Evening Roundup, December 15
Featuring Halie Soifer with Jen Rubin, Dara Kass, MD, Jeff Nesbit, Angela Ferrell-Zabala, Norman Ornstein, Brian O'Neill, Ciera Stone, "Offsides" with Pablo Torre, "Talking Feds"
Hanukkah Celebration Turns to Tragedy
Yesterday, two gunmen killed over a dozen people and injured at least 40 during a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Among those murdered were a ten year old child and a Holocaust survivor. The tragedy that occurred on Bondi Beach adds, heartbreakingly, another violent attack to the sharp, global rise in antisemitism.
What Parents Can Do When Their Child Is in an Active-Shooter Lockdown
The text, from a fellow ER doctor and former Brown University faculty member, arrived at 4:27 p.m. on Saturday: “Active shooter near Brown engineering building? Is Hannah ok?” Within seconds, I looked on my phone for my daughter’s location—she was on campus in Friedman Hall. I texted her. It was real. There was an active shooter. She was hiding…
America Refuses to Prevent School Shootings
Angela Ferrell-Zabala of Moms Demand Action
This past Saturday, a gunman—who remains at large—opened fire on Brown University's campus. Two students are dead and nine others injured. In a country suffering from an epidemic of gun violence, (Sunday was the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting...)
The Cancer of Tribalism
One part of Jen Rubin’s must-read/must-watch with Rep. Adam Smith about the murders of two men in the Caribbean stood out to me. It was Smith’s explanation of why presumed responsible Republicans such Mike Rogers have not openly objected to Donald Trump’s outrages, including
National Security in 2025
The United States ends 2025 with formidable national security instruments intact. Our military remains the world’s most capable force; its officer corps includes professionals whose oath is to the Constitution, not to a person; our intelligence agencies have a cadre of objective, apolitical analysts and operators focused on keeping adversaries in check,…
When Public Servants Became Public Enemies
An eyewitness account of the destruction of the civil service, from The Contrarian's Ciera Stone
Trump Sent Him to a Gulag. Now He's Back in Venezuela
What happens when America indiscriminately sends people to the notorious El Salvadorian prison, CECOT, with no oversight? We get stories like Jerce Reyes’, a soccer player from Venezuela who was falsely deported for reasons unknown, besides having a
Dents in the Armor
In this latest Talking Feds episode, Harry talks to Alisyn Camerota, David French, and Jonathan Lemire about whether President Donald Trump is finally losing his grip on the Republican Party. Why couldn’t Trump convince Indiana Republicans to back his gerrymander scheme for the state? Have his famed rallies have lost their political magic?
I can barely read these anymore. It’s so depressing with bad news coming at us like rocket fire. What a sorry excuse we have for a president and at all levels of government. I now know how the Germans felt.
release the epstein files