Happy New Year. THERE. I said it & I really mean it, even though the odds are it will be every bit as challenging & frustrating as the last one.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Happy New Year to everyone who voted for Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot!

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Iran, on the ground reporting: Plainclothes regime repression agents speaking Arabic … not Persian. This means the Islamic regime in Iran has recruited and dispatched Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi and Iraqi Shia mercenaries to assist in quashing the Iranian people’s uprising.

THIS ISN’T GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION. More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation. Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law. The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness. 1/2

Tesla took a hit because protesters like me picketed at dealerships as Elon Musk was vandalizing our government. Protests and boycotts can work, especially when they target oligarchs who care about money more than anything else.

Fair warning: If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.

It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.

Thank you to Portland for teaching me that joy is resistance.

Turns out elections still matter, organizing still works, and Republicans don’t automatically get whatever they want just because they say so. Congrats to Democrats in Iowa for showing up and blocking a supermajority.

BREAKING: Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

An exceptional human

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

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Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

This message hits hard.

Just in Case You Missed This from Governor Newsom......

From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.

From the Hamill House to your's: MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! 🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation. "Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."

I'm here willing to read anything someone puts together that details how we can get from here to there I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

Mr Cuban, I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.

CBS NEWS POLL: Trump's approval trends among Hispanics February 🟢 Approve: 49% (-2) 🟤 Disapprove: 51% DECEMBER 🟢 Approve: 29% (-42), new low 🟤 Disapprove: 71% Net 40-point negative swing

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 we learn that the fire department exists not to put out fires, but to start them. In a like manner, Pam Bondi's DOJ exists not to uphold the law, but to violate it, not to apprehend criminals, but to commit crimes.

cats greatest super power is being able to spread joy by just laying around

The Wicked star confirmed that he's leaving Saturday Night Live after seven seasons, sharing in a post on Instagram that he's "grateful for every minute of my time there."

We created a new tool that uses prescription label information to identify where your drug was made. It also lets you see if and when that factory was inspected for quality and safety violations. Try it out 👇

Unnecessary, possibly unethical $1.6M being awarded to controversial Danish group by CDC to study Hepatitis B vaccine that has already been studied for decades and been proven effective. This is over the objections of numerous virologists, scientists and the WHO. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

They're working overtime on the cover-up. "NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs."

the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

So Trump is just giving away another $2.6 billion in taxpayer money for “bonuses” that was not appropriated for that purpose by our duly elected representatives in Congress, while we are $38 trillion in debt.