A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

This is sanewashing of the highest order.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published November)

virulent idiocy

A Human on a Bicycle is Among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom (best aligned to upper-secondary courses like AP physics, AP bio, precalculus, stats)

Ex-CBS News producer @elliotkirschner.bsky.social on "the spiked 60 Minutes story:" "In the whirl of the holidays & the approaching year's end, the lasting imprint of this chilling episode for press freedom will likely dissipate into yet another distant data point in our dangerous age of autocracy"

The Hague www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Not a bipartisan problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/t...

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Who writes this crap???? Let me help you @nytimes.com with a rewrite: “It is the latest attack by a corrupt regime using lies, mafia tactics, and the fascist playbook to target intellectual freedom.”

This con was obvious from the beginning. Thank you for this analysis. But if you have to ask this question now @nytimes.com you were part of the original problem in framing this historic disaster.

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

Trump's briliant military strategy

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

Echo this!

It’s going to feel very good tearing this name off these buildings. They should melt down all the metal and make a monument to American diversity. I hope he can watch from his prison cell.

Wash Post, CBS News, next CNN?, etc are not money makers. The owners give the Trumpists what they want and get favorable treatment for their other businesses in exchange. Owners make money that way. The regime wants quiescence. No one in this exchange cares if the outlets have audience or profits.

Last minute Christmas shopping? A $15 ticket to our screening of the documentary film "The Last Class with Robert Reich" on January 10th would make the perfect gift. More info and buy tickets now: yakima-indivisible.org/event/last-c... #yakimaindivisible #unitingfordemocracy

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Wish law firms, the press, and establishment politicians had as much backbone.

I just saw 'The Last Class' & met @rbreich.bsky.social & Director @elliotkirschner.bsky.social at the screening. You can see it for free next Monday, December 8th 2025, 5:30 pm PT live on YouTube where Prof. Reich will also do some live Q&A. Click the WATCHALONG link on the website to register. 👇

“That sounds illegal”

Dear Senator Cassidy, “We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name. Best, Your Former Congressional Colleague

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI. "Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements" Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.

Please join us on 12/8 for a live watchalong of our film, The Last Class, with the subject himself — Robert Reich! If you haven’t been able to see the movie in person, this is the perfect chance. Sign up below:

Quiet, piggy.

If you’re only reporting that Trump is telling the House to vote to release the documents and you’re not asking him whether the Senate should do so too. Or whether he’d sign the order. Or why he wouldn’t just release it all himself. Then you are not a journalist. You are a patsy for his latest con.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?

You know what doesn’t scream “affordability?” Tearing down a beloved old building to build an ugly as f ballroom for your oligarch friends.

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Trump Is Getting Mugged By Reality elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/trump-is-g... @elliotkirschner.bsky.social #consciousness #awakening #awareness #ascension #justice #truth #epstein

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

The thing tipped some folks on the Hill into being really spooked, when the rumors of something extremely bad coming really picked up, was when Bondi was directly asked and pointedly refused to deny there are such photos of Trump. Like, really really bad photos. Maybe even crime-to-possess bad.

If anyone was still confused about "Can they be this dumb?" We now have yet another answer to the obvious.

Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Please re-post and follow me. people need to boycott 60 minutes. It’s run its course. It will never be able to make a difference. watching and pretending it’s a hard hitting news program gives it oxygen/respect when it deserves neither. It’s not an interview w/o follow-up questions- it’s a valentine

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.