Only Congress has the legal authority to change the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

what a bunch of chickenshits

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Oh look, the unemployment rate hasn’t been this high since…. the last time Trump was president.

The whole Puka Nacua situation is indicative of media toxicity in which young guys swim every day. Why is there a massively popular antisemitic Twitch streamer? Why does that exist?

We welcome the @europarl.europa.eu resolution condemning Belarus for hybrid attacks against Lithuania and the EU, urging an immediate cessation, calling for additional sanctions and asking to develop EU flagship initiatives for Eastern Flank countries. 🔗 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Kudos to @jamesdator.bsky.social for writing the real story on Puka Nacua's streaming appearance. Everyone else is only talking about him criticizing the refs. The antisemitism is far more concerning. sports.yahoo.com/articles/puk...

Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it

what are we doing? what kind of country have we become?

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

If you don't believe me, just listen to the wife of the guy who is pushing this policy. It is a means to selectively target and remove some of the 26 million naturalized citizens they don't like. bsky.app/profile/donm...

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

C-SPAN Spices Up Coverage With Congressional Kiss Cam

The ACLU of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against ICE, Noem, and other DHS officials. Susan Tincher, who had her wedding ring cut off by ICE agents, is one of the plaintiffs in the case.

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

very few people can truly understand just how cathartic this is @kaijubigbattel.bsky.social 6abc.com/post/wife-cr...

Trump just endorsed a post calling for the arrests of Chris Wray and Merrick Garland. There's almost no media coverage of the sitting president supporting the arrest of a former FBI director and former Attorney General.

LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥

Reminder: the video we produced on the event is here, along with a standalone story: share.google/JF6BKRsMvflb...

MAGA wants to remove studies of colonialism from universities because it might complicate the Trump line that Venezuela is a colonial power that subjugated the United States, stealing our Oil, Land, and Other Assets.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Culture *is* politics *is* technology. That’s our North Star at @thenerve.news & this story exemplifies this. Art transforms experience & the best art (I believe) engages with the world. Huge admiration & respect for everyone involved with this www.thenerve.news/p/brian-eno-...

Trump ran on a promise that ICE would go after the “worst" criminals. But the real crime is in oligarchs taking $170b from your healthcare and food assistance to form a secret police force. Our country has defeated fascism before and it is time we fight to uphold our legacy.

"How would you rate..." National Economy: Poor/Fair: 65% Excellent/Good: 29% Personal Finances: Poor/Fair: 66% Excellent/Good: 29% Local Economy: Poor/Fair: 58% Excellent/Good: 37% Clarity / Dec 11, 2025

This is prime facie illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the 2022 NDAA

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

We are failing our kids

Just a reminder that terrorist has no practical consistent definition. Military shouldn’t be involved domestically at all, but them being involved in this specific application where they get to determine who appropriate “terrorist“ targets are is horrifying

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism. Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one. At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

"When a Denver immigration judge asked a little boy no more than 5 years old if he had an attorney, the boy’s brother, just a couple of years older, stepped forward and held his hand, volunteering for the task." www.denverpost.com/2025/12/15/r... via @denverpost.com

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...

There’s a real poignance in Rob Reiner’s directorial career being bookended by This Is Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

This weekend: •A mass shooter killed 2 at Brown University •2 mass shooters killed 16 Jewish people at Bondi Beach •Netanyahu killed 5 more Palestinians in Gaza, totaling 379 killed since “ceasefire” There are forces working hard to get us to hate each other. It is very important we reject hate

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped. *The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases

No time to do a full #PoliticalLessonPost and deep dive here but in case you needed more evidence that the legacy news has been compromised listen to this clip. She asks a question that very much supports the anti-abortion narrative/framing. 1/4