Republicans in disarray! 4 House Republicans joined Democrats’ discharge petition to force a vote on a clean, 3-year extension of ACA tax credits. Mike Johnson threw his frontliners under the bus and lost. His speakership will be remembered for failed floor votes and a caucus at war with itself.

@senhesselbein.bsky.social stood out in the cold to tell Wisconsinites the truth: Tom Tiffany is driving up health care costs and is not fit to be governor.

The proposed legislation comes one day after WisconsinEye, a nonpartisan nonprofit network that provided unedited access to state government hearings and other programming, shut down, citing a lack of funding.

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.

Republicans broke records this year by shutting down the government for the longest period ever, all to ensure healthcare costs would skyrocket for working families across the country. 🧵

Kind of funny that Trump's chief-of-staff Susie Wiles looks a bit like his mom

A reminder tonight that Venezuela has nothing to do with fentanyl. The vast majority of the fentanyl supply begins as precursor chemicals in China, is manufactured in Mexico, and makes it to the U.S. by land, mostly smuggled by U.S. citizens hiding it within lawful trade and traffic at entry points.

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

>Venezuela is stealing our oil and land

well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around

REPUBLICANS: Everything is fine. REALITY: Unemployment ticked up to 4.6%, throwing us back to 2021 numbers.

SO WEIRD HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

In the freezing cold yesterday, La Crosse Democrats rallied outside @derrickvanorden‘s office, demanding he vote to extend ACA subsidies. Check out the story here

Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀 Start the clock! ⏰ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

This Laura Loomer? I sense a double standard.

Quality work by the Trump DOJ.

btw i don't agree with folks who say posting here doesn't matter because every time i help organize an event, people show up in real life & tell me they heard about it here on bluesky it absolutely matters if you make a habit of organizing & sharing practical suggestions of stuff to actually do ❤️

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Ron Johnson asks Bondi to investigate judge overseeing fake elector case Johnson's appeal to Bondi to review the allegation against the retired judge comes days before Troupis is scheduled to appear in court. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Bravo to our Indivisible friends on the north #oregon coast! Over 800 people showed up to say NO to building an ICE detention camp there. ❌ #noice ❌ @maddow.bsky.social ❌ @indivisible.org ❌

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Today is the last day to enroll for health insurance through the ACA. But you will see HIGHER prices than you were previously paying. You can thank a Republican for that.

I’m mean, they aren’t wrong. His image is that of a narcissistic dick who doesn’t give a shit about anyone else. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Trump administration has taken part ownership stakes in companies in steel, semiconductors, metals and mining, and nuclear construction, among other sectors. It's bad for the economy, distorts management incentives and undermines constitutional limits on presidential power [Tad DeHaven, Cato]

This is a gift link but WaPo insists you identify yourself.

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Not at all ominous

The Trump administration is trying to shut down Judge Boasberg’s contempt of court inquiry in the original Alien Enemies Act case and end the only chance of real accountability for an executive branch that ran roughshod over the judicial branch.

Would someone ask her to explain why Trump has excused the Tate brothers for their human trafficking crimes and why his sons were communicating with Andrew Tate in the past week?

BREAKING: A huge photo dump from Epstein’s estate was sent to House Oversight, and they just released it. Epstein’s circle includes: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew. 🧵

my radical labor history book has sold more than ten times as many copies as this one, do youse need a Philadelphia correspondent @vanityfair.com

Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Gift link: The US in brief economist.com/in-brief/202...

GOP = Grinch Only Party Christmas Tree prices? Up. Christmas decoration prices? Up. The Republicans' tariff taxes are Grinch behavior. https://bit.ly/4qjAntN

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Federal Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia immediately released from immigration detention

The regime did everything in its power to rig the congressional maps in Indiana — and lost. Even in deep-red territory, we are not powerless. Thank you to @indivisiblenei.bsky.social and everybody else who is fighting back (and winning) from inside the machine.

“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Better question: why does the WH press corps go along with this? Send the interns

Reader, that’s not what this president is focusing on

The GOP blocked extension of the ACA subsidies. This is morally repugnant, and also everybody knew this fight was lost the second that Senate Dems surrendered on the shut down last month. In the coming primaries, we're looking for Dems who will actually use their power and fight back.

Here's what happened on the Senate floor today: Republicans voted to kill our bill to save the ACA tax credits—this was our last chance. Then they held a sham vote on a GOP bill that does NOTHING to lower health care premiums. Make sure everyone knows it.

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

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The free speech party that was sooo mad about woke people banning words in school is at it again.