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Sen. Chris Murphy: Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio ‘Literally Lied To Our Face’ Before Venezuela Takeover www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...

Maduro and wife plead not guilty to narco-terrorism charges www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Pentagon moves [illegally] to cut Sen. Mark Kelly’s military retirement pay as punishment over ‘illegal orders’ video www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/p...

It's time for Keith Ellison to step up and run for governor. #MNgov

After Venezuela operation, Trump haunted by his pardon for Honduran drug trafficker www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ends reelection bid abcnews.go.com/Politics/min...

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

We are living in an era of rogue criminals masquerading as world leaders. 😳👇

Early Voting in North Carolina starts in 39 days. No amount of wag the dog nonsense is going to interfere with a great Democratic victory.

The Brazen Illegality of Trump's Venezuela Operation www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Schumer & Jeffries joint statement: “President Trump’s announced plan to run Venezuela is unacceptable. It is critical that the Trump administration provide an immediate Gang of Eight briefing, followed by briefings for all Members of the House and Senate early next week.”

BREAKING: Venezuela's vice president demands the U.S. free Maduro and calls him the country's rightful leader during speech.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

U.S. strikes Venezuela and says leader Maduro has been captured and flown out of the country www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN ticks through all the evidence we have that something has changed for the worse with Trump's health since October that the White House is covering up

"Regional offices abruptly disappeared in a rushed reorganization. New policies were rolled out only to be canceled or changed, prompting confused customers to jam the phones and the website, which crashed repeatedly..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji, arrive at his inauguration ceremony.

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

I'm glad 2025 is over.

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

New in PN: How Dems can win the Senate in 2026 "It’s not likely … but we’re saying there’s a chance. It requires Dems holding every seat they currently have, flipping ones in North Carolina and Maine, and also flipping two out of Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Texas, Florida, and Nebraska."

BREAKING: Trump says he is removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland

WATCH NOW: The full deposition of former Special Counsel Jack Smith released by the House Judiciary Committee

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Every time Republicans can’t fix what’s actually broken, they go looking for a new group to blame. Right now, it’s Somali communities. It’s a hateful and unnecessary distraction and our country deserves better.

President Trump's administration announced that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years. n.pr/3MXgGcF

In a win for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal judge blocked the White House's attempt to defund the agency

I will not remember 2025 fondly.

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

The death of gospel legend Richard Smallwood hit like a ton of bricks. To put his cultural impact in context, he dominated Black Gospel like a Colossus. The beauty & power of his music captured the essence of Black Church traditions so powerfully & eloquently. May his memory & music be a blessing.

Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz

Threats against members of Congress jumped from 902 in 2016 to an estimated 14,000 by the end of 2025. Survey researchers found white nationalism is the strongest predictor of support for political violence in America.

Trump's irrationality has infected the far left. Instead of opposing Trump and his Fascist minions, they oppose any rational leadership put forward by the Democratic Party. In their minds, winning power through elections takes a backseat to ideological purity.

There isn't any reason for a Democratic House or Senate leader to pretend that Trump has any legitimacy or that he has the mental capacity to make rational decisions. He's a psychopathic monster and that needs to be their message going forward.

Billionaires don't need to control CBS and the Washington Post and censor their editorial content on Trump if there isn't a problem. If they know there is a problem with him then your dumb asses should've known to curve his crazy ass last year. You knew and still voted for him.

Americans don't want to grapple with how sick Trump is, and by extension, how sick Americans are for having voted for a demented psychopath. Y'all wouldn't have ignored the first book about Biden or Obama's mental illness. There are a dozen major ones out there about Trump.

Politicians introduced 96 bills targeting transgender student athletes in 2025. That’s more than 9x the number of trans people playing college sports nationally.

My love for this time of year was destroyed by the passing of my mother and grandmother. I'm not struggling, but I'm also not overjoyed, if that makes sense.

Tyler Perry Accused of Sexual Harassment and Assault in New Lawsuit variety.com/2025/film/ne...

BREAKING: Donald Trump says the United States has conducted “numerous” strikes in Nigeria

Merry Crimmus, y'all.

4 GOP House members joined Democrats to force a vote on ACA subsidies. But in order to avoid votes, Speaker Johnson sent the House home. This GOP Congress is responsible for throwing 4 MILLION Americans off of health care & hitting millions more with insurance price hikes.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

My full interview with @klasfeldreports.com. We cover a lot of ground in 26 minutes. None of it is good for President Trump, AG Pam Bondi or DAG Todd Blanche. mitchellepner.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sues to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse on Tuesday said he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. https://to.pbs.org/49cDtIV