There are burbles in Iowa rn.

NEW: Epstein survivors are getting impatient with Congress for not enforcing the Epstein Transparency Act, and say they will start naming names in 2026. 💪

When Trump says “my friends will get hurt” if the full Epstein files come out, it’s useful to remember that: 1. He has no real friends 2. He speaks about himself regularly in the third person. 3. He’s a rapist who likes ‘em real young. Happy new year!

The pipeline project is in GOP Rep Lauren Boebert's district. Boebert recently challenged Trump to force the release of the Epstein files. Boebert has issued a blistering statement reading, in part, "I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retribution."

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

According to Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from office, effective Jan. 5, 2026, she expressed her confusion over Trump's inability to compromise on the Epstein files, to which he replied, "My friends will get hurt." apple.news/AKgRMl3evQG6...

Senate Dems Want to Know How Trump’s Chief of Staff Got Access to Epstein Files With the Justice Department under fire for how it’s handled the documents, the senators asked Susie Wiles to describe her “role in any process related to the review, redaction, withholding, or release of material.”

Khanna on the Trump administration flouting the Epstein files law: "Every person at Justice who violates this law is guilty of obstruction of justice and a future administration could prosecute them"

Excellent explanation by Ryan Goodman of what we know about Epstein, what we should know, and what DOJ is doing to stop us from knowing what we should know. www.youtube.com/live/GZF-ojI...

According to this interview with @timmiller.bsky.social, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social—who first broke the Epstein story in 2018–is hearing from new, international victims, like, right now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Finally getting some campaign finance in the Epstein files. This is a deposition of Cecile De Jongh who was the First Lady of the US Virgin Islands. She testifies about the DNC rejecting a donation from Epstein because he was a sex offender. #doj #epstein files 👀 💵🗳️⚖️ www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

NEW: Trump used his first veto to block a unanimously approved Colorado drinking water project. Lauren Boebert, whose district the pipeline project is in, slammed Trump, suggesting it was retaliation for her signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files www.9news.com/article/news...

How many people must suffer and die because Trump is all over the Epstein files?

Just when Trump hoped he'd finally knocked the Epstein files out of the news:

I'm guessing this "retaliation" is more about the governor refusing to pardon Tina Peters, but hurting anyone who voted to release the Epstein files is an additional bonus.

That brand new Dem George Conway is running for a safe Dem seat is offensive. If he was even remotely the hero he pretends to be (instead of a crass opportunist) he'd use his vast fortune as a mergers and aquistions lawyer to run against a GOP incumbent to flip a red seat to blue. #opportunist

he also tried to date Laura Ingraham. He was set on one of the 3 GOP blondes on TV at that time. Ann and Laura made their own money and just wanted to be "friends". Kellyanne did not have money. George did. They both got what they needed out of it.

George Conway & Anne Coulter were besties. The never-trumpers gave us trump

A pragmatist would've done everything possible to ensure the worst POTUS in history whose 1st term ended with a 2nd impeachment, 4 indictments & being found liable of fraud/sexual abuse lost. Harris would've been an infinitely better POTUS than Trump & claiming otherwise is disingenuous at best. 🤦🏾‍♀️

Renee Hardman will make history as the first Black woman to serve in the Iowa Senate. She will continue to serve as CEO of Lutheran Services in Iowa as her day job.

Iowa Senate Minority Leader @janice4iowa.bsky.social : “This one’s for you, my dear friend Claire.” Democratic Senator Claire Celsi passed away in October.

Polls closed a few minutes ago and Democrat Renee Hardman has 73% of the vote in Iowa Senate district 16. Only a few precincts not counted. Republicans will not win back their super majority.

A pragmatist wouldn’t need to be excited by politics to do their civic duty

That would be David "There's too much focus on the Epstein files especially since photos of me were discovered in them" Brooks.

📣 Dems overperformed by 14 pts on avg across 67 Special Elections in 2025! There's over 30 MORE coming up. Jan. 6th: CT HD-025: Irene Sanchez GA HD-023: Scott Sanders SC HD-98: Sonja Ogletree-Satini VA SD-15: Mike Jones VA HD-077: Charlie Schmidt Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...

Last special election of the year. This is a D+17 seat according to @the-downballot.com. The Democrat just won by 43 points. That’s a 26 point overperformance.

ROB SCHNEIDER'S DAY HAS COME.

Good job, every major US media outlet! By uncritically parroting the narrative of a lying MAGA streamer, there are now hate crimes being committed against daycares that cater to the Somali community! Fantastic job! www.startribune.com/police-inves...

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

“The Court got a very big one right—in ways that will almost certainly make it more difficult, as it should be, for the Trump administration to attempt to militarize domestic law enforcement based on dubious factual predicates.” Me in today’s “One First” on four takeaways from Trump v. Illinois:

The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously. Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen?? youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...

Manchester itself is doing fine nowadays because it had an extremely strong university presence that served as the basis for new industries and growth. But when I was a kid large swathes of town had been deserted for years - if you’ve read Elidor it was basically that.

The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep. There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

Megan McArdle is proof that along with lack of talent & lack of opportunity that what holds many of us back in life is the capacity to feel embarrassment.

Amazing that these two paragraphs, in sequence, are in the NYT, because their smug, stupid, & empirically & obvious incorrect belief in the latter contributes to pushing them to be in the pro-camp mentioned in the former. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

Not only is federalism a major bulwark against totalitarianism, before Orban, who changed Hungary’s constitution, it was only 23 yrs old contrast, our constitution is over 230 yrs old Also “we’re never going to have elections again” is now debunked Not only have we won, Johnson had to seat them

I don’t think that’s a particularly Panglossian perspective 🤷‍♂️ www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

My basic points are: 1- that’s not easy 2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one 3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people 4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

And hey, I understand the goal quite well. Over a year ago I wrote about personalist dictatorships and the paths that Trump had to get us there. No question that’s the animating principle behind his own priorities and always has been www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...

Basically www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

Don’t make them seem invincible. Pretending that our system can easily be reduced down to Trump’s personal control of absolutely everything is actually the opposite of informed or savvy www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year

I’d love to know which anti-Trump white people are toughest on Trump voters. I’m guessing white working class Harris voters—who know a lot of Trump voters—are toughest on Trump voters, & upper MC/wealthy white leftists on Twitter/Bluesky—who know few if any Trump voters—are the most forgiving*

Also a failure of imagination, because things are just going to get worse for Trump.

Doomerism in January was cowardly preemptive surrender, but done at a time when the future was unknown. Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.

Totally normal to talk about erections with my 19 year old kid. This isn't weird in the slightest. We talk about our dicks constantly. This is a totally normal father son relationship

Weird. These people are just WEIRD.

“Curt Schilling owes me money”