Today the Republicans in Congress voted to allow health insurance premiums to spike, making it unaffordable for millions of Americans. This does NOT take into account the $1T(yes, that is a T) in Medicaid cuts that won't go into effect until after the midterms. And they have no plan.

A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

All the threats from Trump and his henchmen to Republican state senators in Indiana failed. Mid-decade gerrymandering rejected. This is no small thing. Maybe some other Republicans will finally start to stand up to the Mob Boss.

🚨BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Republicans want us to focus our attention elsewhere so they can continue planning to subvert the 2026 elections. They want voter suppression and election denialism to become routine. For the next 11 months, our job is to prevent this from happening, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

JUST IN: New reporting that the Dept. of Defense tried to send vessel strike survivors to El Salvador terror prison, CECOT. I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil. youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...

This is extraordinary and extraordinarily revealing if true. “An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'” report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social 1/2

2/ “Defendants confirmed their position that, after an initial federalization, all extensions of federalization orders are utterly unreviewable, forever. That is shocking. Adopting Defendants’ interpretation ... would permit a president to create a perpetual police force comprised of state troops"

BREAKING: The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation between the two countries (Bloomberg)

BREAKING: Judicial misconduct complaint filed against Emil Bove. MS NOW's @lawofruby.bsky.social has the latest

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

Bove has also—after being sworn in as a judge on the Third Circuit—been observed visiting Main Justice for consultations with Bondi and Blanche. Grossly unethical conduct.

Trump’s rationing pencils while building a $300 million gold plated ballroom.

BREAKING: Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race, defeating a Trump-backed Republican and breaking her party’s nearly 30-year losing streak, per Associated Press.

Organizing against the fascist takeover is good for you.

DHS ordering a church to take down a nativity scene!? Wait, so is Trump waging a WAR ON CHRISTMAS!? I’ve been warned about this for years by Fox News!

We should change laws to make this impossible.

love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets

A total rout in the Miami mayoral, in a race that had been highly nationalized (Trump endorsed the loser). The Dem (Higgins) over-performed 2024 presidential in predominantly Cuban (+8), non-Cuban Hispanic (+9), Black (+9), and White (+11) precincts-- over-performance across the board.

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

One thing that drives me crazy about this is that it would constitute a bait-and-switch that radically rebalances power in a way that fundamentally relies on Congress having deceived about its own ability to constrain executive agencies.

Fascinating. How will Trump punish Honduras now?

I knew Trump chose mortgage fraud to go after his enemies with phony charges of because it's a crime he's quite familiar with. He probably thinks everyone does it. And when @propublica.org called him to ask him about it, he hung up on them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

WOW! THANK YOU!! — GCN

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

You can be the most loving, compassionate person in the world... but... if you’re not actively guarding your mind...you will become desensitized to human suffering...in ways that are far beyond what you would ever consider acceptable.

it's interesting how little the gop messaging apparatus, from the press secretary to election mailers, deviates from "i know you are but what am i"

When's the list of the accomplishment of Trump coming out? I need a good laugh after 11 months of this political chaos. BTW... Thanks, Joe

Trump is and will always be a mass muderer.

Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros. Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals? It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.

The GOP argument collapses under its own facts: they admit they don’t know where the boats were going, that 25% of interdicted vessels have no drugs, and that many aren’t headed to the U.S. at all. Calling this an “imminent threat to America” is impossible to square with the evidence. #holdfast

You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained. His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing. He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Speaking of lingering issues, anybody seen a guy skulking around with $50k in a CAVA bag? It's been nearly 15 months! Today would be a good day for the FBI to reveal what happened to the taxpayers' money that Tom Homan apparently took in exchange for propsective official favors.

Joe Biden really messed up the economy in 2020

BREAKING: Lawmaker is horrified after watching possible war crimes on tape as pressure on Hegseth grows. One lawmaker tells me that discussions are happening about impeachment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

When Elie Mystal and George Will have taken the same stand, you know you are in deep trouble. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis 🤨

“Imagine what would happen if, next year, we had a 2008-style crisis and Bessent and Hassett were [at Treasury and the Fed]. In such a universe, could the rest of the world trust American economic leadership? Could the American-led economic order survive?” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...

J-MART: ".. he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp .. brazen corruption, near-daily vulgarity and handing out pardons like lollipops .. ".. the country has never seen such an indulgent head of state." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to entertainment executive Tim Leiweke—whom his own Justice Department indicted on charges of “orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university” in Austin. trib.al/qU7UmJr

9 House Republicans could choose to take away Johnson’s gavel today if they wanted.

How is/was Hegseth able to refuse to cooperate with the IG??

I posted this here about a year ago. Seems like a good time to re-up it. cc: @macfarlanenews.bsky.social 👇👇👇

He ordered for drug boats to be blown up, while his boss trump, pardoned a major drug trafficker!! So much for Hegseth’s lies about being so concerned about drug trafficking to the United States!!