“One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Another showed Trump with 6 women” www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

“In a stunning special election upset...Democrat Eric Gisler flipped a Georgia state House seat that President Donald Trump carried by 12 points, winning...a race that LGBTQ+ advocates are calling a decisive rebuke of far-right politics." 🔎 advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally

Rep. Magaziner: “You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst…You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, marines, children, and U.S. citizens.”

Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. Millions of Americans they represent will see health insurance premiums double or even triple in just days. Congressional Republicans need to stand up for the people they represent.

"a country she said she had never been to...." www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social.  The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas. 

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..." www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation” Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy. Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation. If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.

Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump's FCC forced a major network to pull a loud Trump critic, Jimmy Kimmel, off the air — essentially saying that any media actor that doesn't say what Trump wants them to say...is going to be silenced. That's censorship. That's not America."

ICE is using a "staging facility" in Louisiana to hold people for days and deporting them before they can call a lawyer to defend their rights. “Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social the ONLY Patel comment that bears repeating:

There are weeks that feel longer than they are, and weeks when every single day is hard. This was a long, hard week. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...

a rational person would look at a political party who tried to lie us into a civil war over a podcaster until they found out the shooter was one of them and run the other way. a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.

Turning off the fire alarms won’t prevent the fire.

Now might be a good time for you to watch me discuss Trump's misuse of the military and violation of the Constitution with Congressman Jamie Raskin youtu.be/YDLIgNzb5FM

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

Amen! Release the EPSTEIN FILES!

There’s a word for that: corruption.

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

Kennedy might have prospered had he simply been content to continue slapping a MAHA coat of paint on the good work of the government’s actual scientists. Instead, he seems determined to rip the engine out while the car is hurtling down the interstate.

This right here.

Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.

RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.

Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Phang: We hear this a lot from Republicans, “Oh, well, they came here illegally.” He went to a port of entry. He made an appointment, showed up for that appointment, had a future court hearing scheduled, and was also applying for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). What more was he supposed to do?

New #TrainTakes: @ritchietorresny15 schools Mike Johnson on Medicaid. “If you’re going to cut health care for kids, the elderly, and the disabled—at least tell the truth about it.”

"The Director of National Intelligence of the United States stood at the White House today...and read information that came from Russian Intelligence...without ever telling people that that's where that information came from." www.youtube.com/live/YN5nyjg...

Let that sink in for a sec.