Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

Too late.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Lawgeeks, this one is worth a read. Judge goes beyond the usual monetary sanctions into serious correction territory.

Not to be too conspiratorial, but this story would undoubtedly portray the Trump admin in a bad light (they sent innocent people to be tortured through a process the Supreme Court unanimously held lacked due process) and now CBS isn't airing it on time.

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.

"I know they killed him" Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3. I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.

People are sharing this a lot and it's missing some context. The NWS barrier that kept the fly south of the Darien Gap was breached during covid, mostly due to the sterile fly facilities being shut down... due to covid, staff shortages, etc. It made it into Mexico in 2022.

Perhaps the vice president should have considered utilizing the services of the vast law-enforcement apparatus at his disposal, rather than googling conspiracy theories on the Internet.

He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

Here, cleanse your palate with some refreshing sparkling real history.

let's be honest just amongst ourselves: complying with the epstein law is an impossible task. imagine being one of the lawyers having to decide on what you can/should lawfully redact. imagine the sheer volume of documents. and to this i say lol and lmao. well played congress

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

The faction of the the left that lives for harassment is just slamming Matt for this, but he’s correct and this has been considered for years a major cause of the recent homelessness spike. Watching people maliciously misread his very short tweet and call him a “Nazi” is something else.

Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime. Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.” But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises. My story:

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to Gauri Bahuguna, Setareh Ghandehari, @naynagupta.bsky.social, and @paromitashah.bsky.social about the rise of the immigration enforcement economy and how this system evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry.

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Yep, my sense is that Vance is the figurehead for the less-obviously-Nazi wing to push ethnonationalism into the mainstream.

Takes halfway through this article to get there but, yeah its not just Fuentes preaching blood and soil politics, the most prominent person doing that, quite explicitly, is JD Vance (like Vivek, a Peter Thiel protegee) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

This is what the actual "War on Christmas" looks like.

DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks." The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke." Evil shit.

If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.

I got this comment in response to a post on X and it just made me think that a lot of these reactionaries just have no idea about even the basics of American history, and have been fed a false and rosy nostalgic view of things in the honestly recent past. /also the comment about China is dumb.

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

we also hadn’t invented roast vegetables yet. many problems, with the recent past

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

JD Vance, Nick Fuentes, this lady—all of them are positioning themselves as rejecting the ideas core to the mythos of the founding. In that sense you could say that they’ve stopped being “Americans” in a meaningful sense—that they’ve spurned that identity and project—and have become something else.

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

A government agency withheld records it was required by law to disclose?

Even though the board just voted to approve the name change yesterday, this illegal defacement has been in the works for weeks.

Facial recognition is a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle and every day I’m reminded I need to reread this book.

Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

The saddest part of this story: The arts are supposed to bring people together. They're supposed to be an equalizer. Really disappointing—for both the artists & patrons—that the president has decided to infect that so he can have another vanity project.

I obviously can't know who's telling the truth here, but this is exactly why DUE PROCESS matters.

DHS's official X account is now copy-pasting anti-immigration posts from Stephen Miller's wife. You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.

Here's an example of how useless and frustrating internet laws to "protect kids" are in practice: When I'm in Ohio, where I am during the holidays, I can't use my Bluesky DMs—unless I hand over my ID to a company owned by Epic Games. Why? To protect kids, of course! spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have...

Yesterday, a federal jury found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing immigration agents. In April, shortly after she was arrested, James Pearce analyzed the case and why it is more complicated than supporters or critics of the prosecution acknowledge.

My grandfather spent years in the U.S. before returning to Colombia. He used to take us to the Kennedy Center at Christmas to see The Nutcracker. As a kid I especially loved the Hall of Nations, with its flags from all over the world. It hurts to see this place defaced and disrespected by a tyrant.

It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.