Friday night Tequila Tweet: Fuck all my former colleagues who turned my former political party into a cult. Into a proudly stupid, authoritarian-embracing cult. Fuck their fear. Fuck their selfishness. Fuck their cowardice. They’ve done real damage to their country.

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

Our Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva pepper sprayed attacked by ICE 40 ICE AGENTS Adelita was trying to calm and ask questions of ICE They told her they don't care who she is MASKED ICE ONCE AGAIN ATTACK INNOCENT PEOPLE Thank you Adelita for trying to intervene and thankful you are ok

31 years have passed since Budapest Memorandum was signed. It was a time of hope for change. A document designed to guarantee peace and stability. It turned out to be a piece of paper that russia ignored, preparing for war. Today, Ukraine — and the world —needs concrete guarantees.

Jesus and I would like to remind you that literally no one has ever stopped anyone from saying 'Merry Christmas.’

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Never, ever, ever, ever in the entire history of humanity has one human being’s ego needed to be stroked so much. It’s so fucking pathetic. And shame, shame, shame on all the ego strokers.

Round 2…ding ding ding: Trump PANICS and SACRIFICES Own Lawyer in PARDON SCANDAL youtu.be/qLvht7ar2Vs

This shit is getting real! Trump UNDER FIRE as INVESTIGATION Starts Over MILITARY STRIKES youtu.be/YbVIrBiOXJg

Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.

When buying a house is unattainable and jobs are disappearing, it's no surprise young people think they can’t succeed, especially young men. It's not their fault. It’s Washington’s fault for allowing the middle class to be hollowed out just to make rich people richer.

NASA revealed they found some of the building blocks of life in a sample brought back from an asteroid (on a University of Arizona-led mission, by the way). It raises some big questions about whether there’s other life somewhere out there in the universe. According to my math, probably.

Well past time for that conclusion. And Trump will keep working super hard to give Putin what he wants.

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I wonder how long Aftyn Behn would have had to wait before being sworn in.

Hey, all my MAGA brothers & sisters, please defend this. I dare ya. And btw, clearly Trump this time around is the “soft on crime” president. And it’s not even close.👇

I am taking the next few days off from writing to prepare for a Supreme Court argument. If you want to support Democracy Docket during my pause, here is there link. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Scott Jennings is everything that’s wrong with our politics today.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

I served in Congress with Sean Duffy. I’ll always be somewhat surprised by some of my former Republican colleagues who sold their souls to Trump. Not Sean Duffy. It does not surprise me at all that he sold his soul.

💯 fucking spot on. I mean, just think about this: If Jeffrey Epstein were alive today, of course Trump would pardon him. Of course he would.👇

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Happy birthday @jentaub.bsky.social.

Until He’s Dead Or In Prison, EVERY Election Must Be A Referendum On Trump: Two days ago, Trump unleashed the ugliest, most bigoted stuff about brown and black immigrants. About Somalian-Americans. And his entire cabinet just sat there and nodded. Yesterday, he unleashed even uglier stuff about…

#WorldAIDSDay We’ve lost do many friends & relatives to AIDS. Today we remember their talent & beauty & kindness. I was honored to be Rock Hudson’s date to a Lifetime Achievement Award. A gracious & lovely gentleman. We’ve lost so many, but also made so much progress #BeKind #ReachOut 💔

Seeing through Hegseth’s blame-shifting as he drives the bus over admiral Bradley

“Trump says they care so much about stopping drugs from coming in they're going to 💣 guys on a fishing boat— but set free the guy who ran the cartel?” @abbydphillip asks the right Q as Lydia moynihan defends the indefensible & Pete Hague-Seth throws Admiral Bradley under the bus.

I doubt this will work. The 11th circuit ordered Judge Cannon to have this issue RESOLVED in 90 days time, which expires January 2nd. So unless she wants to rule on Trump’s motion to intervene and hear all argument by then, she can’t really delay past January 2nd here unless the 11th circuit allows

How to Combat Authoritarianism in the US: A Conversation with Sen. Jeff Merkley open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Despite blackouts caused by russian attacks, Ukrainians come up with new ways of living in darkness, adapting to harsh realities👇

TONIGHT: @amandagorman.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

youtu.be/oa5szua0D0U Thanks so much for having me, Chris! And Happy Holidays!💗🎄💗🎅🏻💗🎄💗

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🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Good morning. Forgot I took this, last week. I usually don’t have much luck with butterflies.

FAKE NEWS got him elected.

Loser Mike Johnson is pissed that we’re gaining ground in forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. So let’s get even louder:

The lawsuit claims the changes contradict existing law and threaten vulnerable immigrant communities.

Natural disasters across the country are impacting where people buy homes and how much money they spend to insure them.

The Downtown Denver Partnership's "Merry-thon" aims to revitalize the economy post-construction with 31 days of festive events, urging community engagement.

Junior is melting down tonight about the special election tomorrow in TN, which should be a cakewalk for Republicans. But it isn’t, thanks to his dad’s unpopularity.

Meet two heroes of our times.

It’s not a stretch to say that my former political party is now firmly pro-Russia/pro-Putin. Not a stretch at all. It’s traitorous, but it’s true. Look, the leader of my former political party works for Putin. He’s on Putin’s side. Always has been. And the party has followed him.

Trump Spreads Fear. Daily. Why Does Fear Work So Well with a Right Wing Audience?: Five days later, and we still don’t know why the Afghan National shot two National Guard members in DC last Wednesday. But that hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from collective punishment - from banning all…

Judge Tania Nemer alleges that despite top performance reviews, she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon, and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...

And “Mr Christian,” Mike Johnson, just smiles and nods his head.