“.. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/rele...

“.. We are aware of at least 30 deaths at ICE detention centers this year, making 2025 the deadliest year for immigrants in ICE custody," Ramirez said in an online statement.

The US military continues to obey clearly illegal orders from this criminal administration, committing murder on the high seas at Trump’s command. More than 100 people murdered now. There should be much more outrage at this White House crime spree.

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

59% of registered voters would prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming. (@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251218

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.

AFRICOM dropped multiple new press releases for Somalia strikes. Some were new plural “airstrikes” references where the actual number of declared strikes isn’t yet clear. Surpassing the peak of the Pakistan drone campaign more than a decade ago seems a live possibility.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

A second national anti-trans healthcare bill has passed the US House, a medicaid ban for trans youth. 4 Democrats crossed party lines to vote for it. Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA). It is not expected to get through the Senate filibuster.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

fits right into their prevailing "change nothing, take no accountability, ignore all evidence and keep doing what you're doing (ie losing)" strategy

US coffee bean prices continue to hit new highs in inflation data released today, up 19% over the last year and 47% since pre-COVID

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022

Simpler times

4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.

Were they going to announce something different and now backtracking? Because this is definitely not worth a televised address. It honestly might piss off the normies who believed Trump was going to send them a $2k check. Nor do I believe he even has the authority to do this for service members.

Thank you for flooding the phone lines. Though we barely missed peeling off enough Republicans to check the regime’s lawless violence, it’s clear that the American people do not want war with Venezuela. Henry Cuellar was the only Democrat to vote with Trump — 14 days after he was pardoned by Trump.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

The US is trying to provoke a shooting war with Venezuela. If the US aims to board a tanker with a Venezuelan navy ship in between it, what’s going to happen?

There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.

New attack on immigrants: the Trump administration is demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices start drumming up “100-200 denaturalization cases per month.” Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁

“On World Refugee Day this year, he joined a group of clergy at a San Diego immigration court to support migrants facing deportation.” "Their presence had a marked effect—witnesses say even ICE agents ‘scampered away’ rather than detain people that day.”

guys is it good when one of the right wing cranks in the house is doing a better job of messaging against the war than opposition party leadership

-laughs nervously- What the fuck?

Reporter: Before that hearing this morning, I took a screenshot of the FCC website where it called itself an independent agency. 25 minutes later, that word 'independent' was scrubbed. The FCC was created to protect the public interest, not to protect the reputation of the president.

Really remarkable number in here: 62% of independents favor path to legalization over deportations. Trump and Stephen Miller are actively, relentlessly pushing the country in a pro-immigrant direction. Maybe those who argued against attacking Trump on this due to "salience" fears got this wrong?

In California, hate crimes targeting gender identity have more than tripled since 2013. Read the full report at tinyurl.com/GIHateCrimes

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

still think usaid is the biggest story of the year

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

Mortgage rates move higher after the Fed rate cut, causing loan demand to drop

42 faith leaders blockaded the entrance to San Francisco’s federal immigration court yesterday in an action that *shut down the courts* for the day.

it's so funny that i do not think republicans have gassed up reagan nearly as much as the democrats for like the last 10+ years

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

Rightwing news is coming after me for helping our community during this siege from ICE. In 2024, we won our election by just 14 votes and will be the number one MN House target in 2026. Can you help our campaign with a $5 donation-> secure.actblue.com/donate/tabke...

Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Who was she supposed to call for help? When things go sideways, you call 911. He was 911." msmagazine.com/2025/12/11/p...

Among the many things one could say about this: Journalists will not—and steadfastly refuse to—write similar stories about queer kids who were rejected by their families and forced into poverty and homelessness. The children who were harmed never get sympathy in these stories. It’s telling.

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social