It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

This has been true in higher ed as long as I've been in it: claims that programs need to be close or reduced due to "budgets" but the details show that the programs in question actually bring in money, meaning the actual reason is ideological.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

For fucks sake remember what yall did to the US foreign policy agency that was for feeding poor people

Yes—human beings who want to pass the buck not to someone higher up and unreachable but rather to a machine that they can pretend is always right AND can also take no responsibility. Big companies built these models so big companies could get away with evil stuff in the name of “intelligence.”

I usually just share this article, which I think helps people understand how, as usual, it's the human beings that are the real problem

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

Zohran’s messaging would be better if it was more catered to me, a notably mercurial and unreliable coalition partner

You are citing the guy who has repeatedly lamented that Ukraine's continued resistance to Russian imperialism is trampling on the legacy of the Soviet Union

'how can I take care that the laws Congress passed are faithfully executed if Congress passed a law that says I can only fire people for good cause?' you're not gonna believe this......you could follow that law ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

If the Supreme Court sides with the GOP, “It is just going to fundamentally change how campaigns are financed, who is able to run for office, and whose voices matter in getting messaging out to the American voters,” Elias Law Group Partner Jackie Lopez told POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

when you see Trump on camera angrily attacking female reporters for asking straightforward questions, it doesn’t take much to imagine what he does behind closed doors when a woman says ‘No’

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

This is like saying, "Sure, the hospital is on fire now. But have you checked out the salad bar?"

Leading up to the midterms, Dems should revisit The Social Security solvency issue, and do it in a very big and public way, get ALL Republicans on record for their lack of support… 🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️

Elon Musk and his brother BOTH worked in the United States while on student VISAs. This is an immigration felony, and would likely have been punished via cessation of the naturalization process, followed by immediate deportation, had ICE known. Why not now? deportthemusks.com

A fun game these days is trying to figure out which sector of the economy is going to cause the financial crash. Bank leverage? Crypto? AI infrastructure loans? Start a deadpool with your friends! Bob Kuttner gives a forecast here: prospect.org/2025/12/09/p...

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Really hard to keep track of their Ben Garrison cartoon epistemology - how does it make sense that China buys soybeans based on how much it "respects" other countries

All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.

My guess is as long as Trump keeps his insults to female reporters, the mealy-mouthed response will continue. Because putting up with shit men don’t have to has always been the tax women pay to earn “equality” (True equality is not earned, but assumed.) www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/how-...

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

First, the pathological lying madman said he would release the video of the 2nd strike, that resulted in the murder of two survivors. Five days later, he denied saying it.

SCOTUS gave you a king in all but name.

the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

"When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners." Me on Trump's love of the broligarchy and what that means for Europe and Maga's future. as.ft.com/r/55519a35-2...

VA House Speaker Don Scott hits the nail on the head regarding the GOP gerrymandering in TX, NC, IN, MO, and FL. “You have to stand up to the bully on the block” While D’s oppose gerrymandering, we must be prepared to move our maps to offset their attempts to take away representation from voters.

China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Europe could simply ban X altogether for breaking EU regulations. That would hurt Elon most. The same could happen for truth social. Unless you silence these platforms the propaganda will increase.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Holy shit Pam Bondi will have to prosecute Pam Bondi for insurrection!!

Trump is backpedaling on his support for the release of the Sept. 2 boat strike video. On December 3, he said he would have "no problem" releasing the video. Today, he said he "didn't say that" (he did) and now says, "whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me."

Case study for assessing “means reasonably likely to be used” to identify an individual 🤓 This is also for anyone who tells you your cat chip series is not your personal data too 🤠 www.youtube.com/shorts/UcIxF...

She has done great work!! Hire her!!

“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...

4. Why would a U.S. private equity firm (Affinity Partners) owned by a U.S. citizen (Jared Kushner) need to waive governance rights to avoid review by the Committee on FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the U.S.? Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.

This is the post I was going to write about Larry Ellison (and Jared Kushner's foreign influence peddling). Only written better.

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Mind you, these agencies are established and can by eliminated by Congress; they're funded and can be defunded by Congress. If you're worried about democratic accountability, Congress is right there but they're not actually worried about democratic accountability ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

‘Just one example of how AI is changing our lives’

This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal". Sound familiar?

So the President must have to power to dictate every decision (because democracy) even if there is a democratic consensus that certain functions should be carried out by independent agencies? And this democracy-preserving conmand is issued by an unelected judicial House of Lords? Got it.

Ukraine should have full access to the seized Russian assets.

I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

Sen. Mark Kelly said he has read the Justice Department's classified legal rationale for destroying alleged drug boats and that it should be released. If he truly believes the public deserves to know, he should read the memo into the Congressional Record.