Trump on the ballroom: "It's bigger than I told you. It's, you know -- after realizing we're gonna do the inauguration in that building, it's got all bulletproof glass, it's got all drone, they call it drone-free roof. It's dronessss -- won't touch it. It's a big beautiful safe building."

WTAF?!

“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on

Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.

Look it's a war criminal and convicted felon palling around at Mar-a-Lago. This is what the world sees when they look at the US.

President Zelenskyy's statement on the Russian lie of an alleged "residence strike."

NEW: DOJ has been to multiple venues trying to shop their criminal case against the people who investigated Russian election interference. And they keep failing. So they're trying to add a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon's jurisdiction. youtu.be/W4pImd81anA?...

When and if sane and honest people ever again control the U.S. government, one of the first things they should do is enact a tax on large accumulations of wealth. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-the-market-were-working-well-we

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Trump tells supporters in a new fundraising email that if they don’t donate to him within the next hour, Democrats will steal their "tariff rebate checks" and give them to "illegals," that the country is "boiling over," and that only an immediate cash transfer to him can stop total disaster.

Why would anyone want Republicans in charge at this point?

As @GovBillLee thanks Trump for $50 Billion for rural health, keep in mind he’s hoping we forget they just cut $1 TRILLION from Medicaid to give tax cuts to the rich $1 TRILLION > $50 BILLION Again: They think we all have goldfish brains 🧠

This is the 7th person whose sentence was commuted by Trump that has been rearrested on new charges. And don't pretend Trump cares about fraud in MN. This guy bilked over a $1 billion and Trump let him go.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

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.

Trump’s hand-picked US Atty in the SDFL is judge-shopping to get a politically motivated prosecution of former CIA Director, John Brennan, before Trump-favorite, Judge Aileen Cannon. I’ve got the latest details of Brennan’s extraordinary legal move to get rid of Cannon. youtu.be/_S1qfEe2YW4?...

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Happiest dog Xmas morning

The DOJ is so incompetent that it is allowing us to *quantify* its cover-up of the Epstein files.

If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.

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My weekly email to my congressman…I got a little ragey at the end.

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has all but confirmed the existence of the conspiracy probe, pulling back the curtain on the potential next stage in Trump’s campaign of retribution against anyone who has stood in his way. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It appears the whole Putin “Ukraine tried to kill me with 91 drones last night” was entirely made up. And of course Trump repeated it and said he was mad at Ukraine. Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people. And tried to Kill Zelensky every day Spare me the gaslight

Parties with 14-year-olds at Mar-a-Lago Guess not everything happened on Epstein’s Island, huh?

BREAKING: Trump says that the U.S. has “knocked out” a Venezuelan facility on land. And this is the dude who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. How many wars is this that he ended now? -1 or -2 I didn't vote for this, and none of you guys who pretend to be "America First" did either.

Chelsea Clinton delivered a #CupOfJoe full of determination to protect reproductive health care access and to secure it well into the future. ♀

One year into Trump’s second term, the oligarchy continues to grow more powerful. They take your money, your healthcare, and they’ll happily take your lives to pad their bank accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNlfBoKWrc&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=20

BREAKING: The Department of Justice failed to redact the identity of a survivor of Epstein's crimes in a released document, per an exclusive comment to MeidasTouch.

Hard not to notice that the MAGA who sport the cross and or “christian” on their profiles spread the most bigotry and racist hate.

You can't tell me this is not true. 😳

Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.

I bet the J6 the pipe bomber walks because of Trump administration incompetence. Whether he’s acquitted on shaky evidence or a grand jury won’t even indict on probable cause, I don’t think Patel and Pirro are capable. 1/

Why Russell Vought Is Worse Than Watergate Conservatives used to think you could be a political hatchet artist or you could serve the Lord. Now they say: Why choose?

Trump continues to fall for Putin’s lies, whether by choice or by weakness.

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

NEW: Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky confirms to me that the DOJ has failed to properly redact her name in the Epstein files. This is her name, and she has confirmed this is an old phone number of hers. Both should have been redacted. Neither were.

Trump and his billionaire buddies running this country are hoping that the rest of us will just give up and quit fighting. But our country, our chance to build a future for our kids and grandkids is too precious. We stay in the fight because it's a righteous one.

"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a miracle. This man has spent years doing the diplomatic equivalent of somersaults on a tightrope while his country remains under siege. I don't believe in the Great Man Theory, but he's about as close as it gets.

Even with Trump lording over America like a giant slug, positive change can and will still happen at the state (and city) level. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-wealth-tax-that-works

"On Labour Day, Angus launched MeidasCanada, featuring YouTube videos commenting on the news of the day... Nearly four months later, MeidasCanada's YouTube channel has more than 206,000 subscribers."

Great job Elon Musk!

Trump breaks the law **again** this time he’s instructing the DOJ to only target political opponents and shut down the Epstein investigation afterwards.

South Park called it, and it’s hilarious. One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

Wow: Not sure we've ever heard Katie Phang this fired up. As an attorney herself, Katie has a whole lot to say about the DOJ suddenly "finding" 1 million more Epstein docs.