Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote.
The program sends neutral, third-party observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
NEW: Trump announces the U.S. launched a bombing raid on Iran's Kharg Island.
Prediction market says gambling on war is “particularly invaluable.” Via The Verge
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?
GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.
Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication
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Cruelty is the point. Always has been.
MSNBC: Would you be willing to say yes to ICE needing to have judicial warrants before they can enter a home?
GOP REP. DON BACON: I do support warrants. What's in the Constitution has to be done for everybody if you ask me. I'm not a lawyer.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + Highly Respected Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, is a truly strong and powerful Leader, with a proven track record of delivering phenomenal results. He fights tirelessly for, and loves, his Great Country and People, just like I do for the United States of America. Viktor works hard to Protect Hungary, Grow the Economy, Create Jobs, Promote Trade, Stop Illegal Immigration, and Ensure LAW AND ORDER! Relations between Hungary and the United States have reached new heights of cooperation and spectacular achievement under my Administration, thanks largely to Prime Minister Orbán. I look forward to continuing working closely with him so that both of our Countries can further advance this tremendous path to SUCCESS and cooperation. I was proud to ENDORSE Viktor for Re-Election in 2022, and am honored to do so again. Viktor Orban is a true friend, fighter, and WINNER, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement for ReElection as Prime Minister of Hungary - HE WILL NEVER LET THE GREAT PEOPLE OF HUNGARY DOWN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
As expected, Trump working hard to get Hungary’s Viktor Orbán re-elected.
looks like they're on board
Moderna announced that they’re cutting back late-stage vaccine trials due to the uncertainty in the US market www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...
Instituting a poll tax to fix a non-existent problem.
Mile Johnson is an objectively wretched person.
This is the day's essential read. Tom Nichols: It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The US is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
The way ICE officers approached the vehicle involved in today's shooting was counter to their training, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. The official said ICE officers are trained: — never to approach a vehicle from the front; — to approach vehicles or possibly armed people in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury or cross-fire; — not to shoot at a moving vehicle; — only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death. ICE officers are also instructed that firing at a vehicle will not make it stop moving in the direction of the officer.
This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
The Constitution was designed to make liberty durable by making power difficult. It was also intended to adapt, to learn, to be amended as needed. Repairing it requires neither blind nostalgia nor total repudiation—just the will to use it as intended.
@andycraig.bsky.social
ICE officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in a car, but details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials. The shooting took place about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Follow updates.
Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT
complete batshit insanity
I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
Every time you think you have an understanding of the depth of Trump's pathos, you find out you're wrong--and it goes deeper.
On average, the more than 20 million subsidized enrollees in the Affordable Care Act program are seeing their premium costs rise by 114% in 2026, according to an analysis by the health care research nonprofit KFF.
Reporting from "The Wall Street Journal" makes clear Mar-a-Lago was key to Epstein’s criminal enterprise, @jeetheer.bsky.social. Trump’s critics should not hesitate to hammer this fact home.
https://bit.ly/4qsblIS
"What the current Supreme Court has done is take the proper and constitutional role of the Court and wrench it into something very different," @joshtpm.bsky.social writes. "That very different thing is corrupt, unconstitutional and undermines democratic self-government itself."
Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
Merry Christmas!!!
Tim is short for “timid.”
Some of the best political reporting these days is coming out of Rolling Stone magazine.
This piece is among the most important I've read recently: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
