Keith Boykin
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- They lied to us about Alex Pretti. They lied to us about Renee Good. Just like they’ve been lying to us for centuries.
- Yesterday, Trump stood in front of Marco Rubio and said the US will run Venezuela. Now Rubio says the US will not run the country. Clearly, they didn’t think through what they planned to do after they abducted Maduro and left his vice president in place.
- Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela proves it was never about drugs or democracy. It was always about regime change, oil, money, and power.
- Tesla sales dropped for the second year in a row.
- It’s a new dawn. A new day. A new year. Let us march on Till victory is won.
- Day 5 of Kwanzaa is about Nia (purpose) and comes with a reminder that all holidays are made up.
- Day 3 of Kwanzaa: Ujima — collective work and responsibility.
- Day 2 of Kwanzaa: Kujichagulia — self-determination.
- Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, and the principle for the day is UMOJA, or unity.
- It’s been a long year. If you’re tired, that’s not weakness. that’s awareness. Sometimes the most important political act is living to fight another day.
- Farmers say Trump's $12 billion aid plan is not enough to undo the damage from his tariffs. This year alone, US crop farmers have lost $34.6 billion and farm bankruptcies are likely to top 1,000.
- The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
- At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein webpage, including a photograph showing Donald Trump, less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation.
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- Rep. Elise Stefanik, the Republican frontrunner, has dropped out of the New York governor’s race and will leave Congress.
- Trump breaks the law again, refusing to release the Epstein Files today, despite a federal statute requiring him to do so.
- They had this Kennedy Center name change planned and ready to go long before that rigged vote. deadline.com/2025/12/trum...
- Trump's cronies on the Kennedy Center board have voted to rename the historic institution as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
- While you’re trying to figure out your health care costs, the Trump Crime Family is getting super rich off the presidency.
- “Inflation is stopped.” – Grandpa Trump, yelling at the Ghost of Christmas Past
- “One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead…Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that’s said by every single leader that I’ve spoken to over the last five months.” – Grandpa Trump, yelling at the Christmas Tree 🎄
- Dan Bongino, the former podcaster turned Deputy FBI Director who once claimed the January 6 pipe bombs were an “inside job” and promised the Epstein List would “rock the political world,” is stepping down from his job.
- Trump says he has ordered a blockade of oil tankers in Venezuela. But it's not about the oil, right?
- White House chief of staff Susie Wiles says Trump "has an alcoholic’s personality."
- Black unemployment soared to 8.3% last month, the highest level since the pandemic four years ago. "What the hell do you have to lose?" — Donald Trump data.bls.gov/timeseries/L...
- Unemployment soared to a 4-year high of 4.6% in November, and 105,000 jobs were lost in October. Now we see why Trump wanted to delay the release of the jobs report numbers the last two months.
- Trump has sued BBC for $5 billion. For decades, Republicans complained about trial lawyers and tried to stop people from suing so much. But no American has been more litigious than Trump. Everything Republicans said they believed in was a lie.
- How many times is FBI Director Kash Patel allowed to screw up before he finally gets fired?
- The Trump administration has erased the history of slavery, the women’s suffrage movement, and the civil rights movement from new commemorative coins. They rejected bipartisan recommendations to feature Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges and instead will feature white men, including Trump.
- Today is the deadline for Trump to withdraw National Guard troops from Los Angeles, after a federal district court ruled and a federal appeals court affirmed that they must leave by Monday.
- The two U.S. soldiers killed by a gunman in Syria on Saturday were identified as Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar of the Iowa National Guard. The gunman also killed an American civilian contractor who was working as an interpreter and has not been named yet.
- Two US Army soldiers and one civilian interpreter were killed in an attack in Syria on Saturday, according to the Pentagon.
- Trump's so-called "peace deals" are falling apart all over the place. That's because he's not a diplomat or a negotiator. He's a marketer who knows how to coin a phrase (MAGA, build the wall, lock her up, peace deals) and repeat it over and over again until some people actually believe it's true.
- Trump has signed a blatantly unconstitutional executive order to neuter state laws that regulate the artificial intelligence industry. Did this guy even pass high school Civics? The President of the United States can’t sign an executive order to overturn state laws. We don’t have a king in America.
- Indiana Republicans have rejected Trump’s demand to redraw the state’s congressional map to help him win the 2026 midterm elections.
- For the second time in a row, a federal grand jury has rejected the Trump administration’s request to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
- A federal judge has ordered that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was “mistakenly” deported to El Salvador earlier this year, be released from ICE custody “immediately.”
- Trump's approval rating on the economy has fallen to its lowest level ever, as only 31% of U.S. adults approve of how he is handling the economy. That's lower than any point in his first or second term.
- An environmental group is suing Trump to remove his face from the new national park pass. Federal law requires the park pass photo to be "taken on federal public lands or waters" and not to include any "controversial" image.
- With a net worth of $390 billion and 12 billionaires, the Trump administration is the wealthiest White House in modern history. It's no wonder he's focused on building a $300 million ballroom for his rich friends instead of helping ordinary Americans with the cost of living.
- New federal judge Emil Bove is facing an ethics complaint for attending Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, in violation of rules that prohibit judges from engaging in political activity. “I can’t understand how he could possibly think it appropriate to go there,” said a conservative expert.
- Trump says the US has taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. But I thought he was focused on drug trafficking. 🤔
- A federal judge has ruled that Trump must end his National Guard troop deployment in Los Angeles.
- The Trump administration does not want any survivors of its boat attacks brought into the US legal system because their lawyers would demand information about the legal justification for the strikes. So their only options are to send them back home or kill them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
- Pete Hegseth wanted to send two survivors of a boat strike to a notorious prison in El Salvador, but the State Department said no, so they sent them home How can you say that survivors of a boat strike had to be shot and killed in the water when survivors of another boat strike got to go home?
- Democrat Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak.
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces her campaign for U.S. Senate for Texas with an ad that uses Trump’s own words against her.
- Jasmine Crockett launches her campaign for the US Senate in Texas, as Colin Allred drops out to run for a House seat.
- Alina Habba, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, has resigned as the acting US attorney for the district of New Jersey, after a federal appeals court ruled that she was serving in her position unlawfully. The one thing saving us from dictatorship is the incompetence of the would-be dictator.
- Trump proposes a $12 billion aid package for farmers hurt by his own trade policies.
