ONE YEAR AFTER THE PARDONS: Growing number of Jan 6 riot defendants are in new legal peril HERE ARE SOME ====>

Well, there’s a reason the logo looks like a down arrow.

‘Mighty mad’: Democrats prepare to harness public anger over expired Obamacare subsidies Efforts to extend them continue, but lawmakers and strategists are already moving to turn the lapsed tax credits into a potent election-year attack on Republicans.

JUST IN: A magistrate judge has ordered alleged pipe bomber Brian Cole detained pending trial. He’ll likely appeal this to his eventual trial judge if/when there is an accepted federal indictment.

Having fled the Nazis and navigated Princeton’s racial divisions, Albert Einstein fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America—Joshua Bennett on why we need his optimism today:

Very, very telling.

If you got $1 million, you can pretty much commit any crime you want and Trump will pardon you. I would recommend Pam Bondi’s brother for representation. He seems to get the best results, for some reason.

During the 2024 election, Trump promised to release the Epstein files as part of a campaign message arguing the government was run by powerful people hiding the truth from Americans. At the start of 2026, many people believe that Trump is now one of the powerful few keeping the public in the dark.

Schwartz was set to host the Washington National Opera Gala in May, but he told Newsday there’s “no way” he would set foot in the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump’s renaming.

Details were slow to emerge on one of the latest large-scale #migrant tragedies in the #Mediterranean, as it took place over the Christmas holiday period. It has now been confirmed that a deadly #shipwreck off the coast of #Tunisia cost 116 lives on December 19. Only one person survived the event.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

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so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

Dementia is a helluva drug

The is an old Washington saying that the cover-up is worse than the crime. What if it turns out that isn't true? My latest on why for Trump, the Epstein cover-up may beat the truth will be sent out via email shortly to Democracy Docket subscribers. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

"2025 was tough. It was painful. This was the year that America broke open. Now the seedy interior of what lies within so many structures of power in our country has been revealed. It is not pretty." -- @sifill.bsky.social

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Five million pages. Hundreds of lawyers. Endless “newly discovered” files. This isn’t transparency. It’s a slow-motion cover-up. The Epstein case isn’t going away—and neither is Trump’s role in it. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Five-alarm journalism fire No reporters should be asking LLM chatbots for comment

great journalism means ascribing reliable narrator headline status to an algorithmic parrot built by pedophile white supremacists

Russia conducted a false-flag attack on Putin's residence and forgot the "flag" part. The CIA confirms that Putin is lying and Russia is full of sh*t.

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

Dems need to take the cognitive exam and post the videos to socials so everyone can see how incredibly insane it his he keeps taking them and bragging about it.

I like this "have their cake and eat it too" thing where they advertise their fifth-place chatbot as having no ethical guardrails, and then shrug and say "whoops a daisy" when that inevitably results in problems

The national security justifications for the Trump administration’s expanded entry ban are just an excuse to target Muslims and Africans bit.ly/4b48pO3

they did they job of doling out more corporate tax cuts, destroying the social safety net, and demolishing federal regulators and now it's time to head to the exits complaining about ambiguous congressional dysfunction

Let’s finish the job

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Mandy Patinkin singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow with PS 22 chorus at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social inauguration

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Governor Newsom's Response to Chump Vetoing Clean Water Project in Boeberts District.......

Trump claims his price-raising tariffs “are an overwhelming benefit to our Nation”

A hearty congrats to RFK Jr., as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status after 25 years, with the most cases since the early 1990s.

2025 was a year in which our pilots flew 347,000+ km for conservation, veterinary units conducted 600+ field treatments, and rangers covered 475,000+ km on patrols. We secured habitats, supported communities, and proudly worked with the Kenya Wildlife Service to further conservation across Kenya.

Rob Dannenberg, former CIA head of Moscow Station: "Putin looks at Trump and sees a weak guy, vain, with huge ego…. He's being manipulated in the way that a good case officer like Putin would manipulate this guy. He's not monogamous, he's greedy, he's fascinated by gold —

The Politics of Greed‼️

Americans give President Donald Trump his worst approval ratings ever for his handling of the economy, as they also express concerns about the cost of living, healthcare prices, and personal finances, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. https://to.pbs.org/49g3nwx

Trump's Bald Eagle Claim Ratioed and Hit with Community Note Trump's Energy Department slapped down after running with Trump's Truth Social claim meidasnews.com/news/trumps-...

Social Security is our money that we put aside for retirement. It does not belong to Congress.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Trump tariffs case could have major implications for the separation of powers and limits on presidential authority. Brennan experts discuss the stakes on the latest episode of The Briefing with Michael Waldman. bit.ly/48SQYPc

And again, this resonates with what Team Fight is demanding Dems do about Trump once they take power back—this is the equivalent of a Day One executive order from the next president repealing all of Trump's executive orders and announcing that his ballroom will be razed.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

When Trump returned to power, some people questioned whether the resistance was dead or his agenda would be met with defiance and backlash. Thank you for proving them wrong.

Off to a good start

My latest👇 Unlike in past years, we are not only up against the GOP and its right-wing allies, but the Department of Justice as well. Their collective goal is to use data to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat next November. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!

Happy New Year To Everyone, Including the UNHINGED LOSER "Tiny" Mike Johnson, who—despite his best but pitiful efforts—will fail miserably to stop us from extending ACA tax credits in January. Now's the time to get loud about it:

For all their bluster about “transparency,” Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have ignored the requirements of the new law, writes columnist Elie Honig.