I'm suing the Trump administration for making it harder to protect consumers by illegally trying to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

So DHS gets the outcome it most cares about: a deportation, even though a court found her arrest to be unconstitutional. Recall that all unconstitutional arrests are criminal offenses. So DHS can commit crimes, and not only get away with them, but benefit from them.

MAGA policies enable most healthcare fraud, and MAGA supporters—not Somalis—figure prominently among the lead abusers. "Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."

Horrifying photos from Kharkiv, where russian missiles have just wiped out a residential building. At least 13 people were injured. I am afraid the figures will be worse. Please don't look away. This is not normal. russian terrorism is not normal.

The number of recorded measles cases in the U.S. during 2025 has exceeded 2,000 for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the CDC.

I mean, let's talk about the obvious.

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Kyiv was hit with 500 drones and 40 missiles. Civilians died. Trump’s response? Understanding Putin’s inconvenience. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a bromance—paid for in Ukrainian lives. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I can't get over the fine details of the feathers on this Northern Saw-whet Owl's eyelids! #birds #wildlifephotography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited

2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides ...(remaining Democracies) "must acknowledge the reality of the new world ... the US ... is not their friend and in many ways is out to subvert their futures as the US becomes an ally of authoritarians and dictators. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Montana is removing its numerical water quality standards for nutrients and shifting back to narrative standards, a move that environmental groups say will allow polluters to sully lakes and rivers throughout the state.

Btw, invoking the Cuban Missile Crisis to justify/explain Ru’s aggression in Ukraine is a disqualifying level of idiocy. 7 decades later, Cuba still has a hostile, anti-American regime. When Ru invaded Ukr over a Ukr domestic issue, Ukr was neutral, had no Western weapons, or a NATO invitation.

Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin. archive.ph/2025.12.28-2...

It's vital that we have free and fair elections in 2026, even amid the federal government's unprecedented campaign to undermine them. That's where the Brennan Center comes in. Donald Trump has his plan; so do we. bit.ly/3Y72AYH

Just a reminder that funding runs out for a big chunk of the government (not all) on Jan. 30, one month from today. 9 of the 12 yearly government funding bills remain unfinished. The original spending deadline was Sept. 30.

When I wrote in April that Trump was helping Putin kill Ukrainians by weakening Ukrainian air defense, some people got upset and said I was being too harsh. Guess what happened in 2025? US aid to Ukr withered and at the same time, Ukrainian civilian deaths rose steeply. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Grateful for those few brave among us who lived this way in 2025.

The actual story: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Pelosi: “The President incited an insurrection. We begged him to send the National Guard, they never sent them. This President is trying to re-write history… it was an assault on the constitution of 🇺🇸.”

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

which mayors and govs, which ballot advocates stood out open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Polish Prime Minister Tusk stated that the West and Ukraine will lose the confrontation with Russia if it manages to divide democratic countries and dictate the terms of peace.

Pres Zelenskyy has continued briefing about yesterday's talks. "As for withdrawing from Donbas. Look, it's not news that Russia wants it. In their rosy dreams we would not be on the territory of our own country at all. "But we have our own land, our own territorial integrity."

Meanwhile, DOJ wants to push the first public hearing for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole past the date (January 5) when 5-year statutes of limitation would expire. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Just a reminder: US media figures on the take from the Kremlin, who also frequently read straight from the Kremlin playbook.

Teaching Noise + Movement before anything happens…changes outcomes.

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One way in which US mainstream media acquired the traits of media in an authoritarian state in 2025: it decided that massive public displays of dissent did not merit being reported—at least not in a serious way. The New York Times led the way in authoritarian journalism.

Court rulings have made it easier for states like Texas to strategically delay the introduction of gerrymandered maps in order to make it harder for lawsuits to challenge them in time. bit.ly/44BBnku

This regime has so many layers of corruption. When do we get enough push back from the American public? Under any other administration, this would cause an uproar. When is it enough? For me we are way passed enough is enough, but how do we create a bigger groundswell of voices saying no more?

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

Claims he didn’t know him but shares a Wonderful Secret

Here's the link to yesterday's thread, which started with Russian murders, missiles on streets in Kharkiv and ended with the missile attack on Kyiv. But there were also 'direct sanctions' taken by Ukraine on war criminals and military targets: bsky.app/profile/twmc...

“Nobody wants to work anymore.” And these are the politicians cutting benefits to Americans and calling them “lazy.”

The “Epstein Files” is clearly be treated as *liability containment*, not a pursuit of accountability and justice for the victims! ================= “Prosecutions create shockwaves. Containment exercises create stillness. And what we're documenting here is not an explosion...but a vacuum.” 📣

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents? GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

About that handwritten Epstein letter to Larry Nasser...

Did somebody order 1 million Epstein files? Just making sure I have the right address.

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

Venezuelans sent to CECOT were half as likely to have criminal convictions or violent convictions than deportees in general

Today, the United States Supreme Court denied the federal government’s request to stay a lower court ruling blocking the Trump Administration’s unlawful federalization of the Illinois National Guard. Read our statement. #orpol #nationalguard

346 donors have each shelled out at least $250,000 to Trump-aligned organizations and projects. At least half have benefited from his policies or actions — including pardons. Here's what you need to know about Trump's pay-to-pardon scheme. https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=-IZPsTPWFeqOrZIB

The new documents that Congress has forced the Justice Department to release make one thing clear: We are witnessing a criminal White House cover-up.