CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the president lawfully used the Alien Enemies Act to detain thousands of noncitizens without due process outside of wartime. Watch The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/48SQYPc

Kavanaugh Stop #KavanaughStop

From those who are hoping to ‘cull’ the heard via eugenics and making healthcare inaccessible. Brainworm Booby and Dr. bOZo are here for us. 🤦‍♂️

Former CIA station chief distills Putin's approach to Trump - Putin will understand very well what motivates Trump - his ego, his need for the spotlight - and he will play into that, like a good case officer should be able to do .. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

. FULL TRANSCRIPT: t.co/3keKyCd0

In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for “law and order.” https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=Tj1mzuAdV8zjXEpY

JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

And @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty tried to give themselves millions of dollars for receiving these calls🤔

As the year comes to an end, let’s remember the promises Trump made to working families and the reality we’re facing today. We were promised lower costs, more jobs, and an Administration that would put people first. We haven’t gotten any of that.

"If people stopped spending their money on evil corporations, those corporations would go out of business."

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

can confirm ✅

A bill with bipartisan support to bring safe drinking water to people in Colorado is vetoed by Trump. Why? It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems. Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.

😬 @tobymorton.bsky.social has outdone himself: www.trumpkennedycenter.org

Endless lies 🤥

Duh

Who agrees? ✋

The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The president doesn't have the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Congress must stop these illegal and immoral strikes, and officials who carried them out must be held accountable.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year. I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds. youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...

Is this real? Please report on this. @nytimes.com @maddow.bsky.social @tribelaw.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @weissmann.substack.com

Why do ICE thugs wear masks? A: so they can’t be sued, prosecuted, and jailed later for their abuse.

This is evil… and completely expected. @marcelias.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @joncooper-us.bsky.social @usatoday.com @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-put... FYI🧐

DOGE cut 7000 jobs at the Social Security Admin and closed 50 field offices, and now they’re struggling to respond to up to 6 million pending cases in its processing centers and 12 million transactions in its field offices. Now they’ll say it’s broken and must be privatized.

At this point, Trump is not a mere politician but a symbol—a representation of the Schmittian capture of America under his watch. If you're a supporter, you know with full conviction that there's nothing you can do that he wouldn't pardon. You support Trump—that's the only thing that matters.

That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia It Is A Reality......

The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social: "We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

And detainees are held for much long periods of time than needed so that these companies can charge more and make billions extra. It’s state sanctioned human trafficking.

There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.