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Our comments section reacts to @stevescalise.bsky.social threatening us with a good time. #MedicareForAllNOW

Trump just announced he will be giving members of the military a $1776 bonus. So re-upping this shutdown piece about the dangers of a the leader of a personalist regime presenting himself as the paymaster of the armed forces. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

How the Trump “National Security Strategy” is read abroad.

I feel terrible for the many serious professionals at CBS News who are being forced to endure this shitshow, but it will be truly hilarious to watch all these plans flop like a breaching whale

5/ I am interviewed in the Post's report:

Court records reveal that the Admin--vengeful crazies that they are--added a 3rd charge to the 3rd indictment of James that the GJ rejected. But it's even worse. It looks as if they just abandoned the core allegation of collecting rent to say instead that she promised to live there but didn't.

ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Starting to think an angry & incontinent speed freak is not what you want in a POTUS.

I’m confident this anecdote went right over Stephen Miller’s head, but 🔥 🔥🔥 from the photographer

"Trump’s social media business is merging with a nuclear fusion company" Nothing abnormal going on here! www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/b...

This is now the third time this year the Cowardly Speaker has sent the House home early when things weren't going his way.

“January 6 was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 100 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted... Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call Members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ex-Trump lawyer John Dowd defends Jack Smith: "Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. In that investigation, Smith proved himself to be fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts … [R]ecent attacks on Smith are motivated by partisan politics."

“Hasan is known as one of the most formidable interviewers in journalism; unabashedly direct, unrelenting in his line of questioning, and notorious for fact-checking and correcting response-avoidant guests in real time.” Thank you to GQ Middle East for this profile of me:

This is fucking embarrassing. I can’t wait for our next POTUS to throw all this shit in the trash.

“Chairman Jordan made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly, because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the President and all the president's men,” says @raskin.house.gov. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Kimbal Musk has publicly admitted that he and his brother Elon were in the country illegally for years before applying for citizenship—so unless they admitted this on their immigration forms, they must be deported immediately. Every journalist should be buzzing about this.

And his father went to jail for killing?

Poster child for SDE.

ANYthing to avoid providing healthcare -- or commenting on the release of the Epstein files!

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Trump’s speech was tired because the ideology is tired. Same villains. Same threats. Same script. Stephen Miller’s creative rot is showing. You’re on TV, not a rally. Stop yelling. He’s still mad it’s called Obamacare. But congrats on pissing off every Survivor fan by crashing the finale.

And each shifting explanation makes the undergirding justification that we are at war for less likely.

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

Crockett: The speaker, he loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership. That's cowardice. And so that is what he's decided to do—we are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow…

Let him keep talking. He's going down.

I wonder if these f***ers ever think about how the lies they are willing to say on behalf of the monsters they are willing to excuse will determine the world they believe they are fighting for?

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...

There is a Pulitzer waiting for the first journalist to ask Trump: "Can you explain to voters how much you think a $100 item will cost after it's price has been reduced by 600%?"

In comments to NYT, Susie Wiles was asked about her quote that Elon Musk was using drugs. "That's ridiculous," she said. "I wouldn't have said it." But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it." nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr: Dems said we explicitly threatened to pull a licence if Kimmel wasn't fired. That never happened. Also Brendan Carr:

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Republicans are saying there was no probable cause to search Mar-a-Lago. That is not true. I explain and provide all the facts in this piece (If you find information like this useful, you can sign up for my newsletter for free): joycevance.substack.com/p/jack-smith...

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MORE from Jack Smith: "The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts."

Fascinating data that Trump being president causes the highest number of congressional departures for a president's own party. Says everything about the way he treats a co-equal branch even controlled by his own party!

MORE from Jack Smith: "I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy ... We took actions based on what the facts and the law required—the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor."

👀👀👀👀 We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.

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I would like to thank President Trump and the morons who are responding to his idiotic pretend pardon for keeping the election crimes committed leading up to the January 6th insurrection in the public domain and part of the current news cycle. Good job!

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

🔥 I wouldn't want to fk with Abbe Lowell...

Fun fact: when reputable publications use you as a source in an article, they call you after it’s written to fact check all quotes and relevant facts.

Attorney for Letitia James reacts to VANITY FAIR quotes from Susie Wiles: "The White House Chief of Staff admitting that Pres Trump turned the Justice Dept into his weapon for political retribution against Atty Gen. Letitia James only confirms that this has been an improper vindictive prosecution"

🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...