“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

No one is going to tune in to CBS because they know it won’t be critical of Trump but lots of people will tune out for that reason. Spiking the CECOT story to curry favor is a terrible moral and journalistic decision — but it’s also a terrible business decision.

This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all! 🧵 9 of 9

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

By 1:30pm today, Democracy Docket had already published that the DOJ files release was incomplete and violated federal law. Why did it take so many legacy media outlets until this evening to come to the same conclusion?

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”

15 years after the ACA became law and Republicans STILL can’t come up with more than a “concept” of a plan.

A holiday dagger at the heart of veteran health care—Collins’ cuts will stretch thinner a staff already struggling with rising workloads. Saying positions are open is no excuse for failing to fill them—many mission critical jobs. It leads to longer wait times, less responsive care.

Disturbing and infuriating: There have been at least 75 school shootings in the U.S so far this year; 43 were on college campuses, and 32 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left at least 31 people dead and more than 100 other victims injured www.cnn.com/us/school-sh...

Michigan House Republicans slashed funding from programs to support moms and babies, wigs for kids with cancer, mental health services for kids who were sexually assaulted and more. With no notice. And no good rationale.

UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him. He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.

As Magaziner calmly disassembled Noem's defenses, piece by bullshit piece, he made our day. “There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this: you don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys & the bad guys." - Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.)

In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney. More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig... More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...

Did you know: Omaha, Nebraska, has the largest residential lead cleanup site in the U.S. BUT... this year, the Trump admin tripled the amount of lead that had to be in the soil to warrant a potential cleanup, meaning many families may be out of luck. @chrisbowling.bsky.social

A very important piece by @monicapotts.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Reminds me of that time I needed emergency appendectomy & I was on morphine & the hospital billing guy came to my room to ask me to pay the copay upfront I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally

Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/lEwPGHg

Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."

After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China. The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.

Powerful 🇺🇸

"They buried the most important detail in SEC docs.  Paramount said the bid's debt is backed by sovereign wealth funds tied to Saudi, Qatari, and UAE governments, as well as to Jared Kushner's affinity partners"  bsky.app/profile/nanc...

Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The Witkoff plan made headlines for demanding Ukraine give up Donbas. Less noticed: Washington would pocket half the reconstruction profits, hand Moscow a $200bn investment vehicle, and stick Europe with a $100bn bill. Using assets Europe froze. EU, you ok with this? Use them first.

A remarkable threat from the Deputy AG: DOJ’s No. 2 official suggested Thursday that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they’ve publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

“Cole also told agents that he supported President Donald Trump and held anarchist views” www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/b...

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

NEW: Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

This is too much.

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

However this Tennessee race turns out, this is an unbelievable change over Trump’s 22 pt. victory a year ago. Are my Republican colleagues ready to join us to vote to bring health care premiums down? You have my number.

President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America. This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.

"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

top notch mascottin'

At the Supreme Court, a private prison company is seeking a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability. More on the case: bit.ly/4pfafj2

They managed to commit two crimes in one

Ukraine has not surrendered but the US in the form of Witkoff and Trump has.

“'I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,' Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie."

DOGE has been a FLOP, now disbanded 8 months early. Greatly exaggerating their "success" Trump and Musk lied to the taxpayers, never delivering a cent back to them. The real impact: slashing research, endangering public health, removing competent public servants, & creating chaos.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data — the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

A lot of big “America first” accounts on Twitter have been shown to be foreigners www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...