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January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Take Action: Stop Trump’s War in Venezuela
Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela.
act.indivisible.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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should probably be a bigger deal that the vice president's favorite intellectual is a dull nazi bsky.app/profile/leah...
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”

A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:

“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Wherein, Gabe trades away $2 billion for his constituents in return for $2 million. Happy midterms, buddy.
GOP Rep. Gabe Evans is touting $200M in new health care funding for Colorado after voting for the Republican budget which cuts an estimated $1B to $2.5B in annual health care funds for Colorado. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social:
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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The Social Security Administration began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover. It ended the year in turmoil.

Long-strained customer services at the federal agency have worsened since President Trump began his second term, data and interviews show. https://wapo.st/4q0Fi31
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him.

Today, as Trump destroys our democracy at home and stages more coups abroad, they're sucking up to him to pad their own bottom lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0v...
Where Are America's Leaders?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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THIS!

apnews.com/article/abor... 
Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban
Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.
apnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”

ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"knew" Epstein?
I wonder if the new Melania vanity-project/bribe directed by Jeffrey Epstein cohort, Brett Ratner, will devote any time to the fact that Melania knew Epstein *before* Donald. Or that Epstein introduced Donald to Melania on his plane, where they first had sex. Goodness, was she procured for Donald?
The trailer for Melania’s movie is out.
December 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
this 👇
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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one of four in a week

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
December 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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‘One marvels at the consistency and depth of Susan Howe’s inquiry. If much of her writing sounds like the apotheosis of Eliotic impersonality, it’s surprising, and moving, when she allows the home lights to glow through the thickets.’

Ange Mlinko on the American poet.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ange Mlinko · Scattered Alphabet: On Susan Howe
Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present.

But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So prescient (and fabulous!) that there's a law to preserve its name, at least; but so unfortunate that the White House and its contents (this week, the Portrait Gallery attack) isn't protected from the destruction and degradation being wrought by its megalomaniac, demented, temporary rezident (sic)
NYT: “.. it would not officially change the name of the center, which is by law designated the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The City Bar has released a report examining a broad pattern of conduct by President Trump and his Administration that reflects an ongoing abuse of presidential power and a grave breach of the public trust, and calls on Congress to reclaim its power as a co-equal branch: bit.ly/49jfeKj
The Abuse of Presidential Power and Breach of Public Trust | New York City Bar Association
Read how the NYC Bar Association examines the pattern of conduct by President Trump and his administration.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"this was not [even] on the agenda"
It gets even more pathetic—

x.com/RepBeatty/st...
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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a whole bunch of news outlets need to update their earlier 'it was a unanimous vote' headlines...
The Kennedy Center’s vice president of public relations said the renaming vote was unanimous.

Yet Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the board, said she was “muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition.” https://wapo.st/4schjzl
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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On yet another week where gun violence has claimed far too many lives, a gun advocacy group and Michigan Republicans are trying to repeal my commonsense Red Flag Law, a law that is **saving** lives.

Not on my watch.
McMorrow: Red flag law is saving lives
I will never forget the devastated parents I met with after the Oxford High School and Michigan State shootings. Their lives were shattered.
www.detroitnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Information from NWS Seattle:

In coordination with King County, we have issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for a levee breach in Tukwila WA near Todd, Blvd. Water is likely moving north towards I-405. In addition, an evacuation notice is now in effect from King County.
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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lots of awkward standing around and whispering going on in the Oval Office right now
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thank you, @newsjennifer.bsky.social. NPR isn't even getting federal funds anymore - why would they be mealymouthing this? It's perfectly clear that the Dems have zero responsibility for the ACA crisis - it's the GOP's damage, and the GOP's unwillingness to right the wrongs they've inflicted.
"We've been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the ACA"

Ummmm. Trump & the GOP dropped the ACA subsidies in their rich people giveaway bill last summer. Dems are trying to restore them. Come on @npr.org - don't play both sides here, it's dishonest.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 26d
With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution. n.pr/4pB8Off
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM