250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

📌NOTE: In the final year of Joe Biden's presidency 2 million jobs were created. In the first year of Trump's presidency 584,000 jobs were created. This is the weakest annual growth since 2003. In other words, generationally horrible. Trump is a terrible president, and an even worse human being.

In the wake of the execution of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE agent and a sustained boycott that dropped Spotify’s stock 10% in one month, Spotify confirms ICE recruitment ads are no longer running.

RIP Renee Good

Fiona Hill ...2019 Thank you @papootx.bsky.social for reminding us !

The world kinda forgot this voice from the past. Trump 2.0 remembers it very clearly, & it's happening. Hill was deputy ass't to the president & senior director for European & Russian affairs on the U.S. National Security Council 2017-2019. #ProudBlue

Given the legality of the operation, feels more like knowing a bank is going to be robbed but not telling the police.

An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

I'm a former federal prosecutor who handled criminal prosecutions for DOJ. This comment by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is exactly correct.

Killers

Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

👀 So why would the 1st Trump administration be secretly spying on the journalist who exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s enterprise?

NIGERIA STRIKE BLUF: Operation Loomer-Minaj $20 Million Wiffleball - Swing & a Miss. Town of Joba Sokoto State has no recent history of ISWAP & are happy Christian/Moslems. 3 of 12 missiles did not detonate. Near misses on local hospital. No casualties.

Yesterday, Trump posted nearly 200 times, relentlessly pushing conspiracy theories. That’s not the behavior of someone who had a good Christmas.

Trump Nigerian air strikes don't line up with his claims. "Analysts say that the terrorist group in Nigeria with the best documented links to the Islamic State is in northeastern Nigeria, on the other side of the country from Sokoto State" (where the airstrikes happened) (Out of gift posts.)

President Zelenskyy has said he is ready to submit his entire peace plan to a nationwide referendum, but only if Putin agrees to a ceasefire lasting at least 60 days. According to Axios, Trump, Zelenskyy, and European leaders are also planning to hold an online meeting this Saturday.

Many people knew on both sides of the aisle…for decades but they kept quiet because they profited from it or enjoyed the access to power and hey, it wasn’t their children being trafficked and abused and having their lives destroyed. We need to keep at this until it’s all fully exposed.

Explosive claims in an FBI tip about President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein gained new weight this week after a local newspaper uncovered death records consistent with details described in the tip.

BRAVO Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for standing firm and protecting her father’s name and The Kennedy Center. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Release the Jack Smith transcript.

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...

A moral reawakening in America is the answer and the only answer. In politics lies only hopelessness. Thank you my friend, Ian Bassin, and Reverend Raushenbush. substack.com/@ianbassin/n...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Romy and Jake Reiner have released a statement about the murder of their parents Michele and Rob Reiner.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

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

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.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Rob Reiner and his wife are dead. A family tragedy is not a political act. Knife violence is not gun violence. Celebrating death is moral rot. This piece calls out cruelty, shreds the “ban knives” lie, and honors decency in an age addicted to dehumanization. READ FULL ESSAY HERE ⬇️

And still, we light. We light because we understand something essential: that the act of kindling flame in the face of those who would extinguish us is itself holy resistance. That refusing to disappear is a form of prayer.

It’s stunning that an entire political party is willing to live with this and, worse, exploits efforts to prevent gun violence to hang on to power.

Good morning everyone Happy TGIF Busy making phone calls Tis the Season 🌲 ICE MUST BE STOPPED

“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power” Remind yourself of this every day. Especially on the bad days.

Law Dork, last night: www.lawdork.com/p/abrego-gar...

@nicolange.bsky.social 👍💯 3h #Kupjansk ist wieder unter ukrainischer Kontrolle, #Selenskyj ist in Kupjansk. #Russlands angeblich unaufhaltsamer Vormarsch ist ein Mythos. -- #Kupyansk is back under Ukrainian control, #Zelenskyy is in Kupyansk. #Russia's supposedly unstoppable advance is a myth.

🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

Jared Kushner, we learn here, is negotiating supposedly on behalf of the United States, but in the pay of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... violating a series of laws, some of them criminal www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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)

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