Mother Jones lost her entire family to yellow fever, then her business in the #GreatChicagoFire. Instead of succumbing to trauma, she led multiple movements of people proclaiming, "Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living" Learn from @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/FT0kootLdfg?...

In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.

#Pinks #ProudBlue Child Separation is in full swing. Where are these kids actually being taken and what’s going to happen to them? There is no oversight or accountability. What’s happening to the children?!?! www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Most definitely. And what's more striking to me is the non-foreign agents aiding and abetting this. Congressman and Senators who surely see what is going on but put their own self-interests over the good of the country.

You know the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)? Venerable research institution, respected worldwide? Trump has put an oil executive in charge of it & changed its name to the "National Laboratory of the Rockies." It's so embarrassing being American these days.

I believe there is no historic precedent of a dominant world power dismantling its own influence unilaterally. This is a colossal self destruction.

It's pure toxic & naked Southern Confederacy ethos: 2025 NSS is the logical outcome of an outdated Southern Confederate ethos. It revives themes of cultural purity, hierarchical order, and hemispheric dominance, which stand in tension with modern democratic values of diversity, equity & inclusion.

Thank you HCR. 🙂❤️

NEW ORLEANS OFFICIALS: “We insist (Trump’s ICE goons) clearly ID themselves… there is no precedent for masked law enforcement… they have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY… citizens are being racially profiled, chased, hunted… the chaos and lack of professionalism is ALARMING…”

Well this is interesting

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

I am working with Sen. Graham to pass legislation to help bring home thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. Standing with Ukraine means confronting the cruelty of taking kids from their families and making clear why we must stay united against Putin’s aggression.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

The GOP is on a runaway train toward a cliff of failure bc of a lack of a plan to replace the ACA, leaving millions w/o health care. "Republicans will likely pay a huge political price for such a course, dwarfing the drubbing they just took last month." 🧾 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

Today at @atrupar.com’s PN: the administration claims that Maduro, as president of Venezuela, is the de facto head of a drug cartel being targeted by military airstrikes. Compare this with Trump’s statement about pardoning the former Honduran president: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

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It’s funny how Elon Musk has no problem with Chinese regulation, which is much stricter than European regulation. Have you ever seen him call for the abolition of the CCP?

After their large wins in Georgia’s utility commission races in November, Democrats are hoping for another upset on Tuesday: It’s a special election for a state House seat that voted for Trump but then swung blue in November.

Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/05/t...

For context, this is more than the entire amount of money Congress gave ICE for mass deportations earlier this year.

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution. Commentary ↓

Wednesday: affordability is a con job Thursday: here's new floor plans for a golden ballroom expansion

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

Apple, long the model of stability in Silicon Valley, is suddenly undergoing its biggest personnel shake-up in decades, with senior executives and key engineers both hitting the exits. Read more: bloom.bg/4rG7md7 📷️: Brooks Kraft/Apple

-Bust up monopolies -Boost unions -$20/hr fed minimum wage -Ban Wall Street from buying homes -Pass M4A -Universal childcare -Get rid of Trump’s tariffs -Enact UBI -Tax the rich These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.” Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.

NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”

Birthright citizenship is good policy - the arguments that it’s not all seem either race stuff or the unfairness that other people have to wait. We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

You're also a war criminal in the sense that Putin's a war criminal for invading Ukraine in what he insists isn't a war but a special military operation. You can commit war crimes by doing warlike stuff outside the context of war.

The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.

Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.

Hegseth says the IG report “totally exonerates” him. That is a lie. The IG says “the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” #holdfast

Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

NEW: Todd Curry of Arkansas has been arrested and charged with mailing threats against several Democratic Senators and then-Vice President Kamala Harris Justice Dept is prosecuting Feds allege mailed threats described a "threat to kill"

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Same goes in peacetime. "Maritime law requires masters of vessels to render assistance to any person in danger at sea, provided it doesn't place their own vessel, crew, or passengers in serious jeopardy, establishing a universal duty of rescue" This applies in any man/persons overboard scenario

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

"It's said that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Well, apparently the Trump people can't do that,". Despite President Donald Trump's Department of Justice promising to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social