Congress needs to get back to Washington before Americans’ health care costs start to skyrocket.

US Citizens are getting shot by #immigration agents & being denied appropriate medical attention & due process. Everyone needs to hear the story of Carlos Jimenez, a father of 3 who helps run a food bank. #ICELawlessness If it can happen to him, it can happen to you! Call Congress at 202-224-3121

Helpful information about the Epstein files released…

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs. Just one, Cindy's Xmas wishlist for her little niece and nephew, for whom she was appointed guardian earlier this year:

"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."

Such a powerful documentary on Netflix! “All the Empty Rooms”. If our country loves children, like we claim, we must protect them with better guns laws. Australia has taken action and almost never has mass shootings compared to us. With so much happening we must also fight for this too.

What’s happening with Venezuela? Is regime change on the horizon? There’s no better person to ask than Venezuelan historian Miguel Tinker Salas.

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

Khanna: Congress is talking about possible impeachment. They're talking about inherent contempt for the attorney general or deputy attorney general—any justice department official who has obstructed justice could face prosecution in this administration or a future administration.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”

🚨BREAKING: Physicians speak out against RFK Jr! Doctors made the promise to do no harm, and they’re calling out harm where they see it. Medical professionals, your voice has value. Join us in taking action to #ImpeachRFKJr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Revoking millions of dollars of funding from the American Academy of Pediatrics, now in their 95th year of protecting children, is not going to make us healthy again. Nor is the adoption of ACIP’s ludicrous recommendation regarding Hepatitis B vaccination for newborns. Yet here we are.

Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."

Gupta: Just the way he presents himself. Whether it’s the hand—is there something happening with that hand? Is there an IV there that they’re trying to cover up? His pressurized, rambling, incoherent speech. When you take it all together, reasonable people are asking reasonable questions

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

The Trump administration is punishing the American Academy of Pediatrics. I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them. (Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)

Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school. These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...

TAPPER: Earlier today - this isn't the first time - Trump appeared to be struggling to keep eyes open. Does that worry you? REINER: It's jarring to see him go from basically asleep in the Oval to this rapid fire pace during a 30-minute speech he gave in 18. There's been a lot of health issues.

This is how you do it. Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process.

The winning argument for Dem leaders could be "they want to fear monger about trans people and trans healthcare because they don't want to talk about why your life isn't as good as it could be and have no plan to make it better" — except that most Dem politicians also have no plan to make it better.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

All Trump had to do last night was acknowledge the economic pain millions of Americans are feeling as prices continue to rise — but he couldn't even do that. Instead, he spent 19 minutes telling you not to believe your eyes or wallet. No wonder Survivor fans were so miffed.

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

A colleague is conducting research on adults who have been late-diagnosed as Autistic and will investigate our lived experiences. I don't know Kristen personally, but we're in the same international collaborative diagnostician group. I think it could be a great opportunity for some of us to be heard

At least one person has died every day, on average, from a mass shooting in the United States this year.

Top New Podcast: Our conversation with @heymrsbond.com, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI, was our most downloaded episode of the year *by far*! 👇 www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat

Does... she think President Kennedy is still alive?

Trump’s proposal — $2,000 rebates to people who earn less than $100,000 annually — could cost the government almost two times more money than it has collected in tariff revenue this year, according to the Yale Budget Lab. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

"Speaker Johnson must bring our clean extension of these health care tax credits to the floor immediately." Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social on the partisan Republican health care scheme:

If you need some gorgeous flame point siblings and you’re in the Bel Air/Baltimore, MD region, reach out via email to Shadow Cats TNR in Bel Air (shadowcatstnr.org). One boy and one girl, both extremely cute and very curious. I wish we had room to take them into our rescue because I love them.

Greg Bovino is back in Chicago, and ICE has been spotted in the Evanston area. The best way to keep our loved ones safe is to alert the community whenever possible. Whistles are one of the most accessible tools to warn neighbors and disrupt ICE incursions. Come pick up a whistle, if you need one!

In the wealthiest nation in the world, no one should go without healthcare. We have bipartisan support to extend the ACA subsidies––now it's on Speaker Johnson to bring it to a vote immediately.

Look, we are not unspectacular things. We've come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder? - Ada Limón

I say this as a Md resident and one of your constituents- what are you, @alsobrooks.senate.gov and other Senators going to do to try and stop this plainly illegal and unconstitutional military action, and to hold Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and others to account. The Senate has leverage. Use it!

The following Ds voted yea on this trash: Cuellar - TX, Davis - NC, Gillen - NY, Golden - ME, V Gonzalez - TX, Gray - CA, and Perez - WA

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

I'm seeing the same footage presented slightly different in different places. That may matter for locals, for people who know the area well, or who were in the area at the time of these events. Here are 2 other variations. 1) Video published by NYT today. I believe there's no paywall. But lmk!

It's been a second since I read a story on this, and I hadn't seen the video images on offer here. Here is a non-paywalled link that doesn't overwhelm you with ads. Please click through to watch, especially if you are in New England. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

It's never not jarring to see these heavily armed thugs on the streets of our city hunting for people. A reminder that this is a terror campaign, not law enforcement: "Of the 1,895 people detained by ICE, 1,271 lacked any criminal record."

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

You were a pride marshal this year for baltimore pride and yet you voted for S1071 to advance yet further assaults on trans rights when we've already had 124 anti trans bills passed across the nation in 2025 alone. This is a betrayal