“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”

Absolute evil. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.

The lawless Hegseth/Trump boat murders continue: “The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people…”https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/politics/us-military-strikes-three-boats-pacific

@bcfinucane.bsky.social @johncarlbaker.bsky.social can you help Marisa?

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender.

what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.

“‘This isn’t a new phenomenon, and we’re going to get to a point where there’s [more] people like myself who survived two of these,’ the 20-year-old said.” “I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock."

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dina. Dina’s family used to own a small grocery store before this but it and their home was destroyed and they are in tents. Dina has 4 children, Sameer, 7, Leila, 6, Aboud, 3 and little Ayla who is 5 months old and had a respiratory issue.

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan. They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents. One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever

🇭🇳  #JOH | Trump’s pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández raises new questions about the role of the US in regional anti-drug policy. Revisit how Hernández built political power while allegedly collaborating with networks that moved tons of cocaine through Honduras. Read the series.

Field Notes from November in the East Austin edgelands, with frisky deer, late bloomers, cold moons, riverine fog, and the passing of a legend: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/spirits-of...

SNAP is subsidizing Jeff Bezos' vanity "Blue Origin" space program? I'm not surprised. But I did not expect to see that 3 out of the top 10 are from the healthcare industry.

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work. “Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

"I would never begrudge someone for leaving a state where they feel unsafe, but the more that marginalized voices disappear from legacy outlets, the more it matters to fight for our corner instead of abandoning it." Thank you, @kitoconnell.com thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...

A lot of people need to read this.

I wrote about Johnny Cash. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

remember this "case" began with DHS press person claiming that multiple vehicles had ambushed and cornered CBP agents in a scene reminiscent of Baghdad 2007

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

ICE is a terrorist organization.

If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!

Free Sarah Kendzior.

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

The first time Justice Kavanaugh chimed in, it was also to express skepticism. Here's the first thing he asked GEO's lawyer.

The biggest problem for GEO is that their whole theory was a biiiig overstretch -- so much so that even the Trump administration wasn't on their side. The Solicitor General argued that GEO Group was wrong. The first very question GEO's lawyer got was clear skepticism from Justice Thomas.

There are few more contemptible people on the planet than Kennedy

Ah. Private equity.

Trump administration in disarray: USDA complies with a federal court order while DOJ takes its desire to withhold food from Americans all the way to SCOTUS.

Remember Rage Against the Machine? I do. I’m waiting for the music that comes from this

Just horrific. These are crimes. And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

“I am simply asking for my first chance. I don’t need a second,” Mohammed Rashid said, as he remains detained in Vermont while the government challenges the asylum decision.

REPUBLICAN Mayor of Oklahoma City on Trump saying too many people are on SNAP: “This is no way to make policy. This is chaos. People have been told by the federal government they’ll get these benefits, this is no time to pull the rug out from under them.”

Reminder that an immigration offense is illegal in the same way that a parking ticket is illegal - an administrative offense. Yet the former allows you to be entirely disenfranchised, kidnapped in broad daylight, and thrown in prison to be forcibly exiled from your community.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.

Meanwhile in texas we added a bunch of dumb amendments to the state constitution preventing tax raises on rich people and banning non citizen voting, a thing that is already illegal

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.