"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month... "The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CONFIRMED: Progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas has won an at-large seat on the Houston city council, beating moderate former councilmember Dwight Boykins. (Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)

“It’s a made up term, ‘AFFORDABILITY’ — the economy’s strong. Everyone’s fine, from the billionaires all the way down to the poor, poor millionaires who we’re praying for every night.” #SNL

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...

2/ I'm praying for the families of those killed and all those injured and impacted by this senseless act of gun violence. It doesn't have to be this way in America.

what left victories in local elections can mean: local officials in different cities feeling empowered by each other boltsmag.org/new-jersey-c...

2/ And in the mayoral runoff in Pflugerville, the Dem-backed candidate Doug Weiss leads 55% to 45% so far. These are the two elections on my guide of December races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the... More when we know the final results!

Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night). 1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.

"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it. "Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...” www.notus.org/immigration/...

Thanks for amplifying my latest hate investigation, Rachel. Hope you will also check out this recent report, as well! youtu.be/pU3GJwNadeE?...

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Has your member of Congress been exercising their right to inspect ICE detention facilities? Your state representative?

Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of a former Ohio State University doctor protested outside the school’s Board of Trustees meeting this past Thursday ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/s...

Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.

Jonathan Turley is obsessed with me to the point that it's creepy. I suppose I can't expect more from a guy who is essentially just Mike Lindell with tenure.

Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us | Nesrine Malik

“Massport owes the Commonwealth information about these operations, and the fact that they lied…shows that they are afraid of public reaction” lexobserver.org/2025/11/12/l...

New Mexico launched a state pilot program offering monthly $500 payments to teens who are homeless, to stay in school “When you invest in people, they respond” www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?' She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I’d apologize for being obnoxious but that’d be a lie. I’m not sorry. I’m just pissed. Anyway. Please refer to the 17,452 times I warned that we were going to become junior members of the axis.

🧊✈️ SOUTH AMERICA ⛓️🌎 👉 An Eastern 777 departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Bogotá 🇨🇴

Jimmie Duncan walked out of prison and into his parents’ arms after 27 years on death row. He spent Thanksgiving with his family, then celebrated his 57th birthday. “We thank God for Jimmie coming home,” his stepmom said. But Duncan's journey to freedom is far from over. W/ @veritenews.org

FEED KIDS, BILL: “24+ county mayors across Tennessee sign a letter urging @GovBillLee to opt into the federally-funded food program for school-aged children, Summer EBT, before time runs out.” Stop 🛑 normalizing 🛑 suffering 😳 Full story: www.wate.com/news/tenness...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing this week to review the contents of the Epstein files ahead of the Justice Department’s legally binding public release date later this month ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/04/r...

📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia. Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L

INCREDIBERRY: "It's kind of hard to convince people you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers… It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it."

Everyone clap your hands and celebrate! George has been awarded the IHOP Peace Prize (which is very much a thing - like the FIFA prize)! He’s not just the handsomest boy in the world who gets stuck in mommy’s delivery bag, he’s bringing world peace.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

It's very upsetting to donald that we keep posting these humiliating photos of him decaying in front of us. He's very angry about it. He wants us to stop.

Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

Across the country, incarcerated women, trans and nonbinary people are punished for having periods. Formerly incarcerated people have reported male correctional staff and supervisors being oblivious to how menstruation works. https://bit.ly/48RIOq2

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Please read to the end. This kind of blew my own mind.

First counties that are done in TN: —Wayne: Van Epps wins it by 70%. (Green had won it by 74%.) —Decatur: Van Epps wins it by 65%. (It was Green by 65%.) —Perry: Van Epps (R) wins it by 55%. (It was Green by 63%.) Early vote was much less red in each. This is really not enough for Dems.

Annnd the red shift has begun in TN. Perry County was +41% for the GOP in the early vote, but now +51%. Hickman County went from +42% GOP to +47% GOP.

In April, I visited the ICE detention facility in Basile, LA, and heard directly from women detained there. We need answers from the Trump admin about reports of inhumane conditions, medical neglect, and miscarriages at Basile. Pregnant women deserve dignity, not cruelty.

TODAY IS THE DAY! GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration. popular.info/p/jared-kush...

Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”

These racist throwback creatures are flying around the world in their luxury private jets, treated like movie stars everywhere, billions of dollars at their disposal, and they’re absolutely drunk with power and unearned wealth. Do I need to add “seems bad?”