ICYMI: Speaker Johnson is REFUSING to let the House vote on a bill to extend the ACA tax credits this month. People are buying health coverage NOW—January is TOO LATE. Republican Leaders won't do a thing to help families keep their health care.

Yes… there was like 5 trans athletes in women’s sports. Oh, the horror. But at least you could afford groceries.

Arguing that an Article II contingent election is not really an "election," that's the good stuff. Founders really didn't appreciate the bullshit people would try to pull with their language www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.

Bro had a whole year to focus on the one thing that might save his presidency. Instead he made it worse. And seats that were Harris+5 are now at D+40.

Seven in 10 Americans say the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, including nearly half of Republicans and three-quarters of independents, according to the poll.

A majority of Americans disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

>hey guys we’re gonna do Operation Iraqi Freedom But Actually For The Oil Too This Time >It’s gonna be super easy 3 Day SMO To Caracas >Totally no insurgency I promise >And you get to try and extract/refine some of the shittiest oil on the planet all the while >Hey where are you going come back

Since the Border Patrol isn’t patrolling the border, abolish the Border Patrol.

Good thing we don't have a lot of old people to support and care for.

I am so beyond weary of all the misinformation surrounding this style of housing. People cite parking concerns, blue/green/black bin chaos, shade/privacy, but the main thing that comes out every time is that they don't want someone different than them coming in to their precious neighbourhoods.

Anecdotal evidence that the indefinite "pause" on adjudication of immigration benefits for countries on the travel ban has been expanded to include the 20 countries added yesterday. On reddit, a user posted that their naturalization oath ceremony — the final step to becoming a citizen — was halted.

RFK's decision to cut funding for the Am Acad of Pediatrics is short sighted and harmful. It's pure vindictiveness for the principled stand of AAP on vaccines. Grants to AAP support studies on infant deaths, and childhood diseases like autism. This vindictive action is unconscionable.

Threatening war and stripping citizenship on the same day and I wonder how many checked out normies are aware of either.

Your based Christian nationalist administration, sir:

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

where he plans to resume banging a desk about the deep state, a thing he now knows for certain does not exist, but which will not stop him from hoodwinking media-illiterate rubes for money

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to leave job next month, ending brief tenure as bureau's No. 2 official.

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

-laughs nervously- What the fuck?

Trump speedrunning GWB terms one and two

As a white millennial man I am feeling discriminated against, for the first time in my life, because now anyone who has read this thinks I’m a whiny baby with a full diaper who is also a loser.

A weak showing for a normally viable presidential candidate, yes. For AOC, who is a groundbreaking female Latina socialist, 51% is fabulous

I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning." bsky.app/profile/astr...

🧵 1/4 In challenging times for public health, some genuinely good news -- the FDA approved two new oral antibiotics for gonorrhea 💊 -- the first major treatment advances in decades. @cidrap.bsky.social

If you’re curious why there is a briefcase carrier problem (particularly in dem national security) I took precisely 2 classes on military history in undergrad and maybe 1 I would define as military history/theory in grad school…

Both houses of Congress then have to have public hearings on the winning submission. What comes next is up to them. The last thing that HAS to happen is the hearings. The law may not get changed, but at least it gets visibility, and Congress has to be seen hearing about the problems.

I just had a very fun idea for a federal law. Create a lottery for statutes that need to be amended. Each year have open submissions in Jan for one law that someone thinks is being abused or needs to change. Open voting on the submissions until April. Then random selection of one from the Top 20.

File this under "high crimes & misdemeanors" because this is *exactly* how the Founders meant it

Doing politics the right way.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, Vanity Fair did not miss! 😈 Wiles' describes the incompetence and chaos of this admin lead by an "alcoholic personality". Guess being an insufferable bigot ages you in dog years. See/read for yourself! www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t... Enjoy, see ya tomorrow 😴

While governor of California, Ronald Reagan ordered the California national guard to fire on student protestors with guns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Pe...

send these Democrats to the prison camps

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Phryne’s turning into a hockey fan

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Forget all this. The President has no fucking authority to declare war on anyone. International law is great. It's important. But this shit is illegal as a matter of AMERICAN law

If you can convince the boomers and gen Xers who swept Reagan to a landslide in 84 that it's actually you who are part of the grand continuity of glorious American government they nostalgize and the MAGA GOP as aberrant deviationists, that's good.

Reagan was bad. I think a good thing to remember about this stuff is that most of the guys around Reagan thought FDR was as evil as I think Reagan is, but they still worked to sell Reagan to the public as the true inheritor of FDR's legacy rather than a repudiation of it.

This

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

Should be most of the vote in now for Kentucky's #SD35 (Harris+5) special election: Gary Clemons (D)- 72.6% Calvin Leach (R)- 25.1% Wendy Higdon (Libertarian)- 2.3% It's an over 40 point overperformance from 2024 for the Democrats!

I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.

Remember when news broke that the Coast Guard would no longer categorize swastikas & nooses as hate symbols? That policy went into effect this week. As hate and antisemitism rise through our nation, this Admin should be ashamed for downplaying the meaning of these symbols.

Trump and his Keebler Elf, Mike Johnson, are forcing you to pay more for health care with their policies! So when you get your bill and it’s way more than last year, BLAME REPUBLICANS!

In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness. I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...

Is this why TV is so bad rn

Yup. I'd add some effective opposition to complexity and incompetence.. The key: Characterizing how successful the attack on democracy has been so far just isn't nearly as important as fully appreciating that the attack has begun, is real, and is ongoing - and that it can be meaningfully resisted.

What Susie Wiles thinks about the Trump administration

Nothing says America First like jeopardizing national security so we can deport more cooks and landscapers