"We’re pastors. The fight against MAGA Christianity starts locally" Trump’s movement has used the #Christian faith to fuel oppression. Here’s how we are standing against it #Christmas www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The extension, set to last until March 31, comes after Serbia’s previous three-year agreement with Moscow expired this summer.

The president has ended protected status of Ethiopians, Haitians, and Somalis and will deport thousands — including children who grew up in the US. Many will be forced to return to countries still experiencing armed conflict and instability. This decision puts lives at risk.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

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As offices close for the Christmas holidays, the conservative Heritage Foundation faces a significant staff exodus with the prospect that many departing employees have no plans to return.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Have you had a chance to see this YouTube vid about Palantir? It’s the worst surveillance conglomeration of all your private information and used in a variety of ways to deny you life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Share this with your friends. #Pinks #ProudBlue youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?...

www.yahoo.com/news/article... Here we go again Not just one custom armored BMW A FLEET ... This incompetent buffoon who should be only in charge of latrine cleanup wastes millions of taxpayers money

Reup of this public resource we created Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) with links to all the publicly available documents

Putin didn’t want Kellogg. He wouldn’t be pliable enough for Russian demands, and was “too hostile.” Putin wanted a negotiator who “didn’t know much about Russia” and would reliably echo Putin's lines on Ukraine. Hence the insistence that Witkoff meet Putin without U.S. government or CIA officials.

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Director of Melania Trump film exposed in Epstein files drop Bret Ratner is photographed on his knees next to Jean Luc Brunel, an Epstein and Trump associate who *was also found dead in prison.* This is a massive coverup, possibly the biggest ever, across continents www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

Trump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military. The Russians have finally offered enough money to the Trump family and Trump is 100% on Russia's side now.

“What is happening in Palestine today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, "A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide."

President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's divorce records are about to become public — with potentially destructive consequences for his Senate run.

🇨🇦BREAKING: Mark Carney Just Shut Down All Trade Talks With Trump — Until Washington “Stabilizes” open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) became the latest Senate Republican to announce her retirement.

BREAKING: Elise Stefanik DROPS OUT of race for New York Governor and will NOT be seeking reelection in Congress

Something extraordinary and deeply humiliating is happening to the United States. Canadians aren’t just skipping trips they’re quietly boycotting America. In 2025, travel from Canada 🇨🇦 to the U.S. fell 40%. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

As of tonight, the Ellisons also own TikTok. So now our media is almost fully controlled by fascists. www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

um www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

According to this analysis of ICE data that includes arrests and detentions through mid-October, people arrested during Operation Midway Blitz were "later detained in 13 states, at county jails, privately run detention centers and a rapidly constructed facility on a military base"

Yes, it is.

As more Epstein files are set to be released, Dan Bongino has cleared out his FBI office without resigning and continues to take a paycheck.

Revisiting the "Garland did nothing" arguments.

"Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science" by Rafi Schwarz for @theweek.com: theweek.com/politics/tru...

Democrats should be screaming and warning about this but remain silent. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

‼️ A former sheriff from Florida (John Dougan), a member of the French military and a Swiss intelligence officer were among the 12 individuals sanctioned by the European Union in light of Russia's continued hybrid warfare targeting the EU and its partners. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum. This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable? newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

MAGA House Republicans slammed the door on affordable health care. By a 204–203 vote, the GOP-controlled House blocked a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies. Leadership cut the vote short, even as members were still trying to vote. The anger and outrage is real 🤬🤬🤬

The distinction between Ukraine’s and Russia’s strategies is essential. One side is attacking the war-fighting capacity. The other is attacking society. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KKfIzP

WOW: In a special election for Kentucky State Senate District 37, Democrat Gary Clemons has won with a staggering 72.5% of the vote, defeating Republican Calvin Leach, who received 25%. Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.

WAR ALERT: UK intel says we’re on the edge of global conflict. MI6, Canada, Europe all prepping at the same time. Coincidence? Nope. This is coordinated. Brace yourselves. Please read this excellent Substack from Dean Blundell, Dec 16, 2025. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...

"[I]n February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID's work." "They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake." "Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country's history." #USA #SouthSudan #Aid #Healthcare

New in PN: The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump "A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."

Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump

My political comm students wrote really great final papers. They absolutely hate clickbait, outragebait, fear appeals, and everything else that our modern media does to attract our attention and polarize us. They're exhausted and over it. The attention economy played itself.

Israel pays US politicians to push anti-immigration rhetoric because the people around Netanyahu are heavily invested in corporate private prisons in the US and supplying ICE, the real reason ICE got such a massive budget is because Trump and his accomplices plan to pocket it. It’s corruption.

Long story, but worth the read. According to this, Epstein got his wealth as a con man, charming the rich and powerful then leveraging new connections to more wealth and power. Often, he outright stole money & did not suffer repercussions. Trump and Epstein, griftness recognizing griftness.

"The former dictator has lined up interviews with RT and a popular rightwing American podcaster, but is waiting for approval from Russian authorities to make a media appearance...." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing plot and how he’s setting the wheels in motion for genocide in the United States: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Breaking: The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.

Trump's not building a ballroom - he's building a data center. Note that Israel has the same type of data center as well. I stumbled across this video on Substack. This is the best explanation I have heard connecting the dots as to why the tech bros are part of the presidency. 🧵