURVIVOR: “I carry this trauma with me every single day… we deserve to live in a nation where you value children more than guns.” 🇺🇸 (H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

This was a horribly violent weekend and to get right we need to be clear eyed. Violence is preventable. Mental health is meaningful. Sensible gun laws is a must. And humanity and decency from leaders must be a requirement and not simply a request.

Man Methodically Explains Origin Behind Every Poster Hanging In Apartment https://theonion.com/man-methodically-explains-origin-behind-every-poster-ha-1831235494/

NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)

If you’re telling Head Start programs they can’t say “disability”, “Black”, “female”, or “Tribal” in order to get funded—you don’t care about kids. Period. This administration is attacking the very protections that keep children safe and supported. Our kids are not political props.

13 years ago, 20 children and 6 educators never came home from Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were killed in their classrooms in a shooting that changed our nation forever.

What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Pajama-Clad Child Makes Turbulent Rampage Through Dinner Party https://theonion.com/pajama-clad-child-makes-turbulent-rampage-through-dinne-1819578491/

You don’t actually have to share whatever nonsense Elon Musk is saying on any given day. You can of course but you don’t have to. The people what want to know what he is up to follow him. The rest of us don’t.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Fact-check: true

congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.