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.

The president and his family have made $4 BILLION on the ventures they've launched just since Trump's reelection. That's a staggering cash grab. And it's not even close to normal.

#BestOf2025, from José Luis Martínez: In 2024, more than 15,000 wage-theft complaints were filed with the Texas Workforce Commission, the highest amount since at least 2016 and double the amount from 2021.

It’d be a shame if this picture of @barackobama.bsky.social receiving the Nobel Peace Prize went viral for no particular reason. 😇

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

They will do anything to make it harder for people to vote. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

And the cancellations keep coming. 👏🏽 Artists are choosing principle over profit.

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.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Dear Jon Stewart, No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

WATCH — @rbreich.bsky.social: “Starting January 1st the typical ACA premium will be going up by a third or doubling… with food, housing prices, rent going up people are really struggling.”

WASH POST: “Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

👩‍⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼 Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.

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Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

Centering white men—who are by & large in charge in organizations & least likely to experience workplace discrimination—doesn't make sense. It is like making space to help folks at the front of the line get even more space at…the front of the line. www.ms.now/opinion/eeoc...

“Miss, do you agree with the sign?” “Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥 #ForcedBirthNation

I think the most easily boycott-able Trump-complicit entity, is CBS. We don't "need" to watch it. I might miss watching a major NFL game, but that's it. IMO, it's MUCH easier to boycott CBS than Amazon. Weiss is SO f*cking detestable. And smugly so. We're not talking about boycotting them enough.

Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” Published April with @texastribune.org

Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message

The president was accused of multiple rapes of 14 year old girls as well as multiple murders of their babies and we’re all just acting like it doesn’t matter because CBS and CNN haven’t weighed in yet.

Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A Tesla worker in my district was electrocuted because the company cut corners. OSHA’s fine was just $50,000. Elon Musk makes that back in nine minutes from federal contracts alone. A worker’s life is worth more than a rounding error to a billionaire.

The U.S. is weaponizing global health aid. Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off. CECOT is the prototype.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

HUNTER: “Trump won’t release the files? Why? Out of the kindness of his heart for others? Have you ever known Trump to act out of anything but his own self-interest?” Hunter Biden to conservative podcaster @ShawnRyan762 re: the #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Just in case that YouTube upload is taken down it is here on Substack. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

The Trump administration is the most corrupt in US history—and the Trumps are one of the most corrupt families. In less than one year:

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The Education Department was investigating a Texas middle school for allegations that Black students were being harassed with racial slurs and monkey sounds. Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.

Trump pardoned these criminals. Trump is soft on crime.

legitimately love this guy.

I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Federal data shows military lawyers detailed as immigration judges ordered deportation nearly 80% of the time. One judge who didn’t? He was fired after five weeks on the bench.

Welcome to the age of subscription captivity, where an increasing share of the things you pay for actually own you.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

Holy smokes

We have the signatures needed to bring a vote to extend the ACA tax credits—but MAGA Mike is canceling votes for the rest of the week, turning his back on the American people. Millions of Americans will soon see their health care premiums skyrocket because Republicans refuse to do their job.

Sure. Maybe if we pretend it’s not happening, climate change will just go away. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits. If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.

He'll start a war to: 1. Distract from the Epstein Files 2. Steal oil 3. Justify emergency powers 4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment 5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned

New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: In December 2020, the state police had fewer than 200 drones; now the agency’s inventory has ballooned to more than 450 drones, and nearly 400 employees are trained to remotely operate them, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer.