This duck is handsome and dapper and it makes me happy to look at him. And on that note, I wish you all a rejuvenating holiday, and may next year we continue to kick a$$ on fascism, in the US and worldwide. bsky.app/profile/bird...

Musk: “I’ll get us to Mars once I can stop my Cyberslops from getting stuck in the snow.”

Sexual Abuse report —behind every statistic is a survivor who was failed by systems that protected the powerful. We stand with survivors. Believe them & demand consequences for their abusers. The #EpsteinFiles is personal for women.

Today I wrote about 60 Minutes' decision to obey in advance and why it represents the sad end to the storied franchise. We are in desperate need of strong independent media. You can help Democracy Docket be a part of it by becoming a premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Making daddy proud 😘

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

me: "everything is going to shit. Ecological collapse continues across the planet, in your country there is no opposition party. weeping and gnashing of teeth to intensify." also me: "bro you ever softboiled an egg? put that on some toast? it's magnificent"

especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

I've heard about ICE improperly stopping or detaining Tribal citizens for no apparent reason aside from their physical appearance. This has got to stop.  The disrespect and harassment of U.S.-born Tribal citizens by ICE is outrageous and inexcusable.

🪡 If you want to learn more about us (or if you’re a young person looking to get involved) check out our website. We’ve got over 10,000 Gen Z members, chapters in schools across the country, and a whole lot of races to win. votersoftomorrow.org

“Life has enough curveballs and trauma that to have a tragedy like someone passing away from a completely preventable disease — that’s just hard to believe." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/21/c... Local man with untreated diabetes who is not a public safety threat dies in ICE custody at 56.

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) Sharecropper, 1952 (pub. '68-70) Linocut printed in green, black "Catlett wanted to make art for the people that would be accessible & reflect their struggles for political, racial, gender, and economic equality. Printmaking was ideally suited for this, esp. linocut."

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.

Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

"RFK Jr. likes to pretend that we need to run tests on already-tested, already-proven-safe vaccines to see if they're safe; the idea that we need to see what's in the files to know if Trump is a predator and a criminal and a misogynist has some of the same agenda of delay and decoy."

2025 was a big year for me and a horrifying year for the country. I hitched my wagon to 404 Media and trained my eye on the tide of nightmarish AI slop that's dominating our lives. Here's some of my favorites from my first year with 404.

this was a dominate theme the whole year. AI slop as the aesthetic of fascism and the aesthetic of the Trump presidency. Anything you love will be rendered into bad art by Trump 2.0, desecrated at the push of a button

BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

🚨Maryland is moving on mid-decade redistricting—without any public maps. That’s a serious transparency failure. Voters deserve to see how new maps would affect their representation before being asked to weigh in. Redistricting must happen in the open—not behind closed doors.

New from 404 Media: ICE just paid hundreds of thousands to company making bounty hunter AI agents. The company says its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” Comes as ICE spends millions on skip tracers www.404media.co/ice-contract...

FOER: “This is one of those moments in Trump’s presidency when an event that would otherwise be recognized as a death knell for democracy somehow fails to elicit the outrage it deserves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Over the weekend, JD Vance said: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.” That’s a longtime theme of white supremacists in America, as Vance no doubt knows. In this thread, I cite similar racist rhetoric using the “apology” theme. 1/6 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

JD Vance’s statement is an echo of a Klan leader who declared in Louisiana in 1971: “Never will I apologize for being a white man who favors white supremacy.” 3/6 🧵

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

About 8 in 10 parents say schools should require measles and polio vaccines for students — Washington Post-KFF poll. More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250916-top...

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

I feel insane. Waymo’s don’t work during a power outage?! Why would any city adopt this technology without a safety plan?! What if people needed to evacuate?!

"The Epstein files implicate billionaires and political donors that they're trying to protect. Epstein also had close ties to our intelligence agencies and Israel's intelligence agencies." Thomas Massie on why they're withholding and redacting most of the Epstein files.

Days after the Netflix deal, Paramount announced it was launching a hostile takeover bid, appealing directly to Warner Bros. shareholders to overturn the decision. That bid would put CNN in the hands of David Ellison, who has spent the last several months remaking CBS News in Trump’s image.

Florida Republicans have introduced a new bill in the state Senate that would expand a controversial gun program and allow open carry for some students and faculty on college and university campuses across the state.

"[7-month-old] Santina almost certainly would have survived if she weren't malnourished ... Santina was transferred to the hospital's morgue, a squat concrete building at the edge of the compound. [Her father] borrowed $10 to bury [her] in [a] cemetery, just on the other side of the hospital fence."

"[Contractors] are lining up and treating this the way they treated reconstruction in Iraq."

They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.

The city of San Francisco has been offering PG&E a fair price to buy our grid back and run it as a public power utility. They refuse to sell, and tonight their ownership and management is why we're sitting in the dark.