Now with gift link, so that you may gaze upon the horror: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Photos from Epstein’s estate confirm that Trump was far more involved in child predator Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit.   The DOJ must release the full Epstein files, not the White House-approved version.   End the cover-up. The American people deserve the truth.

JUST IN: The Estate of Jeffrey Epstein produces more than 95,000 images to House Oversight from Epstein’s email account and laptop. I walk through the 19 photos that were just publicly released & provide insight into the original subpoena that was served on the Estate. youtu.be/x-w_gUuR534?...

Thank God? No. Be ashamed of yourself. Ukraïne is fighting for almost 4 years. And our support is less than the gas EU buys from ruSSia. What have we done all those years. We could have closed the skies, but we were to chicken.😡😡😡

I've been saying this for a very long time!!! Ukraine is viewed as the buffer zone between Russia and NATO !! Ukraine is dying and their cities are destroyed because NATO has been asleep for a very long time

We always talk about the security guarantees that the coalition of willing countries is going to give Ukraine. But the reality today is that it is Ukraine that is giving a security guarantee to Europe. But Putin’s Russia wants war." 📹: LCI

French intellectual and activist Bernard-Henri Lévi @bernard-henri-levy.com: "Of course we’re not ready. And thank God we have the Ukrainians. Thank God that in Europe there is an army that knows how to fight. Thank God there is an army in Europe capable of holding the line.

"Canadians no longer own Canada’s largest newspaper chain. Postmedia Network, which controls over 130 newspapers across the country...is now 66% owned by Chatham Asset Management, an American hedge fund based in New Jersey."

House Democrats release Epstein photos with Trump, Bannon, Clinton and others

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

Uniter 👏 St. Sen. Spencer Deery (R-IN) “As long as I have breath, I will use my voice to resist a federal government that attempts to bully, direct, and control this state or any state. Giving the fed. gov’t. more power is not conservative!!!” #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

The Indiana Lt. Gov. confirmed the #Trump regime threatened to withhold federal funding unless lawmakers gerrymandered the state— Textbook quid pro quo extortion — In a normal administration this would be a national scandal

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Indiana Republican legislature says NO to Trump's gerrymandering scheme despite his threats, National Trust SUES Trump over demolishing the East Wing, Republicans won't rubber stamp the Paramount hostile bid of Warner Bros (CNN), and GOP investigates Trump's murders in the Caribbean.

It is minerals, not drugs.

“Karp suffers from no shortage of self-regard. ‘If people listened to me.. we’d have a better world,’ he says. In his mind, Palantir is all that stands between US democracy and its collapse. .. watch this and reassure me that we are in safe hands.” @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/bb8e...

And the head of Health is trying to make people unhealthy.

"You don't need to hide; I will come after each of you personally," said Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, responding to a wave of anonymous posts alleging he had submitted a letter of resignation.

⚡️ 'I will come after each of you' — Ukraine's prosecutor general threatens critics after resignation rumors.

BREAKING: House Oversight Democrats just release a small batch of 95,000 photos received from the Epstein estate. Images include: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates. Redactions have been made by the Committee.

Trump told NATO he’s pulling ALL U.S. forces out of Europe by 2027. This will end U.S. influence and speed up a world where Europe, Canada, and the democratic allies stop needing or trusting the United States. A great read by Dean Blundell! ⬇️ #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Trump’s new AI executive order would strip states of their power to set their own AI safeguards and protect their people online. State -level oversight has always been a critical check to protect communities from harm.

Why do the Republicans lie so much about Obamacare? They want it to die, but don’t want to be seen killing it. A THREAD.

Good thread. Also, my family's insurance will literally double starting next month, and I am so angry about it.

18. The GOP ignores facts “to push a long-term agenda away from group, pooled coverage to coverage in an unregulated market,” he told me. “That would return things to the way they were before the ACA: where people paid based on health and age and preexisting conditions.”

17. Don’t take my word for it. To cut through the Republicans’ lies, I interviewed @edwincpark.bsky.social, a professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

16. A sizable chunk of the president’s coalition is about to get screwed while a bigger chunk doesn’t care. All they know about Obamacare is that it has the first Black president’s name in it. There is no way of squaring that circle with the truth. So Republicans lie.

15. He does. He’s a doctor! But he’s also a Republican. As such, Marshall is looking frantically for ways to rationalize negligence, no matter how dumb.

14. I do not file claims. My doctor does. If there’s fraud, it’s on the provider side, not the patient side. Fraud would also require filing *false* claims, not *no* claims. And Marshall suspects fraud because a third of people are not using their insurance. Does he know how insurance works?

13. I just … don’t know … where to … oh, FFS. Look, as someone who buys insurance via Connecticut’s Obamacare exchange, I’m here to tell you that I cannot commit fraud. The only way for me to commit that crime is by lying on my income taxes.

12. But perhaps the greatest insult to injury came out of the mouth of US Senator Roger Marshall. On CNN, the Kansas Republican said that his conference could not agree to extended subsidies if the Democrats do not address his concerns about fraud. What fraud? youtu.be/1rkaDrU3wIo

11. I have the expertise to choose between coffee shops, but I do not have the expertise to choose between heart surgeons. Do you? Of course not. To suggest otherwise is stupid. (Anyway, you know how far $1,500 would go?)

10. Why? Because the Republicans say we can take that money to shop around, thus incentivizing health care providers to offer discounts. Sounds good but no one shops around. No one can!

9. The Republicans say they want to skip over those insurance companies and give us money directly. Their latest bill would remit to someone like me $1,500 for a “health saving account.” Not only is this a pittance compared to what I save on my federal income taxes, it’s just stupid.

8. Like the media and other sectors, the healthcare economy has been consolidating into the hands of fewer corporations that have the power set prices that your insurance is forced to pay. There’s nothing wrong with Obamacare that antitrust law enforcement can’t remedy.

7. Obamacare has constrained some costs, but it hasn’t kept up with health care providers who have conspired, yes, conspired, to fix prices. theconversation.com/health-insur...

6. They say they can’t agree with congressional Democrats who want a clean renewal of the subsidies because Obamacare is a failure, because they don’t want to keep enabling insurance companies, or because there’s too much fraud.

5. Compounding the injury is the lying. The Republicans seem willing to say anything, no matter how preposterous, if it gets them out of being held accountable for their negligence.

4. Without an extension, our premiums will double, triple or quadruple. Sure, the Republicans might finally give in, and the tax credits might be applied retroactively, but what if they don’t. Are we expected to reup by Monday and hope that *this* president and *this* GOP will do the right thing?

3. Something else you may not know: the healthiest among us have already decided. The Republicans do not want to renew the tax credits. They keep coming up with phony reasons why.

2. What you don’t know is that that’s a false deadline. While the Republicans have until 12/31 to make up their minds about whether to renew, or do something else to address soaring premiums, the deadline for the rest of us is next week. I live in CT. I have to decide by Monday.

1. If you have been following the healthcare debate in Washington, you probably know that subsidies for those of us who buy insurance via state-based Obamacare exchanges are going to run out by year’s end.

"Epstein [] also kept images of sex toys, according to the new release. One of the photographs shows novelty condoms with Trump’s likeness on them, spread out on a table. Behind the table reads a sign that says “Trump Condom $4.50.” "

Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"