Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Horrible weekend with a lot of horrible stuff and also a lot of police unable to figure out what’s going on. Not great guys.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

"[Elon Musk] knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide." D. Trump. Hmmmmm????

In Trump time, it means shortly after never.

You know things are bad when Trump changes his trademark “Two weeks” to “6 months to a year.”

"No one expects to be a hero, but when the moment came, he was."

“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...

Rob Reiner had one of the greatest movie runs in history. Look at these classics. 5 in a row. Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie. Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.

Omg no www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/r...

NYC residents, please help us to demand that the City Council increase and stabilize public library funding. It takes 30 seconds to send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - we also need people to follow up with a phone call to your member.

You noticed it too, right? The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force. Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing. 🧵

TAKE UP SPACE DIVA

Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.

Rand Paul on mid-decade redistricting: "I think it's gonna lead to more civic tension & possibly more violence in our country. Think about it: if 35% of Texas is solidly Democrat & they have 0 representation, how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel they're not represented"

Kamlager-Dove: Biden put together a very restrictive plan around selling these chips to other countries. And Republicans were saying, “Hey, Biden, you’re not protecting our national security.” Fast forward to Trump, and he’s selling these things like you sell Snickers on the corner.

Has DHS forgotten how to save its records? We’re asking after receiving two bizarre “no records” responses to our FOIA requests this week, for everything from ICE body cam footage to Kristi Noem’s DMs. Get these stories and more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.

Trump has declared everyone against fascism, and by extension all our veterans who fought and died fighting against fascism, as the #1 domestic threat to the nation. It’s what Hitler would’ve done.

What if the most powerful mass shooting prevention tool required no new laws at all? 👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Warnock: "If you live in Claxton, Georgia, if you live in rural America, even if you have wealth and resources and you're having a stroke and there's no ICU within a reasonable distance because of these draconian cuts, your life is in peril. We can do better than this."

Sen. Jack Reed: "I must remind everyone that we follow the law of war, and because of that, we expect other countries. So that when our service members are in distress, they're not shot up in the water or if they're wounded, left to die. If we don't do it, then we can't expect other countries."

The VA already slashed 30,000 jobs earlier this year as part of an agency-wide reorganization.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite.

Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits. The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

We are heartbroken by the attack at Bondi Beach that targeted the Jewish community during a Hanukkah celebration, as families gathered to mark a sacred holiday. Now and always, we condemn this act of antisemitic violence, and violence in all its forms.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

just. brutal.

This is at least the third incident I'm aware of where immigration agents attacked workers on a private residential construction site. Here is one I covered in October, in Chicago. bsky.app/profile/cram...

"He estimates there were at least 30 federal agents present who took shifts rotating in and out of cars to stay warm." It was too cold for the masked agents to stay out there all that time. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration. Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

Child deaths are up this year due to Trump’s cuts to global health funding. We deserve leaders who follow proven science and safeguard children’s lives.

Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"

All of the past week’s Civil Discourse columns in one convenient place. Catch up on anything you may have missed! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In what way is the US unlike all other developed countries?

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."

There's so much good in this world! Don't forget to look for the beauty, sweetness & fun. 🔊⬆️ It helps us decompress to fight the bad things. Here's an adorable timeline cleanser of my pup singing a holiday tune followed by some things we need to shine a light on in order to stop it from continuing.

Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social

Support for MAGA falls among Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

NOTE: Trump praises, defends, and pardons members of white supremacist groups. The ones with names, leaders, weapons, and body counts. Let’s unpack this. Read. Share. Subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

Yes, except protecting us is not their plan. I can’t believe we’re not even one year into this shit show.

That’s amazing. It’s frightening to know we have people like that in leadership roles that are supposed to protect us from ACTUAL terrorist threats - like that of domestic violent extremist white nationalist organizations.

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...