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Today’s MD-08 Local Hero is Montgomery County Police Department Commander Jason Cokinos. Commander Cokinos & his team deployed from MoCo to help battle the rampaging mob & defend the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 5 years later, we remember the participation of MCPD & honor the officers’ valor & courage.
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As we prepare for MLK service weekend, this week's MD-08 Local Hero is Faith McNeill, who runs the Montgomery County Volunteer Center. She mobilizes idealism & pragmatism in MoCo all year & this weekend carries forward Dr. King's legacy with a Day of Service in Silver Spring.
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Thrilled to join so many wonderful constituents at the packed and lively MLK Day of Service and Volunteer Fair in Silver Spring. MLK taught us we can all be great because we all can serve.
20.01.2026 04:17 — 👍 462 🔁 44 💬 18 📌 0One year ago Donald Trump swore an oath to support the Constitution, but he’s used the presidency to enrich himself and his family, the New York Times' editorial board writes. Check out how Trump pocketed $1.4 billion in a single year.
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My latest piece on Substack about the REAL reason Trump wants to control Venezuela:
open.substack.com/pub/katiepha...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year.
I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.
youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
Will Judge Aileen Cannon continue to put her thumb on the scales of justice to benefit Convicted Felon Donald Trump?
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My new podcast "Burn Order" is about the decision to incarcerate tens of thousands of Japanese-American families during World War II, and the remarkable fight against it.
Episodes #1-4 are up now... free on any podcast app.
Final two episodes post Monday 12/15:
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Screenshot of an X post by “Republicans Against Trump” quoting Donald Trump saying Russia wants Ukraine to succeed and praising Putin’s attitude toward Ukraine. Below the text is a video still of Trump standing at a lectern in front of U.S. and Ukrainian flags.
I can't believe the voters gave this guy control again. It's a self-own for the ages. And a curse upon all humanity.
29.12.2025 18:56 — 👍 1675 🔁 205 💬 134 📌 17
Screenshot of a Trump Lie Tracker post stating that a Jesse Watters fill-in host praised Donald Trump for allowing Americans to say “Merry Christmas again.” Below is a split-screen image from Fox News showing two male television hosts in studio settings. A chyron reads, “DEMS LET TDS RUIN THEIR CHRISTMAS.”
I don't recall a time when saying Merry Christmas was ever banned under Biden or Obama. How strange.
27.12.2025 21:51 — 👍 3316 🔁 499 💬 258 📌 34
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
10.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 16410 🔁 5001 💬 1341 📌 373Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
19.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 8765 🔁 4591 💬 746 📌 538Rick Grennel achieved a dream today by denying a Black woman her vote.
18.12.2025 23:13 — 👍 2766 🔁 1001 💬 53 📌 29If you accept Blanche’s unreal and absurd lie attempting to masquerade as logic, then Blanche better start hauling ass and move every federal inmate whose life is being threatened to Maxwell’s minimum security camp.
22.12.2025 21:45 — 👍 1428 🔁 310 💬 66 📌 11Jeffries: This is the same group of people who raced back to Washington so they could enact the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.
Phang: I call it the big bullshit bill.
Jeffries: You’re a little more direct than what we’ve been politely calling it—but you ain’t wrong. You ain’t wrong.
Want to better understand the jury verdict in Judge Hannah Dugan’s criminal trial? And how can Congress hold Pamela Jo Bondi in inherent contempt over the Epstein Files?
@joycevance.bsky.social and I do a deep dive, incl. how we help build a new and better democracy.
youtu.be/drCWwlU-pRg?...
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
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How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us?
What can our children do to correct our mistakes?
These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short.
You can preorder it now. sites.prh.com/reich
& Share full article In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient," Ms. Alfonsi wrote. "We have been promoting this story on social media for days," MS. Alfonsi added. "Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of 'gold standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet." "I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight," she wrote.
“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Ms. Weiss said in a statement late Sunday: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
22.12.2025 05:05 — 👍 3564 🔁 516 💬 32 📌 29Will they, even then? I have my doubts.
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An orange, white, and brown abstract portrait is framed in cream and white, and hangs on the wall at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. The subject looks uncannily like Owen Wilson.
Went to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, had an unexpected run-in with Owen Wilson.
*Paul Klee, "Portrait of Frau P. in the South" (1924)
A yellow sun rises over a dark landscape, lighting up the cloud layer in vivid orange.
A spectacular sunrise to welcome us back to Boston this morning.
No filter.
I am losing my mind
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC
THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC
THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR
WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC
PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP
Context:
Last night, on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
-- residents assembled at the Old South Meeting House
-- listened to several rousing speeches
-- marched to the Harbor
-- and yelled "Huzzah!" as protest leaders dumped hundreds of pounds of ice into the water
