"To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." Our country and our democracy need it.

New from Cameron Barr, former senior managing editor of the Washington Post: lnk.thebulwark.com/4tkLJ2P

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”
#EpsteinFiles

Yo, Dems: You can’t ‘reform’ fascism | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, America’s appalling betrayal of the Hmong.

Does anyone watching the violent culture of ICE agents in MLPS, or reading their fascist recruitment ads, think the issue is lack of training?

So why are Dems ready to keep funding this monster, with a few "reforms"? Can an opposition meet the moment?

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

This terrific opinion piece by @polgreen.bsky.social in the Times captures the current scene in MN better than any I've read so far. Why “Minnesota represents everything that the administration hates,” per a source. And why “If Minnesota falls, the country will fall.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

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YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th?

Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

Per Jack Smith. This is the Jan 6 lynchpin.

"As I said, our evidence is that he, in the weeks leading up to January 6th, created a level of distrust. He used that level of distrust to get people to believe fraud claims that weren't true."

(cont'd)

Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Vaccine procrastinator here. Learned the hard way, besides being a sensory nerve disease, shingles can also affect viseral nerves. Try living with your intestinal nerves paralyzed for a couple weeks. Get the damn vaccine.

"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."

Push Back Against Trump’s Press Abuse It’s long past time for the Fourth Estate to challenge the president’s unhinged hostility and unbridled misogyny.

Sadly, it’s easier to find examples of media organizations capitulating to Trump than standing up to him. The press should not make itself complicit in its own denigration at the hands of Trump.

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

That's how to do it. Slam dunk.

Jim Himes: "Where does this stop? Do we now start executing drug dealers on the corner of Brooklyn? Where does it stop if all of a sudden the government, without, telling anybody anything, can take this kind of lethal action just because they've decided they've got the right to."

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Stunning. SOUND ON. Must listen.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Good for these kids.

Gov Pritzker
How cool is that!

YouTube video by Hot Garbage Productions The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade

youtu.be/QGtBfOdnG24

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

"BREAKING: A librarian fired by in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.
"-op unknown

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

YouTube video by MSNBC Sen. Chris Murphy warns America is 'in the middle' of an authoritarian takeover

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dt... 6:48 seconds take time to listen