“…before Brian Cox, the particle physicist, he was Brian Cox the rock star. His first professional gig, in fact, was playing keyboards in the opening band on a tour with Jimmy Page, the lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...

“Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to be wrong. And while the group did make thousands of smaller cuts, jolting foreign aid recipients, American small businesses and local services, those amounted to little in the scale of the federal budget.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Watergate prosecutor makes bombshell Trump connection in key Epstein email

Helpful breakdown of a “long NYT article that purports to explain Trump’s “policy” to target Venezuela.” Excellent explainer of the ongoing Miller/Rubio insanity www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/b...

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.

#MorningVibe On leadership, from @booker.senate.gov. WE MUST ALL LEAD OUT OF THE DARKNESS.

Infuriating NEWS... The damage Trump is doing is irreversible... Just destroyed native protected land that was home to wildlife AND outrage as he damaged sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds Irreversible Damage

TRUMP’S CLAIM ABOUT NIGERIA COLLAPSES UNDER THE FACTS: From 2020 to 2025, more Muslims were killed in religiously targeted attacks than Christians, and most of the violence wasn’t even religious. These conflicts are driven by ethnic, economic, and criminal forces. 🧵

“Our laws still allow the abomination of one individual being able to buy a national election. And Elon’s..animosity toward his own child is reflected in the way governmental power is used to oppress some of the most vulnerable people alive.” www.thefarce.org/musk-prepare...

Hey, cut FEMA some slack! After all, it's hard to help people in dire need when all your department resources are going towards arresting and trying to deport American citizens who are brown and/or have a Hispanic name. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

“The Board isn’t just defending journalism, it’s calling Trump’s bluff in the one arena where his bravado collapses: sworn testimony backed by documents.” open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

“This is why this moment feels dangerous. Not because one scandal exists, but because pressure plus impulse plus power is an unstable mix. A president who cannot regulate his emotions is increasingly attempting to regulate the world instead...” open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

“What is painfully obvious in these moments isn't simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being; it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, celebrating him, probably is too.” open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

“Inherent contempt with custody isn’t radical. It’s in the toolkit. It’s the Founders assuming adults would eventually have to deal with other adults who refuse to listen. The only shocking thing is how long we’ve pretended it isn’t there.” open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

“This same incompetent worm-eaten wackjob, approved by GOP legislators after nomination by a GOP president, has now ensured hope for immunotherapy and vaccines for disease like pancreatic cancer are throttled for at least the next three years.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...

The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

“If your first instinct when faced with documented human rights abuse is to ask whether the perpetrators feel sufficiently heard, then you are not an editor. You are a liability with a press badge.” open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

🤬 www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

It is already hard enough to be a kid. Government should not make it harder. I marvel at the courage of young trans people dealing with the political toxicity today. All any of us want is to live a life of purpose and happiness.

“This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“A free press is essential to democracy. However, a free press is only important if it is willing to act independently of the regime in power.” newsletters.democracydocket.com/about-last-n...

👁️‍🗨️ A US president who has kinder words for putin than Rob Reiner is a disgrace to his country. ~ Canadian Resistance #resist #quote #vote #nokings #epstein #reiner #oscars #

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

“The unmistakable conclusion is that this is not an administration that can be counted on to stop itself from doing terrible things. Un-American things. Even illegal things. And Trump’s chief of staff just said so, out loud.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“Every day we continue this performative cruelty, we diminish ourselves. Not as a “nation of laws” — we compromised that principle long ago through selective enforcement — but as a society capable of fairness, rationality, and decency.” www.psrmemphis.org/scapegoating...

Join me in asking your representative to oppose H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX-2), respectively. It's cruel and discriminatory. Reqd more below. www.votervoice.net/Shares/BFmPA...