good www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

They also elected a president convicted on 34 counts of business fraud. They don't care about fraud.

I mean, let's talk about the obvious.

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

As we all know, Trump hates fraud.

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?

The last five decades have been marked by an explosion in wealth inequality and a growing distrust of America’s institutions. Many Americans believe that the system as a whole is rigged against them. They're right.

Once again, legacy media disappoints us as the NY Times repeatedly interviews the same group of people who basically always supported the MAGA ideology and presents it to us as “rigorous” reporting

It's quite an experiment to have a government run by the dumbest people on the planet.

RFK Jr. ended the CDC's long-standing recommendation to give newborns the hep B vaccine—putting tens of thousands of lives at risk. His attacks on science are eroding trust in our public health system and MUST be stopped. Oversight Dems have launched an investigation.

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

Story: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Compare and contrast this deeply sick Stephen Miller tweet (left) with the rhetoric that was used on people like his ancestors when they immigrated to the United States (right): newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Trump claimed he bombed Nigeria to protect Christians Except that ISIS was attacking Muslims as well Plus-a few days ago-he pulled out the US ambassador to Nigeria And he ordered that the US stop issuing visas to Nigerians He doesn’t care about helping Christians He just wants to blow people up

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo

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Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

Ann Telnaes

Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal - Truth in Labeling

Sinisa Pismestrovic, Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Wonder who is really waging war against Christmas?

Yet another reason to love Canada (where they still allow a free press)! 🇨🇦✊ #Trump #CBS

So here's Trump year in Economist/YouGov polling - a brutal, ongoing rejection by the American people of all shapes and sizes.

It wasd never about saving money

Worth repeating over and over - Trump’s secretaries can be this brash about being lawless bc John Roberts and his MAGA #scotus keep enabling them. This all goes back to Roberts.

But John Roberts and his 5 MAGA colleagues on #SCOTUS are most likely cool with all of this as long as it serves Trump. #ballsandstrikes ↘️

We need a new Dem video reminding DOJ employees to obey the law not members of the Trump regime. Flagrant violations of the new law through over redaction tumbling out of DOJ. It is clear rank and file DOJers are being ordered to ignore the law passed by Congress. It's an extraordinary situation.

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

Do we charge for this? Or is it a free service we provide to friendly dictators?

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.