Next time MAGA tells you that they care about kids, tell them this:

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio's State Department has quietly ended the contract to transfer evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian children to the European authorities.

Republicans don't care about children.

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.

"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

If you or someone you know has cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or one of many countless illnesses that needs a cure — this could have devastating effects.

Special counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ The special counsel's departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

Thank you Jack Smith

You didn't have to but you did.
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Right…, and as if tfg would have anything to do with hiring someone anyway…

The call was miles, light years, beyond the pale and if the clerk really engineered on both sides, having clerked on the Supreme Court and knowing better, his role needs to be scrutinized as well.

Our Wins Of The Week To most of us, in light of the election result and the impending swearing-in of Donald Trump to his second term in office, it would appear Trump got away with everything.

More strong Biden economic news? Check. More legal losses for Trump? Check. This Week in Wins rounds it all up—catch up here 👇

Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.

I cannot tell you how tired I am of this bullshit.

Republicans nominated and voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Republican politicians endorsed him and refused to impeach him twice.

Nearly every Democrat fought him every step of the way to protect democracy.

Stop gaslighting us!

A quick note: It is my view that the term “First Felon” should be capitalized both out of respect and because it refers to a very specific individual.

Merrick Garland Should Drop the Florida Case and Release Both Volumes of the Report I'd like to talk about why the DoJ should drop the 11th Circuit appeal of Judge Cannon's dismissal of the classified documents case against Nauta and DeOliveira.

NEW: Merrick Garland should drop the Florida case and release both volumes of the report. My latest, with a link to email the Attorney General. Please share widely! www.muellershewrote.com/p/merrick-ga...

Firefighters from Mexico arriving in Los Angeles to help out their neighbors.

Column: 'Are you OK?' Thank you for asking about us in fire-ravaged L.A. If you live in Southern California, you're getting the messages via text, email, IMs, chats and every other way imaginable: People worldwide asking if you are safe.

LA Times columnist @lorraineali.bsky.social with a powerful piece:

Re-upping this. If you happen to know how to get a hold of Biden, could you let him know?

Mexico & Canada sending firefighters to help in California really says it all about who we are and who we must resist becoming.

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Schiff: "I've been in Congress a long time approving aid after disasters. I never once even considered 'is this hurricane hitting a red or blue state?' ... we need the incoming president to view it that way."

So true.

BREAKING- Jack Smith has resigned from the Department of Justice having handed in his final report to AG Garland. What happens to that report is (and always has been) Garland’s call.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for a second time this week after he verbally attacked her in the courtroom yesterday:

“It is outrageous and shameful that Mr. Giuliani suggests that he is the one being treated unfairly."

These judges need to lock him up already.

I hope they give her an answer in the next couple of minutes saying.
"You don't have jurisdiction, and we already answered that."

What authority does she have to do this?!?

Jack Smith resigns from DOJ The special counsel's departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

No way should Alito ever have taken the call. No way, no how. Doesn’t matter what they spoke about. He should not have taken the call. Period. He must recuse himself.

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

I don't care what reason MAGA gives, Donald Trump personally calling Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is shady AF.

It’s fun that john roberts put out a statement attacking criticism of the justices as baseless and then Sam Alito went and asked Trump for a favor

Thank you to Canadian firefighters for helping the people of California fight the wildfires.

Don't mind Donald Trump. He's a loony old man.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 43. 1/8/25 … Merrick Garland announced that he will release Jack Smith’s complete report on the J6 case but will not release the report to the public on the classified documents case since there are still pendin...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 43. 1/8/25. Today was absolutely bonkers! I couldn’t make some of this stuff up on my most creative day. Here is everything that happened today. Buckle up! open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Our relationship with our neighbors and close allies matter. Trump seems intent on screwing them up before he even takes office. Here's the literal illustration of why we can't let that happen--when your house is on fire, sometimes you need your neighbor's help to put it out.