Clock’s ticking. Release the files.

For the first time in decades, I handed my successor an air traffic controller workforce that was growing instead of shrinking. Disturbingly, the Trump administration can't or won't say whether that’s still the case.

But Fox News said...

Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds - an amount far greater than previously known - as part of a brazen agenda last year to defeat two ballot amendments he staunchly opposed, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people

Collins: If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, why is he telling parents two weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children?

BREAKING: Congressman Moskowitz has confirmed that the FEMA meeting Kristi Noem claimed she left today’s hearing to attend was cancelled.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Noem leaves the hearing and is heckled as she departs the room

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."

MAGAZINER: A hardworking man w/no criminal record who raised 3 sons to be Marines -- ICE agents tackled him while he was mowing lawn & imprisoned him. Will you consider him for parole? NOEM: Everyone in this country illegally has an opportunity to voluntarily go home M: He raised 3 Marines

Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

“Deadhead Fed hair”. Maybe time to limit his public events.

So grateful: THE JACKAL’S MISTRESS is a Library Journal Best Book of 2025! Thank you, LJ! #romance #bookstagram #book

BREAKING: Democrat Eric Gisler has won the GA HD-121 special election, Decision Desk HQ projects, flipping the seat from red to blue Just last year, Gisler lost this district by 22 points. The district was Trump +12 in 2024.

This is the economy that Donald Trump called "A++++++" today.

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

THIS IS HUGE: Democrat Eileen Higgins has flipped the Miami mayor’s office, defeating Republican Emilio Gonzalez and marking the latest sign of the party’s momentum heading into next year’s midterms. Higgins is the first Democrat to become mayor of Miami since 1997.

Congratulations to Eileen Higgins on being elected Mayor of Miami! The first Democrat elected to this position in decades, she understands what politics is about: building a safer, more affordable, and better everyday life.

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

Withholding only 25%…why not the whole budget?

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?” Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?” Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.” Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”

Is it too much to hope that Congress is regrowing some backbone? Baby steps here, but important ones. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

"Local businesses were ready to push back. Posted on store- and restaurant-front windows were signs: 'Private area', '4th Amendment Workplace' and 'There’s always room at our table, but to enter past this point, we’ll need to see a warrant signed by a judge'...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The rest of the country has to bail out Trump voters again after he crushed them with his policies. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

BREAKING: A tsunami as high as 10 feet could hit Japan's northeastern coast after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 occurred offshore, the Japan Meteorological Agency said reut.rs/44iNwL0

.. a “remarkable figure, never before seen in recorded economic history ..” @wsj.com 🇨🇳 www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

When Trump goes on racist fascistic tirades against Somalian-Americans and Hegseth celebrates the regime's extrajudicial killing spree in Caribbean waters, we have a choice to make: A) Let it go B) RESIST If you choose B, JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4 CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE & CHURCH ST, MONTCLAIR

Trump is underwater on every issue and voters (especially independents) are fed up with Republicans working around the clock to enrich billionaires while refusing to lift a finger to make life more affordable for the rest of us. Let’s build a blue tsunami for the midterms: indivisible.org/groups

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Jennifer and I are deeply saddened by the passing of Frank Gehry, a true architectural genius. He will be missed, but his legacy in California and beyond stands as tall as his finest creations. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

1700 NAUTICAL MILES FROM THE US! ON... PANGA BOATS THAT CAN ONLY TRAVEL 150!

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

This is so messed up… Amnesty International reports that detainees at Alligator Alcatraz (and at another facility, Krome North Service Processing Center) describe being placed in a “punishment box,” a cage-like structure in the yard so cramped that people could not sit, lie down, or

NOROFLK, Va. (AP) — Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, AP source says.

JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS

Kagan: "And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

Himes: They posed zero threat to anyone in the region, and we killed them.

UPDATE: Van Epps getting immediately sworn in today because they can count on him to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, whereas Rep. Grijalva had to wait because she was not going to protect powerful pedophiles 🤔 @SpeakerJohnson

Make the Edsel great again