President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act gutted $187 billion in federal funding for SNAP through 2034, putting millions of people at risk of food insecurity. The effects of this bill on food assistance in Florida are even more grim. Read the latest from Hopewatch: https://bit.ly/3L3oN6Y

Exclusive: Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find - www.reuters.com/world/europe... Putin’s really testing the NATO alliance.

Jealous Trump Boys Try To Convince Father That Barron A DEI https://theonion.com/jealous-trump-boys-try-to-convince-father-that-barron-a-dei/

Daniel DiDonato, a college freshman who had been following a legal fight over redistricting in Alabama since he was 14, pulled an all-nighter to make a new legislative map for the state. Now it's likely to be used in next year’s election.

As families come together to light the kinara, Jen and I wish all those celebrating a joyful Kwanzaa.   May the seven principles of Kwanzaa, in particular community, purpose, and unity, guide our way toward a better future.   Happy Kwanzaa, California!

Shouting, Ranting, Insulting: Trump’s Uninhibited Second Term www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u... Trump’s using taxpayer funds for his insanity.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... Now Trump’s fighting in Nigeria.

A smarter model for paying for college: income-based repayment. You start paying your student loans only once you earn enough to comfortably get by. That turns higher ed debt into something more like a tax surcharge on success, not a choke collar on people who are struggling.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

Putin claimed to have conquered Kupyansk

Saudi Arabia formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a confrontation within a fragile coalition battling the Houthi rebels.

Pope Leo XIV surprised the rain-soaked faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday night with an apology, delivered in both English and Italian, to those who were unable to get inside the basilica for the pontiff’s first Christmas Eve Mass.

PSA: any artists still using Twt… Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs. Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.

“Look around you. Read a newspaper. Watch TV. It’s chaos over here.” My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print. youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n... Trump’s insane.

This is a joyous Christmas miracle. Congratulations to the Lopez Family. Ryu is beautiful.

The FBI Director lied to Congress by stating there were no co-conspirators working with Epstein to sex-traffic little girls. In the latest drop of Epstein files, the FBI states there were 10 co-conspirators. One of them could very well have been Trump it looks like. Trump's BFF was Epstein FFS!!

Ivanka is preparing the humiliating and disgraceful UFC fight at the White House on Daddy’s birthday.

A federal judge is halting the enforcement of a March presidential memorandum that revoked the security clearance of a Washington attorney who has represented a number of prominent government whistleblowers.

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Recent U.S. actions against ships near Venezuela may embolden other countries to use similar tactics when it suits them, legal experts say. If such seizures and detentions become more common, that could hurt the shipping industry and international trade. nyti.ms/492VFGh

Here is a list of Supreme Court cases we here at Democracy Docket will be keeping our gimlet eyes peeled for in 2026 — those with the greatest potential for reshaping American democracy and our nation’s constitutional order in the coming year, whether for good or for ill (mostly for ill).

The Kyiv Independent’s Myroslava Chauin speaks with Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert at the Regional Center for Human Rights and a children’s rights activist, about evidence that Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied territories were transferred to a children’s camp in North Korea.

"Across the Atlantic world, Puritan clergymen and pamphleteers railed against Christmas as another 'popish' and 'pagan' error that true Christians need to do away with." Daniel Gullotta from the archives:

A federal judge has ruled the Trump regime broke the law when it deported over 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT without due process in March. Here's your reminder of what due process is — and why it's the cornerstone of our democracy.

The “60 Minutes” we have known is dead. The fearless program that many of us grew up with was strangled by corporate titans seeking favor with the Trump White House. I don’t know what is next for the storied franchise, but it will never be the same. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s https://theonion.com/jealous-trump-throws-own-state-funeral-to-upstage-carters/

Merry Christmas to all, and to Donald Trump, good night

One CEO shouldn’t control the entire entertainment industry — we have anti-monopoly laws to stop that from happening. The Trump Administration needs to follow the law, and block Netflix or Paramount from buying Warner Bros.

variety.com/2025/tv/news... Congratulations Stephen Colbert. You are the gift that keeps on giving. You really pissed off the thin-skinned blotchy Trump and getting under that disgusting shell of a man/child. Keep up your creative work. You bring joy to my heart. 🩵

Good Morning ❤️ Merry Christmas Eve ❤️🎄❤️

“Someone tried to slip some news into this past Sunday’s episode of ‘60 Minutes,’” a visibly angry Weiss told the CBS newsroom. “Fortunately, I was able to catch it in time.”

Finally a ruling from this Supreme Court that makes clear what all patriotic Americans know: No Kings.

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

Donald Trump has been accused of holding a party for prostitutes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in yet another FBI file relating to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Kavanaugh should have never been appointed. He’s a liar, a cheat and a drunk.

"No parent can control fate. Or biology. Or personality. No parent can control addiction, or mental illness. All parents learn this."

TW: This is an allegation of a conspiracy to murder a Trump rape victim & cover it up. In the Epstein files, a former DFW Limo driver relays info about his experiences driving Trump, who was speaking about “Jeffrey” & “abusing some girl,” & him telling a Trump/Epstein victim to report their abuse.

Today, the SPLC, the ACLU National Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of Georgia filed a motion to intervene on behalf of Common Cause and its Georgia executive director in U.S. v. Raffensperger to prevent the Department of Justice from obtaining Georgia voters’ personal data. https://bit.ly/3L60ntw

Supreme Court keeps Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now apnews.com/article/supr... For gods sakes just make a final ruling and end this painful and humiliating chapter in US history. Let these National Guardspeople go home to their lives and restore their dignity.

Join us on a journey to save the last southern resident killer whales, in whatever format you prefer 📝 text www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes... 🎥 video www.scientificamerican.com/video/the-pr... or www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLK... 🎧 audio www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

346 donors have each shelled out at least $250,000 to Trump-aligned organizations and projects. At least half have benefited from his policies or actions — including pardons. Here's what you need to know about Trump's pay-to-pardon scheme. https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=-IZPsTPWFeqOrZIB

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.