The Department of Justice will not meet a Friday deadline to provide Congress with the full investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday. Who is surprised? l.smartnews.com/p-6NZIlckw/c...

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Just crossed the border from Buffalo, New York to Canada. There were border patrol agents standing around with a dog before we got to the checkpoint and there was No one ahead of us. Hardly any tucks either. Never seen this before.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I watched the Trump address so you don't have to.

Good news: My bipartisan Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act is heading to the President's desk to be signed into law. This legislation will help Ukraine track and return the thousands of children abducted by Russia during Putin's brutal invasion.

The American people deserve to hear, directly from Jack Smith, what his investigation into Trump found. Instead of that transparency, today Republicans brought him in for a closed door deposition, all in an effort to cover up Trump’s attempt to overturn a free and fair election.

@invisible.institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims, enabling officers to become repeat offenders. (Published May)

Lawful immigration pathways are being weaponized by this administration. Follow the rules and show up to your check-in? You risk arrest. Miss a check-in? Your case is dismissed and you become deportable. Secretary Noem knows this. I will continue monitoring 26 Fed until this abuse stops.

Boycott dementia Don spewing lies on all the networks tonight. Make it the lowest rated speech of all eternity.

Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.

Translation of the letter sent from Venezuela to the United Nations. Apologies if the translation is not exact. And to be clear, Venezuela, we Americans do not want war. We are dealing with a mad king. Caracas, December 16, 2025

Republicans just blocked my attempt to force the release of the video of the 'second strike' that killed shipwrecked survivors on September 2nd. This is their latest move to provide cover for this administration as it drags us closer to war with Venezuela.

Why should anyone believe that Pam Bondi will lead a fair review of the Warner Bros. merger when her ex-lobbying firm was hired by both Netflix and Paramount? The merger review process under Donald Trump is already a hotbed of corruption. AG Bondi must recuse herself now.

This photo of @kim.senate.gov clearing trash in the Capitol rotunda after the Jan. 6 attack was, for many, the first 'introduction' to the senator from New Jersey. How fortunate we are to have elected officials like Andy Kim, who continue to protect our country and Constitution

These nominees are poised to be lifetime-appointed federal judges. And they’re officers of the court who have an obligation to tell the truth. But they’d rather eat a huge slice of stupid, dishonest pie than admit the truth.

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the expiring ObamaCare subsidies. The legislation has little chance of passing through the Senate. l.smartnews.com/p-6NkPbKuY/f...

Balint: "Even for Republican this is extreme. Are we really attempting to lock up parents and doctors? Your kids' medical care is none of their damn business. It's creepy. It's a creepy obsession."

Maxwell has exhausted all of her direct appeals but filed a long-shot habeas petition which claims "substantial new evidence has emerged" demonstrating she did not receive a fair trial, according to Maxwell's filing in federal court in New York. www.samsung-news.com/articles/AjQ...

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

Moskowitz: Speaker Johnson seems to have memory problems: I haven’t seen that. I haven’t heard about it. You’re telling me this for the first time. He just can’t get away from trying to defend the president without making it look like he has absolutely no idea what’s going on at any point in time…

www.newsweek.com/robert-morri... BREAKING NEWS ! DONALD TRUMP'S EX SPIRITUAL ADVISOR PLEADS GUILTY TO MULTIPLE CHILD RAPE CRIMES

The FCC’s official website scrambled to remove language calling it an “independent agency” just minutes after a Democratic senator confronted the agency’s chairman about it. l.smartnews.com/p-6Nh7g2Eo/j...

Former special counsel Jack Smith is set to testify Wednesday in a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee regarding his prosecutions of Donald Trump. l.smartnews.com/p-6NaLe1lS/Q...

This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

ROSS ULBRICHT Founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, which facilitated over $214 million in illegal drug sales. Some of those drugs killed people. Trump pardoned him anyway. See more at: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

Why Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against the BBC is doomed to fail

Trump and his tariffs are the Grinch who stole Christmas.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Breaking: The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.

Reiner on Trump

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

I can’t handle the Truth Social post from Trump about Rob Reiner

We’re suing to expose records related to President Trump’s stunning effort to pocket $230 million in taxpayer dollars as a payout for investigations into his own misconduct. The public deserves answers about this self-enrichment scheme. We’ll get them in court.

This 20 year old citizen, Mobashir was tackled, brutalized & abducted by #ICE. "I felt like I was getting assaulted. I was getting kidnapped. And that’s exactly what it was,” he said. He poses this question: If this #ICELawlessness is happening on camera, what's happening off camera? Speak out! 🧵

Keystone Kash Patel is so inept and unqualified.

With just 17 days until Obamacare tax credits expire, it’s now clear: Congress—and the country—are headed over the Obamacare cliff. Even if the House acts, the Senate won’t move in time. It’s outrageous that all members of Congress have great, taxpayer-funded healthcare! Screw regular Americans!!

Here is a list of deadly shootings on college campuses in the US #usnews

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Remember when we were not losing jobs in droves, or at odds with all our allies, or attacking other nations for their resources, or deploying masked thugs to terrorize our citizens, or pardoning drug traffickers and violent criminals in exchange for bribes? It was only little over a year ago.

What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S. s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...