"During one pointed exchange with the committee’s Republican chairman... Mr. Smith accused the president of committing 'affinity' fraud — a scheme to hoodwink his own supporters into violating the law because they felt a special kinship with him." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Didn't get what they wanted.

🤣😂Peters got held in contempt for illegally filming legal proceeding on her iPad & lying about it to judge’s face.Then kicked a cop in a bagel shop when he came to seize device. Judge sentenced Peters to 9 years in prison, calling her charlatan, snake oil peddler. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tina...

So… he’s giving them their own money? Where’s the tariff money?

When an Omaha mother discovered high levels of lead in her son’s blood, she looked up EPA soil tests and discovered potentially harmful levels of the metal in her yard. City officials said her home didn’t qualify for a government-funded cleanup. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

Following the latest employment numbers: "It is time to start asking whether we're in a recession. I'm not going to chime in on that debate, but I am going to give it a name. I'm going to call it an economic slump."

I don’t think I’m being alarmist. If anything, I worry that we’ve become so inured to Trump’s madness that we’re not alarmist enough. Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-of-trumps-madness

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

At least one person has died every day, on average, from a mass shooting in the United States this year.

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!

We need to recognize this isn’t a Trump issue only, this is every Republican in Congress allowing this. It’s not a Donald Trump problem, it’s the Republican Party!

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith makes his argument behind closed doors on Capitol Hill: “The basis for those charges rest entirely with President Trump” youtube.com/shorts/bHT3H...

Will Australia’s teens be happier and healthier now that everyone under 16 is banned from popular social-media sites? @kait.bsky.social on just how difficult measuring the answer will be:

For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

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With more instances of Donald Trump appearing fatigued or forgetful, Americans are again seeing evidence of a president who lacks the energy to do his demanding job, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

"He's created this permission structure," Michael Steinberger says of Trump. "This is beyond him at this point. Now, people feel very, you know, very free to express bigotry in a way that wasn't the case 10 years ago."

Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.

It will always be sad and embarrassing that the felon got away with this.

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They’re calling it the Festivus Speech™️ because it was just 15 minutes worth of airing of grievances

Watch the east wing morph into a high-rise Trump Hotel

Trump sounds like a maniac at some sort of demented open mic

Crockett: As he stood up today in front of the American people, he sounded like a used car salesman. Like, let me just shout it out. Buy what I'm selling. Yes. This is a lemon. Yes. He is selling nothing but lemons

The president of the USA, is a lunatic 25th amendment now!

AOC: “Reminder that the Epstein Files are supposed to be released on Friday and every political development that you see between now until then should be viewed with that in mind.”

Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, forcefully defended his federal prosecution of President Donald Trump in a closed-door hearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fantastic piece.

Trump's hastily delivered end-of-year address left people on both sides of the aisle scratching their heads: "What the hell did we just watch?"

WATCH — @terrymoranabc.bsky.social : “He was loud. He sounded like a man shouting at the nation. He said the guy who’s gone, it’s still his fault- and it’s not as bad as you think it is… but facts of people’s lives refute you. I thought that was a huge mistake.”

Trump’s lie-a-thon tonight was a textbook case for censorship. I wish we could have restricted viewing access to American viewers only. How utterly humiliating for anyone from another country to watch this IRT advertisement for the 25th Amendment. #25thAmendment

Warner Bros. Discovery told shareholders Netflix’s deal was better than Paramount’s offer, urging them to reject the latter.

Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

Fanni Willis: “I’m not Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

I’m afraid this aged unfortunately well.

It has been four days since a man entered a finals review session inside a building at Brown University and started shooting. Now, as resident @h-lev.bsky.social describes, the city is suspended in a state of grief and unease, blanketed with snow and an eerie silence.

Full video: @crampell.bsky.social and MS NOW Senior White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard join Jen for further fact-checking and analysis. Watch: youtu.be/8IRgcAkqMgI

What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?

Sums it up, pretty much.

They control all three branches of government, yet all Trump could do in his annual accomplishments speech was yell at Americans.

This part. ⬇️

[email protected]l: "He's just making stuff up and he just says a bunch of stuff…I wish somebody would tell him how math works. You know, saying prices are going to go down 500% or 600% — anyone who has been through the sixth grade knows that's not a thing."

Corruption and cruelty at home, incompetence and anarchy abroad. Put it on a bumper sticker. lnk.thebulwark.com/48TqBqY

"A bad, fast-talking infomercial." Jen Psaki reacts to Donald Trump's address to the nation, "It was extremely loose on facts and he basically tried to shout his alleged accomplishments at the American people as if that was going to convince them that they were all true."