Hail to the thief

Warned that this was going to happen. And if Trump’s DOJ doesn’t fight it, I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to stop it. radleybalko.substack.com/p/magas-300-...

Trump’s racial profiling ICE goons to 🇺🇸 citizen: “Turn around or you’re gonna get the dog.”

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

Long but very worthy local news report that describes a five families style meeting of various hate groups and influencers

My bill - HB 2089, the Wildfire Alleviation Support Act - would restore this funding by ending a tax break for big banks. It’s time to meet the climate crisis at the scale that it exists.

We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

AYFKM.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

An “Every Accusation Is a Confession” for the ages: Last night Trump accused all Somalis of being pirates who steal boats. Today he’s a pirate stealing boats.

This is murder. Plain and simple. People need to be held accountable.

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

sex criminals stick together

I've been saying this for years. California is finally off its ass about this. But still, it'll take years before enough units come online to start really having effects be felt. What could help is a giant overhaul to federal policy/funding. Quick, without looking, who is the head of HUD.

@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab. As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded. www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

For decades, Parkinson’s research has focused on genetics, on finding the rogue letters in our genome that cause this incurable disease. But researchers are looking at another unsuspecting cause: environmental factors.

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!” By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

this excellent review of oral arguments in trump v. slaughter gets to the profound dishonesty of the conservative majority — the refusal to own the consequences of their actions

IF YOU WANTED to design a quiet coup in a republic that still mouths the words “checks & balances,” you wouldn’t roll tanks down Penn. Avenue. You’d hand a volatile president a match, dress it up as “Article II,” and watch six robed partisans strike it against the wiring of the administrative state.

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

a very good point

Ok A.I. nailed this one, credit where it’s due www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

A Somali man from Minneapolis says officers refused to view his I.D. and drove him to immigration court and ICE offices before releasing him. Written by Katelyn Vue.

Stephen Miller makes it clear this has never just been about illegal immigration

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

News and bystander videos have documented immigration officers firing pepper balls at people's heads and encasing entire neighborhoods in tear gas. "They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

I don't want my country to be cruel to people, period. Doesn't matter who they are or where they come from. Even people who have done bad things—the state should be about solutions, not retribution. And the way this administration treats law-abiding immigrants makes me sick.

Too late. Masterful gambit, sir. Musk revealed his true character, hateful philosophy, and directly caused millions of deaths of despair. Boycott this motherfucker forever.

oh good, a fresh test of how much longer so-called capitalists will throw cash into an incinerator because it happens to be run by a drug-addled racist with an allergy to profitable operations

Elon Musk was born in South Africa, so by his own logic he shouldn't be allowed to vote. Much less spend hundreds of billions of dollars to buy elections. #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall

Sorry, I'm getting a note from the producers. It turns out Elon Musk is a different kind of immigrant for... Reasons. Sounds about white.

"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

Donald Trump's longer NSS completely delivers on Russia's demands. As I feared would happen in the transition when Russia was calling in his debts, he's ceding Europe to Putin. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

This is, of course, an extraordinary new administrative burden for park workers. They will have ask *every visitor* for proof of residency. A small friction for most people (and occasionally a hassle for people who can't find their drivers license or passport) adds up to huge delays for all.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.

An officer tells us it showed up unbidden on the computer today. For lack of anything better to do they tried it, asking when the latest NDS was. It replied with a history of Nintendo.

More on the ongoing fiasco that is Avelo’s ICE contract prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.” Details in our story. thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging. In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease. There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵

👀👀👀 Omfg WTF is this time I'm living in?

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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

Don has been sounding the alarm about Schedule F, and was the first person I read warning about Project 2025. We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But 26 have cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, depriving them of billions of dollars in revenue. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wave-of...