Australian court awards abuse survivor $1.5 million—and exposes Jehovah's Witnesses' cover-up open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

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Trump stepped in it He is suing the Pulitzer committee for damages from defamation So now they have subpoenaed his Medical Records, Psychiatric Records, and Tax Returns as proof of damages. He needs smarter attorneys

A selfless defender Casey Caballero is one of the many volunteers in the Chicago suburbs who track ICE activity and help families after the raids.

Speak Truth....

They think if they say “Obamacare raised prices and nobody likes it” doesn’t make it true. Lots of finger pointing blaming the Democrats… for what? Historical affordable healthcare with more people covered. The People want to keep the current system. The GOP can lie, but that does not make it so.

Interestingly, audiences who saw both overwhelmingly voted that the B&W Psycho was scarier and apparently part of it was the dark blood in the B& W vs the red blood in colour and the reason this is a great factoid is that the dark blood in the original was chocolate sauce

Wiles has already begun disowning the Vanity Fair interviews’ content, about an hour ago.

🚨Pre-existing conditions look a lot like a general representation of the purpose/function of healthcare.

Consider getting a Costco membership: I reupped mine, even though we have little need for it. www.dailydot.com/viral-politi...

Remember when Biden mangled his "garbage" comment, they immediately issued a clarification and it was still played above the fold in the New York Times as an example of his mental frailty?

Mar-A-Lago face before and after 🤢

A very scary dude.

"Look no further than his policy trail. He froze aid to Ukraine and has threatened to place sanctions on them, while planning to lift sanctions off Russia. He openly campaigned for anti-EU candidates, and sided with Russia in multiple key United Nations votes related to the Ukraine conflict". #Trump

More crazy shit from the crazy house

An A+++++ on this economy? With the higher prices? This president is clearly completely detached from reality.

Commentary: Rob Reiner's tragic slaying and Trump's awful response

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The shadow oil fleet, the seized tanker & much more info: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

A Spotify playlist with our last 2 albums complete for easy comparison of how we have not progressed beyond heavy guitars ! #musicsky open.spotify.com/playlist/79a...

Rob Reiner's company Castlerock was one of the production companies behind Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld: "Our show would have never happened without him. He saw something no one else could. When nobody at the network liked the early episodes, he saved us from cancellation."

Thousands of Pennsylvanians are giving up their health insurance as premiums skyrocket. The GOP majorities in Congress haven’t acted. And Trump is more focused on building a ballroom to entertain his billionaire buddies than ending this GOP-manufactured crisis.

Didn’t the US already promise Ukraine "security assurances" in exchange for Ukraine relinquishing their nuclear arsenal. I hope Zelenskyy realizes Trump’s word is worthless. Why Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons and what that means in a Russian invasion www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

Is your morning coffee just getting more and more expensive? Thanks to Trump’s reckless tariff-taxes, you are not alone 👇🏾

#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social "Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation." If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."

Hey Philly! Make sure to protect yourself and your loved ones this holiday season by staying up-to-date with your annual flu shot and COVID vaccine. You can get vaccinated for free, with no appointment needed, at Philadelphia Health Centers right in your neighborhood! Learn more here:

Ensuring the rich can afford fancy saunas tax-free or saving the tax credits that help make health care affordable for 24 MILLION Americans from expiring in 26 days. Guess which one congressional Republicans are choosing so far?

The chairman is being diplomatic about the GOP's health care plan- but after 15 years there isn't one. A simple extension of the ACA tax credits would end this GOP-created crisis and prevent the shutdown of health care for 24 million Americans.

Testimony from terminally ill residents persuaded an undecided Gov. JB Pritzker to sign legislation that will give people with six months or less to live the option to end their lives with a doctor’s prescription in Illinois.

New at Fight the Fire: The moron-avirus pandemic. (All links/subscriptions free.) " ’Tis a pity that when we were distributing chips for Bill Gates through our covid vaccines, we didn’t add something to de-assholify participating MAGA while we were at it."

Free link at Fight the Fire: "That’s right – the new civil rights cause is protecting the very group of folks whose most morally depraved members spent generations upon generations denying the civil rights of others." All links/subscriptions at our Substack site are free.

I was thinking I would get a beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner. Checked out some prices .😳 Shocked, I started thinking about ground beef. Checked out the prices .😳 Notice the tenderloin say,”Imported”. Funny we have cow fields all around us. 🐮 Let’s all start taking pictures of the prices. 📸

Free at Fight the Fire on Substack: The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation? Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road? A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare. All links/subscriptions free.

Exactly what the MAGA cult voted for. This is the GOP, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell (he had the votes), and John Roberts' legacy. Hillary was right about everything. I hope all the closet racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and LGBTQ averse 2024 stay at home Democrats are happy. Are we great yet?

Rewatched Stand By Me tonight. First time in decades for a movie i had seen many times before. It more than holds up. A true banger with a breathtaking cast of uknown or underknown actors, many of whom are well known today. One of the best jobs of casting kids ever. All four mains went on to a lot.

The Republican evil that lives in America and is running our government is killing people and eating cake to celebrate. apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...

The last couple of days have been hard to take, one more shooting in America. Brown university. Another school. A celebration of a sacred time at Bondi Beach Australia and gunfire. Lives lost, lives taken. Now Rob Reiner and his wife Michele…murdered. I leave this spoken word poem. Run into the wind

This is why the news readers (I'm not calling them journalists) have suddenly started calling it "Obamacare" after years of calling it the Affordable Care Act.

‪Bill Kristol‬ I've got to say, this weekend, from students preparing for finals at Brown to Jews celebrating the festival of Hanukkah on Bondi Beach...it felt as if Yeats' awful vision were coming true: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned."

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 It was referred to as a "disturbance", or a "crisis" but it was a race riot. It occurred in August 1957 and centered on the arrival of the first Black-American family to move into Levittown, PA. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, warning that the Kremlin leader’s ambitions won’t stop with Ukraine.

Happy Hanukkah to my friends who celebrate. This is not a political post, so please refrain from making it one.

Rob Reiner was more than an amazing movie director to me. He was one of our strongest public advocates for @TheDemCoalition, part of our Impeachment Task Force. He was one of America's foremost voices of reason and wisest defenders of democracy. Rob is an American treasure.

NEVER FORGET!!!

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 14 DECEMBER 2025 Sandy Hook 13 years ago😪 Now Brown University & Bondi Beach Children that have had to witness this all the time STOP We have Lost So Many When will it eve end Always just thoughts and prayers THIS WILL ASTOUND YOU PLEASE WATCH THE WHOLE CLIP⬇️⬇️

That piece is mostly background/context. For more on McGrath herself, start here & follow the breadcrumbs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail...