ICYMI: December 18, 2025

Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds as long as they are not from some Fake News cesspool.

While in Chicago, I took a tour around the Obama Presidential Center. I can’t wait for you all to visit in June 2026. Here’s a sneak peek:

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— Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) December 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM

Updates:

“Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a ‘CRIMINAL SCHEME’ To overturn the 2020 election.”In case you’re wondering why Republicans insisted on keeping his testimony behind closed doors.🤔🚪 abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smit…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T16:24:04.538Z

Reactions to The Fascist Felon’s Infomercial:

Crockett: As he stood up today in front of the American people, he sounded like a used car salesman. Like, let me just shout it out. Buy what I'm selling. Yes. This is a lemon. Yes. He is selling nothing but lemons

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Money Already Allocated:

Ahhhh… So Trump took billions from troop housing and gave it to them as “bonuses” – Got it. A con artist to the end. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T16:53:07.513Z

So… he’s giving them their own money? Where’s the tariff money?

Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T16:02:34.429Z

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

NEW: Trump administration announces that it would begin to take steps aimed at ending transition-related care for minors nationwide.

NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-12-18T16:06:45.834Z

They say they’re protecting kids. They’re not. They’re harming these kids by blocking their access to health care. These comments make clear what this is about: Eliminating *all* trans people of all ages. If they get away with it with trans people, they’re coming for you next.

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— Senator Scott Wiener (@scottwiener.bsky.social) December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

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— Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) December 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM

Rapid Response:

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

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— New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) December 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM

The Rich and Well Connected:

Lisa McClain: "Subsidies do nothing — zip, zilch, zero — to lower costs for the American people"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM

Lisa McClain: "You will see a massive jump, um, in the first — end of the first quarter, beginning of the second quarter of '26. But let's not forget the hole that we're digging out of."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM

Craven Assholes:

🤔 @stevescalise.bsky.social : “He wants all Americans on government-run health care. It’s failed everywhere it’s been tried.” UM NO IT HASN’T, STEVE. EVERY WEALTHY COUNTRY HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BUT US. #MedicareForAllNOW (“Everyone on Medicaid is what Dems are doing” — if only!)

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) December 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM

Broken Clock Alert: