Today, House Republicans wasted committee time targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center, going after the organization’s finances and ties to Democratic administrations. It’s stunning hypocrisy coming from the party of the Koch brothers and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol (gift link) wapo.st/3MwSBJE

LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha

I am 100% pro-vaccine. I've never had measles, rubella, polio, diptheria, typhoid, mumps... you name it. A friend's father survived polio. My own father survived mumps. Another friend's mother survived rubella while pregnant. While they all lived to tell the tale, they suffered lasting effects.

What Rao and Walker are trying to do here is create a mechanism where Trump can ignore court orders. You simply defy any order, insist that the court refer the investigation for contempt to Trump’s own DOJ, and then ignore the referral.

Okay so I got busy and forgot to do my whole thread on this, but a couple of things: 1. There's a whole backstory here (which @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social notes in the piece) 2. This, in particular, is fascinating, because the admin didn't have to make a theological argument here — but it did.

little nervous about what this Cursed Hanukkah is going to bring us on night three

Yup. From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary. “TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”

Wow, given all the inflation and recession mongering under Biden, I bet you must be running wall-to-wall articles about Trump tanking the economy. Let me just shoot over to your website and check it out. [crickets]

Congress has just 5 legislative days left to stop ACA premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans. Republicans' last-minute "plan" doesn't help a single one of them.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

First time reading this tonight ... I would answer the final question with some language about his ability to be mocking in a way that some people find clever and amusing. The "moral system" boils down to saying what passes, in their eyes, as clarity: "Look at that idiot! He's not fooling us!"

It's impressive, in its way, to make cowardice not just part of your political identity, but ALL of it. When the book on Mike Johnson is written...it will molder in unopened cardboard boxes.

“Robust gun laws remain popular among Australians today…64% of Australians think the country's gun laws should be strengthened, while just 6% believe they should be rolled back… Now, there are renewed calls to further harden Australia's gun laws in the wake of Sunday’s deadly shooting”—including: 🧪🛟

Could it be, in answer to the question posed in the opinion section of the NYT this morning, that having an inexperienced and unqualified diplomatic team is…not good? As the research shows…. bsky.app/profile/prof...

Look, I suppose stranger things have happened in world politics — but not that many stranger things. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric. Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.

COVID vaccines ⬇️ risk of ER visits in CHILDREN by 76% in toddlers 9 mos-4 yrs 56% in kids 5 - 17 years ...compared with children NOT vaccinated 🧸 www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.

This three-part series is about the creation of the 2025 equivalent of the underground railroad—something in which my ancestors were a part of in the 1850s. It an essential read, and it will help restore your faith in the basic decency of humanity. Read it all.

"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇

At what point exactly will the behavior of the American Gestapo become a true national flashpoint? This is actually the subject of my next missive, out in a few minutes.

As Republicans refuse to hold town halls, it was my honor to show up in PA this weekend. Trump and Republicans are ignoring skyrocketing costs and passing tax cuts for billionaires. Democrats are fighting to make life better for people — in red and blue districts. 📸 Matt Stanley

Terrific story about Rob Reiner being as much of a mensch in real life as he seemed.

Liberals: you’re not going to like it. Zink: you’re the enemy. Liberals: maybe, but you’re not going to like it. Zink: I’m doing it anyway. Liberals: told you. Zink: I didn’t vote for this. Liberals: will you listen now? Zink: you’re the enemy.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is what they're calling it at Walter Reed when he's headed in for another MRI.

In July, a widely cited MIT study claimed that 95% of organizations that invested in generative AI were getting “zero return.”

Some news on Trump's doling out of most refugee slots to white South Africans: Two former State Department officials tell us basic protocols designed to determine whether this group actually merits protection have simply been scrapped. It's just whim. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Another classic photobomb moment from Larry. I don't think Mr. Zelenskyy minded at all.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

“In Chicago and Charlotte, journalists (and protesters) could follow behind Border Patrol, even as they drove erratically in an attempt to thwart us. In Louisiana, state police would shut down the roads for Border Patrol to get away from press and activists.”

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

A thing that I feel is underappreciated about Trumpism - and this a perspective informed in particular by reporting from Michigan and Wisconsin but maybe now applies to Indiana - is that it has hollowed out the actual Republican Party with infighting in a way that could totally screw them

Got the best surprise treat today - spacetweep hugs! Amazing to see @anthrogeek.bsky.social and @redshift42.bsky.social again and share a delicious Ukrainian meal at an old favorite haunt, Veselka. Some things never go out of style, like friends and hearty winter nosh!

The collision of the two"peace models" It so happens that the war in Ukraine isn’t just a local conflict,it’s a battlefield where the future of the world is decided.The interests of the largest states have collided here:USA,China,the EU,India,Russia.Values systems are in clash:democracy&dictatorship

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Trump DOJ Desperate to Keep Its Lawyers From Testifying In Contempt Inquiry talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Fox: We're seeing rising numbers of measles cases. To be honest, this is somewhat expected as we see declining vaccination rates. Unfortunately, the way things are going right now with the CDC and the current vaccination advisory committees, we're seeing even more mistrust and confusion.

Donald Trump wants to sell CNN to the Saudis and rename football. He’s also made steak and hamburger unaffordable. Here’s why, as a red blooded American patriot, I support him.

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This. The goal of the left should not be to make the world safe for those who would dehumanize individuals and groups. Free speech does not mean speech without consequences. To demand that is to deny free expression to those demeaned by the initial speech.

New orbit movie just dropped. This one is for the newly discovered circumbinary planet HD 143811 AB b. This 9-year timelapse was made through an international collaboration with me, Nathalie Jones (Northwestern graduate student), and Vito Squicciarini (Exeter postdoc)

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

fortunately for trump, the administration has a bag of carrots they're about to hand out, like [taps earpiece] i'm getting word that the administration's bag is once again full of sticks

Texas & Florida are going to be Republican bloodbaths