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Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...

No idea if this is really attributable to Jason Bateman, but either way, it’s a good point

1/ Let's be honest about next 160 days. The Dem Party is not coming to save the message. The legacy media is not coming to save it either. If the people in your life are going to hear a different story before the mid terms, it has got to come from you. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

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The Republican Party has become a collection of arsonists targeting every part of civil society, liberalism and democracy. What unites them all, however, is corrupting the electoral process. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

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Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

The US is spending more than $1 trillion on the military for the first time in history. That apparently isn't enough. Now, the Pentagon wants $200 billion more for an illegal war in Iran. The answer is NO. We need to invest in the American people, not endless war.

Wow. Mike Johnson only took 2 Qs during today's House R presser - he usually takes at least 4 - and neither was about Rep. Tony Gonzales. Johnson is refusing to call for Gonzales's resignation following the release of texts showing he pressured an aide who later committed suicide for sexual photos.

Regardless of party, everyone should be alarmed that the government can now dictate what guests a tv talk show can or cannot host. ( And the network complied) This would not happen in any free country- but it has just happened in America . A first in my lifetime.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Be angry. Be exhausted. Be shocked that is happening in this country. Yell. Raise hell. Be educated. Post what you feel. Share the victims names. Remember to take care of yourself, too. We weren’t meant to intake this much trauma and news. Fuck 🧊.

Never in my most cynical dreams did I imagine so many people willing to sell out their own country for money, attention, clout, out of spite, ignorance or hate. That will remain the most heartbreaking part of this ordeal. America is such a beautiful idea. We are becoming unworthy of it.

$1.5T for the military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $470M to send National Guard into cities $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

Immigrants come to America for all the work available. Billionaires come to America for all the welfare available.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

There are some 20-30k ICE agents. There are approximately 250 million adults in the United States. The idea that we are helpless...is the biggest load of bullshit mindset one can have.

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Saw this today. A bit behind on movies since we’ve been traveling internationally for the last few months. I don’t think Russell Crowe gets enough credit as an actor. He’s excellent as Goring. We all could use a history reminder, some more than others. share.google/atqJIXTrDrDJ...

Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.

Happy New Year!!! Let’s hope it’s the year we take back our country (or at least the House and Senate) from those that are intent on destroying the United States

She chose to stand in front of these prisoners because she (or someone involved in the production of the propaganda video she was shooting) thought they looked more dangerous than the non-criminals DHS sent to CECOT. It’s all a cruel, grotesque show But real people suffer On our dime.

Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death. This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.

CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

BREAKING: Asked where he wants interest rates a year from now, Trump said: “1% — maybe even lower.” He also said the next Fed Chair should consult with him on interest rates. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of monetary policy — and a direct threat to economic stability.

Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.

I think it should be a mandatory job requirement that the chair of the DNC be social media savvy with a strong presence on camera. Ken Martin doesn’t have those skills and doesn’t seem to want to invest in fixing that. EVERY special election should be all over social media. It is a massive

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

When democracy needed them, they capitulated to fascism. That is now and forever their legacy. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.

While all hell seems to be breaking loose at home in the US, here’s some picks I took this week on our 3 month trip to South Africa. I deeply regret checking the news back home. Back to the bush on Sunday and if I can help it, a few weeks of a news blackout

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.