Walz: "If they have emails showing that I have committed fraud, you should get those! Why aren't they putting them out there? Why aren't they turning them over to prosecutors? Right now they're hiding behind a veil of innuendo. They're protecting the biggest fraudster in the White House."

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

More broadly, this is a depressing death knell to the idea — already on life support — that U.S. foreign policy cares *at all* about democracy and human rights, in Latin America or elsewhere. Now we love dictatorships, just so long as they're willing to give us a cut of the proceeds.

Parsing Trump, Rubio, and Hegseth statements, it sounds a lot like "we're going to drop all demands for democracy/elections, recognize Rodriguez in perpetuity, drop all sanctions, send lots of investment and technical assistance, and buy any oil Venezuela wants to sell."

*If* this was just a coup intended to put Delcy in power, it may functionally be pretext for the U.S. to "switch sides" from the Venezuelan people (represented by exiled opposition leaders) to the Venezuelan dictatorship (now represented by Rodriguez).

Americans are sick and tired of endless war, regime change, and failed attempts to “run” foreign nations. I am demanding answers & accountability.

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

Okay. Let's do it, I guess.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Not only this, there are a bunch of old firehouses that could have residential stories added. Won't work in every (most?) locations but definitely some, and even with the sirens, the apartments will probably be quieter than the ones nearby due to better soundproofing.

100 million is every single person of color in the US. They've given up pretending this has anything to do with "illegals" or drug cartels or whatever. Just a straight up call for ethnic cleansing.

Dec. 29, 1925: A key component of the Republican base—farmers of the Midwest—is ready to revolt against President Coolidge over his high-tariff policies that hike their costs and hurt exports, says Sen. Arthur Capper (R-Kan.) He seeks to revise the unpopular tariff law of 1922.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

You may not believe that building new housing lowers rents, but your landlord does:

"Radar interference" is obvious nonsense, and people need to be much more vigilant about BS opposition to renewables, including "environmental" ones. They are more cost-effective than fossil fuels now, so fossil fuel companies are going to increasingly put forward fake "they kill birds"- type myths.

Your annual reminder that Scrooge's major act of redemption was to show up uninvited to Ms. Cratchet's house, hand her like 20 pounds of raw meat, and ask her to cook for a dozen strangers.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

He's right about the FICA tax but other than that every recommendation in here stinks and his praise of DOGE is indefensible.

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

The shutdown delayed reporting to the BLS, so the "November" inflation numbers are almost entirely Black Friday sales. Trump isn't cooking the books per se but this is a huge degradation in the quality of public economic data that makes him look slightly less terrible than he is.

the failure to actually jail people for this is what made Trump's return in 2024 possible

The Manhattan Institute's City Journal today published a piece anchored in a favorite chestnut of both the landlord lobby and the leftists no-development types: That ~50,000 rent stabilized apartments are sitting empty. Except, that's not true. www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/m...

I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.

I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.

It's fascinating how internationalized this culture war politics has become. MAGA, despite the name, genuinely feels greater loyalty to Orbanite Hungarians than American Democrats. It's a trans-national fight over whether we will be free states or fiefdoms, the "nationalism" is just decoration.

New report from @publicenterprise.bsky.social on state efforts to supplement tax credit programs with publicly-directed investments in new housing, including NY's recently rolled out sub construction debt Acceleration Fund. publicenterprise.org/report/a-new...

This is why I hate the "standards of living have to decline to solve [x problem]" brand of concern-trolling. Solar power is cheaper now than fossil fuels! It happened! The technology to create high standards of living while solving climate change exists!

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.

The Bloomberg rezonings were never meant to be broad-based increases in the housing supply. The goal was always to downzone the Republican-leaning outer boroughs, with the industrial-to-residential upzonings offsetting the loss. bsky.app/profile/bicy...

“The 130,000 total means that in four years the Adams administration authorized more housing units than had been allowed in rezonings over 20 years under mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, according to an estimate from the Department of City Planning.”

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

Oh, is that corrupt?

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

Getting rid of birthright citizenship will transfer more arbitrary power to ICE. I could never "prove" my citizenship- I don't know the names of all my ancestors, much less their papers. This just means they can take away your rights by asking for 100yr old docs no one has. bsky.app/profile/elia...

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Good headline. Less than a decade ago the Chief wrote in Rucho that ``[e]xcessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust'' and that ``such gerrymandering is incompatible with democratic principles.'' We now know just how little he meant it. They love this.

The best thing Disney has done since Aladdin. Maybe the only thing that could get me into a movie theater on opening day ever again. www.theverge.com/news/839434/...

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This is bad as immigration policy and a really nefarious form of censorship but it's also soooooooo pathetic like seriously THESE GUYS ARE SO MAD THAT NOBODY LIKES THEIR BAD TWEETS they took over the government and installed a dictatorship just so they can yell at the mods

Zohran points to City of Yes as an initiative to build on 👏

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

The Trump Administration is trying to kill renewable energy projects everywhere they can. In New York, we're fighting back. My new legislation will incentivize wind and solar investments and fast-track New York's clean energy future. Read more about it here: nysfocus.com/2025/12/01/h...