Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.

I just realized Ukraine has already been at war with Russia for longer than the U.S. fought Germany and Japan in WWII

Just showed up at the San Antonio immigration court. I’m here as an observer. People are coming here for their required appearances; people following the law. It’s 8:15am and the place is already swarming with armed ICE officers, waiting to arrest peaceful, legal immigrants.

Zelenskyy’s speech in Davos today has now been canceled. Official reason: he stayed behind in Kyiv due to overnight shelling.

Very interesting, and the line about charging for parking in the lot under 281 being the last straw drew an AMEN from me. I cannot stand scan and pay, I could live with paying for parking if there were still attendants.

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell's statement today came as a shock to staffers at Stars & Stripes, who haven’t heard directly about any changes yet, and who now fear that the news outlet’s independence and credibility is at risk.

“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

People often ask me — but how we will know if it’s going to be really bad? The redlines for any true American have already been crossed. The normalization of the use of force against us as citizens — and by us as Americans in the world — is what you feared www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...

A Senator makes a truthful statement, protected by First Amendment and Speech/Debate Clause, and gets investigated by DOJ. An ICE agent shoots and kills an unarmed mom, and they won’t even cooperate with local law enforcement.

Confirming the NYT's reporting: FBI agents arrived at Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home this morning and conducted a search. Natanson penned this outstanding first-person piece last month about being "the federal government whisperer." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

To put it mildly, this isn't the type of language one typically sees by a party addressing a judge. Halligan, Blanche and Bondi downplay the ruling disqualifying Halligan as a "disagreement" with the government, which they say isn't binding on any other case.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota are resigning after the DOJ is pushing the office to investigate the widow of Renee Good. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Tonight in Kyiv, it’s −13°C. Some parts of the city have been without electricity for more than 60 hours after russian attacks.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Alpha News is a far-right site run by the wife of the former head of the Minneapolis police union. Whoever leaked this to them thinks it makes Ross look good. Which is just astonishing.

I know TV producers work on an incredibly tight schedule and are constantly bouncing between different topic—US invading another country! ICE murdering civilians! Epstein—but there are some easy ways to quickly find past statements that might contradict what a guest is saying. 1/

They're trying to escalate. They're trying to start something so they can put it down violently. Why else would she say stuff like this?

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

People with hearing loss are even more vulnerable to such attacks. Not only do long blackouts leave them without a way to charge hearing aids, it also deprives them of ways to communicate and react to air raid alerts.

Long thread: There is no proof that the "Venezuela for Ukraine" swap that Fiona Hill described in her 2019 testimony was ever completed, but there are signs that it is beginning to play out. Two weeks before US troops nabbed Maduro and his wife, Russia pulled all of its people out of Venezuela. 1/

San Antonio retailers saw 2025 holiday shopping get off to a nearly flat start, compared to 2024. Read More👉 ebx.sh/8pS6rd

JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release. Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump administration is trying to control its Venezuela message by funneling info through the White House. Pentagon beat reporters tell me they're not getting answers from military spokespeople. Press officers are regularly referring questions to the WH.

Jan 6 police responder Dan Hodges: “Five years ago I thought: This has to be the most videotaped crime in American history. It's just so much evidence. There's no way anyone can possibly deny what occurred here. But that's exactly what's happening”

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Latest Measles outbreak in Kentucky. Measles had been eliminated in the US in 2020 but in 2025 there were a total of 2,065 confirmed measles cases in the US, 88% of them associated with outbreaks. The measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine is “very safe and effective,” per CDC.

It doesn’t exactly make up for LSU’s craptacular season, but it’s fun seeing Bama get humiliated.

3. In March the Trump administration wrongfully removed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran prison and alleged that he was a member of a violent gang. @rparloff.bsky.social took a close look at those allegations and found their credibility lacking: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...

"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html

Kyiv did not sleep once again last night. On the last weekend of the year, the capital should have smelled of mulled wine, cinnamon, chocolate and joy. Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses. The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.

Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it. “I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire. That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins.

The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court www.vox.com/politics/473...

just very hard to say with the details we have and 1 hour of analysis in the middle of the night if Epstein actually wrote this or if it was a prank/hoax at the time

By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks. He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

APNewsAlert At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation AP-US-APNewsAlert

My pal Mara Silvers has the story of Dr. Weiner finally losing his license for @montanafreepress.org montanafreepress.org/2025/12/20/m...

Read @davidmcswane.bsky.social's original 2024 investigation into Dr. Weiner here:

Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇

"The form also has an option to submit photos to the tip line, however, taking photos inside a restroom is illegal." www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...

U.S. v. Dugan: We have a VERDICT.

It's after 8:15 p.m. Central Time. Still quiet on the U.S. v. Dugan jury front, for everyone wondering.

Inflation unexpectedly eased in November, but Powell already warned to view this data with a "skeptical eye," because of distortions caused by the gov't shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... @nytimes.com

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus retired in 2017, but his PAC has since spent +$2 million on political consultants. Another retired lawmaker's campaign account has made $1.2 million via investments. A wild look at how lax campaign finance laws allow ex-lawmakers to spend big, long after retiring: