My bipartisan bill with Senator Grassley was signed into law. We cannot allow children to be used as hostages in war. www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/12/19/b...

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal & immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"

Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense

Republicans just blocked my attempt to force the release of the video of the 'second strike' that killed shipwrecked survivors on September 2nd. This is their latest move to provide cover for this administration as it drags us closer to war with Venezuela.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... DHS has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Grants aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, improving young adult health, preventing birth defects, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, and identifying autism early.

In 2019, as a 15-year-old high school student, Tretta was shot in the abdomen during a mass shooting that left her close friend and another fellow student dead. She and two other people were injured.

Leaving Congress didn’t give me all the answers. It forced me to ask better questions. Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"

This x 1,000,000

The RFK, jr effect.

It wasn’t even close.

Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.

If Indiana legislators hold firm on their conscience today, it will among other things be a much-needed rejection of the idea that you can get your way on policy through bullying, intimidation, and threats.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

I'll be on @jimmykimmel.com tonight - tune in at 11:35pm ET!

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

This week’s Focus Group Pod: Astead Herndon makes a long-awaited return to the show, swing voters have a bit of a group therapy session, and Maine Democrats talk Graham Platner & Janet Mills. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

I am working with Sen. Graham to pass legislation to help bring home thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. Standing with Ukraine means confronting the cruelty of taking kids from their families and making clear why we must stay united against Putin’s aggression.

IT’S WORKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force just issued a powerful, evidence-based roadmap to keep Michigan families safe. 🧵

Tragedies like this are wholly preventable. Storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition saves lives. Learn more from @besmartforkids.bsky.social about how to securely store firearms to keep kids safe:

Four-year-old Hayzel Jones was unintentionally shot and killed by another child at her home in Afton, Oklahoma. Authorities have not yet said how the children were able to access the gun. Children shouldn’t be paying the price for irresponsible gun ownership with their lives.

Tonight on The Briefing! Rep. Jim Himes @jahimes.bsky.social Marty Baron @postbaron.bsky.social Lisa Rubin @lawofruby.bsky.social Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."

Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

Shchedryk is a Ukrainian Christmas carol known and loved all around the world. This time, Shchedryk sounded during everyday city life, turning an ordinary moment into a Christmas miracle. Check out the performance by the Ukrainian vocal-symphonic group Legendary Rock Voices.

Q: "If you received an order to strike suspected drug boats overseas and kill everyone on board, would you refuse that order?" Sen. Mark Kelly: "If I was ever given an unlawful order, I would refuse."

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

Nearly a dozen warships and 12,000 troops are deployed in Caribbean at this very moment. But Trump's judicial nominees can't even bring themselves to acknowledge Congress’ role in declaring or authorizing war, or refusing to do so.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Ukrainian children volunteer, help others, and save lives. Many are seriously injured in russian attacks, yet continue to amaze the world with their talents. russia stole their peaceful childhood, but it will never take away their dreams or unbreakable spirit🇺🇦

Abandoning Ukraine would be a searing example of the US’s unreliability, undermining the liberal world order it once championed, Michael R. Bloomberg says: bloom.bg/4oeVpYP

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.

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Ready or not, 2026 is almost here — and that means primary season is upon us. Join the kickoff of our primary program to hear about the races that our groups are excited to jump into next year: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

the brave journalist is @kfaulders.bsky.social puts most of DC press corps to shame w/her outstanding reporting skills

Powerful.

ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5. Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule. There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

“Clarity, conviction, purpose, energy. On our toes, not on our heels. A resurgent Democratic Party, and it’s a party that understands what’s at stake for our democracy,” Newsom said during a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in Houston. https://cnn.it/43m6UGx

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.

SCOOP: The experienced head of a critical office that helps organize important technical research and disburse billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience. @cheetah.bsky.social reports.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.