Dems need to continually remind the country that voters gave the GOP complete control of the U.S. Government--executive, legislative, & judicial branches--and they didn't just drive it into a ditch, but drove it right off an economic, moral, legal, and ethical cliff. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

As inflation weighs on voters, Trump is paying a high price, too ->The Christian Science Monitor | #trump fascism #no decency | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Two gunmen killed 11 people during a Hanukkah event Sunday on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, in what officials called a terrorist attack on Australia’s Jewish community. More than two dozen people were taken to hospitals in a range of conditions, according to police, including two officers.

"Two survivors of the Brown University attack escaped other school shootings. Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA, and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to give up on demands for Nato membership in exchange for security guarantees from the US and Europe, in a move aimed at advancing peace talks in Berlin on Sunday. on.ft.com/48TOHSo

Thanks to ever-more-obliging tax policies, the #billionaire class has grown absurdly rich. Today, billionaires are still flooding politics with their money and still reaping the benefits, and they won’t stop yapping about it. FREE READ: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

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“.. Trump said that whoever the next Fed chairman is should consult with HIM — the President of the United States — about where interest rates should be set.” 🤡 #FOMC

“Commercial breaks were largely filled with spots from direct-response advertisers, including the dietary supplement SuperBeets. “Viewers of of the telecast on WCBS, the CBS flagship in New York, saw a commercial for Chia Pet, the terra-cotta figure that sprouts plant life after a few weeks.”

A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.” www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”

Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the National Parks Conservation Association, called the order a “sham review of gift shop materials” and part of “the administration’s deeply troubling pattern of silencing science and hiding history in our parks” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

A morning walk along the Kamo River in Kyoto. Winter arrives little by little❄️❄️ #photography #winter #kyoto #landscape #stroll #egret

Brandenburg Gate ##streetphotography ##photography

Trump: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy.”

The Steve Bannon photos with Jeffrey Epstein make a lot of sense from their emails. I wrote them up in order, 2017 until the moment he was arrested, and they were connected at the hip. #EpsteinFiles open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

As I frequently point out, my friend (and fellow pilot, and fellow China person) Patrick C is a Republican. An honest one — like the ones today in the Indiana Senate.

How is Trump’s pivot on “affordability” going? You might as well ask the passengers on the Hindenburg whether the hors d'oeuvres were tasty. Indeed, if GOP hopes rest on his come-to-Jesus pivot on the issue, they ought to realize that they are well & truly fuqqed. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

"Troops in the Continental Army swore to defend the country against 'King George, his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors, assistants, and adherents.'” In 1789 the oath became allegiance to the Constitution. But I like the original too. #NoKings open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

Trump tech adviser David Sacks under fire over vast AI investments www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...

More cruelty, when service members simply want to conceive and have baby. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

“Don’t make it sound so bad.” Trump sounds genuinely inconvenienced by the insurance turmoil in 24 million American lives.

Really gross to see how the Trump administration's only civil rights lawsuits are twisted and false cases claiming "reverse racism." Looking forward to seeing them lose again. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oil tycoon, is playing a central role in reshaping energy policy by allying himself with President Trump. @ericlipton.nytimes.com & @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social have the goods here: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

NEW: Trump's mysterious commutation of David Gentile has upset & confused his victims. Several of the businesses in which their life savings were invested had Scientology links. Gentile is a Scientologist himself, but the church says it had nothing to do with the commutation.

Those of us in healthcare have always known this is their position "largely unspoken article of faith for Republicans is that access to medical care is a matter of personal responsibility". They think healthcare is a privilege, not a right. #deathpanels #momsky www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Time for some re-branding: TrumpCare. Or Trump-doesn’t-Care. For Republicans, Trump’s Hands-Off Approach to Health Care Is a Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Government Can Withhold Funds From Planned Parenthood, Appeals Court Rules

7/7 The report lands amidst heightened transatlantic tension. A longtime ally is now officially listing American policy shifts as a security uncertainty. Maya Tekeli & Jeffrey Gettleman for The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...

Trump Wanted Ukraine to Cede Land to Russia. Ukraine Has Another Offer. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...

7/7 It is not a cure, but it is a powerful intervention. For those carrying the silent markers of Alzheimer's, movement is medicine. Dana G. Smith for The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...

Judge orders return of evidence against Comey, citing constitutional concerns

Tangled web: Behind the Seized Venezuelan Tanker, Cuba’s Secret Lifeline www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...

Ron DeSantis is pushing to eliminate all state-level vaccine mandates in FL. What's happening in SC will be nothing compared to what will happen in FL. 90% of non-vaccinated will get measles once exposed. Then they'll pass it to innocent infants before they're vaccinated. 🤬 wapo.st/4iQ7VwN

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn.... “It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” the committee's ranking member, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said in a statement on the release.

Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"

Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

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PUNCHBOWL: Cornyn “said he plans to introduce a bill “soon” that would ban users under age 16 from social media.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/tech...

"The Republican establishment quietly moved on from abortion politics. The Hawleys want to revive the issue." Good luck with that. www.axios.com/2025/12/12/h...

Indiana redistricting, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Letitia James indictments: All "likely losses that Trump decided, all on his own, to blow up into major, high-profile defeats," @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social writes goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trumps-awf...

Over the last month, TV broadcast news covered the Epstein text/email releases for more than 3 hours. — and not a single segment mentioned Epstein's extensive ties to Bannon at all.

PBS has started going through the huge new batch of Epstein photos, and, yeah. Blech. Click through at your own risk www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...