His racism is on full display! He's tried to deny it in the past. Now he's uttering loud & clear for all to hear.

Mike Johnson on video of the second September 2 strike: "My admission here is I was not in the Gang of 8 briefing yesterday because we were working on the healthcare stuff"

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!

In May, the Trump Admin secretly--and probably illegally--began using SSA data to verify voters' citizenship. One big problem: Social Security data don’t have complete or up-to-date citizenship info, so this could disenfranchise U.S. citizens ahead of the midterms. www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

In a leaked memo, AG Pam Bondi told the DOJ to compile a “list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” suggesting the department could target Americans based on their political beliefs rather than their actions.

Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."

NEW: Following last week’s arguments, Judge Charles Breyer orders an end to Trump’s federalization and deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. The order is stayed until noon PT Monday (Dec. 15). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power Reuters:

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

“Politico FIFA-ed Trump into giving them an interview. Having flattered Trump into an interview, Politico then flattered him with a series of softball questions.”

Do land?

Trump: "Now we're gonna do land. Because the land is much easier and it's even more prevalent. If you don't share our values, contribute to our economy, and assimilate into our society, then we don't want you in our country. We don't want you."

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.

There was a great study done on this very thing a few years ago. Someone should staple a copy to Miller's forehead. Use extra staples just to be sure www.nber.org/system/files...

This is completely and utterly false. The exact opposite is true.

Shapiro: This is an area that voted for him. And yet he comes back now, almost a year after taking office, having screwed over the very people who put him in power. As a result of his policies, their costs have gone up…

ProPublica: Trump’s Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud

Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ under way amid Trump ‘interference’

I was pleased to again partner with virologist @jimalwine.bsky.social on this piece about the continued, insidious assault on public health by RFK Jr. We are truly on a bullet train back to the dark ages; prisoners to Kennedy’s bizarre whims. He is contemptible.

If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control: Paramount Studios CBS CNN MTV HBO Comedy Central Nickelodeon Cartoon Network Warner Bros. DC Studios Fandango New Line Cinema TNT Sports TBS Oracle And more.

thanks to chatbots we can now do what was once unimaginable: take care of a newborn baby

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

A hot mic catches Trump ranting that Senate Democrats are blocking his U.S. attorney appointees: “I can’t appoint anybody,” Trump can be heard saying. Lame duck President.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is a reminder that fascists are as small as they are evil. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Chloe Slater.

BREAKING: A federal judge said the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.

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NEW: Emil Bove — former DOJ official turned Third Circuit judge — files declaration in ongoing contempt inquiry by Judge Boasberg re: Alien Enemies Act planes. Bove says he isn’t authorized to disclose privileged information.

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

Trump’s racist ice goons leaving children stranded

In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered emails from Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the paper has been retracted. https://scim.ag/4iG55KO

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

This is nonsense and will be blocked legally: Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Glad to see this story getting the coverage it deserves. @npr.org 🙏

…bus so he could humiliate her on live tv and star fuck a socialist - as an example of what the universe occasionally decides to give you when it notices you are doing nothing but worshipping yourself, power, and autocratic madmen

She will be fine and I’m sure she will have a delightful lucrative life and career but I mean it’s hard to not see what happened to Elise Stefanik recently - getting her dream job, then getting it immediately taken away to please a racist game show host, then having that moron throw her under the…

Civil rights groups are preparing to take the fight against Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law to SCOTUS. But if the justices hear the case, the court’s conservative majority could issue a ruling that makes it even harder to challenge anti-voting laws.

Trump demands an apology from CBS (or else!) says, "The only reason Marjorie 'Traitor' Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!)."

"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered -- private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..." www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

France's decision to enter war had a lot to do with fighting the British in North America to weaken them in Europe. Our decision to support Ukraine should be to weaken Russia in Europe. It's basically the same line of thought.

One of the best things about no longer being on Twitter/X is that U.S. government officials aren’t active here. From what I can tell the most senior members of the Trump administration just post unvarnished racism all day, every day on X. Glad I moved on.

FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)

To sum up: 1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity. 2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire. 3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...