Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

House Republicans are going on vacation and letting your health care subsidies lapse.

Bongino served for 27 Scaramuccis - that’s long enough to learn nothing and still feel entitled.

One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.

I'm not going to say it. Not going to. 😆😆😆

This could have been an email.

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.

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

“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…”

Trump sounds like a maniac at some sort of demented open mic

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died apnews.com/article/pete...

shot/chaser in just 2 sentences

This is better news 💙🙏

Someone come get grandpa he’s yelling again, and we’re concerned

So Trump’s big primetime “address to the nation” is just him struggling to read a psychotic script full of lies written by Stephen Miller about how great he is.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care. This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

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

The Trump regime wants to make it a crime to oppose war crimes.

Making this claim from the NYT Opinion Pages Home for Bland White Guys is certainly a choice.

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

You'd have to be crazy to visit the United States from any other country at this time.

Terrific piece by @jamellebouie.net that articulates the central problem with the Trump presidency. He demanded unprecedented power and has, thanks to his lickspittles in Congress & SCOTUS, been granted it. But he has little interest in using it beyond his grasping selfishness. The nation's adrift.

I like the rhythm of this paragraph because each sentence is like Sideshow Bob stepping onto a new rake

The country’s 10 richest billionaires have seen their wealth increase by nearly $700 billion since Trump reentered the White House. Meanwhile, fundraising for essential expenses on GoFundMe increased by 20% over the past year. “Golden Age” for who?

Border Patrol Cmdr. Bovino praises local police assistance in enforcement, argues with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

If you have any new information about Trump's speech tonight, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

NEW: The U.S. Coast Guard has officially stopped classifying swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, now labeling them as “potentially divisive.”

From Hopium: - Dems get 218 on ACA discharge petition! - MTG: "The Dam Is Breaking" - Trump's strategy is surrender, not war - US losing manufacturing jobs under Trump - "High prices, Trump nodding off alarm swing voters in North Carolina" More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/surrender-...

A small group of moderate House Republicans are joining Dems to force a vote on a proposal to extend pandemic-era enhanced ACA subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, seizing control of the floor from GOP leaders yet again in a sign of the sharpest tensions yet within the party.

Trump’s own Chief of Staff confirmed he’s in the Epstein files. She also claims he and Epstein were “young single playboys together.” It’s time to release the FULL files, and let the American people see the truth.

Christ, what an asshole.

HUGE: Democrats have the 218 signatures needed to force a vote to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Congress must take action to extend these lifesaving health care subsidies for 22 million Americans. Bring the vote to the floor, Speaker Johnson.

The “Anglican Church of North America” (ACNA) - broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church of the USA because they were horrified by the “sexual immorality” of churches that treated LGBTQ people as equals. Glad they got their sexual morals in order.

DEMOCRATS WANTED A PUBLIC OPTION DEMOCRATS WANTED A PUBLIC OPTION DEMOCRATS WANTED A PUBLIC OPTION DEMOCRATS WANTED A PUBLIC OPTION DEMOCRATS WANTED A PUBLIC OPTION

evergreen

McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."

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

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

The great @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the NSS: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

NEW: A Utah plastic surgeon was on trial for falsifying COVID-19 vaccine cards. Then Pam Bondi stepped in. Bondi’s dismissal of the case signals the increasing clout of “medical freedom” activists and vaccine skeptics under the leadership of RFK Jr. With @sltrib.com

The Sahm Rule is flashing red, and the unemployment rate is rising. What does this mean? - For sure the economy is in a MALAISE. (Close to no job growth since Liberation Day.) - I reckon it's in a jobless SLUMP. - It may be in or on the cusp of a RECESSION. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTN...

My weekly email to my Congressman.

Jack Smith's testimony should be open to the public.

NEW: We filed for a temporary restraining order to demand ICE provide medical care to 2 people detained at the largest immigrant detention facility in California. A doctor confirmed that immediate medical intervention is needed to prevent death or irreversible harm.

This is probably the worst way this could've gone for the GOP leadership in Congress. Mike Johnson is exposed as someone who can't control his caucus, while John Thune will likely have to bury this after it makes its way to the Senate.

Huge news from Kentucky. Congratulations, State Senator-elect Clemons!

Idk how you can see this massive body of evidence and not come to the conclusion that the US government is trying to kill women and children by blocking these vaccines