The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

🇭🇺Massive demonstrations in Budapest, Hungary against the Viktor Orbán’s regime. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!” showing solidarity with children who became victims of abuse in the state care system

The housing crisis comes down to this: Not enough homes and the ones we have are too expensive. My Housing BOOM Act would expand federal tax credits to help kickstart the next housing boom in America, and help Californians get housing they can afford.

this is crazy: "ICE agents descended on one construction site in subzero temperatures, leading to a standoff with protesters and workers. One man was taken to hospital for exposure. The other waited out the siege and was taken to safety after the agents left." www.startribune.com/ice-agents-v...

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Chancellor Merz: It’s a war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine,against Europe.If Ukraine falls,it won't end.Just as the Sudetenland wasn't enough in 1938 Putin doesn't stop.Anyone who still believes he's had enough should carefully analyze his strategies,documents,speeches,public appearances

LA. Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit

Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.

This year's National Guard's birthday comes after a painful tragedy. The First Lady and I continue to pray for the families and loved ones of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who lost her life last month in an ambush attack, and for Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, as he recovers from his injuries.

What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S. s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...

We documented dozens of cases of brutality — including physical and sexual abuse from guards — that show a humanitarian disaster unfolding at the Fort Bliss military base, where ICE is operating its largest detention center. President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.

The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data. My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

This Tom Clancy driven march to war has none of the legitimacy of 1985. Except Trump wants Maduro dead & his oil lining his pocket. Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy. Just a war for oil.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week. It was, much too much, an echo of April.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

California cities pay a lot for water; some agricultural districts get it for free Water costs are confusing — even for the experts. A new study shows huge differences in what cities and farm water districts pay for supplies from rivers and reservoirs in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Q: If DOJ doesn't release the files it has by next Friday, is there anything Congress can do to compel that to happen? MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.

“Where in the United States does Antifa exist” proved to be a real stumper to the guy who just said Antifa is the biggest terrorism threat in the United States.

This is perfect.

You can actually just say "fled"

Trump's F.D.A. just withdrew a rule to require testing cosmetics made with talc for asbestos. The agency said it planned to craft a more comprehensive rule. Right, just like they were going to come up with better Obamacare. Why are we still discussing asbestos in makeup in 2025?

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions. "This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."

Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia!

Senator Chris Murphy speaks the truth! Trump's Ukraine "peace deal" is just a mafia corruption scheme to enrich Trump's family and friends by selling out Ukraine.

This is insane. No one’s coming.

👀🗳️⚖️ This is equal parts dangerous and stupid. #tinapeters #trump #pardon

hardly surprising but still dark that another generation has been raised to the vilest degeneracy

Kristi Noem busted by Dem lawmaker over fake excuse for fleeing her hearing after grilling

Democrats responding with their own new map in California after Republicans re-gerrymandered several states—and threatening to redraw several more blue states—might finally be having a deterrent effect. Responding in kind is the only way to negate these new GOP maps until we can pass a national ban

NEW: Republicans want us to focus our attention elsewhere so they can continue planning to subvert the 2026 elections. They want voter suppression and election denialism to become routine. For the next 11 months, our job is to prevent this from happening, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

In 2018, the Trump FBI designated the Proud Boys as an extremist organization. Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation. So what did they do to earn this exoneration? Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.

Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.

Should we pay people to club police and poop on the floor while they’re trying to overthrow the government? You decide

Trump’s racial profiling ICE goons to 🇺🇸 citizen: “Turn around or you’re gonna get the dog.”

We are a pariah state

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

🙌🏾 Icymi: The Fed Chair says tariffs are causing inflation 📈 #federalreserve #tariffs = #taxes

“Trump’s legally dubious tariffs have harvested hundreds of billions of $ from American companies and customers, despite the president’s claims that foreign countries are paying them. Now some companies want that money back.” Of course Trump’s tariffs are illegal. They’re also economically moronic.

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Demand RFKjr's resignation. Immediately.

Just comically corrupt. Ye olde tyme corruption, even.

Wagner: He’s an Afghan aid worker who spent 20 years supporting U.S. projects. When Kabul fell, he had to flee because the Taliban never looked kindly on that work. They’ve lived here peacefully, contributing to their community… and then Trump decides to exploit a national tragedy.

Everything in the US is for sale to the wealthy all over the planet, whether friend or foe. Citizenship, work visas, security guarantees, key industries, advanced military capabilities, AI and sensitive tech. For the right price, anyone can have whatever they want from us. bsky.app/profile/atru...

My minds made up: the kids are getting steel for Christmas

Promising to slash $2 trillion from the budget and adding $2 trillion instead: "Yeah I'd say it was somewhat successful." https://x.com/axios/status/1998533535016046642?s=20

Q: What happens to the oil on the tanker you seized? TRUMP: Well we keep it I guess

Interesting that we can’t manage to pirate any Russian tankers - a situation where he might actually have the authority.