The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship

THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

🚨BREAKING: Missourians filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a court to stop the state from using its new congressional map until voters have the chance to approve or reject the measure in a referendum. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s military takeover of Chicago will not go forward after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling halting his attempt to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: I support a Millionaires’ Tax on income over $1 million a year. The fairness of our tax system ranks 50th. Let’s make this historic change this session. This is a separate proposal from the budget I announced today — revenue would not be realized until 2029.

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

SCOTUS tells Trump no on deployment of Illinois Nat’l Guard, finding a valid exception to the Posse Comitatus Act doesn’t exist. Huge loss for the Trump Administration. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

From USA Today - DOJ was pursuing 10 Epstein "co-conspirators" in 2019. WTF happened? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I can’t wait to never watch this.

“Victorian-inspired Phrases to Use This Christmas.”

Invading Venezuela is a close second: 19% approve, 60% disapprove.

"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information" Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn @rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

I just penned this piece with Tom Joscelyn Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” "If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information."

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Pro-democracy forces will not shame or argue MAGA Republicans into capitulation or retreat. With a helping hand from diligent lower courts, an organized electorate can end the authoritarian nightmare. Everything rests on the midterms.

Vitus has such a good sense for zooming out and seeing the big picture!! Predictions!! 🤞

Portland Choir and Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOni...

Join Norm Eisen and me for our chat about his newest case, challenging the addition of Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center.

The Judge presiding over the criminal case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a ruling under seal that will become public on December 30.

The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. www.ms.now/news/abortio...

HOPIUM CHRONICLES: “Many Mentions Of Trump" In New DOJ Epstein Release, Watch The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment, My Conversation With Mike Nellis www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/many-menti...

Nine Stories That Deserved More Attention in 2025 – and Might Shape 2026 From important but under-covered climate milestones to Latin America’s rightward swing to efforts to protect civilians in modern warfare, see trends deserving more attention in 2025 – and that are likely to shape year ahead.

“No man is indispensable.” Don Sherman and Jen Ahearn revisit the debates behind the 22nd Amendment and show how a bipartisan group of lawmakers, shaped by the fight against authoritarianism, deliberately imposed a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Pro Trump supporter Bari Weiss tried to suppress 60 Minutes from showing this video. Here is the video. You know what to do.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

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It was one of those nights. 2 judges ruled in highly significant cases & a new lawsuit got filed, all while I was at dinner with my husband. Catch up on the news & watch my conversation with the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social about Judge Dugan’s conviction. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Some people have a knack for discussing dark topics without leaving you depressed. Really enjoyed my conversation with @andyostroy.bsky.social

Bari Weiss, really? Really.

Attempted Epstein coverup currently competing with attempted CECOT coverup.

After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."

BREAKING: Judge Cannon rules that her restriction on Jack Smith's classified documents report will end on Feb. 24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Judge Boasberg said the administration's goal in rushing to deport the men — after Trump's secret invocation of the Alien Enemies Act — was clearly meant to evade court review until they were in CECOT. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...

Here it is

1/ In The Week Ahead: What can Congress do about DOJ's incomplete release of the Epstein Files? Will the public hear from Jack Smith? & A great letter written by Senator Kelly's lawyer, calling out the political nature of DoD's investigation into the "you don't have to obey illegal orders" video

“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News: Restrictions on the release on the release of Volume II of Jack Smith's report concerning Trump's Espionage Act prosecution will EXPIRE on Feb. 24, 2026. BUT Judge Cannon will let Trump DOJ try to delay it further and DENIES a First Amendment group's bid to intervene. Doc buff.ly/fuP30K4

On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"

The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT is already leaking out. Most predictable thing ever.

I believe they will be, only because they are not a cohesive, high functioning bunch.

Harlingen, Texas myrgv.com/local-news/2...

Breaking: Trump just now on the Epstein files: "Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has." "They're asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein. I thought that was finished."

It is hard to stomach.