Beautiful reflection by Anderson Cooper on grief, loss, and loneliness on the CNN's NYE broadcast. Telling people they are remembered and not alone.

As Americans' thoughts turned to friendships, family, and the year ahead on New Year's Eve, President Trump raged online against Colorado, telling the Governor to "rot in hell."

When Mamdani becomes Mayor at midnight, it is a real political feat. Remember that. There aren't many of those. They won against the odds by getting their man into living rooms and churches. The press came late. We'll see what he does with it, but that is worthy of respect.

A New Year’s present for us all!

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

Now random douchebags are showing up to daycares thinking they’re going to break a big story. Many daycares are closed this week due to the New Year. Good lord.

So basically a modified single payer system for the non-group/non-Medicare/Medicaid market, except a portion of it would be paid for via progressive ACA-like sliding scale invoices instead of insurance premiums, w/a few twists like the mandatory primary care physician. Potentially workable...

Desperate prisoners at the Otay Mesa ICE Concentration Camp are yelling to activists to get their information out and report significant human rights violations within the facility. 12/29/25

New: The House Judiciary Committee just released (on New Year’s Eve) the transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony. As I start to read the 250 page report, this Q+A in the image below jumps out: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

From beating my record for most bills introduced in one year to joining folks across IL-14 for important conversations, I’m thankful to look back at everything we’ve accomplished. 2025 may be ending, but our work isn’t. Get some good rest, and I’ll see you in January!

Lawsuit says Alabama kept inmates past date of legally required release. District court tossed it on the basis of so-called Heck doctrine barring civil rights challenges to intact sentences, but Cato amicus brief urges Eleventh Circuit to reverse, since the suit didn't challenge their sentences.

third way is the only think tank, left or right, to ever block me on social media. why? because i kept pointing out that third way is a right wing operation designed to pull the democratic party away from liberalism/leftism.

Happy New Year 2026 from the Russian Media Monitor!

Opinion | Kamala Harris wouldn't have ended healthcare subsidies, levied crushing tariffs, defunded scientific research, deported innocent people, pardoned drug kingpins, or run crypto scams. But she might have made another uninspiring appearance on The View. The voters chose correctly.

Another great @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social investigation into Meta, this one about the company's secret playbook for deceiving and manipulating the regulators investigating its massive scam problem www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Happy New Year, Tokyo! 🇯🇵

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

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The Year of Failing Dangerously I wrap up the worst of Trump’s worst year…also featuring insanely, hilariously bad AI art! www.againstallenemies.net/p/the-year-o...

Can he fix it? @mcuban.bsky.social talks healthcare with @citizencohn.bsky.social in the latest edition of The Breakdown: lnk.thebulwark.com/3L9cCFO

The Department of Health and Human Services moved to freeze child care payments to Minnesota after a circulated video reignited a “fraud scandal” involving the state’s social services system, intensifying conservative calls for an aggressive government crackdown. However, the video at the center

Foggy frosty morning here at the top of our ridge on this last day of the year. All the animals were fed and watered by dawn. Rain returns tomorrow. It’s been nice to have a few dry days at the end of the year.

Despite our mistakes, despite our flaws and differences, despite the unscrupulous billionaires and their inexhaustible resources, I believe. I believe we will unite as a people against this scourge of fascism. …

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New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html

President Trump promised punishment for Colorado. And delivered. Relocating Space Command Denying disaster funding for wildfires and floods Planning to dismantle NCAR DOJ investigation of Colorado's prisons Vetoing a clean drinking water project 👇👇👇

The Department of Energy gets community noted for parroting Dear Leader’s lies

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

Is there enough evidence that we can all walk up to The White House and say fraud is happening there?

MN fraud has been under investigation since 2022! Scandalous for sure but not new. trump needs distractions from what’s gonna take him down and what could be “juicier”? Democratic governor who was a former VP nominee, big Somalian community, an FBI director who needs a win; perspective is key here

Phillip: Shouldn't he have to provide actual evidence of fraud before just walking up to a building and saying fraud is happening here?

The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways.

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

The last line of this post refutes the first. Of the 78 people charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud probe, 70 were indicted by February 2024, the last full year of the Biden presidency. web.archive.org/web/20241120...

Damnit.

Remarkable. US attorney general Pam Bondi tweets out a chart showing deaths from drug overdoses plummeting and giving the president credit. “Elections have consequences,” she says. One problem. The data ends in Oct 2024. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Horrifying. And the only remnants showing any drugs (not that it would make any of this legal) is a bag with a little weed in it. Guess you get to die for that now under Trump if you’re in a boat in international waters. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

“21 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers” Leonard Leo and Charles Koch backed the successful assault on Chevron v. NRDC, which held that “the courts should generally defer to federal agencies.” Article from 2024: therevolvingdoorproject.org/amicus-spotl...

This is genius. There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.

This guy. “White House Attorney Paul Ingrassia Wasn’t Admitted to the Bar Until a Year After His Firm Said He Was Representing Andrew Tate”

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