Very annoyed at this. Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start. Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people

“Conservatives have long mocked liberals for being snowflakes. But being unable to emotionally cope because your neighbors speak a different language is about as fragile as it gets.”— @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Americans: high speed rail would revolutionize how we live in this country Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked

Benny Johnson has nothing to hide. by Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, and Mike Johnson

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service." www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Saying Trump is “transactional” is just a gentle way of saying he’s corrupt. Every power he has been trusted with, he treats as a way to extract favors and benefits from anyone he sees as situationally vulnerable.

fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

These bastards. This is what they want. wdsu.com/article/marr...

Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out. wapo.st/4rQFGlZ

The Supreme Court just set aside a 2nd Circuit decision upholding New York's requirement that all school students, public and private, obtain certain vaccinations, without any religious exemptions. It orders the 2nd Circuit to reconsider the ruling in light of SCOTUS' LGBTQ school books decision.

It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.

Hmmm, so you’ll be ‘policing’ people’s ’thoughts,’ that’s a novel idea

Imagine bearing even a small amount of responsibility for this tragedy and not giving a damn.

Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.

The UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official has told NPR that the lack of attention from world leaders to the war in Sudan is the "billion dollar question". n.pr/44cy5nv

just borrow what they want, instead of having us do it for them? Think on that.

Just to be clear: We are NOT giving Israel OUR money to engage in genocide. We are BORROWING money to give to Israel to engage in genocide. Our kids and grandkids’ work and productivity will be paying the INTEREST on the loans we take out to fund Israel’s genocide. So why the fuck can’t they

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

There aren’t many things worse one can imagine than the loss of a child. But the loss of a child to a vaccine preventable disease is a pain no parent or family should ever have to bear. Sowing distrust about vaccines, arguably the greatest public health success of all time, is pure evil.

There are well upwards of a BILLION dollars (of OUR money) this year funneled to projects designed specifically to make Trump feel Good about himself: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Trumps private and public furious response to the onrush of media coverage about his mind, health, age, sleep…

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

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It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment. Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

There are some tolerable differences of opinion. And then there's whatever bullshit folks are spewing because they have zero empathy or common fucking sense.

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are vandals of humanity’s progress. They are arsonists and nihilists who seek to take, not explore. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/vandals-of...

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

Abolish ICE, yes, but also, abolish this regime that enables these atrocities.

Judges who decline to answer basic questions about 2020 and January 6 are advancing through the confirmation process—several with Democratic support. AP has the jaw-dropping investigation here: bit.ly/4iMzDe8

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/

Murder www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

We need to abolish presidential pardons.

“You’re prompting me wrong.”

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

The AP has quoted my statement from yesterday that ACIP is an epidemiological crime scene, because it is.

“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.” - US Supreme Court

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

the rich want us all to actually just live in complete hell

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“The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"If the President doesn’t want to be called a Russian asset, perhaps he should stop acting like a Russian asset."

Sadly relevant today.