"A second passport represents the knowledge that another country accepts you as an official citizen, and welcomes you to come and make a life." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Young lawyers get fired for this. If they’re not fired their lives aren’t worth living.

Via AOC:

Bourbon-maker Jim Beam, owned by Japanese alcohol giant Suntory, plans to pause production at its main U.S. distillery for all of 2026 after slumping demand caused an oversupply of whiskey.

OMG it never stops. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/t...

“Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be ‘governed’ by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.” The opening words of the first "White Rose" leaflet.

this is exactly what I was thinking. I think about the Nazi Aktion T4 program everyday. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Normalizing the dehumanization of anyone unlike themselves, the alpha white übermensch. It's a slippery slope between dehumanization and eradication.

God help us if all we have left is Trump and his rubber-stamp Supreme Court. www.npr.org/2025/12/21/g...

Each year Black Rose/Rosa Negra engages in a bottom-up conjunctural analysis. We do this both to understand the correlation of social forces and their emerging contradictions, and to refine our strategy for intervention in the moment. Read it in full below: www.blackrosefed.org/conjunctural...

The law? I ask this same question. Who will enforce and who will punish ?

Latest comic: Mr. and Mrs. P's holiday stroll

Via AOC:

"We look not to Bethlehem or Jerusalem but to Washington, waiting for the king’s mood to shift and the troops to arrive... In immigrant New York the wait is for the men in green vests barreling down Fulton St. or Canal, Third Ave. or Roosevelt." www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/21/l...

On International Human Solidarity Day, we are reminded that we are all interconnected. Every action we take impacts others. By embracing peace, justice, and compassion, we can uplift one another and create a more equitable world.

Thanks to new rules that require reviewing social media of visa applicants creating month long backlogs for renewals, Apple & Google has warned employees not to leave the U.S. as they may be unable to return. This expands the war on immigrants coming to the U.S. to foreign workers who travel home

Chip in to help resist ICE! secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-e...

Every person with Down syndrome is living a life that matters. #Downsyndrome #intellectualdisability #developmentaldisability #disability #disabilityawareness

One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act has put more than 300 rural hospitals at risk of closure or cutting services according to an analysis by UNC. Harvard researchers identified another 90 or so urban hospitals whose ability to keep their doors open is also threatened www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Stefanik has always had her finger in the wind. Her politics used to be a lot different. She has her finger in the wind again. Hochul is up 20 points on her now. If the fires keep burning like they are at the top, she would have likely been annihilated to the point of no return. She is biding time.

"I’m assuming that there will be no killing in Trump’s “Patriot Games,” but I guess we’ll have to wait until fall to see."

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

insurance companies literally kill people

"Trump hasn’t been able to address the affordability issues that the American people are still feeling … Cue the bigotry. It’s the same playbook and he just goes back to it; he doesn’t know anything else.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

"As an American, it breaks your heart to see what your country has come to. It feels like you’re in a bizarre alternate universe where the law doesn’t apply anymore." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Trump can't abide perceived disloyalty...I can't see Wiles sticking around much longer. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/s...

History guy here. He IS the worst president, by a country mile. The social media post below also outs him as the most detestable and emotionally bankrupt person in public life. Mental illness on display, for the whole world to see.

Sounds about right.

Just this...

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

The far-right has spent the past several years accusing the left of teaching conspiracies and propaganda and indoctrinating children into extreme ideologies. Now, as you may have guessed, they're doing what they accused the left of doing, but it's probably worse than you think. My latest.

The Supreme Court and the Republican leadership have removed all the guard rails for Trump and he commits any crime he chooses because there will be no consequences. The Churches and MAGAs are supporting his actions and the Democrats have been neutered and rendered useless. All bark, no bite!

Trump says there's nothing to do but pray. Does he not consider this shooting "crime?" Should he not, according to precedent, be considering deployment of troops? Conversely, was the answer to "crime" in Chicago, Portland, LA, etc actually prayer? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICYMI, Ms Atwood--author of 'Handmaid's Tale'--has some things to say about autocracy and authoritarianism. margaretatwood.substack.com/p/handmaids-...

I'm old enough to remember when diversity, equity & inclusion were American values. How very, very far the US hss fallen. apnews.com/article/nati...

“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. “If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.” Important reading here 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not just the midwest: a hospital system in upstate New York is in crisis right now as its parent company, North Star Health Alliance, has lost funding and is being pressed for accountability regarding millions of dollars received from the State. investigatemidwest.org/2025/08/18/l...

Trump has seen Putin and Xi stay in power for long after they were supposed to leave and wants exactly the same He will do anything to hang on to it Anything

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

For my money, this account rings true. Harris's loss has been analyzed to death but the bigger issue-Democratic electoral impotence--needs to be understood and corrected ASAP. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Interesting reading about the Democratic party's descent into irrelevance and what it might take to turn it around. Castelli was the Democratic candidate for Congress vs Stefanik in the 2022 election, running the most effective campaign against her of all. mattcastelli.substack.com/p/what-it-me...

Not sure if there's enough ghosts available to terrorize all the rich folks who need it tbh

In 1996, Donald Trump crashed a gala fundraiser for a pediatric AIDS charity and took a seat on the dais. He wasn't invited. He hadn't even contributed to the charity, and never did. He just wanted to be at the front of the room, receiving honor and applause. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...

I’m entirely uninterested in leaders who list out our problems. I’m expecting them to start taking action to protect their constituents and communities.