RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women >100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

Pete Hegseth has been proudly posting videos of deadly boat strikes for months. If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...

On Tuesday morning I am arguing an important campaign finance case in the Supreme Court. I will be off line until that is over. In the meantime, stay informed about what else is happening to democracy in court by following @democracydocket.com and visiting www.democracydocket.com Be back soon!

Kennedy has gone well beyond recruiting some contrarians with novel perspectives. He has populated the advisory committee almost exclusively with people with records of attacking vaccines. And this is what that gets you: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iMMsF6

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ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents. “The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

"It’s not yet time to indulge thoughts of peace and good will to all men (if that’s your thing). For the next two weeks, the kind of Christmas spirit we need is Washington crossing the Delaware and winning a victory for the cause of freedom."

I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.

tRUMP is selling the entire USA down the drain for his own personal gain.

After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China. The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.

Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder proposal that seek to expand eligibility. https://to.pbs.org/4iIy54N

This.

#GVerse #Repost If you agree! U.S. citizens and immigrant communities are being denied due process. We stand with them and will hold this Administration accountable.

Disregarding the judiciary branch (except the Trump/McConnell #SCOTUS) is what theyc all "working all that through"

D.O.A., I hope. @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @repbradsherman.bsky.social @tedlieu.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

CNN fact-check: Trump has NOT ended eight wars.

I recount here when in 2020 Trump attacked Benson for sending out absentee ballot apps—among his effort to cast doubt on the results. The GOP is doing it now wrt to her role in MI elections @hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about Trump’s attack on Benson at the time www.facebook.com/share/p/1D38...

1. I agree with this take 2. This is far more optimistic than I'm used to seeing from The Bulwark and I'm down with it.

Potentially a big day on the Hill tomorrow… Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.

Good to see the Washpost putting this as grafs 2 and 3 of tonight’s Hegseth story. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

How Sick Is He? open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers (but what have they done to PREVENT abuse?) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...

Shoe prices are up 15% heading into the holiday season. One possible reason why? Trump’s Justice Department greenlit DICK’S Sporting Goods taking over Foot Locker. Now, stores are closing and American shoppers are getting the boot.

Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump ally Habba resigns after court disqualified her as US Attorney reut.rs/3Mtv9wD

As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t

Wyden Says Trump's $12 Billion Farmer Bailout Exposes Folly of 'Destructive Tariff Spree' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...

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“No ICE in my cup!” Protestors gather outside the Kennedy Center as Trump receives the “FIFA Peace Prize.” @Whitneycwimbish.bsky.social and Emma Janssen report on the fight to keep white supremacy out of soccer: trib.al/lPTCAKT

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. 🤔

Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

Trump Is Getting Weaker open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Is This The End of the Free World? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Thoughts!?

Israel Revoked Palestinians’ Work Permits — Then Launched a Deadly Crackdown on Laborers theintercept.com/2025/12/04/i...

"Needy Amin" still ranks among the banger nicknames for Trump.

I’m still waiting on Black MAGA to explain to me how this racist white supremacist piece of shit is helping you.

A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent. theintercept.com/2025/12/07/y...

In his 1989 farewell address, Ronald Reagan focused on civic memory—on America’s tendency to forget its own story. More than three decades later, that warning feels less like a rhetorical flourish and more like an unheeded alarm.

📥 Sen. Kelly: Read boat strike memo into Congressional Record You can, and should, follow the historic lead of Sen. Mike Gravel, who in 1971 read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. Read about this and more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds, (and subscribe).

No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering. Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system. Period.

The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs. They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.

Perhaps…not a true change of heart, then? Gosh

An example to us all, but of WHAT?

The Trump administration said on Friday that it would waive an $11 million fine levied against Southwest Airlines over the company’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown, when the airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights. The penalty had been part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration.