We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Ugh.

The early reviews for #CPI are rough. @wsj.com @nicktimiraos.bsky.social

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.

Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime

(eyeroll) Well, at least the writer briefly acknowledged how Hollywood historically would cast women barely older than their male co-stars as the mother. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... (note this cartoon is from 2003. The stats are higher now...I hope)

Yet another excellent courtroom exhibit.

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

They announced the escalation of their investigation into Kelly for reminding service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders on the same day Hegseth illegally ordered subordinates to murder nine more unarmed people in boats.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “The United States promised Russia not to accept Ukraine into NATO and to facilitate the transfer of territories.”

This week, Secretary Hegseth murdered four times as many people as the Brown University gunman. This month, he murdered twice as many as the Bondi Beach attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

When my oldest daughter was murdered, public radio reported on All Things Considered that she had been mostly raised by other relatives.

The ideal way to deal with a brutally cold day like today

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

As the ACA deadline sneaks up a reminder to my fellow Texans: 1) Texas "silver loads," so gold plans are MORE AFFORDABLE (see @charlesgaba.com for more on this) 2) BaylorScott&White is a great bet for a large network 3) Don't at me but found ChatGPT to be very useful for comparing plans!

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

Two very strong, alluring Dem candidates have come forward in Texas Or, as the Washington Post calls it: Dems in disarray

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The first hospital in TN to announce it is closing its maternity ward since the Big Bad Bill passed is in rural Pulaski. Our state has been dead last in the country for our maternal mortality rates for 2 years now. This will make matters worse. #MedSky #ReproSky

Love midwives. Two of my three daughters were delivered by certified nurse-midwives. My middle daughter would have been too, but she was delivered by a somewhat stressed-out emergency room doctor.

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Perfect

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

December 6, 2025

Christmas during Trump 1.0

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

🚨We're sounding the alarm: privatizing legal aid for unaccompanied kids puts their lives & rights at risk. This RFP dismantles a network that has held the govt accountable for their abuses. Read more: https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

CARTOON OF THE DAY

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

As Missourians fight to stave off a GOP gerrymander by putting it to a statewide vote, the President of United States’ eldest son entered the fray Wednesday, attacking the referendum’s organizer on social media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will halt federal payments that help administer the food stamp program to Democratic-led states next week if they do not turn over aid recipient data, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

HOW @nytimes.com?

To put the Northwestern capitulation into human terms: $75 million is the equivalent of three head football coaches a year for three years.