Sen. Martin Heinrich: “Remember when Republicans said we couldn't afford those tax credits for your healthcare? Now they’re burning through almost a billion dollars a day on their Iran War”

Melanie Stansbury: “While this Administration is spending nearly $1 billion a day on a war in the Middle East that has now claimed the lives of 7 U.S. service members & doing the bidding of billionaires — Americans are struggling to put food on the table & a roof over their heads”

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

Court opinion reading tip: In an Appointments Clause challenge, if the judge quotes this before even getting into the facts of the case, the executive branch lost.

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

The Comfort Hotel was supposed to be a safe haven for people fleeing Israel's bombardment of Dahieh. Then Israel bombed it too, killing 34-year-old receptionist Fatima Zaher Hmadeh. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

"A Christian hotel owner opened her doors to Shia Muslims fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the southern outskirts of Beirut. Then a missile struck the hotel, killing her 34-year-old receptionist."

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

“He's a walking war crime.“ suggested edit (remember the strikes on ”drug boats” and especially the “double tap” strike war crime that already happened).

Everyone knows Donald Trump has been an election denier since 2020. Some know that about 2016. But few know that it started in 2012. After Obama won, Trump posted: “Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!” Read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

How to Capture the Mad King's Attention emptywheel.net/how-to-captu...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Markwayne Mullin was caught lying on the record about the former CDC Director, Dr. Susan Monarez, by his Republican colleagues in the Senate chamber in September. He’s not honest or competent, and anyone who respects him is a fool.

Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours: Texas ⬆️98c/gal New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal Arizona ⬆️89c/gal Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal Georgia ⬆️85c/gal West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal Florida ⬆️80c/gal Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal

Tyre’s (Sour) World Heritage: Israeli strike narrowly misses the historic city's archaeological site “Destroying such a city does not just mean damaging a place,” she wrote. “It is erasing entire chapters of human history.” today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...

Links: time.com/7382697/trum... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Reupping. Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

NEW: Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) & Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) launch review of $220 million taxpayer-funded Dept of Homeland Security ad campaign w/ Kristi Noem Senators seek records about "circumstances surrounding the awarding of this lucrative, no-bid contract..."

Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead

#ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #Scape #Nature #Eastcoastkin #Photography

A report by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing calls for accountability and support.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says three UNIFIL peacekeepers were injured after heavy firing struck their base in Al Qawzah in southwestern Lebanon. One was transferred to a hospital in Beirut. They have not identified who is responsible for he strikes. Thread 👇

On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist. emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...

#ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #Scape #Nature #PNW #Photography

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party. This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

Not trying to dunk on Kyle, but I need to reinforce that we don’t know if these allegations were substantiated! While the first tip was on the same sheet as the unsubstantiated claims, FBI noted why the others weren’t credible. This one, they set up an intvw, then 3 more. And wanted her to cooperate

Florida’s bar association is currently investigating Lindsey Halligan, a loyalist President Donald Trump selected to bring criminal charges against his political opponents, over allegations that her failed prosecutions violated ethics rules governing lawyers. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

The conservative Kentucky dude is growing into one of the most eloquent, consistent, and principled critics of the Bozo Fascist. Respect.

Proton was forced by legal court order to confirm the address, known to the FBI and linked to the protests, was used to pay for their service. The problem is not proton. The problem is KYC, which never was about protecting minors in the first place. It was always about surveillance. That's why

It hasn't become, it always was. Hegseth LITERALLY thinks he's a religious crusader. His tattoos are both white supremacist & let's do the CRUSADES again (kill Muslims). This IS a holy war for him. Maybe not for Trump, but for Hegseth and other christian zionists one hundred percent.

Rodriguez Flores is from Colombia, has lived in the ​U.S. for five years, and "frequently reports on stories critical of ⁠ICE," her lawyers said in a court filing in the U.S. District Court ​for the Middle District of Tennessee. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act. We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy. New from me at @brennancenter.org:

10/ Our new searchable database is the most comprehensive public source of financial disclosures across the executive branch. Let us know what you find! 👇👇 projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Today's a good day to note that in his interview w/NYT Trump conveyed a real terror of becoming Jimmy Carter. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

When Biden took over from Trump in 2021 unemployment was 6.3%. When Trump took over from Biden in 2024 it was 4.1%. Under Trump it has risen to 4.4%. That’s a funny kinda winning…. #RadioFreeAmerica

The U.S. moved 1,000+ Paveway guided-bomb kits from Osan Air Base to the U.S. in Dec 2025, possibly later used in strikes on Iran. Seoul says the transfer happened without prior consultation. Source: Chosun

DOJ has posted some pages of the missing Epstein files related to the FBI’s belated investigation of Trump’s participation in Epstein crimes after Epstein’s arrest and death in custody in 2019, and they are as bleak as you might expect. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

NEW: The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month, the result of a yearslong lawsuit filed by ProPublica.

Rev. Bernard Lafayette, who led the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, an effort marked by violence toward civil rights workers, died Thursday at age 85. via @tennesseelookout.com

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.