Make no mistake, this is an act of war. Only Congress can authorize war. Trump has put us on the road to an illegal war with Venezuela. We must stop this madness.

A new poll shows what working families already know: child care costs are overwhelming, and voters need real solutions. When parents can’t afford child care, it affects jobs, household stability, and the entire economy. Affordable child care isn’t a luxury — it’s essential. https://seiu.co/3YJhFzI

Peace is attainable. Wars aren't started over workers wanting higher wages. Wars are started so huge corporations & very wealthy people make more money. There's much more of us than there is them. When we rise up together in solidarity we can & will move mountains. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We don't have a government. We have a bunch of guys who heard things on social media. We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.

That's a lot of talk for the guy who tore up our Eastern plains here in Colorado for fracking. You think we'd forget how you sued cities that had bans on fracking? We haven't & we won't. You have to be voted out. In 2025 nobody has time for the guy who said "you can drink fracking water."

We're always tracking our work's impact — awards we've received, radio appearances and press coverage, legislative or judicial action, and more. What means the most to us is seeing and hearing that our local journalism is making our neighbors’ lives better. This year's top moments:

The endgame for crypto doesn’t threaten people’s livelihoods whereas the entire point of AGI is to replace us all with computers. It’s no surprise that people now rail more against AI which provides genuine value to hundreds of millions of people than crypto which is a grifter’s paradise.

MAGA…focusing on the real problems of America… #RadioFreeAmerica

May she rest in peace. Much too young. Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Why one Santa Monica resident has spent $8,000 testing for pollutants on local beaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBm0...

The Democratic Party is structurally organized to ensure the continued viability of the Republican Party and its own junior status.

We only need four Republicans! Is your Congressional Rep a Republican? How about some calls today?

Im just here for the ratio

This 17yr old teen confronts US Border Patrol Commander, Gregory Bovino during this display of #ICELawlessness as they abduct a young man with a newborn baby. He demands to see a warrant & is denied. Where are the police? Where are city officials asking this? Shouldn't we have our own watchdogs?

"The head of CBS news installed a private telephone line to call the CIA directly and bypass the switchboard" comes off as cartoonish left wing propaganda about the relationship between capitalist intelligence services and corporate media, not a literal fact openly told to Carl Bernstein.

Trump DOJ Cases Against Chicago Protesters Are an Utter Failure newrepublic.com/post/204812/...

Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

I'm being told the Atlantic thought she was being treated too harshly by the digital Jacobins.

in the early aughts, MSNBC was trying to find their place between Fox and CNN (that CNN was 'liberal' was a deep belief) and whoever was in charge at the time explicitly said they were aiming at "republicans who don't like george bush" and in 2003 that was approximately 500 people who lived in DC

i think one of the big dividing lines is whether you think trump is this unique aberration or just the latest version of the suck. im definitely in the latter camp. goldwater -> reagan -> bush ii -> mccain -> romney -> trump

im dog sitting my friend's shih tzu, nori, and the difference in nori's "aggressive" barking vs kal-el's is so funny. kal sounds like he means business, like he would kill you if he could just get his hands on you. nori sounds like the chubby nerdy kid in a family movie, trying to sound tough.

stephen miller and tom homan almost look too cartoonish to be dick tracy villains

This is a woman who hounded gun violence victims and is currently pursuing anti trans legislation. Fuck MTG I don’t care if she “saw the light” on Trump or not and Robert Draper is in love with her now.

When he was at the country club behind closed doors Mitt Romney mocked people who require social services. Trump mocked the disabled on stage.

“Listen, I hate Hitler! But he had a really good op-ed about school taxes — if we aren’t willing to listen to good points from those with which we disagree, are we even a democracy?”

Lest anyone forget. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RW...

Explaining The Year: How Trump caused so much chaos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The Federal government and the provinces are Americanizing our healthcare system, and there is no better example than two tier care depending on who you are.

There is a lesson about the degradation of the Canadian healthcare system in here. You should not have to become famous to get proper help: “How Heated Rivalry’s success is helping her fight Parkinson’s” variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

The war on drugs failed.

Did you know? Last year, Minnesota eliminated prison gerrymandering. The law, signed by Tim Walz in the spring, ended the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.

In 2024, a group of 200 mental health professionals warned that Trump ”is dangerous because of “his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism”, which makes him “grossly unfit for leadership”. He hasn't gotten any better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

This is about people who are being held pretrial, without a conviction, and yet are blocked from accessing ballots… until Colorado required polling places in jails.

there was a bill to forbid Virginia prosecutors from getting defendants to sign away their constitutional/Bill of Rights rights, giving them up for years. wild, right? youngkin vetoed the bill boltsmag.org/fourth-amend...

youngkin brought back a Jim Crow-era policy of voter disenfranchisement under him, Virginia became the *only* state to practice the harsh rule that anyone with any felony conviction ought to remain barred from voting for life boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

in case you missed it: beginning thursday, chicago police will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on the cta—the latest in an escalating series of attacks on unhoused people under mayor brandon johnson’s administration.

"Valenzuela explained to me that she lives with her family at one of the two properties purchased by the soup kitchen. It’s an act of solidarity with other residents, she said, and also to help keep tabs on a place that used to be a trouble spot."

Donald Trump carried Pennsylvania’s populous Bucks County in 2024. But the Republican sheriff who then partnered with ICE to aid deportations lost his reelection bid last month.

Newly released footage of ICE goons in LA cornering, shooting and abducting journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias as he is clearly unarmed. Carlitos is still in ICE custody. (published 12/28/25)

“The view may be that, ‘As long as he keeps calling all of us idiots and he appoints people like Emil Bove, I’m not gonna give that guy any vacancy.'" As it should be. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

Great. Even better would be cracking down on the rampant overuse of plastics. thehill.com/policy/energ...

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“Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond ttps://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/30/gaza_israel_palestine_trump_netanyahu_ceasefire

President-elect Trump reportedly balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks. That's a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems, like Tom Homan's bribery probe.

This post is about actions that *individuals* can take. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social released a report about 11 evidence-based public health strategies, which I will post more about later. But you can read it here:

Wow… I used to like Keith. Her colleague David Brooks was found to have pal’ed around with Epstein. Now I’m suspicious of that whole PBS Newshour crew. Wonder what skeletons Amy Wolter is hiding.

David Brooks spoke at a Jeffrey Epstein event.

EXCLUSIVE: In an ominous sign of financial trouble, the Fed has been silently injecting billion$ of cash into banks for the last times months, @dcreport.bsky.social revealed this morning. We also reveal a new Fed policy that indicates cash shortfalls are worsening. www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/n...