USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is out to sea as of this morning.

The economy is losing jobs and prices are going up. Trump's tariffs are economic arson, plain and simple. Republicans could join with Democrats any day of the week to put an end to them.

It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.

This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...

Pause and pay attention to the weight of this moment - its fear, its injustice, its danger. This is “American” fascism in its infancy. Still in diapers. Imagine what it becomes as it matures. They won’t stop unless they’re stopped. Do something today, do anything today, to push against them.

REMINDER: Trump has 12 DAYS left to release ALL the Epstein files--including hard drives of surveillance footage secretly recorded by Epstein at his houses. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Trump to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files by Dec 19.

🔴 Russian forces attacked at least 16 locations of Ukraine's power grid, according to monitoring channels. It total, 704 drones and missiles were deployed in the attack.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday." #NationalParks www.sfgate.com/national-par...

"The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner. The new strategy document will do its own little bit to accelerate that process."

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

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J.F.C.

This is a very good and unflappable job by John Berman of CNN. Worth watching whole segment. h/t @gottalaff.bsky.social

The difference between Cassidy and most other Republicans is that he knew exactly what he was doing to millions of Americans' livers and health in general, and did it anyway.

There is no legal or ethical justification for killing shipwrecked people in the water, whether or not you’re at war with them. That’s it. No caveats. Not a gray area. In a war it’s a war crime/atrocity. Outside of war, it’s murder. Not sure how else to say it. Everyone involved is implicated.

Here’s the language. This covers him. His crime is definitely related to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oxBJ2v

murder on demand

Trump has reportedly drafted an executive order banning states from regulating AI. Meanwhile, the AI industry has amassed over $100M for next year's midterms to defeat proponents of federal regulation. We must stop this Big Tech takeover before it's too late.

TLDR: Texas is empowering Any Random Motherfucker to sue abortion pill providers—from Big Pharma to a physician to Susan who happened to have an extra dose of mife in her van—and to win a 10K bounty for their troubles. And if the plaintiff is related to the fetus, 100K. Great day for abusers.

🚨NEW #BOOMLAWYERED🚨 An abortion pill bounty hunter law goes into effect in Texas TODAY. The law allows a person to file a lawsuit against an abortion pill provider/manufacturer/distributor. If they win the lawsuit and are related to the fetus, they get 100K. If they're not related, they get 10K.

The armed services are currently led by an alcoholic white nationalist who is murdering foreign civilians without a fig-leaf of congressional approval. If we had an opposition party, they would be calling for his immediate removal from office and seeking to impeach him.

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

Is anyone in the Republican Party ever going to hold anyone accountable for anything?

A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.

There is virtually no fed criminal law for wealthy people in America right now. Doesn’t exist. Trump’s DOJ either drops their charges or he pardons them. Anyone can buy their way out of prison for the right price on any charge, with crime victims left shattered with no justice.

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report. Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

2x B-52s off Venezuela again, pressure campaign continues

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

Corey DeAngelis says, "Low-income families benefit from school choice more than anybody else. This is a big deal for families who couldn’t afford private school before." That's a bald-faced lie based on every state's voucher data, not a "reasonable researchers disagree" issue.

In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Surge pricing on groceries is straight up evil

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments. Seems like a key detail!

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal. You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government. It says it right in the Constitution.

as I was saying www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

To highlight how stupid he is he also single handily destroyed all the family planning efforts of USAID in the other parts of the world. $10 million in contraceptives destroyed

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Olivia Nuzzi: "[RFK Jr.] was telling me privately that, in fact, he was not sober and he was hiding it not just from the public, but from his own wife." @timmiller.bsky.social: "You mentioned DMT…Is he doing ketamine?" lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...

🇪🇸🇱🇹 Spain is sending Crow anti-drone systems to Lithuania to protect important facilities from Russian drone attacks, - Militarnyi

UPDATE: The Journey jet landed in Nairobi, marking the 7th removal flight to Kenya this year. The flight originated in Phoenix, AZ with refueling stops in Puerto Rico and Senegal.

He’s lost George Will.

The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military. That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.

NEW — RFK Jr.’s HHS sent out a survey asking employees to report instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration, and the Dept. of Labor announced its inaugural prayer service. These are just the latest instances of Trump’s extreme Christian creep within the federal government.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours. She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump. Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled. "Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."