The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Wtaf

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

This is vile AF.

This message hits hard.

🇺🇸 Here’s something I hope you consider most of all today, patriots: "Trump isn’t even close to as powerful as he wants you to think he is, and you are far, far more powerful than you think you are. WE are leading the change and the charge. And we WILL win. I swear to God we will ..."

There is literally no one who writes about the female experience in our twisted society like @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. This encapsulates much of what we know so far about the power dynamic in the Epstein files, a world that Tr*** was actively a part of and is desperate to hide.

NATO fighter jets were scrambled after Putin ordered Tu-95MS strategic bombers on a Christmas sortie toward northern Britain, according to the Mirror. The aircraft flew over the Norwegian Sea, prompting an air policing response amid concerns over a deliberate show of force near UK airspace.

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

“Overall, 14% of Trump’s voters said that if given the chance to recast their 2024 ballots, they would make a different choice.” The question is: would they have voted for a Black woman instead? www.msn.com/en-gb/politi...

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The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.

The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”… BULLSHIT. @repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition. This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.

President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

Good morning from Milwaukee. After the government rested, Judge Dugan’s lawyers moved for an acquittal: A key prosecution witness testified that Dugan personally directed her and her client to where federal agents were waiting. Recap, on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/dugan-gove...

ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

So let me get this straight: The asshole booked every network to carry his 20 min unhinged propaganda rant, and the DNC response to it was…… Anything? Anyone? Buehler? Like how much does it take to hire someone to provide a coherent oppositional response?

I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

Earlier this year, Donald Trump denied 1 million federal workers their full and fair collective bargaining rights. I spoke on the House floor in favor of a discharge petition to bring up the Protect America's Workforce Act for a vote, which would restore these rights.

More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year

Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland. More clever here! - This Is Clever! (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2025/12/09/t...

It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.

“table-sized”

This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nation’s death warrant.

The Golden Age.

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

“We need Democrats to continue to be crazy, to say crazy things and be for crazy things,” said Corry Bliss, a veteran Republican strategist who guided the party’s leading House super PAC during the 2018 midterm elections. “It helps to provide a contrast.” Really? Repubs casting Dems as crazy?!

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

My local news is all: this is closing due to funding cuts, Republicans block postpartum care, the first-of-its-kind public legislative access will be shuttered if they can’t raise private funds…Everything being dismantled systematically everywhere, all at once.

Gobble-gobble and turn up the volume.

Gobble-gobble. Happy Thanksgiving!

this kind of thing also happens every day

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies. I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/

A new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows the sharing of Medicaid applicant data with DHS effective immediately, rescinding previous “interagency integrity” firewalls. This forces mixed-status families into an impossible calculus: access life-saving medical care or remain invisible to enforcement.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Such incredibly sickening stuff…

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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Morning.