WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!? Where is Congress? Where are they? I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C. Even George is upset 🦮 & we should all be shocked! No one is here to say this is wrong! I was born here. I'm Andrew Howard. 1/5🧵

The Nine Worst Trump Scandals of 2025 - The New Republic apple.news/AGu8p9HcLQCO...

Ordered by Trump to scrub all photos and references of him in the Epstein files, Pam Bondi and the DOJ are busted for clandestinely deleting 16 files from Friday's trove of files, including a photograph of the pedophile president in Epstein's desk drawer. tinyurl.com/yc2bhrfz

Bondi & Blanche LLC need to be fired. Caught doctoring evidence/erasing Epstein files. Massive cover up+idiocracy in plain view. The Micheal Jackson photo with Clinton and Diana Ross were with their own kids! And yesterday there were photos in the credenza and downloadable and today they are gone!

Read @davidmcswane.bsky.social's original 2024 investigation into Dr. Weiner here:

As long as no one objected to the genocide in Gaza, it’s all good

If donald trump wants people from Norway (read white) to migrate here, he should understand just why they won’t. It’s affordable. They’re not socialist. But market capitalists economies with extensive social welfare systems. It’s referred to as the Nordic model or social democracy #USDemocracy

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

Opinion | It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced - The Guardian apple.news/Al0tcne01TLG...

BREAKING: DOJ filed a notice it is appealing the final judgments against the Trump administration in the Harvard cases, at the end of the 59th day. DOJ had 60 days to appeal. The appeal will go to the First Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When people reveal who they truly are, through words or actions, trust what you see. "Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

Lib Dems call for inquiry into hostile foreign state interference to include US

I wonder what it's like to have so much money it gives you brain damage.

Getting rid of disparate impact liability under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act would mean cutting millions of people of color off from recourse for anything but the most obvious and explicit discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Thanks to all the marks on both sides of the aisle who enabled this by falling for a gobsmackingly stupid manufactured moral panic.

me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall

Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍

Wow

NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR. Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.

“That’s not how marriage should be treated. It should be honored and celebrated. Not: You’re going to risk your life if you do this.”

SCOOP: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

everything is so fucking stupid

I’m going to contact the EEOC to claim that I was passed over from my rightful job as EEOC Chair in favor of a woman.

DCS MESS: “Audit outlines failures in caring for abused & neglected children… Tennessee’s child welfare agency under scrutiny over reports of children forced to sleep on office floors, lax oversight of juvenile facilities, abuse in treatment centers…” tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/17/d...

This is outrageous. I expect my Republican colleagues to attack me in an election year, but to actively cover up fraud in an attempt to further a political agenda is beyond the pale. This needs to be resolved immediately.

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There may be hope for millions of Americans whose health insurance premiums are set to skyrocket in the new year. In a rebuke to House Speaker Mike Johnson, four Republicans broke ranks to force a floor vote, but not before Congress gets back from its two-week holiday vacation.

Alaska brought in a "ringer" to it's medical board to ban health care for trans people. Turns out, he has tons of CSAM material, including of infants. He appears to have committed suicide in a fire. Tell me again that trans people are the baddies. www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.

FLORIDA! Rick Scott is a fraud! Why are y’all voting for him? He’s a liar, a thug, and doesn’t give a hoot about any of you. Do yourself a big favor and drag his ass. Every time he’s in public. DRAG HIM! Want better? Vote better! #DemVoice1 #Pinks #Voices4Victory #wtpBLUE

On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant. In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important. An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

The judge ruled Tesla should have to suspend manufacturing and sales in California for 30 days, but the DMV stayed those rulings for 90 days to allow Tesla to comply.

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

I’d also like to point out that you cannot surround Venezuela with an armada.

Oh look— they found a group even less diverse than the Tennessee Republican supermajority…

Coast Guard keeps policy downgrading swastikas, nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive” - The Washington Post apple.news/AtOz-HeBfRWW...

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com

Students participated in a walkout outside Apple Valley High School on Monday, protesting against ICE presence and arrests in the Twin Cities area.

They basically want articles about the admin to read like a transcript of Dear Leader's Cabinet meetings.

Mr. President, please lead by example

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

COMPLAINT: @aclum.bsky.social alleges that — after ICE agents pulled over their client, his wife, and their 1 y.o. child — an unknown agent applied a carotid restraint until their client lost consciousness. www.aclum.org/cases/zapata...

But no wait... he's curing disease, guys... the dastardly disease of *checks notes* DEI. This is one case where it seems the "treatment" (wasting employee hours defunding grants) is worse than the "disease" (critical research into overlooked communities) spectator.com/article/how-...