30 people have died in ICE custody this year, the highest number in ICE history.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2LMHIj6

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Other problems were the truncated survey itself, which included 1/2 of the month. The survey was started on November 14, after vote to reopen on November 12. That meant the data for the months likely included more holiday promotions than usual.

Last year, one-term Rep. Anthony D’Esposito lost after adding his mistress to his official payroll. This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

NBC News: ‘Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop: In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.’ www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

Inflation is rough. @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

A bribe masquerading as a movie.

Massive pardons. Massive DOJ brain drain. 🇺🇸 @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno

A Washington Post investigation found U.S. Forest Service trails are deteriorating due to staff cuts under the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/3YxlZC4

I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient

Labour should be yeeting the tories into next week over Erasmus. Not quibbling about the size of the ‘discount’ but saying we’re serious about ‘Global Britain’ and cleaning up the midden these people left behind. Fight back for goodness sake.

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Apparently the WH Chief of Staff has been the victim of having her own words printed in a story.

The New York Times is increasingly competing with NYT Pitchbot for satire. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

They love to talk about supporting the troops, hate to actually take care of the troops

Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"

The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.” www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.

The Trump gold card

Utterly shameless

“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.” @kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...

🇺🇸 Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza is now consulting for Russian oil giant Lukoil, Politico reports. Lanza is helping sell Lukoil’s non-Russian assets after new U.S. sanctions. He previously called returning Crimea to Ukraine “unrealistic.”

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.

Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!

It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.

The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels. https://cnn.it/3YofNw4

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha. For decades, the government cleaned it up. But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

KIMMEL: “.. He’s mentioned me three times in the last four days, and I just want you to know: I’m thinkin’ about you too, girl.” @jimmykimmel.com @latenightercom.bsky.social

Finally, a politician with the courage to stand up to Big Pencil.

Without accurate evidence, decisions from the FDA could limit access to the shots and undermine public confidence in vaccine safety. Before the shots were widely available, 2% to 3% of all infants in the US were hospitalized for RSV with risk of developing asthma. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111." @arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Hard to believe we went from the moon landing to this in the span of like two generations.

Dec. 2020: Donald Trump pardons former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who was two years into a 10-year sentence for money laundering. Dec. 2025: Stockman files to return to Congress. www.justice.gov/pardon/page/... docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

Buying influence in Washington has never been easier, or more corrupt. For more than a year European officials have warned that the Balkan state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the brink of a crisis threatening the stability of south-eastern Europe. Now a group of US Maga lobbyists has helped

I have good news and bad news. The good news: Trump ended 8 wars last week. The bad news: They all started again this week.

It's a double whammy for consumers. https://cnn.it/3Mxtvdp