With all that is going on in the world, I count myself unbelievably privileged to be able to hit pause and remind myself that I'm very loved and fortunate to have the space and safety to enjoy peace. I hope that one day we will all be able to pause and remove ourselves from it all.

A gentle reminder as we continue decision-palooza: Justice Coney Barrett is NOT a moderate swing vote.

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Austria announcing three dead in a mass shooting as the worst mass shooting in Austrian history. America:

🚨BREAKING: Susan Crawford WINS Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Court retains 4-3 liberal majority, paving the way for future cases protecting voting rights. A huge defeat for Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

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Have left the doge-igarchy, but still want to post my bakes. Marmalade cookies!

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

We are working to restore gun rights before we restore voting rights. Our values are complete bull$hit.

The Sharks Circling the Boat From Marc | Donald Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy is designed to overwhelm us.

Our only real defense against the circling sharks — however imperfect — has been the courts. And in recent weeks, Trump has begun targeting them with precision.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

I don't know that we had it recently as it was

That's what I'm hearing. We are all supposed to capitulate and let Musk do what he wants because somehow people who receive government assistance won't be harmed by that?

I had that. If you can get Tamiflu Rx from your doctor, do it. I swear it's the reason I wasn't down as long. Feel better!

And a good one for America hopefully

Chuck Schumer to vote for Republican funding bill to avert shutdown Minority leader laments ‘Hobson’s choice’ but says shutdown would give Trump and Musk ‘carte blanche’

How anyone can watch the Trainwreck that is our government and choose to lash themselves to the rails is beyond me. If you're not speaking out, you're complicit. Schumer needs to stand down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maybe you should be. Can we vote for this?

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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Trump: My day one priorities are kicking all Brown people out of the country and pardoning insurrectionists. Also manifest destiny-ing.

Dem leadership: I look forward to working with the president!

On WHAT exactly? What priorities do you share with this man? And when has appeasement ever worked?

Pouring one out for the rights of people everywhere. This is just day one. It is just the beginning. The world is watching as we reap what we have sown.

Antithetical that today marks the anointment of Trump-- a sledgehammer beating the moral arc of the universe away from its natural bend

Trump Adviser Roasted For Threat That Trump's FBI Pick Will Take Democrats To 'Pound Town' I don't think that means what you think it means 😬

Hmmm..... maybe not what you meant to say, Jason.

Didn't I see this movie? Her g.co/kgs/j82B1xj

I don't know about you all, but I'm feeling prepared for the next presidential term.

Screenshot of a tweet mentioning Canadians aiding Los Angeles by dropping water on the Palisades fire, paired with an image of a yellow firefighting plane releasing water near a residential area.

Thank you, Canada. And we’re so sorry about him.

L.A. Reporter Pauses Live Report On Wildfires To Extinguish Flames Outside House In Tense Video A sobering symbol of how dire the situation is.

This is a sobering symbol of how dire the situation is.

Found this typo in the Trump cert petition, which made me lol.

As you were.

Bonus 116: Trump v. New York 11 days before his inauguration, President-Elect Trump's emergency request that the Supreme Court block his sentencing in the New York hush money case presents an early litmus test for the justices

President-Elect Trump has asked #SCOTUS to block Friday’s sentencing in the NY hush money case.

Today’s bonus “One First” explains why the justices *should* reject his request—and what it would say about where the Court (and we) are heading if they don’t:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-116-...