During a House hearing, Rep. Seth Magaziner questions Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about U.S. military veterans being deported under the current administration.

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 why his DOJ will not approve the Netflix merger. He wants the Ellisons to take over CNN. There is nothing he wants more than that when it comes to media. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This keeps happening.

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

Every single House Democrat has signed onto legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. We just need 4 Republicans to join us. The clock is ticking, and House Democrats are racing to save health care.

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

The American people deserve to feel protected by their president. Not attacked by him.

Another round of Sunday shows today where a string of Republican senators and representatives claimed to have no knowledge or awareness of any of the worst things Trump said or did this week.

"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?' She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.

NEWS: Kristi Noem could be fired soon. ICE sends attack dogs to maul undocumented immigrant despite him posing no flight risk. Trump claims he is better than Kimmel at hosting. Subscribe to support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

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

Suozzi: Prices are up. Why? Because of the tariffs. Prices are going up in health insurance because of the cancellation of the premium tax credits. Prices are going up in energy because there’s new demand for energy at the same time they cut supply.

The Golden Age.

Can we all finally admit that tax cuts are never going to trickle down?

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law. Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.

Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.

NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Texas use Trump-backed gerrymandered maps in 2026

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Himes: They posed zero threat to anyone in the region, and we killed them.

JUST IN: A Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict NY AG Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges

The constitution says only Congress can declare war.

JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election. As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected. Small businesses were the hardest hit.

Secretary Talk Show Host may have been experiencing the "fog of war," but that doesn't change the fact that this was an extrajudicial killing amounting to murder or a war crime. One thing is clear: Pete Hegseth is unfit to serve. He must resign.

Trump is illegally attacking boats allegedly carrying drugs. He brags about being tough on drug dealers. Meanwhile, he pardons the former Honduran president — a man convicted in American court of bringing hundreds of tons of cocaine to the U.S. You can’t make this stuff up.

NEWS: Democrat Mary Robichaux has defeated Republican incumbent Kurt Wilson in a runoff election to become the next Mayor of Roswell, Georgia. A major upset and another sign of shifting suburban politics in the South.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.

The Trump administration's strikes in Venezuela were ordered without Congress, without transparency, and without any justification to the public. These actions are reckless, unconstitutional, and dangerous for our national security.

HAVE YOU NOTICED JUST BEFORE THE EPSTEIN FILES ARE TO BE RELEASED - -CLOSED AIR SPACE -INSULTING REPORTERS, A GOVERNOR -THE AUTOPEN -THE WALL OF BLAME -CANCELLING BIDEN'S ORDERS AS PRESIDENT 'ALL' FOR DEFLECTION . . .

Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...

We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality. It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Both the House and Senate have started inquiries into a reported second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean last September which killed the survivors of an initial strike.

While Trump and ICE attack our communities and rip apart families, I'll always stand up for our immigrant neighbors.

NEWS: A Senior Republican opens a Senate investigation into Pete Hegseth’s possible war crimes. Trump declares Venezuelan airspace closed as war, without Congressional authorization, looms. Hegseth promises more strikes in the Southern Caribbean. A major news update. Consider subscribing today

The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.

Trump attacked immigrants living in the U.S., claiming without evidence that most of them were from “failed nations” or from “prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”

Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.

Lindsey Graham sponsored the Afghan Adjustment Act: “This is the right thing to do. The people who were there with us in the fight who are here in America need to stay. This will be their new home. We have a moral obligation to these people and they will make great citizens.”

A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.