Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation that bars civil immigration arrests from being made in or near state courthouses, and gives residents more leeway to sue federal agents over alleged civil rights violations.
President Donald Trump's administration is being sharply criticized by conservatives in both government and media for reportedly sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan. Newsweek reported Tuesday that, according to Amrullah Saleh, (who leads the anti-Taliban political party Afghanistan Green Trend) the Trump administration flew $45 million in cash to Afghanistan on Monday. Saleh's group alleged that the money was "flown in via a chartered flight by Moalem Airlines," which is based in Kyrgyzstan. The post caught the attention of conservative commentator Ann Vandersteel, who said of the cash payment "this is not America First" but rather "America deceived." Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who is a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, responded to Vandersteel's post by adding that the massive cash shipments to the Taliban are happening "every week." He then called on the U.S. Senate to "pass my bill."
Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area"the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in the insurance technology industry, defeated Republican Mack "Dutch" Guest IV, the owner of a trucking company, to win the 121st House District in the Athens area by a 51-49 margin. In a pair of special elections last month for Georgia's Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, both Democratic candidates racked up identical 63-37 margins in the 121st District en route to landslide wins statewide.
Rightwing white supremacist Nick Fuentes (27), a Latino with a long history of making misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic comments, admitted he has never slept with a woman before going on to bash the female gender and suggesting that they should not be allowed to vote.
The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it's progressing at a snail's pace, with about 80 final job offers accepted for meteorologists, hydrologists and other specialized staff. The agency received permission in late July to add a total of 450 people after about 550 were cut by DOGE earlier this year. Read more
President Donald Trump certainly made himself feel better. Whether he did the same for gloomy voters haunted by high prices is more doubtful. Trump relished returning to a campaign-style event Tuesday night, working the crowd like a standup comic, trashing his script and emphasizing wild rhetoric with classic hand gestures, as if playing an imaginary accordion. Read more
Eileen Higgins will be the first Democrat to serve as Miami mayor since 1997. Despite the election technically being non-partisan, her victory may indicate a huge partisan preference in south Florida. Higgins received 59.5% of the vote on her way to defeating Trump endorsed Republican Emilio Gonzalez by 19 points. Current Mayor Francis Suarez, Republican, won the office with 78.6% of the vote in 2021.
"Activated on 5 December 2025 and headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC, US Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC) is an operational warfighting theater command headquarters that is focused on homeland defense, defense support to civil authorities, and theater security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis designated one of the country's largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups as a foreign terrorist organization " and now the group says it plans to sue.
The governor's move came after fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas issued a similar order in November against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Read more
Especially interesting that 'remigration' is being popularized in a nation that was built on immigration. But quite apparently, for the current regime of bigots, immigration is only acceptable if the immigrants aren't POC.
If there is nothing truly damaging to President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, he and his administration did a great job of making it look like there could be. How else to explain their promises of full transparency, their sudden and inexplicable U-turn, and then their (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to fight Congress' push to get the files? It seems the administration didn't learn its lesson from that episode. Because it looks like history could be repeating with the boat strikes video. Read more
On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. That order had called for the suspension of all permitting for wind power on federal land and waters pending a review of current practices. This led states and an organization representing wind power companies to sue, claiming among other things that the suspension was arbitrary and capricious.
From Yale Climate Connections: According to a new study, one of the first estimates of sea level rise made by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change closely matches what actually happened over the past 30 years. Torbjrn Trnqvist of Tulane University: "What we found was that they did remarkably well." In the 90s, the IPCC released a report with different scenarios for carbon emissions and what each would mean for global sea-level rise. Trnqvist's study found that real-world emissions have closely tracked one of the report's middle-of-the-road scenarios; global sea levels have risen about 9 cm " very close to the 8 cm the UN report predicted. Those early predictions were made without today's advanced computer models, and they over- or underestimated the impacts of some drivers of sea-level rise. Read more
Hillbilly hi tech-millionaire VPOTUS JD Vance, who longs for his Brahmin Hindu wife Usha to one day accept Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, was met with jeers of 'Send your wife, kids back to India!' after calling mass migration a 'theft' of the American Dream.
The Department of Justice has confirmed that President Donald Trump blocked the release of more than 4,100 documents related to the deadly riot on January 6. In a court filing Monday night, lawyers for the DOJ revealed that Trump had stepped in to prevent the release of some material requested as part of a lawsuit brought by police officers injured by violent rioters at the U.S. Capitol. The materials were originally subpoenaed from the National Archives and Records Administration in February.
Donald Trump has frequent claimed to have a great memory but new evidence demonstrates otherwise. Trump told members of the media on Dec 3 that "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release - no problem" when asked if he planned on releasing video of the second strike carried out by the US military strike upon a boat that has already been disabled. Just 5 days later on Dec 8, Trump was asked a question in which the reported stated ""you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd". Trump replied "I didn't say that. This is ABC fake news"
