Imagine you had millions of people in your life who ignored everything you ever said but would show up once a year and make a huge deal about your birthday, claiming they were your biggest fans.

Crazy, right?

Anyway…Merry Christmas.

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”

She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

When a billionaire with major government contracts & ties to authoritarian governments calls to "Abolish the EU," it is not an ordinary political opinion. It is a foreign state actor hostile to European democracy, pushing terrorist rhetoric, and destabilizing regional security.

supreme court to decide whether part of constitution is part of constitution

The Roberts court just helped Trump rig the midterms The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas.

Great commentary.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln X.com President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc. If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he'd be a free man in Trump's America.

#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—

It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market

Golden age for Robber Barons.

Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.

A starememt which suggests he's just generally a liar.

On this specific case, it could have been worse. It could have been Paramount and the Ellisons.

However, media consolidation has been allowed to go on for years now. To the detriment of the country, but in favor to the wealthy. Congress & FTC haven't been serious about combating monopolistic deals.

This SCOTUS is an indelible stain on every state and federal judge who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously.

He reminds me of Colin Robinson.

I've stayed with Costco partly because they haven't capitulated to the Republican facism. Their latest move with this lawsuit reassures me that I made the correct choice.

The corruption just keeps growing.

Trump just pardoned ANOTHER alleged white collar crook — live entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke — who was indicted by Trump's own DOJ this past July for conspiring to rig a bidding process.

A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc.

If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he’d be a free man in Trump’s America.

Blatant corruption on full display.

I wonder if anyone has studied the percentage of the wealthy that demonstrate sociopathic behaviors to the percentage in the general population.

Can't quite wait for the AI bubble to burst.

From theEconomic Policy Institute-

1979 to 2023:
Wages for the top 0.1% grew by 354%.
Wages for the top 1% grew by abt 182%.
Wages for the bottom 90% grew by abt 44%.

Up next on FOX: why you should be FURIOUS at low-wage undocumented immigrants & trans people!

YouTube video by NPR Music David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert

Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.

Trump has no real peace plan. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Russia just to make business deals with the Russians to enrich themselves and their friends in exchange for selling out Ukraine and NATO countries.

There's a difference between a secure border and making a country so unappealing few want to immigrate, nor can trust it when seeking asylum or residency.
I think Republicans have done far more of the latter than the former, though they likely see it all as the same thing. Now, Jeffries does too.

Surprising utterly no reasonable person.

I think the Republican leadership doesn't care abt most of what Trump does or says.
He's not in control. He's a distraction, a useful idiot for the facist elite, the wealthy, that surround him. They can afford to entertain his absurdity as a distraction while they do real damage to America.

By the time more of America realizes that ICE/DHS is operating like a Gestapo force, it'll be too late. This facist Republican regime will have fully solidified it's enforcement arm it uses against the people of this country.

The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...