The playbook that showers the rich, spikes the debt, then demands you sacrifice Social Security and healthcare… hartmannreport.com/p/santa-clau...

He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.

The future lay before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered. hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-chr...

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

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This message hits hard.

Saturday Report 12/27/25 — Trump to Democrats,“Enjoy What May Be Your Last Merry Christmas!” hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

How do you maintain political peace with the relatives during the holidays? Here's the 10-step plan.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Democracy dies in ▪️.

Threadbare Isn’t Broken - A Christmas reflection on the long way through, and the people who carried us there - JoJoFromJerz open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Controversial '60 Minutes' segment on Trump immigration policy leaks online - PBS Newshour #60Minutes #CECOT www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison - Thom Hartmann #DefendDemocracy #NoOligarchy open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

SNL Home Alone skit. A family returns home after accidentally leaving their child (Ariana Grande) behind. #HomeAlone youtu.be/ug44G2FdWyU?...

We are watching a minority trying to impose its will on the majority - Heather Cox Richardson - Dec 21, 2025 #FirstAmendment #ReligiousFreedom open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over. https://to.pbs.org/4j7VcG9

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Happy Winter Solstice! Dec 21, 2025 is the winter solstice & the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Haiku in celebration of the solstice. 🌞🌎🌞🌎🌞🌎🌞🌎🌞🌎 This Winter Solstice Celebrating longer days & Shorter nights with friends #WinterSolstice #SCM_Poetry #SCM_Haiku #Haiku #ChatGPT

Stories Shared in Cemeteries news.findagrave.com/2025/12/15/s...

Early morning low fog in Pico de Europa… #photography #nature #landscape #art #panorama

Jupiter - Two hour time lapse showing 3 moons and the Great Red Spot. This was the 2nd of the night. C6- ASI585 -IR720 Pass filter #astronomy #astrophotgraphy

It’s not just Gaza. Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it. NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.

SNL Cold Open - Dec. 20, 2025 youtu.be/xb1PtBLApU8

A fungus photo a day: Posting a crimson waxcap/Hygrocybe punicea photo every day until Christmas. They are the biggest and reddest of the waxcaps. I found these on December 5th. Day 3: these two couples. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

We knew “Project Sunrise” was coming - Ohh That’s Rich #TrumpIsNotWell #Gaza open.substack.com/pub/ohhthats...

After almost a year of Trump II: What’s it REALLY all about? - Robert Reich open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Vancouver, WA Friday Dec 19, 2025 - Video of Friday Banners Over I-5 sign waving on the Evergreen Street bridge overlooking I-5 freeway #RushHourResistance #BannersOverI5 #WakeUpAmerica #NoKings #NoTroopsOnOurStreets #HandsOffDemocracy #IndivisibleGV #DefendDemocracy #ResistFascism #StopTrump #VanWA

Fact-checking Trump’s speech on inflation, wages and a military dividend #TrumpSpeech #worstpresidentever www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

A stark look at the speech that blurred the line between leadership and losing control on the world stage… hartmannreport.com/p/was-that-a...

Trump calls it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when we object to cruelty and division. The real story is what that hate is doing to America’s democracy, and when we finally push back… hartmannreport.com/p/how-much-m...

I don’t think I’m being alarmist. If anything, I worry that we’ve become so inured to Trump’s madness that we’re not alarmist enough. Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-of-trumps-madness

The elemental heart of the Christmas story is one of radiant light streaming into the thick black; an unrelenting love for humanity that would not be overcome, a defiant hope born in the middle of a place starved for it... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/have-yours...

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Trump Isn't Building a Ballroom. It’s an underground Data Center open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario #TrumpIsNotWell open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glaciers, shifting fish populations, and rivers running orange. n.pr/4rYZwLP

'Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. He and His Supporters Have It.' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/trump-dera...

Donald Trump is objectively one of the worst humans to have ever poisoned the planet. Good people don't support him. They simply don't. His supporters need to be rejected by decent human beings. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe... Rob Reiner

Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/hQNc1xE

These atrocities are the symptoms of authoritarianism But we have the cure. - Ohh That’s Rich #DefendDemocracy open.substack.com/pub/ohhthats...

At Brown University, exactly 13 years after the horrors of Sandy Hook Elementary, Conservative America’s abnormal adoration of guns continues to kill our children. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/sandy-hook...

Yeah, Republicans, it's the damn guns. You can deny it, hide from it, refuse to acknowledge it, and try and distract from it, but that's simply the truth. And if you won't admit this and won't commit to doing anything about it, then yeah, it's you too. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-republ...

Portland, OR Sat Dec 13, 2025 - Video of the 34th Annual Tuba Christmas Concert at Pioneer Plaza in war ravaged Portland, Oregon. Over 300 tubas played Xmas melodies in one of the largest tuba concerts in the country #PortlandOregon #MerryChristmas #TubaConcert #ShowMeYourHellHole #KeepPortlandWeird

The great Dick Van Dyke turned 100 today. Do you want to live to 100? open.substack.com/pub/america/...

The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th. n.pr/44WMNiI

Trump is blatantly weaponizing the justice system to attack his political enemies while handing out pardons to his crooked allies and those who will commit violence on his behalf. So much for “law and order.” [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it. "Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...” www.notus.org/immigration/...

So, the same guy who’s attacking his political opponents for so-called “mortgage fraud “ committed … wait for it … mortgage fraud?

Vancouver, WA Friday Dec 12, 2025 - Video of Friday "Banners Over I-5" Rush Hour Resistance sign waving on Evergreen Street bridge overlooking Interstate 5 - Martin Kerr "God Rest Ye Merry Billionaires" #NoTroopsOnOurStreets #RushHourResistance #WakeUpAmerica #IndivisibleGV #ResistFascism #VanWA

The long-anticipated, perennially delayed GOP healthcare plan, the one they’ve had fifteen years to provide as an alternative to Obamacare, seems to finally be confirmed: everyone going broke, suffering needlessly, and dying prematurely. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-republ...