Vote Neysa Fligor for Santa Clara County Assessor, return your ballot by Dec 30! Vote by mail ballots arrived this week. There’s only the one race, so it’s quick and easy to vote.

Measles outbreak in South Carolina. Untold numbers will suffer and die from diseases that could be prevented by safe and effective vaccines that Trump and RFK Jr have told their MAGA hordes to refuse. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, for alleged sanctions violations. Meanwhile, we do nothing about Russian oil sales to India and China. Trump came close to more effective sanctions on Russia but pulled back. Guess he got reminded who’s boss? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Rubio State Department reverses Biden era shift to a more readable font - Calibri - which apparently is too “woke”. Meanwhile, the wars Trump said he’d end in a day rage or sputter on. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Even Encyclopedia Britannica is waiting for the Epstein files - legally required to be released by Dec 19. What will Trump and Bondi dare to hold back or redact, beyond victims’ names and graphic images? And why have they been desperate to hold anything back? www.britannica.com/question/Whe...

Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymanders have created new pickup opportunities for Democrats – weakening their advantage in formerly safe House districts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump and Noem are lying to us about ICE violent takedowns and arrests of US citizens. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump is back to being historically unpopular, but over 90% of Republicans still support him? These are our neighbors. People we know. There is nothing “conservative” much less right or decent in what Trump is doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump economy.

credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."

A college student on her way home for Thanksgiving was detained at Boston’s airport and deported to Honduras, despite a judicial order that she not be deported. Meanwhile Trump freed the former Honduran president who flooded the US with cocaine. Trump values. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Gift link to an article that lays out how the US came to propose Russia’s wish list as a “peace” proposal for Ukraine. Spoiler alert: follow the money. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Another convicted fraudster freed by Trump after serving just days of his six year sentence. Trump doesn’t think stealing people money is a crime, so long as your collar is white when you do it. Telling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

How to oligarch. We’ll need stronger ethical rules and enforcement to prevent billionaires from profiting from their power in our government - and don’t they already have all the money anyway? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

1/Nobody should shoot National Guard soldiers, or anyone else 2/the National Guard should not be patrolling DC or other cities, they’re not trained or needed for that work 3/Entire nationalities, races, or religions should not be vilified due to a harmful act by one member of their community

It’s as if Trump were relying on amateurs and hobbyists to resolve a protracted war. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Founders of Trump connected nuclear power companies are getting rich – they’ve never built or operated a reactor. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Putin continues to bomb Ukrainian civilians. Trump has given him no incentive to give up anything. The sanctions on those purchasing Russian oil could work, but Trump lacks the fortitude and attention span to follow through. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

A reminder as Thanksgiving approaches that many, many families depend on local food pantries to supplement their food from other sources. We’re raising funds for Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which provides much of the food for local pantries. impact.shfb.org/DemsCare www.mercurynews.com

1 in 5 kids in Charlotte NC missed school are aggressive ICE raids began. Trump is terrorizing immigrant communities. By driving kids from school and undocumented parents underground he will create a reality for immigrants that is separate and less equal. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

The Trump presidency ends in 1155 days. We’re keeping track at sccdp.org, so you don’t have to!

Use your failing nursing home business to steal $38 million from the Government, repay $5 million and spend another $1M on lobbyists and get out jail free. Trump Justice. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump suing California again, this time over college opportunities for undocumented students. Fine, DOJ, we have lawyers too, and firmness in our belief that all young people deserve a future. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Political donations from the top 100 donors topped $1.1 billion in 2024, that’s an average of $10 million each. Oligarchy: government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Trump is back to Neville Chamberlain level appeasement on Ukraine. Maybe billionaire friends of the president shouldn’t be negotiating with authoritarian aggressors? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

ICE completely unhinged at this point.

Another person Trump pardoned is heading back to prison. It would be Willie Horton all over again if Biden had been the one to pardon him. This is why we have had a pardon office and process - not everyone who connected to someone Trump likes should be pardoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

And if you've previously picked a side, you don't have to stay there. Whatever you may have thought Trump was, he's proven his unfit. Let's be pro-democracy now. We can go back to party politics when we get through this.

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, California mourns and honors all the trans and gender non-conforming people taken from us by violence and discrimination. In California, hate is never tolerated. We will always defend the freedom, equality, and dignity of all people.

Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.

Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸

Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):

The President is calling for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged. This is deplorable, un-American, & an open invitation to political violence. Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.

How upside down is our world? The White House occupant thinks elected public servants who say the military should not follow illegal orders are "punishable by death." We exactly need public servants to speak out against illegal orders and not be cowed by a man who despises our Constitution.

Follow the money, and not long after you’ll find the grift with all these Trump officials.

A president who speaks of death for dissent isn’t defending a nation, he’s claiming a throne. He names enemies so others will swing the sword. Power that fears questions always reaches for blood. Don’t give him the submission he’s seeking. Stand when he demands you kneel. #AuthoritarianAlert

The CDC website no longer says vaccines don’t cause autism. There’s no new science, just an untrained zealot as Health Secretary. CDC says science hasn’t proven isn’t a link, it’s not enough that they’ve looked and not found one. The same is true of aliens. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

“Quiet! Quiet, piggy,” Trump snapped at a female reporter on Monday when asked about the Epstein files. His rage, wrapped in characteristic cruelty after failing to convince even his most loyal House supporters not to back the bill, was clear; this was not a man at peace.

Love it when Jasmine is on🔥 “Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”

Democrats will rebuild the Department of Education and renew America’s commitment to educational equity and access. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Trump compromising US national security to serve his personal financial interests, this time by selling F35 fighters to Saudi Arabia over Pentagon objections. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Khanna: "I don't want the DC swamp playing any games. They should pass this in the Senate. They should not amend it ... no amendments, no adding loopholes. Justice is long overdue."

Trump could just release the Epstein files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Inside Trump’s weaponized and politicized Justice Department.

These low premium, poor coverage health plans are basically what Trump and the GOP are proposing to “replace” Obamacare. Obamacare works because it reflects how healthcare economics and insurance actually work. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Voodoo economics are back. Trump: I’m lowering my random tariffs to lower food costs. Also Trump: My tariffs didn’t cause high prices. And: My tariffs generate so much free money I will hand out $2,000 checks while our deficit soars to fund tax cuts for the rich. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...