Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This is good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

Democrats are demanding the release of the full video of the Sept. 2 attack, as well as written records of the orders and any directives about the mission from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. None of the written orders or audio of verbal commands was shared with the lawmakers.

It’s clear MTG is an opportunist, not someone genuinely taking accountability for the harm she’s caused. The moment she was asked to own her toxic behavior, she deflected and became defensive. Don’t buy what she’s selling.

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

just an utter joke of a court.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Frankly, Admiral Bradley is executing illegal orders in the first instance anyway, so I’ll be taking his view with a lick of salt.

President Trump has posted on Truth Social hundreds of times in the last two hours. I can’t even get the full count; it’s that many posts. Here are just two of the posts. In a separate post, I will share a screen recording of all the posts which goes on for nearly five minutes.

MAGA on TwitterX defending Pete Hegseth committing war crimes and murder, is weird. I mean they’re so far detached from reality. It’s wild.

Congressional Republicans let Trump put an alcoholic rapist in charge of the Pentagon, an anti-science kook in charge of our health, and a 22 year old intern in charge of counterterrorism. These people do not act as if they actually care about Americans or the constitution.

Hope everyone got to spend quality time with family this holiday weekend. Me and my little brother, Dr. Mondrian Contreras. ✌🏽😅

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

“Adolescence lasts into 30s - new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain.” These are the five brain phases: Childhood - from birth to age nine Adolescence - from nine to 32(!!!) Adulthood - from 32 to 66 Early ageing - from 66 to 83 Late ageing - from 83 onwards www.bbc.com/news/article...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Protesters have gathered in Uptown Charlotte to speak out against Border Patrol earlier today.

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWR...

Found my answer bsky.app/profile/maya...

Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva has already signed the discharge petition. There are now 218 signatures which means it is now LOCKED (or frozen). No one can remove their names.

It’s official. Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva has been sworn in!

Without paywall: “Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

And just like that 🤬

OK this is amazing. Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government. Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc: www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...

The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

President Trump has used his sweeping global tariffs as an economic tool and a political weapon. The fate of his taxes on imports from nearly every country now rests in the Supreme Court's hands, and most of the justices sounded skeptical on Wednesday of Trump's assertion of trade powers.

Alito: What if the government reissued all of these tariffs tomorrow using [a different law] Neal Katyal: ...then we would have that case, but that's not what the government argued el oh el

100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao

Roberts: "Mr. Gorsuch?" [pause] [me sitting up] Gorsuch: * JUMPS IN ON THAT ASS * yeah it's a wrap these tariffs are going down

Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps. We live in Idiocracy.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

“Hell yeah, I’m a look like LL Cool J” - every single one

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

More than 1000 people marched to San Francisco’s federal building tonight www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM9SaYhf/

The US froze aid to Colombia Much of which is used to fight drug cartels Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

Johnson accidently telling the truth there at the end

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so' ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

If the bombs really have stopped falling, that is something to celebrate. But @jackmirkinson.bsky.social writes that after that, it’s time to get back to work. www.thenation.com/article/worl...