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Former Rep. Tom Perriello launches comeback bid in Virginia - Roll Call Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello is the latest former House member seeking a comeback in 2016, launching a challenge to GOP Rep. John McGuire.

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Our bipartisan @democracydefendersfund.org complaint calls for an ethics investigation of the lawyers sanctioning Trump’s boat strikes

The American people have to know if their tax dollars are being spent on what experts warn is MURDER

At 8 pm ET joining @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss

300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Fund

Murder can never be ethical

We @DDFund_ filed an ethics complaint based on experts who agree that DOJ legal advice wrongly sanctioned lethal force in the boat strikes

From Bush ethics counsel @RWPUSA & Obama & Clinton counsels me & Ginny Canter👇 www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/12.9.25-pr

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Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.

They sure do love lying.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

Fred Wellman @FPWellman 🚨 I am getting a flood of messages from panicked @DeptVetAffairs employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as @SecVetAffairs has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it! @RepVindman #veterans

JFC. The weakening of America continues.

CNBC confirms story, first reported by the FT, that President Trump and Treas secty Bessent will hold interviews with prospective fed chair candidates beginning tomorrow with former Fed Gov Kevin Warsh.

"The government has a vast trove of Professor Richman’s personal and professional data and no lawful basis to retain it. Tellingly, the government does not seriously argue that it did not violate Professor Richman’s Fourth Amendment rights. Rather, it claims that the Court must disregard its repeated Fourth Amendment violations because it needs the fruits of those violations to prosecute James Comey. In doing so, it misstates the law and seeks to deprive Professor Richman of the only available recourse to stop the government from violating his rights. The Court should reject these arguments, deny the government’s motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order (“TRO”), and grant Professor Richman’s Rule 41(g) Motion."

James Comey's former lawyer Daniel Richman points out that Trump's DOJ "does not seriously argue" that it didn't violate his rights with a bad searches.

Feds just say they need the fruits of that search to try prosecuting Comey.

Full reply here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:

Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game

Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.

It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight

sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

Scott Bessent rallies Trump supporters in Pennsylvania: "The bond market had its best year since 202,0 and if I have anything to say about it as your nation's top bond salesman, bonds will have another strong year in 2026 as we fight to bring treasury borrowing costs down."

This is all happening at a casino.

YouTube video by SenatorBlumenthal Our Values at Stake: DHS Overreach and Violations of U.S. Citizen Rights

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...

Powerful hearing. ⬇️ And, well done @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social.

Vaughn Hillyard @VaughnHillyard X.com Judge Emil Bove is at President Trump's Pennsylvania event tonight—an unusual move for a federal judge. When asked by MS NOW off camera why he is here, he responded: "Just here as a citizen coming to watch the president speak."

Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.

Thank you for the gift link!

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Powerful!

(gift article)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I think I might start referring to the Supreme Court as Trump's autopen

Two things here: Jerusalem crosses are pretty typical in a lot of Christian contexts. Very liberal Christians get them as tattoos a lot, too.

And, also: it has *also* been/become a symbol on the far right, associated with the crusades, Christian nationalism, various far-right ideologies, etc.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"

Trump can fuck right off, seriously, he thinks he should be in control of the entire western hemisphere, sounds like the sadistic psycho Putin, this is where he gets his talking points, I may be older, but I would die for my country!! I love this country of ours #Canada 🍁

credit to justasking.us.ca

Jessica: There are some key indicators that Trump and this administration knows this is going badly… We aren't getting the jobs numbers anymore, the GDP numbers or inflation numbers and we know, Donald Trump, if the number is remotely good or he can lie about it—he tells you what it is.

Sen. Mark Warner: "It's a little strange that administration officials can release edited versions of videos that they like to brag about but then not show the immediate moments up to and including the second strike that took place on September 2."

This is not innocence talking. This is a sitting president weaponizing his power and the law to shield himself from accountability.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...