NEW: Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who is running for Congress, confronted Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino today:

NEW: Former special counsel Jack Smith forcefully pushed back on Republican lawmakers’ attempts to discredit his prosecution of Trump over his 2020 election subversion efforts. The testimony comes amid GOP attacks on Smith’s investigation into the president and mishandling of classified documents.

It’s rare that commonsense rules the day in Washington — but today it did. As one of the first to sign, I’m grateful to my Republican colleagues who did the right thing and stood up for health care. But we’re not done yet — Speaker Johnson MUST get a vote on the floor ASAP.

Chump and KegsBreath are trying To Silence Senator Kelly and All Military Personnel From Speaking Truth to Power.......

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Since Trump’s return to the White House, he has made it abundantly clear that voter suppression is a top priority — but some may not know the key election-denying figures driving the demise of our democracy. Here’s everyone you need to know 👇

What Susie Wiles thinks about the Trump administration

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From @pabloreports.bsky.social : “Were you satisfied with the answers you got in the classified Venezuela briefing?” 🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “OH HELL NO. That was a joke. That was not a serious intelligence briefing, it was the communication of opinion.”

JD Vance and Donald Trump give themselves an “A + + + + +” on the economy. Americans disagree. Across the country, people are speaking out and sharing how they’re struggling under Trump’s disastrous economy. Watch @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social:

The heritage foundation is nothing more than a conglomerate of women hating, Christofascist, grievance baby trash who definitely weren’t hugged enough by their parents as kids.

Still in awe of the people of Chicago. Trump and his party spent so much time trying to get them to give him some sliver of fake reason to do the insurrection act, and there was so much discipline from the Chicago area: sustained resistance, while not giving trump what he wanted Truly impressive

TONIGHT: Join our team at 7 PM ET as we celebrate our wins of the year while planning for the future of democracy with your support. 2025 was just the beginning. In 2026, the power of community will take us further than ever.

Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu... TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7

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earnest question - have you ever seen anything lamer than this?

Today in Politics, Bulletin 271. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Let’s face it. That people chose a man with no morals, ethics, values or decency over a highly qualified woman (twice) is what destroyed the White House. We could rebuild the East Wing, the Rose Garden and purge all his gaudy ornaments…but the stench of Donald Trump will persist for generations.

Still reeling from & mourning the death of Rob & Michelle Reiner. Princess Bride was foundational to my growth & development as person, and his work with A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, recently The Bear, & more will always stick with me. And, by all accounts a great guy. I’m just devastated.

However, I can wrap my head around Ted Cruz’s silence on Trump’s deranged pro-death screed. Ted’s love for The Princess Bride was just about his only redeeming personality trait, but Trump celebrating Rob’s murder is a-ok, because Ted had his spine surgically removed along with his cojones in 2016

If you lose Fox News on basic human decency, you’re not leading. You’re rotting.

Words DO MATTER. This is deeply moving.

The anti-voting shifts come amid a broader yearlong effort by Republican officials, who seized control of the board earlier this year, to narrow voting access.

NEW: With a December deadline looming, North Carolina Republicans on county election boards are racing to advance anti-voting proposals aimed at making it harder to vote. Those paying the cost? Student, minority and working-class voters.

SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “We have to pray not only with our lips but with our actions… Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade, without doing all we can to stop it, is broken and in need of moral repair.”

So many of us loved Rob Reiner's movies. He left such a profound impact on so many. What an absolutely black-hearted and despicable statement from the President of the United States about a man who was just murdered. Trump is deeply unwell and unfit to serve.

TOMORROW 6:30 PM ET: Join me for a live Q&A on the state of democracy — from the biggest legal fights of 2025 to what’s coming in 2026. Become a Democracy Docket member now to join this event and receive all its premium content. newsletters.democracydocket.com/live-qa-with...

NEW EPISODE: Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Bowie and I unpack how the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is dismantling decades of voting rights, campaign finance law, and congressional authority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv8...

If you are a Republican and do not denounce the evil of Donald Trump gloating and making the murder of Rob & Michele Reiner all about himself, you are NOT a Christian. Please stop pretending. You're not fooling the rest of us.

Rob Reiner was a talented man who will be remembered for bringing laughs and heartfelt films to the world. Donald Trump is a lucky sociopath who will be remembered for bringing misery and division to America.

We could have had a sane president.

White supremacist group Patriot Front is building and training at a hidden compound. CNN's Rob Picheta tracked down the location and traveled to Tennessee to learn more.

If anyone in the private sector posted HALF of what he did about the Reiners, they’d be fired on the spot.

Target fired this employee for alerting her immigrant coworkers about their cooperation with ICE. She then also got her account banned on TikTok. 🤔 This is our new America. Let's not allow this to be our new normal.

People in America deserve to know whether the DOJ is entertaining President Trump’s request to cut himself a taxpayer-funded $230 million check. This country still has laws, and our team @democracyforward.org will demand they be enforced in court. democracyforward.org/updates/foia...

"I said they betrayed the country, and they’re still betraying the country" - Senate expert Ira Shapiro

Today, we celebrate the ratification of the Bill of Rights, which enshrines our freedom of speech, religion, and right to due process. While we recognize that the laws of this nation have not always served everyone, we work every day to protect our democracy and the people who benefit from it.

Remembering Rob & Michele Reiner

Omg no www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/r...

Has Trump called Reiner a no-talent, over-rated meathead yet?

@propublica.org is doing all it can to prevent democracy from dying in darkness.

Every New Year’s I watch When Harry Met Sally, a tradition. Rob Reiner left a beautiful, often hilarious body of work that, after this achingly depressive moment, will continue to help us to laugh, even in the worst of times.

Already today I have written something for tomorrow and recorded a new commentary for YouTube that will be published Wednesday. Even if you don't want to commit to membership, my advice is to subscribe for free to make sure you receive the bulk of our content. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

During an evening celebration, Jewish families in Australia were horrifically gunned down in a vile act of terror. California’s heart is with Australia as we stand with the Jewish community worldwide against a rising tide of antisemitic violence and hate. Antisemitism has no place in our world.