I'm old enough to remember when the networks refused to carry an incredibly important speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by President Biden about creeping fascism in the U.S. because it was "too political". Sure, but they'll broadcast every minute of Trump's propaganda bullshit. 🙄

"This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

MSM. Total fail.

This is so great.

Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff

So good.

The appropriate response to this insane performance is that Trump clearly needs to step down.

OMG Trump is so gone. We are in a dangerous place.

Brilliant

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

Whew. Roll out that 25th.

Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.

First on NBC News: Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges @mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE says agents "conducted themselves with the utmost professionalism"

Breaking: The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.

Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.

when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.

I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.

Just say women. This is taking forever.

WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?

LAST CALL, YOU HAVE UNTIL 8 PM TO VOTE (if you live in Minnesota House district 64A in St. Paul, or I guess also if you live in MN House district 47A, they also have a special primary today!)

I like Heather Cox Richardson. She’s a nice lady IRL who has clearly read a lot of books.

Lady with obvious daddy issues who is wily as fuck pretends she was snookered by an all powerful magazine writer. Hey, Susie: It’s 2025 and you have been the main handmaiden to your boss dad’s heinous war against the media. As if you are a victim.

He sounds exactly like what he is: a madman.

Alien Enemies Act, Insurrection Act...Martial Law.

This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.”

Pay attention.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

2/2 "Any of the following acts, regardless of a declaration of war, shall ... qualify as an act of aggression: ... The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State" - Definition of Aggression, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX).

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Make it so America.

Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.

Tariffs did this.

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

Wow, this 🔥 “Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”

Isn’t the Brown University mass shooter STILL AT LARGE? Wth?

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

This is what makes me crazy.

One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.

Chuck Collins, who gave away his family fortune and who now investigates inequality, describes it this way: “Wealth is a disconnection drug that keeps people apart from one another and from building authentic real connections and communities.”

lol nope.

This.👇

Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽

Action. Not thoughts and prayers.