We aren’t just telling our constituents what we can do with real representation but showing them too. Two tons of food for needy families in our district in two hours. We have too many people in DC promising to do the work and not enough doing it. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

Another huge dose of reality slapping Trump in his face. Again!

Where have you been? We’re just getting warmed up. We’re ready to keep building a democracy that actually delivers for US. #vote #virginia #2025

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

Smith: We had also interviewed Boris Epshteyn… He corroborated that they were, in fact, trying to call senators. He dissembled and tried to imply that the president hadn’t directed him to do it, even though there was a text message saying specifically that they had.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Trump was blindsided after his China trip caused a GOP failure at home: report

This K9 clocked out of work for the last time back in November 2025. Meet Boston’s retired TSA canine, Hunter. He’s now fulfilling his retirement mission of snacking and snoozing on repeat. With 9 pawsome years of service, this good boi deserves some serious relaxation.

Trump says, Putin said he wants Ukraine to succeed. ALL WHILE HE MURDERS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN UKRAINE. That is the one of the most RIDICULOUS statements I've ever heard. Trump is a BUFFOON.

Surely, Mr. Shirley knows better.

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

DEMS WIN BIG IN IOWA: Democrat Renee Hardman wins IA State Senate SD-16 with 71.5%, a 27-point Dem overperformance from 2024. Harris won the district by 16. Hardman's victory blocks a GOP supermajority and makes history as the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

Cross: And I just find it laughable that the party of the self-proclaimed pro-life people are celebrating cutting off funding to children…

President Donald Trump and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were in some shady business deals together, and one incident may hold the key to understanding why the president has never publicly released his tax returns, according to one Trump expert.

A New Year is coming the fight for justice will keep going #EpsteinFiles

Thank you so much Tricia for including me in your wonderful Starter Pack! 💙💙Stronger Together💙💙 @thewelshtaffy25.bsky.social

NEW: A judge in the Kilmar Abrego case just UNSEALED a Dec 3rd order showing DOJ lied to the court when it said that Blanche's office didn't have anything to do with the decision to prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

Just in case you needed to get caught up on current events:

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption. Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Just like Hitler wanted Poland to succeed. "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices." Donald Trump

The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously. Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen?? youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Pelosi: “The President incited an insurrection. We begged him to send the National Guard, they never sent them. This President is trying to re-write history… it was an assault on the constitution of 🇺🇸.”

More failed redacted allegations: "Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused." #doj #epstein files 👀⚖️

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Trump's grift never stops as he is now trying to scam his supporters out of thousands of dollars.

Release the Epstein Files!

How to Get Rid of “Citizens United” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd. Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage. Another reason for Medicare for All.

The orange felon says the Epstein Files are a “Democratic Hoax” and yet he still felt it necessary to doctor documents and hide evidence whilst redacting everything that would be damaging to him. That’s called GUILTY AF.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.