These haunting words could have been written today in the US but, in fact, this excerpt is from Anne Frank’s diary, written on January 13, 1943, now plastered on a wall in Pittsburgh and shared by @/@pittsburghgraffiti

The first physical evidence of Trump’s airstrikes on boats has now been examined by the NYT. No fentanyl. No cocaine. Just burned packets with traces of marijuana. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

The Constitution grants Congress the ability to declare war. This attack is an act of war. Congress has not authorized war with Venezuela. Prison time - at a minimum - for every individual involved in the decision making process of these illegal attacks.

“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…

NEW: Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born. Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

This is one of the more pathetic statements made by a public official I've ever seen

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

the problem is too many of these establishment politicians have gotten lazy / jaded and decided it's no longer important to demonstrate good governance, which only further weakens our democracy

Not to continue to harp on my own points ad infinitum but I continue to only see a handful of Congresspeople, all Democrats, criticize the UAE openly for its role in facilitating the atrocities in Sudan, and those Congresspeople are all uniformly at the forefront of criticism of Israel as well.

There is a reason I called this out from the start. ICE has a pattern of lying about the facts. Drag every one of these agents to testify. As a start.

Said this elsewhere but I’m coming around to the idea that campaigns providing goods / services is useful as a reminder that government can do this. People need to feel their elected officials can help them and this kind of action is one direct way to achieve that.

Federal judge to scrutinize if charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia were retaliatory

Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.

Hopkins police accused of union busting as Baltimore organizers push for city oversight baltimorebeat.com/hopkins-poli...

The dangerous expansion of ICE is going to get more people killed. There must be immediate accountability until we have the ability to abolish ICE.

In Baltimore's drug war, 'public safety' comes before public health. Nearly everyone impacted is Black baltimorebeat.com/in-baltimore...

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Happy holidays for all of us who support a functioning democracy! Major, major victory

It feels like all too many people are still unaware 🗣️ STARBUCKS BARISTAS HAVE BEEN ON STRIKE FOR OVER A MONTH DO NOT BUY STARBUCKS "Yeah, but my store's not striking" "My stores non-union" DO NOT BUY A N Y STARBUCKS PRODUCT ALL STORES ARE A "STRIKING STORE"

"ICE's own data shows only 3% of the men deported were charged with violent crimes." Beyond reform. Abolish ICE.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

The Pentagon just failed their EIGHTH STRAIGHT AUDIT. Congress cannot continue funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to a completely unaccountable agency while American families can’t afford food or health care. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

40 years ago, 50 corporations controlled 90% of US media outlets - now, that same 90% is owned by just SIX companies. Intentionally suppressing news to please a fascist administration is what happens when you let billionaires own vital infrastructure. Time to break up these media companies.

Families are already being crushed by rising costs. They shouldn’t have their health insurance premiums more than double now, too. Congress going home before fixing the health care crisis is unacceptable. It’s time to put working people first. https://nbcnews.to/4auOI1Q

We need elected officials that recognize and loudly say the current Trump administration is a white nationalist cult. Their racist project is un-American.

the vice president is a klansman

Being in Congress is a get rich scheme for too many elected officials, on both sides of the aisle. We need leadership that isn't bought and paid for by corporate interests.

This is happening in our own backyard. US citizens. Not that anyone should be subjected to this. It's past time to Abolish ICE and reform the Department of Homeland Security. The surveillance state makes us significantly less safe. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

trans people will not stop existing, no matter how hard they try. but this will have the effect of, if implemented, killing 1000s of kids. kid murderer administration

The U.S. wind industry, which Trump has tried persistently to derail, installed 36% more capacity this year than it did last year, and is expected to continue to rise through 2027. Much of this capacity was ordered in the Biden years.

Thanks to Donald Trump and Republicans, your bills are getting more expensive.

@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder. Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.

private insurance companies are a disaster for public health. Medicare for All NOW!

1. Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride railed agianst GOP attacks on transgender people and incoming bills today, joined by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson. "They are obsessed with transgender people." Read my latest, watch the video here, and subscribe to support our journalism.

Impeach him the second you get a majority, imo. Let this guy lay it all out.

DC statehood now.

It's very clear Article II wouldn't apply here nor has Congress authorized war with Venezuela, making this a blatantly illegal order by Trump

Venezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island. Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.

oh he knows he's guilty of murder

a man devoid of any humanity - sick, disturbed individual who should be in prison for the crimes he has committed

Trans people will always exist. No amount of attacks from the state will change that reality. Never forget which universities abandoned us at the time we needed them most.

An Australian trauma surgeon, who is a friend of a friend, said in a group chat that in her entire 20-year career she has only treated TWO gunshot victims. TWO. Can any American trauma surgeon who has also practiced for twenty years say the same? I highly doubt it.

We are now the generation where high school students survive a mass shooting only to become victims of another attack in college. This is a deliberate choice by the government to not protect our communities. Inaction is complicity.

I am devastated by the mass shooting at Brown University and my heart goes out to the victims’ loved ones as we pray for the recovery of the injured. These mass shootings must end. Inaction is complicity.