If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid. Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: I'm feeling strangely validated. Because in plain sight, and with even with an act of Congress, we're seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we've seen consistently and have been advocating about. They've actually proved our point.

Judge Wolf says that “what we have now under President Trump is utterly inconsistent with equal justice under law.”

I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.

Jack Smith wants to testify in public - Republicans refuse. He wants his depo tape made public - no again. The second strike boat video? - nope. Epstein files law complied with? - not today. Vote on ACA? - maybe next year. Republicans: Hide, obstruct, lie, delay, deny.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

"Trump is the single most unqualified human being to ever assume the Presidency of the U.S. He's mentally unfit. Not only does he not understand how government works, but he has no interest in trying to find out how government works in America." - Rob Reiner, 12/13/17 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGX4...

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

Trump has a health care plan. It just doesn’t include you! Premiums spike Jan 1. Coverage disappears. Veterans, seniors, disabled kids hit first. This isn’t reform—it’s abandonment. And millions are about to realize they voted for it. READ MORE HERE ⬇️

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation." Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:

A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.

Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.

Mike Johnson: "we've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution." (House GOP recently caused the longest government shutdown in US history and took a paid vacation for 54 days on your dime)

-Bust up monopolies -Boost unions -$20/hr fed minimum wage -Ban Wall Street from buying homes -Pass M4A -Universal childcare -Get rid of Trump’s tariffs -Enact UBI -Tax the rich These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.

Meet two heroes of our times.

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

First, Lindsey Halligan. Now, Alina Habba. This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.

The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful: 1. Fake news, it didn’t happen. 2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened. 3. So it happened, so what. 4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]

Would the Supreme Court rule that taking a bribe for a pardon was an "official act" by the president and immune from prosecution? I'm serious. If Trump announced he was selling pardons for $1M a pop, could anyone do anything about it, short of impeachment? (Which carries no prison sentence.)

Trump is a war criminal.

Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars. Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt. They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

It’s not unimaginable. This is the same peace deal the kremlin peddled to Trump in 2016 via Kilimnik. And don’t forget Jared’s multiple Middle East “peace deals” that never included Palestine. There’s been like three of those.

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy. That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

Trump tried to extort Brazil to drop the case against Bolsonaro by slapping a 50% tariff on the country He also personally sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes-the judge overseeing this case-and his wife Of course it didn’t work. Prices in the US increased instead Now Trump has been humiliated Again

"A Brazilian judge has ordered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year jail sentence for plotting a coup d’état after his 2022 election loss." THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.

NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker admits "there's some truth" to the criticism that Putin hasn't made a single concession during negotiations

Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures Donald Trump has now blocked three economic data reports. newrepublic.com/post/203619/...

Turns out the deal Trump bragged about, the one where China would buy 12 million metric tons of US soybeans by year end, was never an actual deal. It was a “concept” of a deal.

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

2/3 What Judge Cobb wrote dovetails with Daniel Dale's fact check. Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump bought Boeing bonds while rewarding the company billions in federal contracts. He bought Intel bonds after directing the government to acquire a stake in the company. He bought Meta bonds while pushing AI-friendly policy. Trump isn’t governing — he’s cashing in.

"Attorneys have to parse the language" Cowardly and dishonest Mike Johnson practiced *constitutional law* before going into politics. He was also the dean of a law school. (In fairness, the school never opened because it was named after a pedophile.)

Removing Trump would be awesome if Peter Thiel’s sugar baby JD Vance wasn’t so much fucking worse. Don’t believe me? Read it for yourselves. newrepublic.com/article/1839...

Did you hear about the Trump administration campaign calling for "civility" and telling people to "dress with respect" when they travel? Well, I fixed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's ad...