The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Bill Martin has been one of the most beloved and influential figures in the movement to retell Richmond's story. Over the weekend, he was struck by a vehicle and killed. His sudden loss has brought an outpouring of grief and shock from the community.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

I have never been so glad to be getting out of town.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.

This piece was so lazy and backward-looking. And yet probably grossly revealing of how many centrist dems view the issue. Such an embarrassment

All of us sometimes think stupid things, but we don't say them out loud (let alone publish them in the NY Times).

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

The Pacific Northwest is where most U.S. hops are grown. It's also a region that's been battered by wildfires in recent years - and it's affecting our beer. New from @aimeerawlins.bsky.social, how researchers are scrambling to help hops growers adapt: ambrook.com/offrange/cro...

This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.

For a spot of good climate news, I wrote about about Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, a floodplain in West Tennessee that was transformed into a lush park complete with wetlands, hardwood forests, wildlife & recreational space. It's already being used as a blueprint for other land in the state.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”

What a beautiful story by Kurt Streeter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

As @people.com reported yesterday, more than 30,000 children in just one North Carolina district alone skipped class on Monday due to immigration raids: people.com/more-than-30...

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

Loved this piece by @natanlast.bsky.social about the machinations and the politics behind crossword puzzles (and was belatedly grossed out by the NYT calling "clean coal" a "greener energy source"). www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races? I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over! 🧵

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway: 1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.

Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.

"If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see ... that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color," writes the family of late artist Norman Rockwell. bit.ly/47P4SQz

Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

Not sure where they are on the squishy scale today but I called both WA senators today. It felt especially salient bc after being laid off & going back on the exchange, I'm shocked at what even crummy healthcare costs right now. Patty Murray: (202) 224-2621 Maria Cantwell: (202) 224-3441

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

MAMDANI: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words: 'Turn the volume up.'"

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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

RESULT: Democrats have flipped two seats on Georgia's utility commission. The commission shapes Georgia's environmental future, determining the state's energy mix between clean energy and fossil fuel sources.

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Another win!! More teachers in office. We love to see it.

looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia

The Virginia results are huge, but how fun to see all the young, progressive candidates winning across the country. Keep these coming! 🙌

This story is *so* wholesome. (And, like so much of Mamdani's campaign, so so hopeful.)