In the Georgia legislative special that Democrats are hoping to flip tonight, things remain quite tight: Democrat Eric Gisler is currently ahead of Republican Dutch Guest by 2.5%, or 215 votes. The Election Day vote continues to be counted.

Oh look, it’s Trump pretending to save the day, by fixing a problem that he created with a bailout. But it doesn’t solve the real problem. Farmers wouldn’t have been in this position if it weren’t for Trump’s insane tariff policy. #TrumpInflationCrisis

He’s just reracking what he’s been saying about tariffs since at least the 1990s. He’s just old and cognitively decrepit now so his needle is stuck and he just keeps repeating the same things again and again.

🤦🏼‍♀️ The 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙮

When Zohran Mamdani won, pundits tried to say it was a fluke. Joke’s on them. In Jersey City, voters not only turned out in force to elect a new mayor, but for the first time ever, the Jersey City Council will have a Working Families Party majority.

A British NGO files a complaint against FIFA -- for violating the international body's own code of ethics. @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...

The president doesn’t have the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Killing civilians is a crime under both domestic and international law. That's why we and our partners are suing the Trump administration to demand they release their legal justifications for these unlawful strikes.

Republicans are beginning to recognize that the Trump regime is committing war crimes. Full stop. No due process, no declared war, no evidence, no prosecution, just 80+ dead bodies in the water. When did being a suspected "drug trafficker" become an instant death penalty without trial? #WarCrimes

Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there. That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

I think about this all the time. The college student here on an educational visa suddenly deported… awful 😞

While you're waiting for the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury documents to be released, why not read the second part of my mammoth Epstein Q&A. Lots of GMax in this installment... gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequent...

These grand jury materials will “not add to the public knowledge.” A judge says Trump misled the public and disregarded the victims.”

Great list 👇🏼

Dear friends in the freezing NE. Keep an eye out for our brothers & sisters who are unhoused. Help them get to a shelter if they choose. Otherwise give money, food, carry warm hat, gloves, socks to give

More info on Elgin ICE incident this weekend.

🧊✈️ HEADS UP SEATTLE‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Boeing Field Creepy White Avelo Jet 😬 Tail: N802XT – ETA 10:45am 👀

If the Supreme Court sides with the GOP, “It is just going to fundamentally change how campaigns are financed, who is able to run for office, and whose voices matter in getting messaging out to the American voters,” Elias Law Group Partner Jackie Lopez told POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and West Coast Health Alliance have issued statements that continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.

Wow! Just like California, the people of Missouri are speaking. 💪🏼

Yeah. Also, just imagine the worst..,

Good!!!! F’er 🤬

Gonzales said Hickenlooper is only touting his anti-Trump bonafides now that he has a progressive challenger. I asked her whether her goal is to force Hickenlooper to listen to progressives or to actually win the Senate race.

Sen. Hickenlooper touts his centrism as a way to find compromise. Gonzalez said she would do more than "just sit around with the corporate lobbyists and the folks who are wealthy enough to pay for representation."

NEW: Progressive State Sen. Julie Gonzales is dropping her Democratic Socialist affiliation as she challenges Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO). Gonzales told me she is no longer a member of the DSA.

OK, seriously. This is wild. Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;

Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston. THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES. These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations. This Is Fascism.

WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house. This is what a police state looks like.

First take out of court: The Court is almost certain to overturn Humphrey’s Executor, over the objections of an invigorated liberal bench. The main question is how the conservatives get to five votes for their reasoning — and how expansive the scope will be. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Shoe prices are up 15% heading into the holiday season. One possible reason why? Trump’s Justice Department greenlit DICK’S Sporting Goods taking over Foot Locker. Now, stores are closing and American shoppers are getting the boot.

A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s ban on wind energy products is illegal

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

Today, journalist Jimmy Lai should be home celebrating his birthday with family. Instead, this brave free speech and democracy advocate languishes in prison. The world demands Jimmy Lai be released and his sham charges dropped.

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👇🏼 Yep. And I’m setting an initial and firm purity test on this one.

No shit Sherlock 🙄

NEWS: Judge Boasberg orders Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign to testify in court next week as part of his ongoing contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act flights.

They got what they voted for 🤷🏼‍♀️

NEW: DHS received thousands of comments about the Trump administrations's expanded citizenship database. The message from officials, state agencies, organizations and individuals was clear: these changes are unlawful, a threat to privacy and voting rights and must be rejected.

He's sleeping but it's OUR nightmare.

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seize Putin's assets and give them to Ukraine to fight back

Racists 😒

If a sitting Congressmember can be physically attacked by ICE simply for observing their work, then no one is safe. There must be a full investigation into ICE’s attack on Rep. Grijalva.

"Let your husband do that for you..." ‼️‼️ 🎯

This is a challenge for legal media, too: It's pretty common for journalists to discuss members of Congress as dunces and/or wingnuts. But Supreme Court pundits aren't used to writing things like "Kavanaugh, a Dumb Guy, argued X," even though it would absolutely help readers understand cases better!

Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it

Whiplash-inducing developments in the #TXSen Democratic Primary this morning, with Colin Allred dropping out and Jasmine Crockett apparently joining the race against James Talarico. For now, let's all take a deep breath and remember our goal: Making sure Ken Paxton does NOT become a U.S. Senator.

FWIW, the idea that Black women can't win competitive races is not born out by data. It's about (to borrow from Mitch McConnell) candidate quality: -Cheri Beasley outperformed in North Carolina (but Schumer didn't fund her) -Lucy McBath won a Trump district -Lauren Underwood won a Trump district