My heart is with you today friends in Australia 💔❤️‍🩹

Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"

America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.

BREAKING: Two terrorists opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Sydney, killing at least 11 people and wounding 29 others. This video shows the moment 43-year-old Ahmad El Ahmad, an unarmed civilian, tackled one of the terrorists, seized his weapon, and neutralized him.

Polish FM Sikorski slammed Hungary’s Orbán over his opposition to using frozen Russian assets, quipping “Viktor got his Lenin medal.” Hungary’s FM hit back: “We won’t be dragged into your war.” Sikorski responded: “There will be no war unless Russia invades again, but you’re on their side.”

Found at HomeGoods: a vase commemorating Gnostic Saint Sir Richard Francis Burton and his highly sexualized translation of the “Arabian Nights,” whose seventeen volumes he published in the 1880s in a private edition to skirt Victorian obscenity laws.

Terrific investigation into Greg Bovino's roots. Lots of interesting details, including: "Here’s how the Bovinos managed to get around the new quotas that limited how many Italians and others deemed to be “undesirables” could end up in the United States." chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

@robynblasco.bsky.social Welcome 🙏🏻 to the conversation.

Talarico: The first bill I want to vote on in the Senate is comprehensive political reform Undecided voter: What is that specifically? Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks

So, this happened😱 no one is talking about it.

Thank you to Pastor Wade and Mt. Calvary Baptist Church for inviting me to join you for Sunday service, and thank you for your prayers.

James Talarico tells undecided voter the story of how he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes: “So I was able to work across the aisle to pass the first ever cap on insulin co-pays in Texas history. We capped it at $25.”

Just sent out my free weekend update. Was quite a week in the land war, started with great doom for Ukraine and ended with the Ukrainians pushing the Russians away from Kupyansk and advancing in a week twice as much as the Russians advanced in 4 months. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The situation in Odesa remains critical following a massive Russian strike. Power, water, and heating have yet to be restored, and it’s unclear when services will resume. Over 400 resilience centers and numerous water distribution points are operating across the city.

The queues in Odesa today to charge devices. Power and water supply down because of Russian attacks this night

A study found that Donald Trump is the 6th most hated leader in history of any country, dead or alive. That does not surprise me.

I made it about 2/3 of the way through Severance and realized that this would probably drag on for years and decided to cut my losses.

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

A notably “warm” start to meteorological winter across Europe only far north of Norway, Finland and Sweden have escaped. The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)

Rand Paul on mid-decade redistricting: "I think it's gonna lead to more civic tension & possibly more violence in our country. Think about it: if 35% of Texas is solidly Democrat & they have 0 representation, how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel they're not represented"

This is a textbook case of political asylum.

NYT “.. corporate tax savings have already started to have an effect on the federal budget. Between July and November, the last full month of data, revenue from the corporate income tax has dropped by roughly a third, or $52 billion ..” #OBBBA www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

A little bit of motivation before the new week.

"The fact that Mr. Ohtani has taken a position with the Dodgers, while Mr. Miller, born and raised in southern California, was not even afforded an opportunity to compete for the job underlines the blatant nature of the discrimination against native-borns."

We can no longer afford the rich. They know it, and that’s why they are pushing fascism everywhere. - Blogwart www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

💯. And it's actually in Americans' interest that they not rely on America right now.

For the love of money.💰

Indiana’s GOP bucked Trump, sparking accidental ceasefire in cartography wars. Hoosier hesitation gives Democrats in Illinois and Maryland cover to holster their sharpies. It prevents mutually assured destruction, but Supreme Court still looms, ready to potentially explode maps and peace.

Why does Stephen Miller and his law firm hate free speech & free expression? I used to love the 49ers. I've been hating on them the last few years. Suddenly, I feel so much more supportive of San Francisco... #NFL #FreeSpeech @thefireorg.bsky.social

Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."

Warnock: "If you live in Claxton, Georgia, if you live in rural America, even if you have wealth and resources and you're having a stroke and there's no ICU within a reasonable distance because of these draconian cuts, your life is in peril. We can do better than this."

Secretary Noem being investigated for contempt for violating court order to turnaround planes headed to El Salvador. She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.

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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz drew a historical parallel, warning that if Ukraine falls, Russian aggression will not stop. He compared the situation to 1938, when appeasement after the Sudetenland was insufficient, suggesting Putin’s ambitions extend beyond Ukraine.

The RNC is imploding. They called Harry Sisson a lying POS for accurately quoting RNC chair Joe Gruters, then confirmed as much in the post.

Georgia received the 🇪🇺 candidate status exactly 2 years ago, on December 14, 2023. And while it was a recognition of the efforts of the people rather than the government merit from the beginning, it’s still remarkable that only two years later, 🇬🇪 is a one-party dictatorship.

Welcome to the new world

Couldn't agree more. All of these proposals are constitutional, reasonable, and vital. (1/2)

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

Here’s a sense of where priorities lie. The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Ukrainians didn't push us out of Kupyansk. We "left to help secure peace". And then had several hundred killed in a counter attack organised by a drunken clown.

We got a sad reminder today that ISIS is still out there. Sofia and I offer our condolences to the soldiers killed today by this evil group

At least two students who were on Brown’s campus last night have survived shootings before — in high school. “People always think, well, it’ll never be me. .. And until I was shot in my school, I also thought the same thing.” @camillebaker.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

The latest example of the power of anti-corruption, pro-reform politics.

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.” --Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998) www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...