Over the 29 years since Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement and buyback (1996–2024), the US has recorded over 1.16 million gun deaths, while Australia has had around 8,7.00. Gun death rates per 100K people are dramatically lower in Australia (1.3 over the period) than in the US (13.1).

This isn’t like inventing cold fusion. America knows how to meaningfully curb random gun violence and mass shootings. We just choose not to. Because our revealed preference is that we prefer mass shootings to meaningful gun control. This is who we are. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...

The Trump sycophants and spinmasters can twist the jobs numbers all they want to fool people, but here is one simple number they can’t change: the US unemployment rate is now the highest it’s been in 4 years.

"Tariffs are 'national security!'" "The ballroom is 'national security!'" "Suing the BBC is 'national security!'" "Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'" "Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'" NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.

LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha

It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan. Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination. Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...

“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense...” www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

His warning takes on even greater urgency today.

Trump is absolute human garbage

"Trump Dances on Rob Reiner's Grave"

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

Every time you think Trump can’t possibly get any worse, he gets worse.

Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films. What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.

Hey MAGA - remember when they lied you into war for oil w/Iraq, saying it was about WMDs? Then, their media spent yrs claiming y’all were anti-war, like Trump? Well now they’re lying you into war for oil w/Venezuela, saying it’s about fentanyl. So I guess y’all obediently believe that now, right?

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

And intellectual property theft by a lawless regime.

"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."

When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.

True freakin' story!

Fact-check: true

Sounds about right...

This.

Scoring perfect 7. And that's why he is the perfect president for American christians...

Where do we get our doll and pencil ration card. "Trump declared, 'You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.' He added, 'You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter — two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

And Trump will demand it be called the Trump ID. By then, maybe his picture will also be on our money. Anything to keep his broken brain happy and otherwise engaged while the billionaire oil and tech oligarchs, white Christian nationalist fanatics and straight up grifters loot the country bone dry.

You’re missing the part where they inevitably enact national ID & universal biometric identification. The very things conservatives once claimed would be unacceptable tyranny or even the mark of the Beast, but which they will blindly accept as legitimate because Trump, their god and king, says so.

All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.

National preservation group sues to halt East Wing ballroom construction

Utterly shameless

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block President Trump’s construction of a large new ballroom on White House grounds, arguing that he violated at least four laws in bypassing any review process.

Excellent. But again, do not trust MTG. She's not a good person. She's not welcome in my tent - even if she apologizes for and acknowledges her role in the insurrection. www.ms.now/news/marjori...

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

“One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Another showed Trump with 6 women” www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

Trump is using the same lies that Putin and Hitler used to start their wars. Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker. www.fascism.link/p/putin-used...

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.

Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."

"The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is 'be as racist and xenophobic as Donald Trump.'" — @snipy.bsky.social

Russia’s Putin affirms support for Venezuela after US seizes oil tanker https://aje.io/jmjetb

BIG NEWS: A federal grand jury has AGAIN refused to indict NY AG Letitia James in the Eastern District of Virginia — this time in Alexandria. This is just a week after the DOJ tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment in Norfolk.