Hallelujah!

When this is all over, every federal judge who stood up to him should get the Medal of Freedom and a ticker tape parade. Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Freezes Efforts to Create $1.8 Billion Fund www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

I guess Todd is big mad that Maurene Comey's wrongful termination suit is going forward.

And they wonder why "No Kings?"

When Trump was elected in 2016, donors poured money into the SPLC. Now, the Trump II DOJ has just crafted a massive free fundraising campaign for SPLC. Ironic?

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

This is nuts.

DOGE did exactly what it was intended to do ... kneecap the federal government.

Wikipedia is now a better source than the White House.

Uh oh. Answered yes to all of them. Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/doe...

Here's a diagram of ICE's plan for housing detainees in warehouses. They plan to create space to hold 92,000 people. Remind you of anything?

I cannot adequately express how delighted I am that a small, family-owned educational toy company brought this case. You don't have to be a giant to take on Goliath. But you do need nerves of steel.

Make this make sense. After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it

The President doesn't have the power to erase the history he doesn't like. A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Yes to the Philly Trib Page A1 www.phillytrib.com/eedition/phi...

Dont underestimate the power of music to focus and unite us open.substack.com/pub/maureenb...

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives ...

What I see is respect and love.

Has this man ever met an actual American?

"There are no written documents ..."

"We reviewed footage with a panel of eight former police officers and law enforcement experts. They were appalled." www.propublica.org/article/vide...

“My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible.” Mine too. We need a reformation. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

Here’s the scathing statement from @markwarner.bsky.social, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

No, Marco. This was not "basically a law enforcement" mission.

Just as we were thinking that 2026 might give us a shot at getting back to sanity.

He lives in an alternate universe.

Rubio wants him to stop talking. He's sighing, glancing to his left, looking for someone to pull Trump away from the podium.

He's riffing now ... all the cities we "saved."

The last confirmed murder (homicide) in Washington D.C. occurred on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.

"We're gonna run it" ... three times. And now, the oil. Yeah, narcoterrorism, right.

Of course.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the texts are “eloquently written descriptions of each president” and that “many were written directly by the President himself.” No shit.

White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’

Now, this is a War on Christmas.

Trump has basically turned corruption into a sacrament. www.afr.com/companies/mi...

One wonders what the quid was for this quo. Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

“Things happen”!!?? Good lord, when will we crawl out of this abyss? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Let them eat cake www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

I've been working with vintage china lately, so I have a lot of white porcelain. Added my stash of costume jewelry for these pique-assiette ornaments, which remind me of women I grew up with who always wore Christmas jewelry. huzzahmosaics.etsy.com/listing/4399...

Yay Charlottesville! It felt great to be out and the support from drivers was amazing. bsky.app/profile/macs...

The New York Times should hire someone who understands how laws work.

This all gives new meaning the the phrase, "Trumped-up charges." wapo.st/4mZgm9F

So much for Trump's suit against the NY Times for -- wait for it -- $16B. Worth reading if only to see just how pissed off this judge was after being forced to read 85 pages of nonsense. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ATTN: Teachers, librarians, high school folks! Great fact-based journalism for free!

Whatever this is, it is NOT going to be civics. How the NY Times could report this with a straight face is beyond me. It's Trump and MAGA who need a refresher course in civics. Trump Administration Announces New Civics Effort With MAGA-Aligned Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Today feels ... consequential. With Putin's incursion into Poland to test NATO (and Trump) and Charlie Kirk's assassination, every threat we fear has ratcheted up a few notches.