It’s taken less than a year of Trump being in office for Republicans to embrace being openly racist as policy and as a party.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

If you missed seeing 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, try watching this segment instead. @60minutes.bsky.social @cbsnews.com

Let's remember that Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who is happy to try to overturn Greenland's democracy for Trump in 2025, was also happy to try to overturn US democracy for Trump in 2020. Rotten people are consistently rotten. 1/

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Another "plan" for Gaza with the same visual aesthetic as all Network State dystopias. Beware tech fascist billionaires bearing promises of AI-enhanced abundance. Gift Link: U.S Pitches Project Sunrise to Turn Gaza Into High-Tech Metropolis www.wsj.com/world/middle...

WTF?

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Fuck you kids trying to become adults. Pick your asses up from the bootstraps and live motherfuckers.

This is Gargamel and Purple Pie Man level of absurdity. We are running a country and our healthcare on cartoon villain level schemes.

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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.

Nine former DOJ attorneys investigating UC antisemitism told LAT they were pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff even though this clearly was not the case.

Congratulations to the people of Chandler, AZ, who — despite a fierce lobbying campaign — defeated a massive AI data center that would have raised utility bills and drained scarce water. Oligarchs want working Americans to foot the bill while they profit. Not gonna happen!

That assault on children, using the resources we citizens provided to that government, is what prompted me to activate this account.

Underestimated invisible women over 50 will get s@#*t done.

Are we doing this in our fancy dress up clothes?

My Friend Frank Gehry

Make it make sense....

Following Trump calling the Somali community "garbage," MN Gov. Walz says that anyone that doesn't condemn the president is part of the problem. "Anyone in this state, especially elected officials, who are unable to condemn this vile attack on our neighbors in our state, you are complicit in it."

Some bat-shit full stop nazi full stop coding here. (European self confidence = white nationalism right?)

This is how we all die.

Once again, I never want to hear anything, ever again, from these people or this far right authoritarian party about national security or the threat of a rising 🇨🇳 or 🇺🇸 hegemony or any of the other things they clearly do not care about or have any idea about how to address. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism: “We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”

Yep.

Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."

Continuing my series that no one asked for: “People and history portrayed in ‘Death by Lightning’ that you should really know more about whether you want to or not.” Today, I give you this piece from 2016, which argues that President Chester A. Arthur deserves a better historical reputation.

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

Lest we forget, this is far from the first drug trafficker that Trump has pardoned Which makes the extrajudicial killing of Venezuelans even more immoral

Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social

How exciting! CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers. CRISPR has so many applications. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

"These fake personas, posing as enthusiastic American Trump supporters, told U.S. voters to “vote for Trump in 2024” while the actual women depicted (from countries like Denmark, the Netherlands, and even Russia) had no idea their images were being misused."

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

Unconscionable. Full stop. No excuses to be associated with or endorse or remain silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Canada joins world leaders saying Trump’s plan to end war in Ukraine needs 'additional work' Zelenskyy warning of one of the most 'difficult moments' in Ukraine's history www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

every single baby had to be hospitalized.

“Don’t give up the ship. You can refuse illegal orders. We have your back.” 🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸