I respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict in the Judge Hannah Dugan case. The trial evidence showed that Judge Dugan did not obstruct ICE agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant. Let’s see what happens on appeal. Meanwhile, our support for Judge Dugan continues.

US v Dugan deliberation update: There is a third note

Breaking: Judge Dugan ACQUITTED on Count One, convicted on Count 2.

“Five More Oil & Gas Lease Sales Proposed for Lower Cook Inlet” — Sean McDermott inletkeeper.org/our-work/oil...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

WaPo: "One person familiar with the situation ... said that a high-level meeting scheduled for Wednesday could result in new orders to U.S. naval and air forces gathered in the Caribbean. The person said to expect more forceful U.S. naval operations in the next several days."

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...

Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

❣️🇺🇸🎯 Jack Smith, Capital Police, Responders & Each Courageous Person attempting to hold fast to our democracy & constitutional principles. ‘We the People’ can support each other, face our mistakes & course correct… or… we can accept Corrupt Profiteering over People. ground.news/article/exfi...

‼️🎯 past time as… “Hegseth has withheld critical information all year. The bill would force the Defense Department to consult with lawmakers before withdrawing troops from South Korea and Europe and before restructuring military commands around the world.” wapo.st/4oZ1qsY

Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday and there’s a lot to know about what the stakes are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

💔 Murder “people killed in the U.S. strikes to at least 95. As Piper Hudspeth Blackburn of CNN reports, the administration maintains the U.S. is in an "armed conflict" against drug cartels. But legal experts dismiss this claim and say the U.S. has no legal basis..” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

❣️🇺🇸 Joyce Vance… “Smith wanted to testify publicly, but Republican representatives insisted on closed-door proceedings. Why would Republicans balk at the prospect of public hearings? “ open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump ‼️hates, demeans, bullies & deprives all people… ‼️DJT ‘Enablers’ continue to outsource for profiteering all federal services/institutions.. ‼️after DJT’s ‘team’ has hollowed out & reduced ‘All’ to absolute dysfunction &/or destruction 💔 for our Vets, Children Health, Safety, Environment

Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.

“When this administration calls you a criminal illegal alien, what do you say?” karoline leavitt’s Nephew’s mom: “I’m heartbroken. I’m heartbroken for my son. I don’t even have a parking ticket… it doesn’t make any sense. I’m just as lost as you are.”

NEW: A judge ordered DOJ late Friday to return materials it seized from Comey friend Dan Richman, calling their rummaging through the documents a flagrant abuse of his constitutional rights. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

‼️Healthcare Affordability & Access …. 💔 in America www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

BREAKING: DOJ has failed to indict Letitia James for a THIRD time! It's like Christmas around here!

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

At some point if you’re the government, & you understand what doing justice means, you let this case go. If a grand jury won’t indict, a trial jury definitely won’t convict. But it’s hard to move on when the boss wants to get revenge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: Federal prosecutors have failed, for the second time, to re-indict Letitia James. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

A Third Grand Jury Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James. Will the Vengeful Crazies Go for Four? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

BREAKING on MS NOW: A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody

1/ The government filed a motion to dissolve a judge's ban on deporting Abrego Garcia (this is in his civil case). Now, the Judge has ordered his immediate release & ordered the parties to jointly file a proposal on resolving the dissolve motion a week from today.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

“Four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Josh Hawley (Missouri) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — voted for the Democratic bill, which needed 60 votes to advance. It got 51, with 48 senators voting against.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Always thoughtful & historical template for better way forward …. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

🤦‍♀️ Their argument… ❣️ Thanks Allison Gill.. “Their argument? They contend that we failed to prove widespread public interest in the Epstein training materials. Yes. You heard that right.” open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...

Noem's strategy during his hearing is to ceaselessly talk over Democratic questions she doesn't like so she doesn't have to answer them

Here's today's ruling for the RELEASE of Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One day short of nine months since Abrego Garcia was pulled over by ICE agents and arrested, then, days later, sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, Judge Xinis grants has habeas corpus petition.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

❣️🇺🇸 Thanks Senators Murkowski, Sullivan & Others… “We have called it, this mountain, Denali in Alaska for decades, generations,” she said at a Senate hearing Tuesday. “The Koyukon Athabascan have called it, referred to it, as Denali for millennia.” alaskapublic.org/news/politic...