Just horrific and totally unjustified murder, no matter how they try to spin it…

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, my law firm has filed a motion to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Arizona's complete, unredacted voter registration list. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...

"Freedom of assembly is not a gift governments grant their citizens; it is a right that protects citizens from their governments. Look to Hungary. Britain should not have to learn that lesson the hard way." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This entire regime consists of depraved sociopaths.

Conway: This man is violating his oath in myriad ways each and every day. Impeachment is not an option. It is mandatory. It is required. It is morally, constitutionally, and legally obligated.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

Just another reason to vote the GOP out come November - “The House voted Thursday NOT to overturn a pair of vetoes President Donald Trump made to legislation on a Colorado water pipeline and a Florida flood control project — despite Congress passing the bills with no objections last month.”

@nytimes.com Intuitive and informative. Removing all emotion out of the equation I can see the attraction some voters have in this guy, it’s the “strongman” winner take all concept that many aspire to. It will be interesting to see how history judges this moment in time.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

Join @dgraham.bsky.social tomorrow on Reddit, where he’ll answer questions about Project 2025: what has and hasn’t been accomplished so far in Donald Trump’s second term, and what we might expect moving forward. Ask him anything!

The Department of Justice has sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for access to sensitive voter data on more than 100,000,000 Americans. My law firm has intervened on behalf of voters to fight DOJ in 23 of the 25 cases. Tomorrow we will do the same in the remaining two. Stay tuned.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

@nytimes.com From not addressing ACA Healthcare subsidies, Affordability, Gerrymandering, Inflation, destruction of institutions, the Economy, Spending and Hateful Rhetoric…what has Trump, his administration, the GoP done for the American people, NOTHING!!! Hope it’s a Blue tsunami come November.

No matter how you look at it, this is gonna be a freaking mess. And where the hell is Congress!?

Jan 6th rioter: “You can't gaslight me. I was there — I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down & hit his head & his back — So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again”

Flying under the radar for your consideration….

Though published back in December, just as applicable today..

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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@nytimes.com unfiltered coverage and on the ground testimonial heard in the latest Daily ep is why I continue to subscribe. Historical lessons here will haunt generations for decades to come. And always the people with the least who suffer the most while the elites continue to crush and take.

An informative read from Quico Toto, author of Caracas Chronicles, Venezuelan who was forced to flee Venezuela’s dictatorship

@nytopinion.nytimes.com great oped from Tom Friedman today and if history is any judge, not so sure this will be a celebratory outcome in the end.

Forget the headline, every member of Congress should be out criticizing and denouncing this illegal act of war…

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

They say national debt is so high they must cut health care, Medicaid, Medicare, help for disabled kids,food & meds for world poorest, medical research. Cost of everything is UP, YET we pay ICE, occupation of Venezuela, bombing boats, battle ships named Trump, cost of Trump lavish lifestyle -

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro ..another U.S. sponsored regime change, let’s see how this one works out.

The NBA Coaches of the Month for December! West: Mitch Johnson (Spurs) East: Joe Mazzulla (Celtics)

“I am happy from the bottom of my heart to see others in the streets,” a young woman who took part in protests on Wed. “But I also know that we are economically fucked and things won’t get better anytime soon. We also have no easy way of winning against these bastards. It is hard to be hopeful.”

Lee: As a Black woman, there’s no way I don’t have hope. I’ve seen a lot in my life, and we have these moments of backward steps. But we have hope. I see hope. I see our young people—they have hope. I see them fighting hard for our democracy and for a better life.

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

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Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Good luck Mr Mayor, we’re certainly pulling for you to succeed in what may seem like insurmountable decades old challenges.

Solar events have been at a high since activity on the sun’s surface reached a “solar maximum” in October 2024.

Perhaps this will be the year of reckoning, the year the people take back control 🤔

@theguardian.com “Let 2026 be a year of reckoning.” - couldn’t agree more..

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Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

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Good to know there are folks out there with integrity and willingness to hold to their principles, values and ethics in the face of those in power.

Purely from a historical perspective doubt this strategy will work nor end well for 🇺🇸 and another example of unchecked Executive Power regardless who’s in the WH.