Alabama’s homicide rate is more than double New York City’s. Remember that the next time Tommy Tuberville criticizes NYC’s “crime and migrants.”

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote in January. Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/tDjQcNW9

Buckle up bitches 💪

Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

Affordability is the story for 2026 Maybe the cost of eggs goes down, maybe it doesn’t But-since ACA subsidies weren’t renewed-if you now can’t afford health insurance and are bankrupted by treatment or prescriptions, what does it matter Democrats tried to fix it Republicans weren’t interested

Final broadcast of ABC News Tonight for 2025. I hope every rep and senator saw it. Millions are being forced to cancel health insurance because it’s unaffordable. That pressure doesn’t stop with them; it spreads. When people drop coverage, everyone’s rates go up. Call your Rep and Senators.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

This thread still going strong.

Hahahaha

Finally, Trump's diet! Oh my god. The piece closes with RNC Chair Joe Gruters saying he was "shocked" to witness Trump eat "french fries, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a Filet-O-Fish" in one sitting (5/6)

Yes those 3 minute long blinks really get me too

I frequently criticize the Times on various fronts. With great size/power comes great responsibility. But it's always important to remember that really only they have the resources and capacity to put stuff like this together. These are like genome maps of the Trump corruption machine.

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

James: I defend the rights of New Yorkers—that’s my job each and every day, without fear and without favor—and that’s what Zohran will do, joining with me against any overreach.

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

Just to clarify: Not *all* ACA subsidies have expired. A large chunk of them have, but they’re still *mostly* around. If they all expired, net premiums would triple or quadruple on average instead of “only” doubling, which is disastrous enough.

🚨 In addition to the enhanced ACA tax credits expiring half an hour from now, there's several OTHER awful healthcare policies which are about to go into effect starting January 1st due to either the #BigUglyBill or regulatory changes by RFK Jr & Dr. Oz: acasignups.net/25/07/30/hea...

Wiles might have revealed more than she ought to. Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin are demanding answers about a particular detail that came out of the article: Wiles’s apparent familiarity with the contents of the Epstein files. trib.al/rjvKLEA

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

📌"Jack Smith testified in so many words that the man who is currently taking a bulldozer to our White House and our human rights is a traitor to his country. The anti-American Trump is every bit as guilty this evening as he was January 6, 2021, and far more dangerous. And Merrick Garland dithered."

This is the new “they’re eating your pets.” Racist as f*ck. The right is blaming Somalis as a group for fraud. But let’s slow down for a second… 🧵

It did not seem accidental that Republicans pushed this transcript out on sleepy New Year’s Eve. Smith gave them few openings and parried their pointed questions with exhaustive recitations of the evidence against Trump and his alleged co-conspirators. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

NEW: Jack Smith seemed in total command of the details of his probes and used his deposition to forcefully rebut claims of weaponization and reiterate his belief that Trump was guilty of historic crimes. Our 7 takeaways. w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear: If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison. And he should be.

Or better yet, appointed earlier.

Great - now we have the Epstein Files *and* volume two of Jack Smith’s collected evidence/analysis to release. Woof I don’t think I can do this all again, but of course I will.

I know nobody likes notes but I think there probably is a way to make this point without granting the premise of the pending criminal charges against you

As a white, female American citizen, the “we” he is referring to is the last thing from what I want taking back this country.

Jack Smith testified that Trump's co-conspirators didn't need Ted Cruz's and Lindsey Graham's phone numbers—BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAD THEM. 🤔

How anyone looked at this guy and thought “he is for the working class” 🥂

Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.

Breaking: A federal appeals court just ruled that the Trump admin must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Newsom's control. Newsom: "I'm glad Pres. Trump has finally admitted defeat: We've said all along the federalization of the National Guard in California is illegal."

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Half way through the Jack Smith transcript and it’s become abundantly clear why Jim Jordan didn’t want public testimony. Jordan spends a lot of time whining about the toll subpoenas, and Jack Smith shuts him down every time.

Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.

This is what happens when you stay home, vote 3rd party, or vote Republican. Happy New Year? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This 2007 reporting in the New York Post ties in with today's WSJ report about Mar-a-Lago: "Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there."

The lesson of 2025: fighting back works. Not immediately. Not perfectly. It’s a grind. But don’t let fascists tell you they are inevitable. 2026 is starting off right.

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

For those who prefer video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b...

Well for the “the second amendment is worth a few gun deaths”, pedophile-supporting, anti-universal childcare party, it doesn’t surprise me they have zero idea how safety protocols are daycares/schools work.

Jack Smith: "I would prefer, if it's all right, not to talk about my safety, because I think doing so could, in fact, endanger my safety and those of people around me."

Reason #472874 these guys will never get laid by a woman.

Now random douchebags are showing up to daycares thinking they’re going to break a big story. Many daycares are closed this week due to the New Year. Good lord.

Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.