Refunds for corporations, but not you. finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent...

A federal panel made up entirely of Trump appointees just greenlit his massive ballroom, reportedly larger than the White House itself. The panel received 2,000 public comments on the East Wing renovation. 99% were negative. They approved it anyway. Unanimously.

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The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”

No medical intervention is risk-free. It’s senseless to fear a routine immunization while preventable diseases can result in invasive procedures, IV antibiotics, permanent brain damage. We need to be willing to ask hard questions about medical neglect of a child www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Cc: John Roberts

both parties are not the same

What in the cotton-picking dystopia are we doing now?

Trump claims to 'fix' housing? Meanwhile, families face climbing prices ＆ can only afford a literal shed on wheels! He blames everyone but the profiteers he protects. #TrumpAffordabilityChaos

FACT CHECK: Of the ~$170B+ in Ukraine assistance approved since 2022, an estimated 55–65% was spent in the U.S. — replacing older weapons, boosting domestic production, and funding U.S. defense contracts. Roughly 20–25% went as direct budget support to Ukraine. It was not just cash sent overseas.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

The American empire, with typical extravagance, is trying to do both.

The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people

Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?

Extraordinary piece by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social.

Herbert Hoover economics on steroids. Just what Putin wants Trump to do. fee.org/articles/the...

They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

Everything Charlotte writes is worth reading, but please give your time to this. “The country needs to understand the career that Hegseth is so shamelessly slandering in his quest for political retribution.”

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

Perp walk #venezuela

Domestic terrorist fails to gain access to a child care center; pouts about it to TV news.

Senator Angus King gives Pete Hegseth a lesson on confederate traitors.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Breakfast costs HOW much??? Grocery bills tell the truth Trump won’t: he promised lower prices, but costs keep climbing. Biden knew—EVERYONE knows—broad-based tariffs and economic uncertainty are pocketbook poison, but Trump does what he wants, and families pay the price.

🎶 So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Yippee kiyay, motherfucker. Now I have a machine gun. 🎶

Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Great book. I love the sequels "Franklin's Children No Longer Come on Visitation Days" and "Franklin Gets His Bedsheets Taken Away."

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

This Trump coverage makes most sense if NYT principals are in the Epstein Files

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

He also has an ownership stake in #AcreTrader which lets users pool money to buy up foreclosed farmland. Betting against farmers.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Guests sipping drinks and eating at Trump’s Palm Beach resort while he tells states to take away food stamps

Here’s your daily reminder that, about a week ago, the president straight-up admitted he had no idea who he was pardoning—only did it because his sons told him to. There’s a lot going on, but I still think that’s one of the biggest scandals in the country right now—and the media is just silent.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

There is so much damage done to our agencies with these losses. The amount of institutional knowledge and expertise that we have hemorrhaged this year is nigh incalculable. I am not sure how we will recover from this. Or if we even can. And for those of us left, the stress is intense. Every day. 🤬🤬🤬

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"embrace datacenters or face federal intervention" fucking called it

I still say anyone who wants to defend a Confederate statute should be forced to read the original dedication speeches to tell us all what “heritage” they’re celebrating. Here’s one from my college: 1619education.org/sites/defaul...

“Your electric bill is going through the roof because Trump is letting his ai bros who donated to him run wild” Is not a hard story to tell.

We had breakfast at a wonderful restaurant in Buellton, California and this was on the counter where you pay the bill. Trump’s economy is destroying American businesses 😡

Multiple choice DHS thinks: - Puerto Ricans aren’t American - undocumented folks can afford SB tickets - undocumented stadium workers (??) only work on the biggest day of the year - this will get them on TV when TFG is watching

#TrumpTrainWreck A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection. But the scientist who unlocked its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for 2 months. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...