@propublica.org is a national treasure

Domestic Deployments are not a game, but the Trump administration insists on jerking our troops around like political playthings. Politicized Intimidation Deployments are #NottheMission. #ArmyNavy.

Great thread about the Cinnebon firing, worth reading every post, but these two jumped out at me for their relevance to foreign policy and national security debates.

Legendary effort by Chris Van Hollen. I wish there were more of this in the times we live in.

Nate Silver insults Heather Cox Richardson in a desperate bid to steal a fraction of the attention she's earned. But my favorite Silver tweet remains this 2022 classic: “I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?’"

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

All hat, no cattle.

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Vile. And stupid. But more importantly, vile.

I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.” That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.” It’s just a fact. He CANNOT do this. And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.

It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.

This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...

COLBERT, on Paramount’s $108 billion bid for Warner: “.. Wow. .. If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows.” $PSKY @latenightercom.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

They do not believe in democracy. No other plausible explanation.

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Excellent thread

Congress is set to pass its $901 billion defense bill without including insurance coverage for families to get fertility treatment. Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Johnson axed it based on objections to IVF.

$140m. Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

sex criminals stick together

Babies born after Republicans started saying this are now old enough to drive

Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.” According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

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You must be f**king kidding me

my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead scariest few days of our lives from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell

Does anyone have a theory of how the rule of law can apply to Republican leaders?

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation

Professors:

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

Ok this is obviously the right result. But Vanity Fair knew everything they needed to know when they made Nuzzi the offer. Are the men (I don’t actually know, but fair to assume they’re men) who gave her the editorial job, ethics be damned, going to face any consequences?

For some reason, after initially becoming insensate with rage when I read about HHS defacing Dr. Rachel Levine’s official portrait, I find myself thinking about Amy Coney Barrett pretending she genuinely believed trans people have never faced de jure discrimination in the US during Skrmetti.

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

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"Democratic voters have to force their candidates to embrace real, aggressive Supreme Court reform. That means not only coming up with a plan (including, most likely, term limits and court expansion) but being unrestrained in how they talk about these six villains who are destroying our democracy."

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

So subtle

Hepatitis B? They want babies to get hepatitis? What is wrong with them?? My god.

And childhood Hepatitis B exposure significantly increases risk of liver cancer. This killed a dear friend of mine in her 30s, orphaning two young children. These people are monsters.

So it was … murder for fun?

um okay? Appreciate the candor?

It's incumbent on journalists interviewing GOP who support Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to ask them if they've ever used cocaine or been in the presence of someone who was doing so. Because if those traffickers are terrorists, then anyone up and down the supply chain is complicit.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans