Trump says US should take ownership of Greenland and threatens Panama Canal takeover
One week after telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada should become the 51st state, the MAGA cult leader is back on his imperial high horse, identifying both the Danish territory of Greenland and the Panama Canal as targets for, um, American acquisition. [RETWEET THAT!]

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Democratic star quietly scores massive wins
Lina Khan, the outgoing chair of the Federal Trade Commission, joined Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about her historic tenure — culminating with the FTC's recent antitrust case that successfully killed the Kroger-Albertsons grocery giant merger — ahead of Donald Trump's ominous return to power.

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GOP plots to seize control of Wisconsin state Supreme Court
WisDems: There's an election looming for the Wisconsin state Supreme Court, and if right-wing extremist Brad Schimel wins, all the progress we've made in rolling back the outrageous gerrymanders and restoring integrity to democracy is in SERIOUS danger. With Wisconsin being one of the most closely divided states in the country, this could have serious repercussions in future presidential elections. Will you chip in to Wisconsin Democrats and help stop Brad Schimel from greenlighting a GOP power grab?

Matt Gaetz's House ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
It also SHOULD end the Florida gasbag's political career, but then this is the Republican Party we're talking about, and sweeping gross transgressions and criminal activity under the rug is their modus operandi, so...

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Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants their daughters will be raped if they cross the border
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott launched a $100,000 billlboard campaign to dissuade migrants from Mexico and Central America from attempting to enter the United States illegally. Some of the billboards have shocking warnings including, “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?”; "Many girls who try to migrate to Texas are kidnapped”; and “Your wife and daughter will pay for the trip with their bodies.” Folks, we've gone from "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore" to this. Absolutely despicable.

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Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Trump can't have them executed
President Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment, throwing cold water on Donald Trump's much-ballyhooed plans to ramp up federal executions when he returns to office. Biden's actions mean just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Matt Gaetz considering running for Marco Rubio’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat
You might wanna see how the next week plays out before you file any paperwork, Matt.

UNFPA leads the charge to protect women's dignity around the world
United Nations Population Fund: When the worst comes to pass and women are plunged into conflict, access to simple things like tampons can be suddenly cut off at a moment's notice. That's why UNFPA is working overtime to deliver life-saving "dignity kits" to women in conflict zones like Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza, so that even in the darkest of times, women and girls are able to manage their periods with dignity. Make a donation to UNFPA and help deliver out-of-reach and forgotten-about supplies like menstrual pads, clean underwear, and soap to the women who need it the most!

"President Musk" talk really starting to get under Trump's skin
The MAGA cult leader made an appearance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest (yes, real name) conference in Phoenix, Arizona, and could not help but take the bait on all the internet chatter of just how much control Elon Musk is exerting behind the scenes. “No, he’s not taking the presidency,” Trump said, before throwing in a 5th grade civics lesson: “He’s not going to be president, that I can tell you. And I'm safe, you know why? He can't be — he wasn't born in this country.” Definitely the musings of a confidence man whose vision is in no way clouded by his own crushing vanity.

Chris Christie says Trump will dump Elon Musk when he needs a scapegoat
The relationship between President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire ketamine enthusiast Elon Musk is no match made in heaven and it will unravel, one-time Trump supporter and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie predicted in an interview. “It ends when Trump believes that something has gone wrong, and he needs someone to blame and Musk becomes the person to blame,” the former governor said. The “people who sit at the very center with Trump have a shelf life, and that shelf life is influenced by outside events, as [House] Speaker [Mike] Johnson is finding out right now,” Christie noted.

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds even more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct
A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details even more billionaire-funded, luxury travel by — who else? — Justice Clarence Thomas. Democrats, on their way to the minority in short order, toothlessly urged Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct. “The highest court in the land can’t have the lowest ethical standards,” the committee chairman, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said. Oh, it most certainly can because it most certainly does. America™ is a board game, and the ultra-wealthy have clearly won.

Trump hands Stephen Miller’s wife a White House gig working for Elon
The MAGA cult leader's favorite white nationalist has already been tapped to serve as deputy chief of staff in the Oval Office. Now his wife, Katie Miller, a former press secretary for Mike Pence, will join Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's curiously co-dependent Department of Government Efficiency. Miller, a native of Fort Lauderdale, is considered to be far-right, even by MAGA standards, which tracks when you consider who she willingly married. We can't wait to see what vital programs and bedrock institutions these ghouls go after with their Texas-sized scalpels in the new year.