Trump has found an aesthetic to define his second term: grotesque AI slop. www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

"Criminalization and repression are not aberrations of climate governance but a core governing strategy.”

Tow truck driver Bobby Nunez had only moved the ICE vehicle one block away, with the SUV reportedly returned to agents within 13 minutes. Yet, Nunez faced up to 10 years in prison. A federal jury Sunday refused to indict him, which sent Stephen Miller into a tantrum: trib.al/1ZZ53TW

Waymo shutdown in the Bay Area, again. Fragility as an automated service. The UberLyft ridehail explosion was partly inspired by the notorious difficulty getting a taxi in SF when rain spiked demand. Uber solved that problem w flexible/gig supply. Waymo has unsolved it w acutely unreliable supply.

What is not in this story but should be is that the opioid overdose crisis has led to a massive increase in the incarceration of women specifically. The children are taken from the parent, but no mention of the parent (usually a woman) who goes to jail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's a deliberate weaponized narrative containing antisemitism and Islamophobia and general xenophobia slightly laundered into a campaign that old bigots love getting all in a lather about

Astonishing feat! US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable. Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World! H/T to @BenNollWeather

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

This Christmas, millions of families are unsure how they'll pay next month's rent or stay housed. I'll be on @ms.now at 5pm ET talking with Stephanie Ruhle about why the affordability crisis is also a crisis of work, and how precarious jobs and soaring rents are forcing people into homelessness.

The court document below is NOT new. I reprinted it in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT when discussing Trump's history with Epstein. Others also covered it. It was publicly available. Garland of course knew too and protected Trump. And Dems protected and defended Garland. Why pretend otherwise?

Stephen Miller has a new target: children. Not adults, not gangsters, not even the occasional scandalous politician kids. The New York Times reports he’s now framing the children of immigrants as a “problem” that must be solved.

“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.” The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.

This Guardian article makes a big error, reporting that crop yields are projected to fall lower than current levels due to climate change. But the study they use just projects slower yield growth. Slower ≠ Lower.

2-3 people a day were killed by law enforcement in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.org

This admin is rounding up people without due process and putting them in these inhumane and privately funded facilities for the benefit of their rich friends. There has been no communication from the Governor or any state level officials about this facility. It’s outrageous

It's how the broligarchs who bought the White House are treating the world, with us as their guinea pigs for all manner of unethical, dangerous, and even deadly experiments. They've been practicing offshore for years, like Peter Thiel funding rogue herpes vaccine trials on St. Kitts & Nevis.

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research. Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.

Public services don't need to and aren't supposed to make a profit because they're not businesses.

Those not horrified? The National Sheriffs Association, which just issued a statement saying, basically, we support this www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-am...

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The evidence against Trump’s participation in Epstein’s crimes isn’t rock solid. There is much more investigation that’s needed. But, the question isn’t “what did Trump know,” but “what did Trump do?” That’s a much, much more serious problem.

Greta Thunberg Arrested in London for Protesting in Solidarity with Palestine Action

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

Everyone who has melanated skin is at risk for being kidnapped by ICE because it's not about immigration, it's an ethnic cleansing.

When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond? By garnishing their wages. When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond? By extending their tax cuts. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

this is called a "concentration camp"

Oh my god.

I guess if you don't view immigrants as people, it might make sense to store them in shipping containers. Like freight. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

Highly recommended read: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps by @andreapitzer.bsky.social 🧵 And short thread below: ⬇️

Camps where tens of thousands of politically disfavored people will be concentrated. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m nobody special and I’ve had right wing extremists try to ruin every aspect of my personal and professional life, including showing up in person and leaving written death threats at my work and home. This “problem” is an inherent part of right wing extremism; it’s a feature not a bug.

The Trump administration is trying to unleash an offshore drilling plan that would jeopardize treasured coastlines including Alaska’s Arctic, the California Coast, and the Gulf. Tell the Trump administration: No new offshore oil and gas leasing off our coasts.

#ICYMI:

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

Top House Oversight Democrat alleges 'criminal' Epstein cover-up by Trump WH House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social to discuss the new revelations in the latest Epstein files release.

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant. It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from: Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation. All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A legally blind Waymo passenger was stranded in a multilane road when her robot failed to handle a traffic light outage and also failed to pull to the curb, in Atlanta. Police crossed "6 lanes of traffic" to rescue her, then drove her to work. "No more Waymo for me" OP: tiktok.reportingblind

We wonder if the person who keeps painting over our stickers (and only our stickers, for some reason) understands that every time we post a pic like this we sell at least three more packs of stickers. So, um, thanks, sticker painting guy! the-war-on-cars.myshopify.com

This holiday season, join me & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for a different kind of family gathering: a coast-to-coast gathering of our extended democratic socialist family! On Dec 29, we’ll come together to reflect, strategize, and grow our movement. RSVP here: act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party

The broligarchs' grift: buying the US government to force down the throats of millions their shitty products rejected by the free market. Coming soon--crypto bros will get Trump to force their Monopoly Money on us: "Want your benefits? Take them in crypto now, or by check in a few weeks...maybe."

OMG. Do you understand how much trust you have to place in someone to make them executor of your will? Especially when you own many, many millions in assets? The Harvard President and convicted pedophile were thicker than thieves. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Kavanaugh feeling mildly sad about how he’s going to be remembered in the history books

Evil people are always stupid, even when they're smart - think of Ted Kaczynski, undoubtedly a very intelligent person who also thought that a) going back to the stone age was desirable and b) the best way to achieve this was sending bombs to random academics.

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is. Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice. That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

Thanks everyone who read and supported my writing in 2025! Here are my top ten articles -- all free; no paywalls in times of peril. See you later! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...

Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo. Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.

We are living through a reboot of the medieval Enclosure Movement, which historian Karl Polanyi called "a revolution of the rich against the poor:" The rich & powerful simply seized public goods & claimed them as their own private property, impoverishing & starving to death much of the population.

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.