Statement from Judge Dugan's legal team.

Judge Hannah Dugan is a hero. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is pathetic on a level not yet seen before.

Stunning.

JUST IN: A board member was “muted” when it was time for her to vote on changing the name of the Kennedy Center. So, the vote from this shame board wasn’t unanimous in addition to Trump not being able to do this anyway! Can you keep up folks? I know it’s hard.🫩

This amp goes to 11.

Europe has to align itself against Russia because Trump is completely beholden to Putin. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

ICE has arrived in Columbus,OH Mayor Ginther & police chief will hold press briefing at 2 pm for the local community “Columbus will stand shoulder to shoulder with our immigrant neighbors” Councilman Hardin #LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #RU26

More unprivileged homicides—murder—carried out by Hegseth to entertain the MAGA faithful and distract attention from Epstein revelations.

I know a lot happened today, but just a reminder— This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million

Authorities identified suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48 (sp.), a fmr Brown U student and Portuguese national who's a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and lives in Miami. Police are still investigating a possible connection to murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, also from Portugal.

Russia can still sustain this war—but it can no longer scale. The manpower pool is drying up. The signing bonuses are collapsing. The regions are going broke. If Ukraine doesn't exhaust itself first…, the breaking point will come. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/14/i...

We murdered five more people in boats today.

Merz: The financial package for Ukraine is in place: Ukraine will receive an interest-free loan of 90 billion Euros as I suggested. This sends a clear signal from Europe to Putin: This war will not be worth it. We will keep Russian assets frozen until Russia has compensated Ukraine.

First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok. Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies. Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

Note that Brooks hung out with Epstein 3 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution and procuring a child for prostitution. I don't think this makes him look any better! bsky.app/profile/chri...

Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.

Back in July, he was on PBS trying to suggest that the whole Epstein thing was overblown and people should move on. Gee, I wonder why! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

SORKIN: “They said China would buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans by end of year — they’ve bought 300,000 🧑‍🌾 🤔… this isn’t capitalism, it’s state-sponsored capitalism…” @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social doesn’t hold back with @meiselasb.bsky.social 👀 @meidastouch.com ep: youtu.be/A_iZJIjZlLw?...

This guy rules

Nice try, dude.

So the Trump FBI has let a serial killer get away

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

METLIFE looks at risks if SCOTUS rules in *favor* of IEEPA: “.. it could result in a qualitative shift in trade policy with tariffs going from a tool of economic regulation to a tool for geopolitics. .. “.. future administrations may have free reign to .. subordinate commerce to geopolitics.”

Trump’s retreat from the world stage means you now need nukes if you want to stay safe from global predators.

US November CPI: in case one wonders why economists almost universally considered it flawed please read on. In my estimation the BLS made an error in judgment and it resulted in understating the pace of inflation.

Dear-Leader-itis has hit pandemic status in Trumpland.

In his life, Trump has had multiple Epstein chapters.

It’s outrageous Trump is locking up hardworking community members like Kelly Yu while pretending he’s focused on real criminals. I met Kelly at the ICE detention center in Eloy. She’s a small business owner who’s only ever made this country stronger. She should be freed.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor two days later. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/brow...

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

SORKIN: “.. This is now state-sponsored capitalism. I mean, this is not really capitalism. Everything runs through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue now. This is new. This is totally and utterly new.” @meidastouch.com @acyn.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social

> @bencollins.bsky.social theonion.com/trump-assure...

NAACP: “.. He’s made our lives more expensive, our jobs market weaker, and our streets less safe. If we had to give Donald Trump’s economy a grade, it would be an F. Fail fail fail fail fail.” thegrio.com/2025/12/16/b...

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

NYT: Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors If finalized, the new rules would effectively shut down hospitals that fail to comply. The administration’s action represents a major cultural attack on the existence of transgender people.

Lisa McClain: "Subsidies do nothing -- zip, zilch, zero -- to lower costs for the American people"

Donald Trump is so out of touch. Americans are struggling with higher prices while he gives an angry, self-congratulatory speech.

Old classmates of Stephen Miller's wife come forward to reveal her scandalous past

Great news out of Oklahoma!

Those "warrior dividend" Christmastime bonuses that Trump promised in his speech last night? Hegseth is just repurposing housing assistance for troops to make them happen.

Meanwhile in Russia: inspired by the Trump administration’s anti-European stance, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov predicted that Russian and American combat troops will jointly storm European cities. youtu.be/3PWkEmc0we0?...

“.. the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

At this point I know there's nothing that's going to change anyone's mind one way or another but this NYT report is deeply sourced and leaves no doubt that Trump and Epstein were BFFs for many years www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

To Miller, striking drug ops could encourage brown people to stay out of the US. Rubio wanted regime change. Hegseth wanted to win something. Everyone liked a strike on Venezuela, even if drug pretext was fiction & DOJ hadn’t approved yet www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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...

EVERY SINGLE THING TRUMP SAID IN HIS SPEECH WAS A LIE...including the money for US Troops.