JS_gor2059 🇺🇦🌻

Retired but remain interested and involved. Travel in my not too distant future? Voracious reader.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

There is new crime data available. The news is generally good. Who gets to take credit for it? Donald Trump? Tonight’s interview with expert @abgelb , who leads a bipartisan think tank on criminal justice reform, has the answers. https://t.co/GNWdq0ZRhX

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: How do you see the race in Michigan playing out?

Axelrod: I think it’s a very close race. Abdul El-Sayed had a lead. He has a movement built there that is substantial, but Haley Stevens, I think, has rallied lately. She’s got a 12-to-1 spending advantage on outside money. She’s wisely concentrating on galvanizing African American voters, who will be a fifth to a quarter of the vote, and she’s performing a little better. So I think that race is TBD.

[Democratic Governors @DemGovs]

Before “fix the damn roads” became a rallying cry, Gov. @GretchenWhitmer was listening to Michiganders like Bridget Bonds.

That’s how real leadership works: hear people’s struggles, then fight like hell to solve them.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

HOMAN: Vehicle attacks are up 3,400%

COLLINS: But DHS didn't say he was trying to hit them with their vehicle. They said he was fleeing the scene and they feared for public safety

HOMAN: Look, I can't speak to what DHS says

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A friend found these kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

One man’s death right before the great depression taught us a lesson for 2026: never give up on America, no matter how dark it may seem.

@HC_Richardson on how quickly everything can change, with @SarahLongwell25:

[Acyn @Acyn]

Himes: So, you know what’s going on here, right? Every single Republican knows that they just spent the last 11 years pounding on President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, which actually succeeded.

Imperfect though it was, it succeeded in removing the uranium and had very limited lifting of sanctions and flows of dollars. And now, all of a sudden, Donald Trump is lifting all oil sanctions. They’re selling oil, and we’re setting up a $300 billion fund. They just know that they cannot put themselves in a position of having to answer for what they’ve been saying for the last 11 years, given the way this president has, in their view, surrendered to Iran in this war.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

FACT: DOGE failed to reduce the federal deficit.

The deficit under Trump has remained near its highest level in American history outside of COVID: almost $2 trillion.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Q: "On Iran, confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend?"

Trump: "It'll be soon, maybe this weekend."

Q: "Has the Supreme Leader approved this deal?"

Trump: "I understand the answer is yes."

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of Secretary Mullin saying he wants to pull customs agents from airports in sanctuary jurisdictions?

Gallego: Well, I mean, if you want to destroy the economy more than it is right now, if you do that, you’re basically going to grind this economy to a halt. And right now, the president’s numbers are so in the dumps right now that he’s only going to contribute more to that. Plus, people already don’t trust this president when it comes to immigration enforcement issues.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

This is, hands down, the worst policy answer I’ve heard in years.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sean Duffy: "We've seen an increase in fuel prices, but we also know that we're gonna actually see a significant drop once the strait opens…You're gonna see prices come down immediately."

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Nixon hit 24% [approval]... the Dick line."

"I didn't even get a smile from you out of below the Bush line... I did it with a straight face and everyone just let it happen."

Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell and Sam Stein on the jokes hiding just below the Bush line.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"I wish there was a butt plug coin, but since there isn't, CumRocket."

"I'm pretty sure if you say that enough on this podcast, it'll be created."

@ben_mckenzie and @Timodc talk speculative cryptocurrencies and why the answer isn’t banning it, but regulating it properly.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

The problem isn’t that he’s fired the women. The problem is that he hasn’t fired the men. https://t.co/LkuD2WgM8I

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Former ABC News correspondent Lisa Stark is one of 300+ journalists who've signed a petition urging a stronger pushback against Trump at White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump's hand is discolored and his face is drooping while he stands behind Mullin

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

Can you imagine announcing a 90K grant program for small businesses while maintaining a regulatory landscape that makes it extremely difficult for them to get up and running?

Then, when there's inclement weather, making it impossible for customers to reach said small businesses? That's @MayorBowser. Kudos!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Minnesota is so much in the fray and I say to my people all the time and they're so busy doing other things they don't say it like they should. They're apprehending murderers and drug dealers and a lot of bad people and these are just some of the more recent ones. *holds up a series of mugshots*"

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

With the U.S. President’s team – @SEPeaceMissions Steve Witkoff and @jaredkushner – we continued discussions on the diplomatic path to ending the war. I thank the United States for its readiness to provide a backstop in all areas: security guarantees, monitoring of the ceasefire, and reconstruction.

On January 7 in Paris, our teams will continue work on security guarantees and a basic framework for ending the war. Representing Ukraine will be Head of the Office Kyrylo Budanov, NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov, General Andrii Hnatov, First Deputy Head of the Office Sergiy Kyslytsya, and Advisor to the Office of the President Oleksandr Bevz. I thank President Trump and the United States for their support. Not a single day is wasted.