BREAKING: Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.

31 December 1943 | It is the only 'end of the year’ in the history of #Auschwitz when the number of prisoners in the entire system is known: 85,298: 55,785 men & 29,513 women. Listen to our podcast on researching the number of victims: https://youtu.be/E_OZetNrMkw

I spoke with Anna Lekas Miller at TruthDig for her essential article looking back over the past year. “We’re living in one of the ugliest moments of U.S. immigration history,” Austin Kocher, a geographer and assistant professor at Syracuse University. Read on. www.truthdig.com/articles/blo...

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

The @wsj.com, which Trump is suing over it’s Trump/Epstein birthday card scoop, continues to break news about their relationship, here that many young women/girls working at MAL spa were sent over to Epstien www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

31 December 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Alfred van der Linden, was born in Amsterdam. In December 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his brother Henri. They were murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Iowa Democrat Wins State Senate Seat, Fending Off G.O.P. Supermajority By holding a left-leaning seat in suburban Des Moines, Democrats ensured that Republicans would not have a supermajority in the State Senate

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Cross: And I just find it laughable that the party of the self-proclaimed pro-life people are celebrating cutting off funding to children…

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

According to this interview with @timmiller.bsky.social, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social—who first broke the Epstein story in 2018–is hearing from new, international victims, like, right now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NIH funded this work—reflecting a surge in Alzheimer’s funding over the last 10-12 years. NIH is the primary funder for AD research.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — US government says ICE doesn't plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands.

“Out of touch” isn’t it. A president who gilds the Oval Office in gold, slaps his own name on a cultural institution, tears down the East Wing for his own vanity project, and then tells us the affordability crisis is all in our heads. It’s not out of touch; it’s contempt for the people he governs.

You know who this will ultimately harm? Children. Plain and simple.

Louisiana National Guard patrolling Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir. https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=UCDbzicHDPZE7T7S

If anyone is still confused about what the hell is going on in Minnesota and the manufactured outrage against the Somali community, I highly encourage you to read @qasimrashid.com’s breakdown. It shows you what Nick Shirley missed and what is really going on. open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

Khanna on the Trump administration flouting the Epstein files law: "Every person at Justice who violates this law is guilty of obstruction of justice and a future administration could prosecute them"

Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right. www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...

Last year, more than 700,000 people were officially counted as homeless, the highest number ever recorded. Nearly 150,000 of them were children.

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

"Francisco" sent this from where he was harvesting celery near Bakersfield CA. It was 42°, damp and cold when he began working at 7am. Walking through the celery and bending over to harvest it made his clothes damp and cold. He worked an 8 hour day earning CA min wage. #WeFeedYou

On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

With Trump skipping church this Christmas season, it's now been over 4 years since he last attended a regular worship service (otherwise has only attended for special events like funeral & inauguration). I don't care if prez attends, but MAGAchurch leaders should quit lying about him being devout.

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at 70-year high → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich. How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

The unfounded idea that chlorine dioxide can be a miracle cure began to spread about 20 years ago when a gold prospector wrote a book claiming his team in Guyana fell ill with malaria and recovered after drinking safe amounts of chlorine dioxide.

Donald Trump’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu shows how his ego continues to drive American foreign policy. I expose the dangerous impact behind Trump’s self-obsession and what it means for America as 2026 approaches. youtu.be/cLjU7vmuBb0

A day after arguing with Trump, Rep Greene received a threatening email with the subject heading using the nickname Trump had given her: "Marjorie Traitor Greene." It read: “Derek [her son] will have his life snuffed out soon. Better watch his back.” #OpDeathEaters

Transnational organized crime groups, like the Epstein network, regularly intimidate, threaten, and kill investigators, victims, or people close to them. They especially target the families of women to force them into silence. #OpDeathEaters

This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:

Heartbreaking news. Tatiana Schlossberg’s family has announced that she has died. Read her powerful New Yorker essay which was published in November.

The president and his family have made $4 BILLION on the ventures they've launched just since Trump's reelection. That's a staggering cash grab. And it's not even close to normal.

Did US Special Forces just inadvertently confirm there was a CIA operation in Venezuela?

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Today, Dec 29, is the birthday of Rosezella Munroe. She died at 56 in a 2024 domestic violence attack in Spring Valley, NY. Nicknamed “Peaches,” she was a strong, classy woman & a loving, supportive mom.

In less than a year, Trump has nominated at least 216 political appointees who own crypto investments worth between $175 million and $340 million, a ProPublica review found. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and @shaw.al

In just three days, Trump's latest tax cuts for the super-rich and corporations will go into effect. Here's how his first round of tax cuts turned out.

Donald Trump and the DOJ are breaking federal law by continuing to cover up for Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long, billion-dollar, international sex trafficking ring.   We’re fighting for justice for survivors, accountability for abusers and safety for the public.

A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest. 
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.

If the strike happened, Trump will have made war in Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean in 2025, despite claiming to be a “peacemaker.” interc.pt/4plB4Sn

Chicago Tribune's Investigation Reveals the Human Cost Behind Operation Midway Blitz. Deep dive documents ICE's Operation Midway Blitz: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, but only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. At least 10 American citizens falsely charged. austinkocher.substack.com/p/chicago-tr...

If the Pentagon can give $8.6 billion to build 25 F-15 jets for Israel then why are republicans so upset about giving children school lunches?

Trump told you to elect him so he can release the Epstein files. Since his election, he has spent a full year covering them up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ76Td6pg&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=17

Trump can slap his name on the building, but he can’t force artists to show up and clap. The Trump-branded Kennedy Center is bleeding artists. The Cookers, a veteran all-star jazz septet, just pulled their NYE shows.

“Over the long Christmas break, the president of the United States may have leaked classified information about a secret military operation targeting Venezuela, and did so while calling in to a New York radio show – hosted by a ‘Marty Supreme’ cast member – to brag…