JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019 around the same time he was ingratiating himself with the Silicon Valley Christian nationalists, e.g. Andreesen, Thiel, and Sacks.

1) Separation of Church & State 2) The Founder fully designed & intended or our nation to be secular as they has seen what comingling the two can do... 3) Christian nationalists are a grave danger to our democracy

Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John Adams, famously states that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion".

The huge applause he gets for that attack on our constitution should scare sane Americans. It's a shame our culture allowed for liberal to turn into a slur because actually our shining star has always been our liberalism.

The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the Senate, states: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

A sobering reminder that something much more sinister & dangerous is lurking in the shadows of this administration waiting it's turn to come into power.

A very good overview of a critical voting case set to be heard in SCOTUS next Spring. My law firm and I are defending this right for states to count these mail-in ballots from a lawsuit filed by the RNC. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

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Churches around the country are protesting ICE raids using Christmas nativity scenes. DHS isn’t amused.

Next step - which is *mandatory* - is follow-through. This is an open door, but Democrats still need to walk through it. Deliver on immigration policy, shut down and punish the ICE raids, try to disassemble ICE if the will is still there. Job's not finished.

Really do check out the @startribune.com live coverage today. They're doing a beautiful job under difficult conditions. Link: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Thousands Flood Minneapolis Streets in Protest Against ICE Raids 12/20/25

After public blowback, a Kansas tribe has cancelled an agreement to build a holding area for immigrants arrested by ICE. With some Native Americans swept up and detained in recent ICE raids, the deal was derided online as “disgusting” and “cruel.” apnews.com/article/nati...

Amid Southern US Raids, Who’s Making Money Off Border Patrol and ICE Contracts? Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...

Bonta: The Ninth Circuit refused to stay the order. And so, for the first time in six months, we have no National Guard deployed on the streets of California. Popok: Have they been taken off the streets? Bonta: They have. It was required as of, I believe, Monday.

Not suspicious when you read the angle of the story - no way trump admin would allow cbs to air it. 60minutestonight.com/inside-cecot...

Occam's razor. DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements. Why? DOJ really doesn't want us to read them. Why does DOJ care so much about these? Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.

CBS News(max) is officially cooked. Bari Weiss killed a whole-ass network.

Congressman Robert Garcia is urging FBI & DOJ whistleblowers to come forward because they know this is a massive coverup with the #Epstein files.

One thing worth remembering as all of this Epstein stuff roils is that we know of multiple occasions in which women were paid to keep them from talking about having sex with Trump.

Once again, gifting somebody an annual subscription of Public Notice is perhaps the most important gift you can give to anybody this Christmas. If you value good, honest journalism, gift Public Notice to somebody you love this Christmas.

Khanna: "The problem here is there are rich and powerful people who either engaged in this abuse, covered it up, or we're on this island. What the American people want to know is who are these people? Instead of holding them accountable, Pam Bondi is breaking the law."

Massie: "Blanche is using a different theory that wouldn't survive first contact with any court, which is he's trying to say that prior laws override our law. That's not the way this works."

BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.

DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks." The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke." Evil shit.

MIT scientists have created "Circulatronics"- tiny electronic devices attached to immune cells. Delivered via injection, these hybrids autonomously travel to & noninvasively stimulate inflamed brain regions, offering a surgical alternative for treating brain disorders: futurism.com/health-medic...

A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets have been launched at the #COP30 climate summit in #Brazil: www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...

Chinese investment in #Vietnam has exploded, as suppliers relocate to avoid U.S. #tariffs. Vietnam's imports from China stood at about $168 billion through November 2025, up nearly 30% on the year and already well above all of 2024, itself a record year: www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Earlier this week, #China issued a policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper sets forth a strategic vision for building a "China-LAC Community with a Shared Future" and proposes five central programs to elevate cooperation: english.www.gov.cn/news/202512/... #latam

This is beautiful.

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Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Andrey Klintsevich argued that Russia doesn't need a peace deal and will disabuse Europeans of the notion that they can contain Moscow when Russian troops show up on the border of the EU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...

When leadership hides, the reason is no good Supreme Court hides behind the shadow docket Congressional Republicans hide from a free press, hide on vacation, hide from constituents Trump hides from accountability "There are about a thousand of us" E P S T E I N F I L E S T R A N S P A R A N C Y

Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. In any functioning democracy, ministers would have been forced to resign, the PM would have been thrown out, & people would have gone to jail for a long time. No one involved had any legal authority to do any of this.

"The Trump administration had stalled all his lawsuits and barred officials at his agency from speaking any language that wasn’t English. They’d even ripped down posters written in Spanish. Overnight, the attorney found himself unable to talk to many of his complainants, or even explain why."

"In a Colorado branch of the Forest Service, one man was designated purchaser for the entire office. Anyone who wanted to buy horse fodder or irrigation pipes had to wait until the man returned from weeks-long firefighting trips."

"A Food and Drug Administration staffer couldn’t purchase dry ice or environmental swabs, nor pay the highway tolls that safety inspectors incurred driving for work. When colleagues asked what they were supposed to do, she told them to try HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Trump."

"Shelley Bain, a 66-year-old program specialist, checked her email and saw she’d been fired at 4:30 a.m. She made a cup of coffee and calculated. She was losing half the retirement income she’d counted on. She is legally blind, so it would be hard to find another job."

Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year

Baker is the poster child for all that is wrong about the NYT. Euphemism central. He' s NEVER held Trump to any standard at all--while slamming Biden during his presidency, on a regular basis. Baker's been using the lazy "reinventing the presidency" line since 2017 www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/u...

This is not a terrible story. It's Peter Baker's usual. But it minimizes. (Read the last couple paragraphs.) Journalism's duty is to responsibly warn the public of dangers to their health and well-being, not to tell them how interesting it is that their family's future is being destroyed.

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social refuses to invoke any idea of competitive authoritarianism here though experts on democratic governance have done so. Why is he desperate to dance around what is happening with equivocation, euphemism and evasion?

Before and after DOJ realized they left Trump’s name in an Epstein document:

The Department of Justice and its officials keep getting slammed with community notes every time they post about the Epstein files