Happy New Year!!! Let’s hope it’s the year we take back our country (or at least the House and Senate) from those that are intent on destroying the United States

She chose to stand in front of these prisoners because she (or someone involved in the production of the propaganda video she was shooting) thought they looked more dangerous than the non-criminals DHS sent to CECOT. It’s all a cruel, grotesque show But real people suffer On our dime.

Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death. This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.

CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

🚨Representative Thompson calls Michael Glasheen (somebody for the FBI) out for claiming that ANTIFA is the #1 domestic terrorist organization in the United States. Glasheen attempts to compare ANTIFA to Al-Qaeda and ISIS, but Rep. Thompson cuts him off. ~ Uploaded to IG by the Huffington Post

BREAKING: Asked where he wants interest rates a year from now, Trump said: “1% — maybe even lower.” He also said the next Fed Chair should consult with him on interest rates. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of monetary policy — and a direct threat to economic stability.

Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.

I think it should be a mandatory job requirement that the chair of the DNC be social media savvy with a strong presence on camera. Ken Martin doesn’t have those skills and doesn’t seem to want to invest in fixing that. EVERY special election should be all over social media. It is a massive

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

When democracy needed them, they capitulated to fascism. That is now and forever their legacy. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Any Democrat who settles with the GOP to end the government shutdown at the expense of millions of American’s healthcare costs better prepare to be primaried at the first available opportunity.

Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.

While all hell seems to be breaking loose at home in the US, here’s some picks I took this week on our 3 month trip to South Africa. I deeply regret checking the news back home. Back to the bush on Sunday and if I can help it, a few weeks of a news blackout

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.

“My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the United States of America.”

Proud to join Denmark Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social and Ambassador Sørensen to sign a new partnership between California and Denmark. Our message to the rest of the world is clear: California is a stable, reliable partner — no matter who's in the White House.

Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.

Ok, I'm an old lady and this is my first post. I might do it wrong. Stop saying we're close to a constitutional crisis. We're smack in the middle. We have to organize and get everyone to rise up as one . I am so tired of hearing some people pussyfooting around this. Say it, it's what is needed!

From @juddlegum.bsky.social : “Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), in Tennessee.” Wild that the Sunday shows ignored Hegseth promoting stripping the right to vote from Women. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

To the other countries of the world…begin lobbying your leaders…NOW….to skip the 2028 Olympics in the United States.

Susanne Williamson is a teacher with a master’s degree who has been dedicated to teaching for fifteen years and made $58,000 a year. Meanwhile, ICE is offering new hires $100,000 to start, plus signing bonuses, and student loan debt forgiveness. We’re not broke! We’re funding hate!

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

Pay attention to the people who know, such as a Nobel-winning economist www.rawstory.com/paul-krugman...

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

When Trump uses $1 billion of our hard-earned money to buy himself a gold-plated gift, he reminds us all of how he has shredded the Constitution’s two Emoluments Clauses, which he violated from the first day of his first term.

Outside courthouses across America, complicit judges are dropping years-long immigration cases to aid ICE abductions in their hallways. There was a time, not long ago, when we asked immigrants to follow the laws of our land. In Trump's America, we're arresting the rule-followers. Don't look away!

To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.

"3.4 trillions dollars to the national debt while also cutting off 10 million people from health insurance," and The villains are cheering, shaking their fist, and waving their hands in Victory. And the rich get richer. This is America.

JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for what could be the most aggressive federal intervention in election administration in modern history.

👎🏻“Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours’ notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.

boycott! also boycott all red states vying for their own concentration camps!

We should all know what happens when the federal government eliminates services for working people in order to reduce taxes for the wealthy. They ask the states to pick up the slack. The states then need to raise taxes on working people to cover the cost. We have seen this movie before!