A very #MerryChristmas & happy holiday season to all who celebrate. May it be filled with good food, family, friends & fun. Sound up 🔊 to hear my sweet pup singing along to a holiday classic. There's goodness & beauty in this world. Let's fight to make the world kinder, safer, freer & more just.

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Legit: Crown Royal's 'Purple Bag Project' for US Troops Is Not a Scam www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

#Trump #Epstein lifewithnofears.blogspot.com/2025/07/form...

‘Not an enabler’? A glimpse behind the curtain at Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles

Agree 💯 With Rachel......

Wordle 1650 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

How the Civil War inspired this iconic poet’s classic Christmas song www.militarytimes.com/military-hon...

And here you go 🎄🎄🎄 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

There's so many experienced professionals out there suddenly being told how to do their jobs by god tier clowns.

"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating." [email protected] www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I am not hating on the "Fairytale of New York." It's a lovely song. I just didn't encounter it in the late 80s; heard it many many years later, so it's not on my list because it has no nostalgic meaning *for me*

“I now find myself comforted less by the songs of my childhood and more by the music I came to love as a teen and young adult,” radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “I still have fond recollections of my childhood, but I also have a kind of newer nostalgia.”

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid, ruling that the order could not be applied to him. https://to.pbs.org/4q085ES

Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

And....of course.

Trust Phil.

This is perfectly accurate.

“I think Rob Reiner felt, to his core, that the light of democracy was the thing that made every other kind of progress possible." — Ben Wikler, who worked with the legendary filmmaker on a remarkable project that built the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s successful 2020 campaign against Trump

I got to chat with @repschneider.bsky.social of the New Democrats and Jack Inacker of @fubarpac.bsky.social for 'On Democracy' this week on @meidastouch.com. Discussing the fight to restore ACA subsidies and a brilliant way to fight the crazy. Catch it now! www.youtube.com/live/SsiZmEC...

A day early this week due to the holidays. My latest 5 Questions is with Army veteran, @meidastouch.com podcaster, and former @lincolnproject.us director @fpwellman.bsky.social Fred’s running for Congress in the frontline Missouri 2nd District. Powerful stuff here.

Drug cartels are driven by profit, not by murderous ideology like ISIS. Antifa is a loose-knit group of activists who aren’t plotting mass casualty events like al-Qaeda. Venezuela is complicit in human rights violations & drug trafficking, but it doesn’t sponsor terrorism like Iran. wapo.st/4qrV8U5

One thing I asked @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social about was how running as a veteran informs his campaign. He said it does, obviously, but it’s not what he hears most about on the campaign trail. Folks are worried about their kids—and their costs.👇

No, you can’t do that, airhead. It’s not within your authority and it violates several laws.

Remember when Republicans were all "STATES RIGHTS!" That was great.

Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...

which mar-a-lago bathroom were they in

feels quaint to even mention it at this point but the supreme court's total lack of interest in defending the lower court judges who routinely receive maga death threats and swatting attempts for ruling against trump really illustrates who utterly lawless the high court has become

every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict, the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff

This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

What the holy hell is this

staffer: you talked to the little girls? trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked staffer: what

CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit

You’re not having real conversations on X. And if you’re finding you’re seeing more hate here than you are on the white nationalist platform that has restored actual Nazis, I’m afraid that’s a you problem.

I’m nobody special and I’ve had right wing extremists try to ruin every aspect of my personal and professional life, including showing up in person and leaving written death threats at my work and home. This “problem” is an inherent part of right wing extremism; it’s a feature not a bug.

the White House comms strategy on this one was very much: NO NO NO HE HAS FRIENDS AND IS VERY NORMAL bsky.app/profile/andr...

"We have a split economy." New data is offering mixed messages on the state of the U.S. economy. Ron Insana and @justinwolfers.bsky.social discuss on the #11thHour.

“Look around you. Read a newspaper. Watch TV. It’s chaos over here.” My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print. youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

Atlantic editors: Oh wow, this article defending Bari Weiss censoring 60 Minutes is so bad, people are going to hate it, we’re going to get so many clicks. High five!

TREACHERY: Canadian company airs factually accurate news report even though it makes Donald Trump look bad and one of his lackeys in media censored it in the US. NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.

No, people are not exaggerating the significance of what's going on at Heritage. We're talking massive capital flight, in every sense of the word. It will never be the same, and it will be less powerful.

We reached out to numerous trump advisers, senior administration officials, others close to trump and in the Republican elite to grade the trump doj’s handling of the Epstein saga from July to today. All but one said F or F minus Because that one said “F-minus-minus.”