paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-betr... "Owners of small businesses are, on average, a strongly right-leaning group. Indeed, along with white Christian nationalists, they are one of the core components of the MAGA base. Yet 2025 was a miserable year for small business — and 2026 will be worse."

This is how you do it folks

L.A. Taco just shared this over on Facebook. Nailed it! This is your MAGA Trump follower out defending Trump on social media right now today.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. buff.ly/fY51xKC msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...

Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com is an excellent reliable news source.

NEW: Trump got a fair number of his judicial picks confirmed in 2025, but more interestingly, he was stymied all year by retirement-eligible judges not retiring, denying him lots more court vacancies to fill. “One of the biggest stories this year." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

MAGA uses conspiracy theories and false accusations of "groomer" to spin a tale where they're the heroes and liberals are villains. In 2025, the Epstein files revealed the truth: they are, as MAGA voters always were, supporters of sexual violence. www.salon.com/2025/12/29/i...

🌵 TUCSON — Saturday Protest Outside Ciscomani's Office Saturday, January 3rd — 9:00am - 11:00am Ciscomani’s Office — 1636 N Swan Rd Hosted by LD18 Democrats Please join us to protest Ciscomani's voting record and dishonest messaging! Extra signs are available. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

What's useful about MTG positioning herself as anti-Trump is that she's looking to shore up a position in the post-Trump American Right. Her moves, and Vances, and the internal-yet-public fight in the Heritage Foundation, all of this is Alexander's generals at his sick bed plotting successor states.

Good news is not only welcome, it fuels our resistance.

Arizonans can be proud of their public schools!

👏 👏 👏 Looking great, Miami!

Not only are people showing up to defend their neighbors and our democracy, they’re doing so in historic numbers. The amount of our local groups has doubled and the overall size of our movement has quadrupled!

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Congratulations Margaret Magruder on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! Custom and Border Patrol's advertisement for self-deportation is beyond mockery for undocumented residents. All the more reason to push back in every way we can. We cannot and will not give up!

NEW EPISODE: Cory Booker and I discuss the real and growing threats to American democracy. He warns that rising costs, collapsing trust in institutions, authoritarian abuses of power, and the politics of cruelty are driving cynicism and disengagement.

It could be total coincidence that Republicans have turned the transphobia up by a factor of X since Elon Musk agreed to fund their 2026 campaign. But I’m going to say, “Nope.”

Congratulations Bruce Hilpert on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! Young people do provide inspiration in fighting for workers rights and to keep our democracy. We're in this together!

Congratulations Bruce Hilpert on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! Young people do provide inspiration in fighting for workers rights and to keep our democracy. We're in this together!

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"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need. We expect robust legal challenges to these hate-filled proposals and are actively engaged with organizations on the frontlines of this fight.

Wow - really??? They never learn, do they???

"Oh Harry, don't you see?" Hermione breathed. "If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in the school will read your interview, it was banning it!" (Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 26)

substack.com/@alluringnyc... Very proud of President Biden, a true leader of democracy.

🌵 An enthusiastic crowd showed up outside of Juan Ciscomani’s Tucson office this morning to spread the word about his lies and the harm he is causing his CD-6 constituents and our democracy. We will be there again next Saturday from 9:00am to 11:00am. Please come and join us!

“We felt from the beginning this was a follow-the-money case. This horrific sex-trafficking operation cost Epstein a lot of money, and he had to get that money from somewhere… In this era of misinformation, these reports are the coin of the realm… Over 4700 transactions…” Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov

A wave election is within our reach next year, but only if we keep investing in the grassroots organizing that helped deliver our big wins this year. Chip in if you can to support the nationwide work it will take over the next 319 days to win back power and put real checks on this lawless regime.

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Proof that local actions matter and that we can fight back against the technofascist regime

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

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.

This piece from @boghuma.bsky.social is a must-read. RFK Jr. and his minions like to *say* they are “restoring trust” in public health. What they actually *do* is causing the opposite to happen. H/t to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention.

Congratulations Mel Strijdonk on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! We must continue the Hands Off! outcry at greedy oligarchs, and vote out their stupid minions in 2026.

Congratulations Thea Chalow on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! People have a right to affordable health insurance, and those running for office in 2026 must support that or do not deserve our vote.

They’ve already sued AZ. Our SOS Adrian Fontes is refusing and standing strong.

This week, Margrit McIntosh, ITAA Newsletter's wise, wonderful editor and lifelong activist, gives us sound advice about how we can keep up the resistance while taking care or ourselves.Thank you Margrit! Share how you practice self-care in the comments.

Congratulations Bruce Hilpert on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! This is a stark reminder that too many innocent people have been and are incarcerated in US prisons. We must remember them in the fight for justice for all.

We're coming up on the release of the Epstein files. Here's an important read on why and how to redact: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

Talking points when calling your Republican representatives.

Congratulations Teresa Goodell for your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! Activism does work. Calls to our representatives has an effect. We cannot and will not give up.

Just beautiful.

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

A true hero. Honor.