The CFPB's complaint portal has been an incredible source of relief for consumers. In 2024, people got $93 million in relief *just by filing complaints.* Now the agency is looking for excuses to scale it back.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

🚨 Well, it looks like the CFPB is trying to kill their portal that allows consumers to complain directly to the CFPB and to the companies! 🚨 Could you submit a comment before December 29th saying how helpful submitting complaints has been for your clients? www.regulations.gov/document/CFP...

I will say Mitt absolutely COOKED with this explanation of why we need to be taxing capital gains to hell and back. Excellent explanation.

The CFPB's complaint portal has been an incredible source of relief for consumers. In 2024, people got $93 million in relief *just by filing complaints.* Now the agency is looking for excuses to scale it back.

Republicans’ efforts to kill the CFPB aren’t new, but this particular Vought vein took off in April. Here’s Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/cfpb-rif-b...

IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right: Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection. America’s unions will keep fighting for them.

Anderson defended himself to WP “I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things,” he said. www.thedailybeast.com/vanity-fair-...

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Hey Legal Aid folks- have you ever had a client who couldn't get a response from a bank or company that was ripping them off?

Introducing the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, Sen. @blumenthal.senate.gov told Law Dork that the Supreme Court's September order OK'ing "Kavanaugh stops" shows the need for his bill, as it would "require[] the Supreme Court to be accountable and explain its rulings." www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...

Monstrous. Indefensible.

Apparently there's a procedural way to force the House vote to happen TODAY instead of waiting until January, which Jeffries is pushing for, of course. Thune says he'll wait to see how "partisan" the House vote turns out before deciding whether to re-vote on it in the Senate.

Holy shit!

In my defense I don’t want to replace *all* 435 members of Congress, just like, 429.

The US is so hawkish that it doesn’t even pretend to make up excuses for endless wars now? Not even going to bother to lie about WMD? These mass murders happening in the Atlantic Ocean are being celebrated? We deserve better and people of the world deserve better, too.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.

"Above all, Rob was a mensch. We were friends. He was a big shot who did not act like a big shot."

We’re running out of new ideas so we propose we use the ideas regurgitator. No we do not see the irony.

The chemical lobby and some House Republicans want to exempt plastics incineration from the Clean Air Act—letting toxic air pollution that causes cancer, birth defects, brain damage and premature death to escape regulation. More disdain for MAHA Moms & more hazards for you and your family.

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

This the most repulsive and humiliating encapsulation of shootings in the US I could possibly imagine. How many more generations of CHILDREN will we fail? How many more have to die?

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

More than 2,000 supporters, including students and faculty, signed onto a petition as of Thursday opposing a University of North Carolina system proposal to require the public release of all class syllabi and materials. Story by @kingdollar.bsky.social #unc #ncpol

Good for the dang Wolves if they can get Coby!

I did not see this coming! Is a good reminder to myself, too, to reject cynical doomcasting.

Just so we understand how ridiculous the Republican Party is, how fucked the Republican Party is and how desperate they are, here was Heritage foundation earlier today, threatening those Indiana senators

Robbing from consumers to reward disgraced predatory lenders? You’re a real creep, Mr. Grinch-Vought! change.org/StopVought

We used to have an agency dedicated to… consumer protection

The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation Thursday to address spiraling health insurance costs via @jennifershutt.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/11/r...

A MUST READ to understand how wind energy was killed in the US (and how this “a lifelong conservationist” was at the center of it) by @fieseler.bsky.social for @canarymedia.com 👇

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

It seems like the bottom line is don’t buy a new Tesla, don’t buy a used Tesla.

Two more deaths in ICE custody were confirmed today, bringing total to 25 These are just the ones we know about There’s others, like Randall Esquivel, who become deathly ill in custody but get deported before they die He was in a vegetative state when they deported him. He died in Costa Rica

It’s bananas to me because republicans *do* have a platform- it’s lowering the cost of doing business for corporations at anyone and anything’s expense while lowering the tax rate on the wealthy, even if it’s subsidized by a higher cost burden on low-income families.

Wonder how else all of that associational data will be used? Especially if a third party gets the contract to evaluate the data. What could go wrong!

The disconnect between the leadership and the base continues to expand, this time on AI and Silicon Valley influence. I think it’s beyond even the disconnect in the GOP during the Tea Party.

Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level by 7% over the next decade. econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

@isabellamweber.bsky.social has been putting out some of the very best scholarship since the economic woes of Covid-era times. Another banger 👇

Just want to warn everyone that I’m cycling through another bout of rage at all these Don’t Tread on Me twits who are REAL FREAKIN QUIET WHILST TREADING ABOUNDS!

Just want to warn everyone that I’m cycling through another bout of rage at all these Don’t Tread on Me twits who are REAL FREAKIN QUIET WHILST TREADING ABOUNDS!

Here are eight ways that Senate Democrats should be holding Trump and corporate wrongdoers accountable — one for each member of the Cave Caucus.