one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

The Epstein Files have dropped. I’m back in Albuquerque. And here’s what’s going on with these files. ⬇️

If you're rich and famous the Trump regime coverup your crimes. America 2025.

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader? This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking

The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.

214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them. ☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.

Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.

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."

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

A bright light has passed #RIPRobReiner 🕊️💔🕊️

Authorities are treating the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer as an apparent homicide, with one of Reiner's family members being questioned in connection with their deaths. Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

The Republican Party is bucking, and Trump is losing his grip on the reins. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

Hell yeah!!!

Ffs. Call his damn bluff and then sue him when he tries this shit. It will not end until you punch him in the face. It's blatantly illegal and while SCOTUS is really hands off with him, they have been hesitant to give him unfettered Article 1 powers.

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

German foreign policy and security expert and member of the German parliament Roderich Kiesewetter issued another stark warning, this time regarding the latest US National Security Strategy (NSS) document. This is his statement: (1/11)

Trump’s recent belligerent responses are a reflection of his diminished mental capacity. The question makes him uncomfortable, but he can’t put together a coherent response. So, like a schoolchild, he lashes out with a vapid attempt at an insult.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launches bid for U.S. Senate in Texas, looking to flip a Republican-held seat.

Brussels activated legal tool allowing indefinite freezing of RU cen bank assets w/o unanimous EU vote—circumventing any veto. EU proposes €210B for Ukraine (2026–27), incl €140B from frozen RU funds at Euroclear and €25B from other EU accounts: €115B for defense, €95B for G7 loan & budget needs.

Yay!!! Alina Habba stepped down as New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney following a ruling from a panel of federal judges that determined she had been holding the role illegally! 👏 👏 👏

Seeing this news is so weird for me because in 1989 when I was a baby 25-year-old corporate litigator in Manhattan, one of the first things I worked on was Warner Communications Inc.'s defense against a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Communications Inc. (1/2)

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?' She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

SIMPLE MATH

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Billionaire republicans are not science skeptics. They outwardly deny the science that does not serve their financial gain but they openly embrace the science and technology that will shift money from the working class to help them form a new class with a goal of reaching ownership in the trillions.

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Great! Now how do the American people get back the billions we had to pay in higher prices everywhere?

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

She should sue them

WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW

Looks like the Trump administration is doing what it does best: playing politics with people’s hunger.

ABC News and MS NOW reports that a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “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.”

“Your costs are up… tariffs are raising prices…”

The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military. That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.

Rand Paul: "Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen, it was fake news... And then the next day, from the podium at the white house, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent"

One way of looking at it…