I guess ultimately it isn’t surprising that Orban’s government was funding CPAC, but it also is shocking. Future generations for sure will be shocked by how much we just didn’t know or ignored. Oh, and Mitch McConnell can go fuck himself

Congratulations to JD Vance & the International Council of Nationalists for helping cost Orban the election & providing a road map for defeating our fascists at home. If a Dem nominee won’t clean house & punish the monsters administrating concentration camps on American soil, they’re a collaborator

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

This is so unhinged. He’s going to get us all killed. But I fear it will not compel anyone around him with the power to remove him to do so, for reasons that I don’t think I will ever understand

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“You don’t want to show that kind of division to your enemy when you’re in the midst of a war,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Mineiro. “I don’t have a problem with the administration avoiding showing our enemy that they don’t have 100 percent support of the Congress.” The cognitive dissonance…

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

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Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

I understand that the times we live in are very serious and not a sitcom. But did I read this sentence in my head as Ron Howard narrating an episode of Arrested Development? Yes. Yes, I did. “In fact, Trump has not been exonerated.”

This is so lovely. Rest in power, Rev. Jackson

I think this is very narrow-minded. I absolutely would have brought this applicant in to interview and asked them to expand on it

“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”

Huh, this is an interesting turn of events

The court documents are going to be an insane testimony to this time. I can imagine future law students and historians reading these documents and wondering how and WHY people who had the power to do something simply…chose not to

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Bearing witness

There is absolutely no way to spin this. This was an execution.

They call immigrants criminals as they unleash a crime wave. They call immigrants rapists as they keep raping people. They call immigrants invaders as they keep invading communities. They call immigrants murderers as they keep murdering people.

Beyoncé Madonna Liz Phair Ani Difranco Janelle Monae Grace Jones Kylie Minogue Tori Amos Tracy Chapman Amythyst Kiah Sarah Maclachan Stevie Nicks Lizzo Alanis Morissette Aimee Mann Indigo Girls Lauryn Hill Suzanne Vega Dua Lipa Remy Wolf Mitski Probably many others I’m forgetting

“A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.”

Absolute facts

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

“…the revelation from yesterday that the U.S. has sold $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and is keeping the money in Qatar rather than in U.S. banks.” All very normal and above-board…

My god, we’re only 12 days into the year. I guess 2026 will also be about a decade long

This is….not good

The fact that they murdered Ms Good in cold blood is bad enough. But I can’t stop thinking of the absolute incompetence of a cop shooting a driver in a moving vehicle. How in any universe can that be defended as sensible action?

“Although I may disagree with him on a day-to-day or hour-to-hour basis … he has shown extraordinary competence,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said in an interview. “I voted for him in this position; I still have confidence in his abilities.”

Make it viral.

This article gives just a short list of US imperial interventions that have destabilized Central and South America. If we want to understand the current immigration issues, we need to understand this history

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

We’re living the movie Wag the Dog

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Damn

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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

And it goes on. The man is completely unraveling. Bombing boats, threatening invasions “to stop drugs,” and now promising a full pardon to a president convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. This isn’t law and order. It’s the most lawless presidency in American history.👇

If you’re like me, maybe you disconnected from the news a bit for the holiday. Even so, there are things in this newsletter that surprised me and just aren’t being fully reported in mainstream media, thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, for keeping this important record of our descent into fascism

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

AHPAA was passed more than 20 years ago to spur Illinois’ most expensive communities to build more affordable housing. Despite recent amendments intended to strengthen the law, there’s still much work to be done to achieve the law’s vision.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I really cannot imagine going to all the trouble of getting elected to the Senate only to get there and decide not to stand up for healthcare, or democracy, or people’s ability to afford their lives. If those things aren’t worth fighting for, then truly what is?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Am rewatching one of my favorite movies of my teen years “Pump Up the Volume” after some time, and the first line is “Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?” Talk about a movie holding up

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.