My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

With the new USPS changes, if your ass can get to a polling place…you need to go. Don’t play around with this mail business. I never liked it anyhow. I know some must use that method. But if you’re doing it out of convenience, please reconsider.

Looks like most of the vote is in for the Iowa #SD16 (Harris+17) special election: Renee Hardman (D)- 73.3% Lucas Loftin (R)- 26.7% Nearly a 30 point overperformance to cap off an amazing 2025 for the Iowa Democrats

If you’re on the route, consider greeting these travelers.

Merry Christmas! Messages from the Pope and Trump. Catholic people vote.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

For two decades, he’s fought wildfires for the U.S. government, often doing the most toxic work. Now, this undocumented firefighter is facing cancer, the threat of ICE and the prospect of not being around for his 11-year-old. trib.al/oFVlAPB

NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell. The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

I am happy to call him my senator.

This could have been an email.

He sounds like a car salesman or an auctioneer. No one will remember this shit.

it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance

John Fugelsang was on fire tonight: Every time Kash Patel opens his mouth, someone should play the Benny Hill theme. There's career FBI agents chasing an active shooter, and this guy is chasing social media engagement numbers. This shooter's still on the loose, bro. Smash the like button.

2002. I graduated high school that year. I also had these lounge pants.

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀 Start the clock! ⏰ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Shame on any Christian that supports this man. He is evil. He is of the devil.

Bruce Hornsby hits #1 today in 1986 with “The Way It Is”. “Just when one thinks we are making progress,” he said, “appalling incidents will occur that shock and sadden anyone who is interested in equality in American life,” he said. “So sadly, the song still retains a bittersweet topical quality.”

It sucks that so many folks will see their healthcare costs skyrocket, but elections have consequences. This is the consequence of GOP majorities.

My God!

This is Tuffy. He just woke up from surgery. Has no idea where he is or what's happening, but he's thrilled to be here. 12/10 (TT: teddy_and_tuffy)

In Albany, Georgia, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital paid an exorbitant sum to acquire its crosstown rival and became the town’s only hospital. But as the company’s debt increased, patients suffered. Read Part 3 of "Sick in a Hospital Town":

GA Republicans seem pretty upset over tonight's special election loss. This is Insurance Commissioner John King, a statewide elected official. He is exhorting Republicans to help win *another* special ... in a Trump+47 district. x.com/JohnKingGA/s...

I think Jon is gonna do alright next year.

Leaving Castel Gandolfo, Pope comments on Trump's peace plan for Ukraine: “I haven't read it in full. Unfortunately, some parts that I have seen bring about an enormous change to what for many, many years has been a true alliance between Europe and the United States.”

soon...very soon now...he will be impeached and I pray imprisoned in the worst prison available.

Only the best.

Democrats have their next flip opportunity tomorrow night in Georgia's #HD121, a Trump+12 seat covering southern Athens and neighboring Oconee County. It's a double-digit Trump seat, but the Democrats flipped a similar version of this district in the lead up to 2018 too.

Yuck

“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.” - Rosa Luxemburg, 1902

My kids love a car ride!

A leased ICE detention center wears out its welcome in Portland, Oregon

🚨BREAKING: A grand jury has DECLINED to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James —CNN

#150/2025 Fmr. Georgia GOP assistant secretary Ja’Quon Stembridge allegedly solicited someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy over an app and went to meet them in a parking lot only to be confronted by an adult man instead. Republicans are the real predators we need to protect children from.

Pretty gay to me. I ought to know.

Pope Francis, who died in April 2025, left money in his will to purchase ambulances for Ukraine. This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.

🤦🏼‍♂️

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, says he’ll vote No on redistricting following Trump’s “retarded” slur at Gov. Walz.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

We damn well better destroy this crap now. It cannot continue.

I wish they would put their name to this statement.

Atlanta's Spaghetti Junction Among Nation's Most Dangerous Holiday Drives

This man is an idiot.

Ha!

The meeting was a success!

he never looks at JD that way

Catholic priests have filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago to force access to provide communion to individuals held at an immigration detention center storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...