Jared Ryan Sears
@JaredRyanSears
This is what experts said about the US economy in 2024:World Bank: “U.S. growth is exceptional.” The World Bank said this as it increased its forecast for the global economy, citing the strength of the US economy.
IMF: “On the performance of the U.S. economy, it has been remarkably strong. Activity and employment have exceeded expectations, and the disinflation process has proven less costly than most feared. The U.S. is the only G-20 economy whose GDP level now exceeds the pre-Pandemic level. This is good for the U.S., and it is good for the global economy.”
The Economist: called the US economy the “envy of the world” and said, “America’s economy is bigger and better than ever.”
So when someone says the current administration inherited a bad economy, know that they ruined it.
https://x.com/JaredRyanSears/status/1998555711945457884?s=20
Democratic Wins Media
@DemocraticWins
BREAKING: In a powerful moment and huge rebuke of Donald Trump, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, just admitted it is Trump’s tariffs that are now raising Americans prices.
https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/1998840164534149334?s=20
Chris D. Jackson
@ChrisDJackson
When Biden left office, unemployment was 4.1 percent. Now it’s 4.6 percent.So where’s the wall-to-wall media hysteria? Where are the panic panels, the screaming chyrons, the endless lectures about economic incompetence?
Funny how the “crisis” only exists when a Democrat is in charge.
https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/2000942021700129216?s=20
Tim
@trouble_man90
Under the Biden-Harris administration, Black unemployment reached its lowest level ever recorded in history 4.8%. Under Trump, Black unemployment has almost doubled.
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2001003627037778265?s=20
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
🚨This is one of the most disturbing videos of ICE abuse I’ve seen.
In Minnesota, ICE agents handcuffed a pregnant woman, forced her onto her stomach, and put their full body weight and knees on her, refusing to let her get up.
In the video, you can hear the crowd screaming over and over that she is pregnant. They plead with the agents to stop. The woman is not resisting, not moving, not a threat. It doesn’t matter. The agents ignore them, continue pointing pepper spray at the crowd, and one agent even shoves a woman backward, assaulting her simply for speaking up.
People keep begging them to let the pregnant woman off her stomach, to stop putting weight on her body. The agents refuse. The crowd grows louder and more desperate, because they are watching someone who could lose her pregnancy, right in front of them, at the hands of ICE agents.
Only after the crowd begins throwing snowballs is the pregnant woman able to get off her stomach.
And then it gets worse.
The ICE agents begin pepper spraying the crowd. One agent drags the pregnant woman by the arm while she is still helpless and restrained. Pepper spray fills the air, hitting bystanders and the pregnant woman herself as she lies on the ground beneath them.
This is not “law enforcement.”
This is cruelty.
This is reckless endangerment.
This is state violence carried out in public, on camera, against a pregnant woman who posed no threat.
If this is what they’re willing to do while being filmed, imagine what happens when no one is watching.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2001014215969267959?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BREAKING: Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles tried to deny comments attributed to her in Vanity Fair, until the reporter played back an audio recording of her remarks.
At that point, the denial collapsed.
This is what happens when power assumes the receipts don’t exist.
2:06 PM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2001021223363559874?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BREAKING: The director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shot and killed in his home last night, according to initial reports.
He was one of the world’s leading minds in nuclear fusion research.
Authorities have not announced a motive. The investigation is ongoing.
3:41 PM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2001045015074586679?s=20
Max Towey
@MaximilianTowey
“F*ck you, Jew”
At the table next to me at a restaurant in NYC tonight, this happened. A guy was ranting about Jewish people and Zionists, quoting Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens along the way, and a Jewish girl next to them intervened
He then freaked out (she sent me her video of it afterwards) and shouted “f*ck you, Jew” among other things like promising to “rid this country of Zionists”
If you don’t believe Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are undermining America and targeting Jewish people, you have lost the plot
https://x.com/MaximilianTowey/status/2000029676584968646?s=20
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
IN THE ROOM — MIKE LAWLER stood up in a House Republican Conference meeting and said that not having an up-or-down vote on extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies is malpractice.
This is the sentiment of many of the majority making moderates. They feel like they have to have a vote and the conference won’t give it to them.
Driving them into the arms of democrats.
8:40 AM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/2000939165366497621?s=20
Steve Kornacki
@SteveKornacki
Interesting from our NBC Decision Desk poll — the economy and healthcare are broadly resonant issues with all Americans, but among Democrats a different issue ranks #1: threats to democracy.
This is largely driven by the party’s white college-educated voters:
https://x.com/SteveKornacki/status/2001059439386706279?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls to free Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach — after Trump issued a legally unenforceable “full pardon” last week.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2001048602613842180?s=20
WTFGOP
@doggintrump
Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson just blocked the vote on continuing the ACA subsidies because it had support of Democrats & Republicans
So now healthcare is about to go up exponentially for 50 Million Americans
11:52 AM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/doggintrump/status/2000987314554847720?s=20
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2001308974499475651?s=20
Watch “Vanity Fair Is Being Messy And I’m LMAO!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/EvNe-lgPjCM?si=ws8PNFAxEZarENAs
Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
This is the move to finally privatize our healthcare. Millions of veterans live in virtual healthcare deserts. Mental health providers are already in short supply. Now they want to dump 9 million veterans with unique medical challenges into that system. This isn’t what’s best for veterans. It’s what’s best for corporations and billionaires.
https://x.com/FPWellman/status/2000953943233339539?s=20
The Political HQ
@ThePoliticalHQ
🚨BREAKING🚨
In another redistricting loss for Trump and Republicans, Indiana Governor Mike Braun has declined to call another special session to attempt redistricting.
“That ship has sailed.”
4:00 PM · Dec 16, 2025
·https://x.com/ThePoliticalHQ/status/2001049791740924384?s=20
Popular Liberal 🇺🇸
@PopularLiberal
BREAKING: NEW! Trump’s October: -105,000 jobs—federal workers axed by DOGE/Musk purge.
Obama-Biden legacy: 75 straight months of gains, the longest streak ever.
Biden left unemployment at 4.0%—it even dipped to 3.9%—but Trump has already pushed it to 4.6% and rising.
Debt? Up $1.5 trillion since Trump took office—so the layoffs didn’t even work.
Democrats deliver for workers. Republicans deliver for Wall Street and pink slips
https://x.com/PopularLiberal/status/2000965794897736074?s=20
Melanie D’Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
There are 470 midterm congressional races.
The donation limit is $3500 per candidate.
If Musk funded every Republican, he could only spend $1.645M
He spent $290M buying the last election — and he’ll do it again in the midterms because our campaign finance laws are broken.
https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2000952972713570669?s=20
Axios
@axios
SCOOP: Elon Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP’s camp having begun funding Republican midterms campaigns.
https://x.com/axios/status/2000908051109515762?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
⚖️TODAY’S DOCKET
📃The 8th Circuit will hear oral arguments in a right-wing challenge seeking access to Minnesota’s voter rolls.
📃A federal court will hear Arizona’s request to dismiss a right-wing lawsuit seeking access to Arizona’s voter roll data.
9:30 AM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2000951603713429720?s=20
Jared Ryan Sears
@JaredRyanSears
After telling you that there was plenty of time to solve healthcare before the holidays, Republicans are now spending all of their energy trying to convince you that the ACA is a bad thing.
Here is the truth about the ACA:
🔵It reduced the uninsured rate from 14.5% in 2013, the year before it took effect, to 7.9% in 2023.
🔵It stopped companies from denying insurance for people with preexisting conditions.
🔵It mandated a standard level of care for all insurance plans.
🔵It eliminated annual and lifetime caps for healthcare insurance.
🔵It requires preventative care coverage, often at no cost, which reduces overall healthcare costs by detecting issues earlier when they are easier and less expensive to treat.
🔵It achieved all of that while causing healthcare premiums to increase at a slower rate than before the ACA was enacted.
Why do Republicans want to convince you that the ACA is bad?
So that they can let the subsidies expire, causing millions to lose their healthcare. Just like the “Big Beautiful Bill” will cause 14 million Americans to lose their Medicaid coverage, and cause rural hospitals to shut down.
Republicans do not want to improve healthcare. They want to destroy it and make millions of Americans lose their coverage.
9:30 AM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/JaredRyanSears/status/2000951792247492966?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
North Carolina Republicans on county election boards are continuing a broader yearlong GOP effort to narrow voting access.
Their latest effort? Advancing proposals that could:
✔️Nix on-campus early voting
✔️Eliminate Sunday voting
✔️and more.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2000929160294695242?s=20
the grift and scam that I see while reading this…
maybe, I’m just being cynical…
Olga Nesterova
@onestpress
The Trump admin has changed how immigration fees are collected. Instead of paying fees directly to USCIS — which has traditionally operated as a largely self-funded, semi-independent agency within DHS — applicants will now pay those fees to the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which is part of the DOJ.
This places the money flow inside the DOJ’s court system, directly under the authority of AG Bondi. It effectively shifts financial control from a service-oriented agency to the prosecutorial and adjudicative side of the immigration system, tightening the administration’s direct oversight of immigration processing.
3:42 PM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/onestpress/status/2001045293463429140?s=20
Heartland Signal
@HeartlandSignal
Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Twp.) says House Republicans have no responsibility to contact the local governments and organizations they just unilaterally blocked $645 million in earmarked work project spending for.
“I don’t think that our caucus has a responsibility to reach out to these groups … I think the department has a responsibility to get us the information about the programs.”
https://x.com/HeartlandSignal/status/2001042251703591395?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: Republican Eric Neff — who boasts a reputation of working with election-conspiracy theorists and who himself spread such theories — is replacing a veteran attorney with ties to Cleta Mitchell as the new acting chief of the voting section at the DOJ.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2000969598582116538?s=20
CJ G
@cjgproduxions
After the latest jobs report TODAY, Black unemployment rises to 8.3%..
Black male unemployment rose to 7.5% (up from 6.6% in last report) and Black women dropped to 7.1% (from 7.5% in the last report)
FBA remains silent about specific tangibles to rectify this
https://x.com/cjgproduxions/status/2000923035436720468?s=20
Mother Jones
@MotherJones
“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”
ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
https://x.com/MotherJones/status/2001046174355059181?s=20
Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
The House GOP health care bill is a work of art.
The bill theoretically deals with the problem of expiring enhancements to premium tax credits causing 3.8M to lose health insurance
But the House GOP wrote a bill that would *increase* the number losing insurance by 100k (~3.9M)
https://x.com/Brendan_Duke/status/2001026856246764017?s=20
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are back in Chicago and already attempting to violate people’s First Amendment rights.
In the video, a woman is walking through the Home Depot parking lot at 47th and Western. She isn’t blocking traffic. She isn’t in a vehicle. She isn’t interfering with anything. She is simply walking in a public parking lot while filming.
An agent yells out of his window, “Go back towards your car!” When she continues walking, he escalates, shouting, “Hey! You’re interfering.” As the vehicle drives away, clearly unobstructed, the agent yells, “If you interfere we are going to arrest you.”
Filming in public is not a crime. Walking in a parking lot is not interference. Threatening arrest without legal cause isn’t law enforcement, it’s intimidation. And this is exactly what “back in Chicago” looks like.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2000960518903693793?s=20
Jason Bassler
@JasonBassler1
This is why Palantir is dangerous: they’re building the backbone for AI-driven tracking, behavioral analytics, social media scraping and immigration logs, all plugged into 30+ federal agencies through cross domain interoperability.
You really think they won’t share that data?
In Trump’s age of unaccountability,
don’t expect the old safeguards to survive.
https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/2001021763728134548?s=20
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
In case you wondered, this is the Department of Homeland Security calling (among others) children and spouses of US citizens coming on legal visas “foreign invaders.”
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001050694636253311?s=20
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈
@JosephPolitano
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2000924574792491238?s=20
Leshka.eth ⛩
@leshka_eth
“no risk free path”
Powell just told you the game is over
either inflation eats your savings
or recession takes your job
the Fed can’t save both
pick your poison
https://x.com/leshka_eth/status/2000873862440083935?s=20
rolandsmartin
@rolandsmartin
For all of you who believe that a Black woman cannot run for US Senate in Texas and it should be a white or Latino candidate, this is a list of folks who ran from 1988 to 2024. Seven white men; two white women; two Latino men; and two Black men. No Dem has won a statewide race in Texas since 1994. No Dem has won a US Senate race since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. So please don’t tell me you know the secret sauce to winning statewide in Texas! #FactsMatter
https://x.com/rolandsmartin/status/2001091499191108029?s=20
NOTHING BUT TRUTH
Amene
@Ange_Amene
A lot of white people are under the impression that the white vote is up for grabs & Democrats keep losing it.
Democrats haven’t won the white vote since the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Democrats have not won white voters since Black people attained civil rights.
https://x.com/Ange_Amene/status/2001072609719652836?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
There would be wall-to-wall RECESSION IS IMMINENT stories in the media if this was happening under a Democratic Administration. In fact, there *were* wall-to-wall RECESSION IS IMMINENT headlines when the economy was doing much better under Joe Biden 🤡
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2000949702045655150?s=20
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
So now that we’ve pretty much completely abandoned the whole “on Day 1” thing; and “in two weeks” & “next quarter” didn’t work out too well either, what is the date when MAGA will agree that it is definitely Donald Trump’s economy and everything won’t be Biden’s fault?
8:50 PM · Dec 16, 2025
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2001122859217715642?s=20
Aaron Fritschner
@fritschner.bsky.social
FOUR REPUBLICANS just signed the House Democratic discharge petition to force a House vote on the Hakeem Jeffries bill to extend health care tax credits for 3 years: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Rob Bresnahan (PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (PA). Gives it the required 218 signatures. Huge news
8:07 AM · Dec 17, 2025
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. https://nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-ditch-vote-obamacare-funding-premiums-rise-2026-rcna249521
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2001032804264763837?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Trump just endorsed a post calling for the arrests of Chris Wray and Merrick Garland.
There’s almost no media coverage of the sitting president supporting the arrest of a former FBI director and former Attorney General.
8:00 AM · Dec 17, 2025
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001027364499939409?s=20
Good Morning , Everyone😊😊😊