Over 20 million Americans are about to see their health insurance rates skyrocket. Instead of addressing that, the House GOP is going home for the holidays. Just so happens they won't be in town to answer tough questions about the Epstein files, either.

Trump Media & Technology, the parent company of Truth Social, is set to merge with TAE Technologies, a fusion power company, in an all-stock deal worth more than $6 billion. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes. ~~~NBC

“.. The average U.S. household is projected to spend nearly $1,000 this winter to heat its home.” @nytimes.com $XLU www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...

BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death. Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.

Speaker Johnson sending the House home a day early ensures there is no vote on the ACA meaning healthcare premiums will now double for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans. Congress is truly broken when it takes vacation early rather than help Americans with unendurable costs.

BREAKING: TRUMP JUST MET WITH HIS LAWYER TO DETERMINE IF HE CAN RUN FOR A THIRD TERM. HIS LAWYER TOLD HIM IT’S “UNCLEAR”… UNCLEAR?! 🤔

Trump on Venezuela: "They took all of our oil and we want it back. They illegally took it."

If only the parents had sent their children to Drag Queen Reading hours instead! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

COMPLAINT: @aclum.bsky.social alleges that — after ICE agents pulled over their client, his wife, and their 1 y.o. child — an unknown agent applied a carotid restraint until their client lost consciousness. www.aclum.org/cases/zapata...

He's too classy actually to say this...but I'm not:

More on this fiasco of performative sadism. They tried tasing the crowd and poison gassed the journalists.

Christ, what an asshole.

As more Epstein files are set to be released, Dan Bongino has cleared out his FBI office without resigning and continues to take a paycheck.

💥💥BOOM!! Democrat Gary Clemons won an overwhelming victory in today’s special election for Kentucky State Senate District 37, taking nearly 74% of the vote. It’s worth noting that Kamala Harris carried this district by just 6 points in 2024.

While Trump is threatening the ICC with sanctions if they prosecute him for war crimes, here is another one of his pardoned thugs. Banuelos was just charged with kidnapping and sexual assault after DNA collected during the Jan. 6 prosecutions was matched with a cold case in Utah.

Air pollution might play a role in people’s risk for developing autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, a new study says. #Medsky #PublicHealth www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Republicans, your Window to separate yourselves from Trump. Jack's "Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt", Trump tried to overturn the 2020 Election. Coalition Congress to Convict and Remove Trump, Vance, and Johnson, appoint an Interim House Speaker, and force a New Election. Due to Corruption.

BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.

🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEWS Jared Kushner is exiting from Paramount’s takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Full Story: bit.ly/456O1rN

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

#NFP 🇺🇸

The unemployment rate is now up to 4.6%—the highest since the economy was emerging from the pandemic. 700,000 more people are unemployed now versus a year ago. Wages grew the slowest since before the pandemic. High prices. Rising unemployment. This is Trump’s economy.

The U.S. Coast Guard "new workplace harassment policy ... downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to 'potentially divisive' despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service’s top officer to declare that both would remain prohibited."

#GVerse This is hilarious! #FuckMAGA idiots put down a $100 non refundable deposit for their $499 #Shit4Brains gold phone which they were supposed to receive in June. Now, 6 months later they can get a 3 yr old refurbished phone! 😂🤣😂 the-independent.com/news/world/a...

FUCK. There is BIG fuckery to be announced. Venzuela War? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Trump admin: —Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” —Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” —Musk is “an avowed ketamine [user].” —Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” —Bondi “completely whiffed” the Epstein Files.

International travel down around 6.3%. Its first decline since 2020 during the pandemic....thanks to felon 47.

Unemployment is rising and job availability is going down. Are we winning yet? NY Times:

Breaking: Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Epstein Files: “[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file... [He] was on [Epstein’s] plane... He’s on the manifest.”

Hard as it is to see these things, we must get these videos out there. Never know what it will take to open some people’s eyes. You know these videos of abuse are never on Fox.

NYT: The United States struck three more boats it said were smuggling drugs in the Pacific, killing eight people. 🤬🤬🤬

ICE causing havoc in a Somali-American neighborhood in Minneapolis, after dragging and abducting a woman on December 15, 2025.

"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value... "First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...

Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.

Report on ICE agents entering NYC shelters (without warrants, as almost goes without saying, not that warrants would make it okay) in open violation of NYC policy. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Rob Reiner, All in the Family Star and When Harry Met Sally Director, Dead at 78 Along with Wife in Apparent Homicide Oh how awful! people.com/rob-reiner-d...

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings. Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018. Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered. And now…again.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

PLS SIGN OUR Change.org PETITION👇, TEXT & CALL Congress to impeach & convict #Trump, the racist #MAGA demagogue con artist & mentally unfit wannabe King, & Noem & prosecute #ICE, ALL traitors to OUR #democracy. #UnitedWeStand www.change.org/p/with-this-... TYVM @joncooper-us.bsky.social #BlueCrew

Trump claimed that he has issued a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state sentence — even though presidents have no constitutional authority to pardon state-level crimes.