#Trump lies in prime time, the #GOP lets #ACA subsidies expire by design, inflation ticks back up, and the White House installs grievance-filled propaganda as “history.” #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump’s prime-time “economic address” wasn’t news, it was a live broadcast of lies. The more disturbing story is why legacy media keeps airing this stuff unfiltered, then calling it journalism. #uspolitics #legacymedia #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Trump announces a “total and complete blockade” by Truth Social, turns a #Hanukkah reception into a campaign rally, and governs exactly the way #SusieWiles described: no friction, no guardrails, all impulse. Meanwhile, the Northwest floods. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump wanted to punish the Pulitzer Prize Board. Instead, he invited an unsolicited audit of his entire adult life. Discovery is a beautiful thing. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump’s shadow war at sea, #EastWing demolished for a “national security” ballroom, a jobs report he didn’t want released, a vicious post about #RobReiner, and the #ACA subsidy cliff about to punch voters in the wallet. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

The DOJ says they stopped a “sophisticated terror plot.” The photos show PVC pipes on a folding table in the desert. And the group? They’re on Instagram and call themselves the Order of the Black Lotus. #uspolitics #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Two continents hit by mass shootings, #Europe declares the Pax Americana over, Trump spins snake-bite fan fiction and his #FBI nabs the wrong guy. The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Rob Reiner, who was killed on Sunday, built a remarkable acting and directing career that went far beyond his comic origins. David Sims on his quiet brilliance and always surprising versatility:

Now he is suing the BBC for $10B over how they edited his January 6th speech. His complete failure to take any accountability, especially around that day, is exhausting. He certainly knows it, too. That is why he keeps pushing his lack of it. Don't let him wear you down. #Resist #Pinks

President Donald Trump is facing a bombshell demand to turn over his medical records as one of his lawsuits against his enemies backfires.

#Trump didn’t just ramble at his Christmas event, he told a full National Geographic snake drama starring the #Obama daughters, a mystery doctor, and a viper that doesn’t exist. It’s a symptom. #uspolitics #25thAmendment #dementia open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Muslim father tackles a gunman at a Hanukkah festival in Bondi, Hungarians flood the streets against Orbán, Canadians quietly prep for a MAGA spillover-Trump is online lying about an active shooter at Brown while the GOP face-plants again on healthcare. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Three Americans were just killed in an# ISIS ambush near Palmyra after #Trump spritzed Syria’s president with cologne and whining about Epstein photos “making him look bad.” #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

#NYC blocks #ICE vans, #Trump melts down in a cowboy hat, threatens to defund Indiana (yes, that’s a crime), #Epstein photos drop, #Zelensky films a battlefield victory update from #Kupiansk #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritariansim open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

#Trump isn’t just abusing the pardon power, he’s rewriting who counts as a criminal, who counts as a victim, and what this country claims to stand for. This is how a nation’s character unravels in real time. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Europe locks up Russia’s assets, Denmark now considers the US a security risk, Trump tries to outlaw state AI laws, Congress shrugs as 24M face soaring healthcare costs #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

I dig into how the #healthcare system is being quietly rebuilt through chaos: collapsing exchanges, junk plans on the rise, #Medicare privatization accelerating, and the curious role of #DrOz at CMS. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

“Remigration” isn’t about return—it’s about erasure. A neutral word repurposed to sanitize exclusion, discipline labor, and redefine belonging as bloodline rather than civic life. Language is doing political work again. #Anthropology #Authoritarianism #Migration #Democracy

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

Donald Trump may have thought the rules of political gravity don't apply to him, “but not even the most fearsome and durable leader escapes the eventual decay of their power,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a “black-box” warning—a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has reported.

America has fully entered its rogue nation phase. #Venezuela calls “piracy,” Congress rebuking Trump's NATO retreat, million-dollar “gold card” visas, and Jerome Powell quietly telling the country the economy is not, in fact, a hallucination. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump’s boast about seizing a “very large” tanker off #Venezuela hit me in a place I wish I didn’t recognize. The buildup, strikes, swagger, this is exactly what it feels like right before a war starts, and my body remembers that terror far too well. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

#Trump warms up with a chaotic airplane gaggle, face-plants through a half-empty casino “Bigger Paychecks” speech, threatens the press over his health, and #Congress prepares to bury a potential war crime. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Rep. Magaziner: “You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst…You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, marines, children, and U.S. citizens.”

Eileen Higgins is the first woman to ever become mayor of Miami and the first Democrat in the post in 30 years.

Straight up neo nazi rally last night

#Trump went to a casino to talk about the economy. He left us with a séance, a racist tirade, cognitive freefall, and a finale set to #YMCA. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

#Trump’s $1.99 imaginary gas, his $12B farm-aid fan fiction, the AI-chip giveaway to China, #Ramaphosa’s “you are no one to dictate to us,” #PeteHegseth getting heckled outside church while Trump brags about a #FIFA “peace prize.” #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

We are having a volunteer appreciation party at the Rosser Center, Dems in Yavapai county take note! @yavdems.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/yavapaicount...

Doing my morning reading, and want to call out @thebulwark.com, with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social (and others) for consistently smart takes that make me think.

Trump on Monday walked back his previous support for releasing video footage of the attack.

A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.

The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik

“The next ambitious sociopath watching this has already learned the lesson: the presidency is the biggest jackpot in American life and nothing stops you from cashing out.” open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...

#Trump threw himself a fake #KennedyCenter gala while China hit a $1T trade surplus because of his tariffs, public health is collapsing under anti-science #autocracy, layoffs are surging, and he’s prepping a $12B bailout to fix a crisis he caused. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

NEWS: Mike Johnson braces for 'mass exodus' of House Republicans. Trump caught committing same mortgage fraud he is prosecuting Letitia James for. Trump's Thailand peace deal is effectively over. An important news update. Subscribe to support: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

NEWS: Russia praises Trump’s national security strategy as one that aligns with their vision. Trump orders FBI to compile list of Americans who are “extremists.” Trump furious as Congressman refuses to flip from Republican to Democrat after pardon. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Trump turned the Kennedy Center Honors into a 30-minute monologue about marble dust, HVAC units, and sending troops into U.S. cities, and somehow that wasn’t even the scariest part. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump Trump’s attack on Somali Minnesotans reveals how whole communities become targets through tone, not law. As suspicion moves into daily life, protections weaken unevenly, showing the early mechanics of democratic erosion in the U.S. #Immigration #Democracy #AuthoritarianDrift

#Trump accepts a FIFA Peace Prize while the #Pentagon briefs #Congress on a drone strike that killed two shipwrecked men waving for help. Parks go free on Trump’s birthday, and the president’s cognitive decline is becoming impossible to ignore. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

U.S. faces its first international #war-crimes complaint, Hegseth is hit with impeachment articles, #SCOTUS greenlights partisan map-rigging, Trump “ends” a war in Congo he can’t pronounce, and a 90,000-sq-ft #WhiteHouse ballroom rises from the rubble. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Five years after the Jan. 5 pipe bombs nearly changed history, the #FBI finally has a suspect. What they also uncovered is the hypocrisy at the heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 rewrite. #uspolitics #PamBondi #danbongino open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump’s “boat strikes” in the Caribbean, why the admin claims they’re “saving American lives,” and why the numbers don’t add up. #uspolitics #climatecrisis open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

The National Security Strategy says that America should curb the sense in Europe that Russia is a threat and warns that NATO cannot be “a perpetually expanding alliance”. Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.