I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Bouie keeps getting slammed for these sensible and sober minded Takes because there are people who've come to see anything short of maximal Doomerism as somehow complacency - you're saying I *shouldn't* feel maximally bad!??? Yet it is obvious on reflection that maximal doomerism breeds complacency.

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Mike Johnson is saying the quiet part out loud––shooting a woman in the face, tearing apart families, and terrorizing our neighbors is what ICE is *supposed* to be doing. This is a lawless agency that can't be reformed, retrained, or reined in. It has to be abolished.

Such gorgeous live version youtu.be/Hc-f8xqHxfk?...

Making spicy turkey pozole verde from my leftover turkey stock and sous vide turkey breasts from Xmas dinner. Fingers crossed. thesavorytart.com/turkey-pozol...

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Great synopsis by @laylaayanna.bsky.social on the ongoing Minnesota fraud investigations. I look forward to continued coverage. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

Happy New Year, PA! As I look back on this year, I'm so grateful for our community across PA-12. From senior center convenings to workforce development programs to student-led town halls, the work that our neighbors are doing to care for and uplift each other is inspiring.

Saturday morning chillin’ with Melody’s Echo Chamber. youtu.be/yl7wd6UE2J4?...

Great story by Brandi Buchman. “Kids are kids all over the world. These kids deserve not to die.”

When your wife has been on your ass ALL WEEKEND and you see a chance to take a shot

I don't know Jacob Savage from Doc Savage, but it takes a pair of undescended testicles to steal an appelation first coined by Gertrude Stein to describe a generation of writers scarred by war and apply it to whiny white boys who lost a little bit of their priviledge and call it oppression.

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

When not in use, the Rubio is powered down and placed in a corner.

The bear is now one of the renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...

I am providing a new weekend service. www.premiereparty.com/p/what-you-s...

Will the 21st Century Nabobs Win Their War on Public Accountability? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

Trump's Terrorists www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/06/t...

Melbourne, AUS 💙

Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable. Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater. Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you. www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Speaking of House GOP conference, when a group is in danger they pull together. But at a certain point the Titanic isn't "in danger"; it's sinking. And at that moment, one person looks at another and says, "I never liked you, BITCH!" and throws a punch. This seems like where we are in the House.

I wonder if Melania puts them up on the refrigerator

just hearing about this small business saturday thing. i think this means you should subscribe to @talkingpointsmemo.com

Read @laylaayanna.bsky.social great synopsis of the state of the Trump Economy and what lies ahead. talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/f...

Murder www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/29/m...

Chicago Protestors Reel After Fending Off Federal Charges talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chicago...

Pam Bondi’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons: 1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up. 2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight. 3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

When Loevy asks about Hewson's understanding of what rights people have under the First Amendment, a DOJ lawyer objects. "[Hewson] is not a lawyer," she insists.

Republicans have put working families between a rock and a hard place time and again and now they're making false promises to hide the fact that they're betraying the American people.

California Voters Approve Measure to Offset Damage of Trump’s Red-State Gerrymandering Blitz talkingpointsmemo.com/news/califor...

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The guys who are protecting pedophiles love recess.

It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Last weekend, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James. Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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