I learned a hundred things in this six-part podcast about ethnic prejudice taken to an extreme, betraying values of personal freedom and constitutionalism. It's an urgent warning from the 1940s for an America today, destabilized by a maniacal regime seeking ultimate power over lives and liberty.

Next year's artists signed contracts to perform at "The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts." Since a venue with that name no longer exists, and one with a very division name many artists would not wish to be associated with does, they should be able to get out of their contracts.

Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."

And she doesn't thank Trump. Maybe some of these trump-zombies are coming back to life. I hope so! Sincerely!

“MAGA Blamed a Palestinian Student for the Brown University Shooting. They Were Once Again Very Wrong” Prominent Republicans & conservatives like Laura Loomer rushed to blame the shooting on a Palestinian or a Muslim, despite there being no evidence.

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

The new sign was already ready to go at yesterday's board vote. This was a premeditated conspiratorial assassination of the Kennedy Center. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/t...

Probably it will wash out as the trumpists follow this page, but the least we who recognize the grotesque abnormality of the moment can do is to unfollow the pages that now contain the name of the pervert Trump.

The Department Defense is now the Department of War. The Kennedy Center is the Trump-Kennedy Center. The Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. One-third of the WH campus is gone. Trump is destabilizing a dizzy nation, so it clings to him alone as sovereign lord. Classic. Cult. Modus operandi.

IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right: Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection. America’s unions will keep fighting for them.

Remember: Trump and his regime lie pathologically -- and neither can be trusted.

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!

This is one of my favorite clips of Rob, reflecting on what critics said when he & Norman Lear & everyone else took a huge gamble with All in the Family. It was one of countless projects Rob touched that seemed like wild, impossible swings ... that would go on to change the world for the better.

Everything you need to know about what Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair:

Truly, to my ear the phrase "Make America Great Again!" always sounds like "Sieg Heil!"

A man and his wife were stabbed to death yesterday. Murdered by their troubled son, it seems. And this is what the president of the United States posts. Friends, a demented, deplorable, personality disordered human being is living in the White House -- and he is a danger to the entire planet.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.

The tree is up and sweet Molly Ann (2006-2022) and Millie Pauline (2007-2023) are always remembered. 🐱♥️🐱

It's Sunday in Trump's cold-and-cruel America, where José, María, and Jesús are not welcome -- and where 82% of white-conservative Christians voted for this wickedness.

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New story about raised-rural Missourians working on Missouri LGBTQ history. dailyyonder.com/we-have-to-t...

What is it like to (sort of) be on a daytime soap opera? I write about that (very) cool experience, which started for me 30 years ago this month, in this essay. outinstl.com/thirty-years...

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

BREAKING: Senator @ChrisMurphyCT on Trump's call for executions: “The President of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it’s time to pick a f**king side!”

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

Important new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum -- Forest Park, St Louis -- through July 2026. www.sophisticatedstlouis.com/home/from-ra...

Sadly, too many Americans have low civic literacy and don't understand how abnormal it is to have a president directing the DOJ to investigate his enemies. It's actually worse than a president bulldozing one-third of the White House complex -- and far more dangerous. www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

Imagine empowering students to inform on teachers who don't follow the party line. Reminds me of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the various communist and religious purges and inquisitions against those who don't conform to the dictates from on high. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

“Kim Davis should have lived up to her oath and duties as a public servant by serving everyone in Rowan County, Kentucky,” Jim Obergefell told me. “Instead, she chose to use her faith to persecute others.” www.advocate.com/news/jim-obe...

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BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS: “If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”

Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"

Trump is a sick man.

No shit.

The was before Trump sent his thugs to hang Mike Pence, but Nancy had Trump's number all along.