“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.” Sen. Rand Paul

As a Coloradan, I'm grateful to my governor for declining to free Tina Peters. She betrayed a public trust and undermined confidence in our elections. A jury found her guilty, and she should serve her sentence.

Our immigration courts are already backlogged as is. Firing judges will only make cases proceed more slowly and the entire process less efficient.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.

This is insane. What is the purpose of pardoning so many people of dubious merit? This deserves a lot more attention than it's getting.

Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

“The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."

Judge Anthony Napolitano on Newsmax: "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

Judge Howell's decision begins by clarifying a piece of constant misinformation coming out of the Trump admin: "[V]iewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong."

images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting (Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

My "Party of Lincoln" Father announced over Thanksgiving that he is ready to abandon the Republican Party altogether. The normal Republicans are now Democrats & Independents.

Patriotism actually asks something of us.

I'm glad to hear they've filed a complaint. What our president and military are doing deserves international, as well as domestic, scrutiny.

Pete Hegseth is the kind of liar who thinks confidence and a loud voice can substitute for truth. It doesn’t. PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.

NEWS: Democrat Mary Robichaux has defeated Republican incumbent Kurt Wilson in a runoff election to become the next Mayor of Roswell, Georgia. A major upset and another sign of shifting suburban politics in the South.

There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.

As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.

What kind of man is this, and what kind of people look on approvingly as he speaks of another human being this way?

We need a classified briefing from the Department of Defense about what happened during the operations off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth must be part of those briefings, and he should go one step further and testify publicly before the Armed Services Committee, under oath.

Yes, he's throwing the operational commander under the bus. But that whole chain of command has some explaining to do

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

good grief this is nuts

No one in detention should be cut off from their lawyer or their family. That’s why I introduced the Restoring Access to Detainees Act, because access to legal counsel and communication with family are basic rights & essential to due process. This bill brings needed accountability to ICE and CBP.

Trump being “tough on drugs” apparently means pardoning a guy sentenced to 45 years in jail for drug trafficking charges. You can’t make this stuff up.

While Cabinet members praise his energy and fitness, Trump sleeps. No satire in the history of film and television has ever been this on the mark.

I am laughing.

First of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq

"The logical next step is an immediate, bipartisan investigation. As a commander, I would expect, and welcome, such an inquiry...What we as a nation should not accept is moral drift at the top of the chain of command." www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...

This is great. A++ to the governor's team.

🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Is this a joke? I'm honestly asking. This is outlandish even for Trump.

Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”

First defense secretary to piss off a children’s book publisher. Perfect summation of this administration of dicks.

'Not acceptable': Red-state Republicans demand answers from Trump on drug policy chaos www.rawstory.com/gop-senators...

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

Boy, is this right. This describes Hegseth to a T.

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⚡️Russia has 'no say' over whether Ukraine can join NATO, Rutte says. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Nov. 26 that Ukraine's accession to the alliance depends on unanimous agreement among member states — not on Russian demands.

THIS 👉👉👉

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is.  And we know what causes it, too."

You have got to be kidding me. This is just insane.