I pled “not guilty” in federal court yesterday. Someone did “unreasonably obstruct the usual use” of the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. But it wasn’t me. Here’s why: open.substack.com/pub/bradland...

@jtischauser.bsky.social has more on the evolving scene in Elgin, IL, where community members are facing multiple immigration agents. Jeff's reporting that pepper spray has been deployed.

He has also said that COVID vaccination is the same as the Holocaust

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Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

@stephenaryan.bsky.social IKYKWIM!!!!!

The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health. This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.

"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."

"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup." there, i did it for you. just repeat that.

Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

CA, AG, Rob Bonta, just announced a new portal for people to report ICE activity, so they can protect illegal immigrants from being detained and 'prosecute ICE goons. Our job at the DOJ is simple: To safeguard the rights of everyone that calls this state home, no matter their background or status.

🏆 NICK BRINGS THE FIRE 🔥 Listen to the very end, it just keep getting better 😮

“We found out the day after our presser that Wells Fargo, the bank that owns this building, worked with Friedman Communities, the receiver of this building, to go to the court and request that people be moved out by Dec. 12. That’s next Friday." thetriibe.com/2025/12/resi...

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

NEW: DOGE is far from dead, contrary to recent reporting. Instead, its operatives have “burrowed into” federal agencies “like ticks.” Here’s what the DOGE crew is up to now: From @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers

The grief our ancestors had to live with... even our grandparents. Unimaginable. That fucker RFKjr wants 50% of kids dead again

Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.

Unless you are arguing that the role of journalism is to actively discourage people from getting vaccinated, the fact that the go to image is a stock photo of someone getting a shot, is a problem. Show a picture of the fucking public health building in Montana IDC

In a settlement with four Republican-led states, the DHS has agreed to redesign its federal immigration database to serve voter “verification” purposes — a dramatic expansion of federal data that voting rights advocates have long warned could supercharge wrongful purges and threaten voter privacy.

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“Border Patrol entering structures without a warrant is an escalation of attacks against life-saving humanitarian aid as well as a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment protections that everyone, regardless of legal status, is protected under” New article by @maxgranger.info on the recent raid.

ICE is now arresting DACA recipients, often for nothing more than social media posts. This isn't a border security issue, these are Americans in everything but paperwork. Congress has had 12+ years to fix this and even Trump himself said Dreamers should stay. Key new stories. #DACA 🧵

I suspect "Put these motherfuckers in jail" has a bit more motive power

This is the Republican majority in Congress. Completely disinterested in looking into anything Trump is doing. Whatever he decides to do is fine with them and they won’t investigate or question anything. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

And most of those tasks are performed poorly, I would bet. AI needs to be entirely removed from education - kindergarten to college - because it actively harms education and curiosity.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

So, Frank M. "Mitch" Bradley could have used the later advice of the six members of Congress as to refusing illegal orders to murder. He should be prosecuted fully.

Can't help but think of the ridiculous arguments about why a female president would've been bad - "women are too changeable, too hormonal, subject to whims, it would be chaos!" But having an elderly rich white man rapidly descending into dementia & surrounded by users with their own agenda is fine.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Amen

Days since Greg Bovino was last shown to be a liar: 0

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

My neighbor was at Albany Bulb in the East Bay and met a photographer named Charlie who had captured this amazing shot there. If you know him, send me his last name to credit.

The DC shooting is a Reichstag Fire. Trump granted the man asylum this spring. Trump agreed with the program that brought him here in 2021. There was full vetting. Trump’s DC op is why this happened. Now it’s being used to end all immigration from nonwhite countries. And undo the Biden presidency.

It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.

All of the formal entities that make up DOGE are still in place: The executive order that created it is still in effect. The "United States DOGE Service" still exists and is still posting stupid memes. Amy Gleason, its figurehead, it still in office. Many other employees are still there.

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.

. World, more necessary than ever today . . . unfortunately ! Orange Day 2025 🧡 😔 🧡

Have a good night! I’m out ✊ ✌️

Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.