Why are the comedy team of Witkoff and Kushner the lead negotiators on …. ANYTHING???

No Senate approval. No confirmation process.

The only expertise these two have is the ability to enrich themselves.

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Hundreds protest in Philadelphia against Minneapolis ICE shooting A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, on Wednesday.

Hundreds protest in Philadelphia against Minneapolis ICE shooting www.inquirer.com/news/philade... So proud of Philly ✊

Make it viral.

Way to go Hilton!!!!

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COLLINS: Stephen, you're part of the group the president has said is running Venezuela. What are your day to day responsibilities?

STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead

C: But what are you specifically doing?

M: I don't want to talk too much about myself

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

If @schumer.senate.gov and the Democratic leadership won't impeach Trump. Let's impeach the cabinet members. You could start with Pete Hegseth.

Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads 97.6% of Norway's car sales were all-electric in Dec., and 95.9% for the full year. Also, there are now more EVs on Norway's roads than diesel

96% of new cars sold in Norway in 2025 were fully electric. "...EVs are now the plurality vehicle in the country, making up 31.78% of the fleet. Diesels are 31.76%, gasoline cars are 23.9%, and hybrids are 12.56%…" electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...

Sunday thought: Even worse Friends,

I know it’s exhausting. I know you’re sick to death of Trump. I am, too. But as he revealed yesterday, there is no limit to what Trump will do to assert his power. Your activism, courage, and attention are needed now more than ever. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-looting

Up to 250 days in the year Scotland’s renewables could have powered 100% of our electricity needs so TWICE the UK figure Image ChatGPT Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Climate yesterday: Renewables can generate significant amounts of electricity when conditions are right. On roughly a third of days in 2025, at l…

Up to 250 days in the year Scotland’s renewables could have powered 100% of our electricity needs so TWICE the UK figure talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/03/u...

In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States. Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

I suspect two of the hot words for 2026 will be “impeach” and “remove”

The One-Two Punch: 100 Years of Robert Colescott - Tacoma Art Museum share.google/I8nAuWnX1orc...

The only way to kick trump out of office is to win the midterms election massively else we are doomed. Because of Trump we’re now a lawless nation! It must not continue.

A Criminal Empire The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Prosciutto di Portici: A ham-shaped portable sundial likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law — before it was buried by Mount Vesuvius This small bronze sundial was a portable way of telling time, but it may have made you hungry.

Just thinking about the prosciutto sundial, like you do www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Does anyone know how Germany dismantled National Socialism after imploded, and since it had infiltrated the entire government? 🤔 This movie feels really relevant right now 🇺🇸

Goebbels 🤦🏻‍♂️

That image of Washington with the National Museum poster w/Belafonte & co in 2025 is just 😮‍💨 #LivingHistory

Happy new year - thank you for all you do!!! 🙇🏻💜

“Yet Another Impeachment” ?! 😮‍💨

hillary clinton is making a funny face while speaking into a microphone at a debate . ALT: hillary clinton is making a funny face while speaking into a microphone at a debate .

And if Russia hoax was about talking regularly to Putin, how can you disprove it by claiming you regularly talked to Putin?

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

2025 comes to an end.

It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.

Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.

Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.

Jasmine Crockett speaking at a lectern

Jasmine Crockett: “People are understanding it’s not good to have a con man as commander in chief — People are frustrated because the cost of everything is going up. We’ve lost 1.1M jobs since he swore in just in January — People are not happy with anything that is going on”