Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes. The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it. But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Ain’t it funny to see a guy with a 36% approval talking about other peoples ratings?

Sigh Not again Here he goes

Excellent, easy to grasp, discussion about how the "deal makers" in leadership have failed us. Aluminum edition. youtu.be/dtLXOow1zeE?...

Measles is so back

Imagine that

Truth and More She knows ALL ABOUT EPSTEIN...She knows

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vladimir Putin is the one who picked Steve Witkoff to be Trump's special envoy to Russia. Why would anyone think this is not a red flag?

"Carlos" harvests pomegranates in Fresno CA. "I work piece rate & average $130/day working as fast as I can. My back aches from carrying 60lb bags of pomegranates & climbing/moving ladders in muddy fields. I wonder if the risks are worth it, but need to make ends meet." #WeFeedYou

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While Bari Weiss scrambled to remove the video from YouTube, the Canadian bootleg I posted on Substack last night is still there.

Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security posts deranged video turning Santa into an ICE agent. Making people suffer is just all fun and games for the Trump administration.

Interesting. "Polls show that Americans are reaffirming their very wide support for immigration as good for the country." A glimpse into the opposing view.

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP VIRGINIA‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Richmond Eastern 737 – Tail: N668CP ETA – 11am 👀

We’ve gone from bootlegging whiskey during prohibition to having to bootleg truth during fascism…

I'm 100% for Congress using inherent contempt. I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court will require legislation, which is reason 4839505 to take back both chambers of Congress in 2026. Back in 2021, @reptedlieu.bsky.social introduced a bill. Let's do it again. lieu.house.gov/media-center...

Only one story, in the New Republic, made the direct connection between Kennedy’s repeated peddling of junk science and the effort to end healthcare for transgender minors.

An ancient string instrument evolved into the flat-top acoustic guitar—an essential element in American folk, blues and rock. on.wsj.com/3YyzPnM

🧊🛩️ CONCENTRATION CAMP 😲 👉 A Key Lime Air jet (tail: N974DC) arrives to Florida's Lake City Concentration camp to load human cargo for transport to the ICE gulags in Texas & Louisiana 👀

A bailout depending on those same pipelines isn’t relief. It’s theater.

🧊✈️ HEADS UP DUVAL‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to JAX GlobalX A320 – Tail: N289GX ETA – 9:30am 👀

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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.

🧊✈️ GUATEMALA ⛓️😲 👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) departs Louisiana transporting humans in chains to Guatemala City 🇬🇹

Good to see summary of some environmental wins! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Breaking: Famed Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife have died. Police are investigating what they called a homicide.

🧊✈️ MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air is coming to your cities Key Lime Air Embraer 145 👀 🛬 MSP - 11:30am CST 🛬 OMA — 1:30pm CST

Whew! I'm feeling genuinely snarky and oh-so-tired of this nastiness! Thank goodness we can give MORE to the oligarchs and entitled wealthy for whom there is never ENOUGH. Nobody will be snatching a penny of their tax breaks to help other human beings STAY ALIVE.

Trump team said to have discussed forming alliance with Russia and China as alternative to G7. According to Defense One, the strategy envisaged creating a new group of leading global powers – C5 (Core 5): the United States, China, Russia, India and Japan. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

Something shifted today.... We may have to thank Indiana..🤔👍

It wasn’t even close.

Joyce White Vance discusses complaints against sitting judges who engage in political behavior and show bias off the absolute middle line. Bove is doing just that. Shall we all make complaints? All the people in the US are affected by his actions at this point. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

51.9 million American adults age 18 and older report experiencing some amount of difficulty seeing Rubio canceled Calibri font, citing DEI Calibri was put in place two years ago to help visually impaired readers. Trump admin message to 51.9 million Americans? abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

All the threats from Trump and his henchmen to Republican state senators in Indiana failed. Mid-decade gerrymandering rejected. This is no small thing. Maybe some other Republicans will finally start to stand up to the Mob Boss.

Two progressives competing in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate are raising Texas Democrats’ hope that the party could win a statewide race next year.

Absolute total respect, Indiana! www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Once again, a grand jury serves as the conscience of the community, a bulwark against the prosecutorial overreach and abuse of Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and Lindsey Halligan. Today is a good day for the rule of law.

Exactly.

Interesting... www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

JUST IN: FBI creates a list of Americans to target as “extremists”. 😑

Dems were terrified all year that Cuellar might switch parties if Trump dangled a pardon. Turns out Trump doesn’t know how to dangle. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-corrup...

HOW HAS THE MEDIA IGNORED DEPORTATIONS TO UKRAINE: SO the US is saying that the worst of the worst criminals in the US are being returned to UKRAINE? www.npr.org/2025/11/18/g...

Read this article. It's worth the time investment. Coupled with the new National Security Strategy that Russia aligns with, it seems to be remaking the USA. Papa Putin must be proud.

Trump's SEC is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, targeting ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) at publicly traded corporations. "De-politicization is a euphemism for de-democratization." fortune.com/2025/12/05/a...

SNL. LAST NIGHT OPERATION KILL EVERYBODY "I was so jacked up after the first strike I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor"

This is all I want for Christmas.

NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.