My current state rep is my current state rep because during pandemic lockdown his campaign used canvassers not only for standard campaign outreach but also mutual aid outreach to assist isolated folks, especially seniors. He defeated an incumbent who had held that seat for 35 years.

Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves. Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.

Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.

We had been starting to make progress on the government’s often ruinous dependency on software contractors and expensive vendors, but DOGE came in to put an end to that and destroy technical capabilities inside of govt. But, the “Tech Force!” That’s like if Peace Corps staffed by oil companies

Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Merry Christmas! 🎄 In honor of the holiday, I’m reposting my favorite radio story of all time — my holiday decorating poem www.cpr.org/2019/12/25/c...

It’s Xmas Eve and yet I’m still gonna be a little spicy. The fact that the first American pope is from Chicago matters because unmooring power and perspective from the coasts especially east coast is an imperative for building something new and better

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Not that Bari cares, but every time she writes about "restoring the integrity of the news," she's deeply insulting her own staff -- some of whom have been injured or killed bringing crucial stories back to the US.

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

After Jan 6, the U.S. far right had to find a frame that could distract and shift blame from their election fraud lies. They settled on “censorship” — which made their lying villains into “free speech” heroes, and allowed them to target all of the people and orgs that tried to hold them to account.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

67 people-tracking Flock cameras across the U.S. were live-streaming on the internet, easily accessible with no login needed, @404media.co & @bennjordan.bsky.social found. We know of five compromised Flock cams in Colorado. One belongs to Douglas County, and it's at an open space trailhead.

🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶 Dec 12 DIA www.kktv.com/2025/12/23/h... Dec 10 RDU www.wral.com/news/local/r... Dec 13 Las Vegas www.reviewjournal.com/life/health/... Presumably these should have a corresponding origin/destination for the same day as they’re all out of state pax

NORAD tracks Santa but he's shot down with video posted by Hegseth for violating borders and harboring immigrant workers

Justice Department launches compelling new word game website with thousands of puzzles.

Interesting 🧵 with a #copolitics angle that I’d agree with.

#WildTurkeyFire All clear #Boulder

Developing: Evacuation orders issued after fire sparks in Fourmile Canyon, west of Boulder | The Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2025/12/22/e... Sun App

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

Adventures in not redacting. This is half of #Epstein's phone book A-P with full names and phone numbers. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

New from @NBCNews.com’s Digital Docs team: A 51-minute documentary on what covering the Israel-Hamas war from inside Gaza was like for two NBC News journalists. www.nbcnews.com/video/filmed... See the web edition of their story: www.nbcnews.com/specials/fil...

GOP Rep. Jeff Hurd & D AG Phil Weiser slam Trump for denying disaster relief in the 3rd CD #copolitics via @taydolven.bsky.social

#copolitics via @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social Jeanette Vizguerra is no longer in custody.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Since we’re on the topic of asking people for comment …

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.

Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra can leave ICE custody on bond, judge rules

#copolitics via @allisonsherry.bsky.social

Fourth Sunday of Advent: “Do not be afraid”

BREAKING: Immigration judge issues a bond order for national immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra -- story to come.

Her husband is a registered sex offender who was recently on house arrest and her brother is doing 25 years for raping a child. She defends and supports them both: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

Amid the disruption, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X: “Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage.” Unlike Waymo, Tesla does not operate a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco…. 🧐

why don't we just tax billionaires instead?

So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are

California juries find Trump's US Attorney in Los Angeles, Bilal Essayli, is not trustworthy or honest, and they keep acquitting protesters he charges with misconduct just as grand juries routinely refuse to issue bills of indictment he requests. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Imagine where we’d be now if law enforcement had taken Epstein’s crimes against girls & young women seriously & investigated/prosecuted people who enabled, abetted, & joined him in his abuse. Instead, they still run the country.

So we found out today in San Francisco that autonomous cars don't work in a blackout (Waymos shut down, wherever they were, all over city) Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

my friend @tennesseejane.bsky.social wrote about painting your holiday cookies and i'm totally trying this next week!!

Circulators collecting signatures for Initiative #95 described it as a way to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s activity in Colorado. In reality, it would force local law enforcement to share information with ICE.

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

If you want to give us the Denmark vaccine schedule, you also need to give us the 6+ month parental leave the Danes get, so that new babies can avoid picking up germs at daycare, and you need to give us universal healthcare.