Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.

This is gearing up to be a horrendous influenza season. I had 2 pregnant patients test positive last week (swabbed because they presented to hospital with significant illness) Neither were vaccinated.

The so-called “war” with Venezuela was supposedly about stopping drugs… yet they’re out there seizing an oil tanker.

Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices. Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center

The Nobel Institute said the Venezuelan opposition leader, who had been in hiding since last year’s elections, will be coming to Oslo after undertaking a journey “of extreme danger.”

Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.

Jeffrey Epstein's case files can be unsealed, Judge says

I feel this in my bones… THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype. We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing. I have a lot to say open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

The Parking Lot Lawyer & Insurance Lawyer could open a law firm together…although I’m not sure they’d be able to afford the malpractice insurance premiums. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?

BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions: Civicus, a non-profit that monitors global civic freedoms, moved the US from the ‘narrowed’ to ‘obstructed’ category. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

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The Trump regime is trying to normalize misogyny. Unfortunately, it’s too many people in this country that don’t have the balls to stand up against him. This pattern of abuse is only going to get worse folks! What is it going to take⁉️

Oh, I miss this president!

“Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender." It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.” By @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war” A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President. This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...

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This is huge: Democrats in Georgia just FLIPPED House District 121 blue, electing Democrat Eric Gisler. This is a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024. Congrats, Rep-elect Gisler!

He is not well. If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.

The first family corruption continues.

wmtw.com/article/kent... Only in America and it’s disgusting

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

Nearly half of Americans said they find groceries, utility bills, health care, housing and transportation difficult to afford, according to The POLITICO Poll conducted last month by Public First. www.politico.com/news/2025/12... more exerpts follow...

Miami will have its first Democratic mayor in 30 years

A gerrymander is not a sure thing…

Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

A Republican president once picked Ben Bernanke—a future Nobel laureate—because expertise mattered more than spin. That norm, picking Fed chairs for brains not loyalty, does more to protect your paycheck than any campaign slogan.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

The photographer that snapped this gem deserves whatever is the highest award given for photography. There is no other image that captures this true essence of this ‘award’ exactly as it should be captured.

Since the regime still hasn’t provided any legal justification for these bombings, we must urge our elected officials to call for a full investigation and immediate oversight hearings. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.