Mike Johnson: "We've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution."

Today in Morning Shots: @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social talks with Bob Kagan about Trump's chaos and the abdication of our role as peacekeepers maintaining global order. Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/chaos-is-c...

Naturalized American voters shifted toward Trump in 2024, and that shift accounts for his victory in the popular vote. How has he repaid them? By threatening to strip their citizenship. So look out. If they decide to punish him, the 2025 elections suggest they could knock the GOP out of power.

"Not all of us are criminals."

😢 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Who are you gonna trust? Your pediatrician or the non doctor supply chain researcher guy sitting on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices RFK's bench is so shallow that he qualifies as an expert? (Also WE DO TRUST PLANES AND THE GOVT AGENCY THAT REGULATES THEM.)

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

Just a reminder DOGE stole just about every government database. Perhaps we’re starting to see the fruits of their theft

Veteran criminal chief demoted in EDVa. A retired EDNC guy is parachuted in. By @benjaminpenn.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This is a time when those ballroom donations and many other personal benefits given to Trump really come in handy for the Ellisons.

Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give his girlfriend’s drunk pal a lift home The FBI director’s use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he’s “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat did NOT radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers

Social Security numbers. Driver's licenses. Party affiliation. The wolves are back in the hen house and feeling reinvigorated. @ariberman.bsky.social + @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social report on the Justice Department's unprecedented campaign to intimidate states into handing over voters’ private info.

Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

U.S. Southern Command says that the Defense Department carried out another “lethal kinetic strike” at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed four men.

Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. Two weeks ago, he went missing. Kaitlyn Tiffany investigates:

NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has loudly defended President Donald Trump’s withholding billions of dollars in congressionally approved federal funding. But as a House member, Duffy took a drastically different position on presidential power.

BREAKING: Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, home to Harry Potter and Superman franchises, for $72 billion.

Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in massive $82.7 billion deal

there it is! *NETFLIX TO BUY WARNER BROS. FOR ENTERPRISE VALUE OF $82.7B *NETFLIX TO BUY WARNER BROS. FOR $27.75 PER SHARE *NETFLIX TO BUY WARNER BROS. AFTER DISCOVERY GLOBAL SEPARATION

* Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) $NFLX $WBD about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

The Supreme Court gifted Texas Republicans back their gerrymandered congressional map for the midterms Thursday evening, reversing a lower court ruling that invalidated the map last month. Read more on what this means for 2026: punchbowl.news/article/supr...

The US has told European allies it wants Europe to assume most of NATO’s conventional defense responsibilities by 2027, Reuters reports. European officials say the 2027 goal is unrealistic.

Yup. Robertson+Dickson Counties. Both need #handrecount fo the #PaperBallots. Both of those counties POLLED making 10+ point swings away from the GOP, but the election returns ... nope. In my experience #ESS machines often match expectations in places DEMS check, but in GOP strongholds? #PWNED

Legal experts bashed the Supreme Court's unsigned order on Thursday that allows Texas to use an election map that significantly favors President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Cold, wintry weather brings risk for pets as well as people. Experts say pet owners need to prepare.

Why are so many of their positions literally just pro rape

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Vaccine advisers picked by RFK Jr seemed confused about what they were voting for

“The consultant who works with the Administration, however, told me that some of his clients have hired Loomer to post. He took out his phone to show me a screenshot of a message exchange on Signal. ‘We’re already ginning up a Loomer tweet,’ read one.” Antonia Hitchens for @newyorker.com

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback is facing allegations from a former partner regarding a relationship that began when she was a minor, according to documents filed in a 2025 Leon County court case. flvoicenews.com/gop-governor...

Pipe bomber confusion: At about 22:10, FBI’s Dan Bongino twice refers to “tip” that came in, despite AG Bondi saying there was no tip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKU_...

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Factcheck.org: "Hernández had been found guilty by a jury after a three-week trial. He was sentenced by a U.S. District judge last year to 45 years in prison for using his position to help drug traffickers import more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while accepting bribes..."

Trump ended USAID and the result is a rise in child morality for the first time this century. Pro life 🙄

"The 2 men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers Thursday"

UPDATE: SCOTUS overturns “Supreme Court green lights Texas’ efforts to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans despite a lower court’s ruling it unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race” KAGAN DISSENT: “disserves millions of Texans” www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...

Looks like the Trump administration is doing what it does best: playing politics with people’s hunger.

The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.” And it pushes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s story closer to collapse. trib.al/OCwK1l5

this is the same SCOTUS that's poised to soon drop a bomb of the Voting Rights Act, and likely greenlight more suppressive schemes boltsmag.org/voting-right...

🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime: "The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers." 1/

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."

We’re not on the verge of a Constitutional crisis, we’re in the midst of several and this is just one of them!

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

NOTABLE: Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch say they view California's new map as "indisputably" driven by the pursuit of partisan advantage, as opposed to impermissible race-based goals. Could bode well for Newsom in legal challenges to the CA map. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The U.S. Supreme Court delivers a win for Republicans, upholding the new GOP map for Congress in 2026 - which could deliver as many as 5 extra seats for the GOP. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony. Those judges are pissed.

Hey Trump, are you really willing to let Mike Johnson stop you from keeping your promise to cover IVF for our military families? Thank you for your attention to this matter.