Customs and Border Protection agent ordered held without bond on rape, robbery charges

@adamschiff.com @raskin.house.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com We need a proactive messaging plan for this

It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan. Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination. Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...

"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.

When I saw this I became sure that a session at this conference was a How To for billionaires to survive the multitudes of world crises this next 10 yrs. Pretty sure "Kill as many small & poor & brown humans by politics" was well attended. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

December 14, 2025

Measles didn’t make a comeback on its own. This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.

What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

When you see the world in terms of limited resources, as billionaires do, then your goal will always be to secure those resources for yourself. You do this by taking the resources by fraud or force, and by murdering those you believe are "less worthy".

URGENT: I need a Minneapolis immigration attorney for a client in the hospital and likely detained by ICE. If anyone here has contacts with someone, or better yet practices in this area, please reach out to me via DM.

In 2026 Democrats can be both warriors for working people against oligarchy *and* proud patriots fighting for democracy here and abroad. My latest essay 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-2026-de...

Good morning to #NOLAsky and especially Rev. Jane Mauldin of the Universal Unitarian Church, who has been spending her secular time following ICE around New Orleans and monitoring their activity ☀️

This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Trump is attempting to seize three public golf courses in Washington, including one adjacent to the Mall. We simply cannot let this happen. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Two days after the House of Representatives voted to restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees, Trump moves to illegally end collective bargaining for TSA workers. Trump may be the most anti-union president in American history.

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

True Breaking News (Washington Post): VA to cut 35,000 health care jobs across nation like nurses & doctors. VA already strained. Did our vets refuse to give back medals to melt into gold bars/coin/ballroom sconces for Trump? Truly the worst vets’ Christmas present ever.

Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point Action USA COO, was one of 11 fake electors who were indicted in Arizona, then pardoned by Trump. Heritage Action is the group that tweeted threats to Indiana state senators. Indiana Republican state senators did not cave to extortion-type tactics.

Earlier this year, JD Vance told us that Donald Trump was “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.” Yeah, about that. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn

December 12, 2025

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: FBI Admits in Court Filing That It Is Aware of Epstein “Client Lists”—Months After the Personal Lawyer for Longtime Epstein Wingman Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Told America No Such Lists Existed Take from this the obvious conclusion.

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social. Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.

“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

December 11, 2025

More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James. — “This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions. "This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."

Just an invaluable conversation. Hopefully @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social will do this again, and again!!🙏 open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Yeah, hard to pinpoint where things went wrong and who’s to blame.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Absolutely strong evidence of vindictive prosecution. Every failed attempt improves James’ eventual motion to dismiss, which was already ludicrously historically strong.

I hope you’ll give this a listen/watch. “Demystifying politics and demystifying economics.” That’s a good takeaway. It shouldn’t be beyond our comprehension. It’s not just “politics,” it’s OUR LIVES. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social youtu.be/A8V00Z5McYA?...

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee said, "Woman's Suffrage is the application of democracy to woman..." and this #WomenInHistory was a smart, educated, business woman who worked for civil rights and against the racism of the #ChineseExclusionAct Learn from @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/P59fuNfnOgQ?...

This country's being run by the kind of emotionally spavined subnormals who want to leave NATO because they had to see a sign language interpreter on the teevee

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

About time! And thank you to all the judges and attorneys upholding the rule of law. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

🚨 Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/e...

December 10, 2025

"People often retreat into saying that democracy hasn’t fallen 'yet.'... But it’s not true for everyone currently living in America. Some people in America are already living under conditions that resemble dictatorship." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...

American Conversations: Senator Mark Warner Senator Warner is a member of the Gang of Eight, and explains why it— and a nonpartisan Intelligence Community— matters....

“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

Watch till the end. We have the laws on the books already in many areas, we just need to enforce them. 💡An idea from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=FlGR...

December 9, 2025