New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

Interesting how that works out: "Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet"

Today we filed a lawsuit against the Dept of Ed's abrupt & unlawful decision to stop millions of $$ in funding 4 Full-Service Community Schools in the middle of approved, multi-year projects-projects that give students tutoring and after school & health care at school. www.aft.org/press-releas...

New post by Wayne Ford: Who decides what students must think? Iowa's universities and public trust www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/29/w...

I have said the words, I use that to clean your butt and now you have it in your mouth way too many times in my life parenting boys.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Donald is going downhill faster than anyone expected

When you definitely have not been hornswoggled into filing an expensive lawsuit by a Florida ambulance chaser whose whole deal is filing Donald Trump’s nuisance suits

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

TurningPoint USA is deploying organizers across Iowa. They want to lock the ‘28 nomination for Vance — and to elect Republicans in 2026. VOT is working to flip 2 Congressional seats in Iowa. Can you chip in to help us beat TPUSA and the GOP? secure.actblue.com/donate/futur...

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

I think history has vindicated me that Hans Zimmer is a giant hack even before it was revealed that he passed the work of his apprentices as his own, but instead of shaming me you should have just linked to my well argued posts on alt.fan.film-music and alt.fan.danny-elfman

Who's up early? My preview of the Dec. 30 special election in Iowa Senate district 16 is online: -explaining the odd timing -political landscape -background on the candidates, key issues -campaign spending & GOTV -early vote totals so far #ialegis #Iowa www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/28/i...

Idiots are again arguing ‘Kyiv has so few civilian casualties, Russia must be intentionally avoiding them’ So let’s repeat: Kyiv probably has the most experienced AD of any city in the world right now, & The civilians have nearly unrivaled experience with & access to bomb shelters

Poisonous greed

Trump voters will be shocked but others won't be suprised #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

in 2005, I moved to NY and helped launch a blog for the UFT. in the course of four months the Post wrote 5 editorials about the blog. none brought in more than 150 visitors. negative attention can make it seem more relevant, BUT there's also real value in embracing this and at this moment

I love this guy. Absolutely in love with going to the hospital.

Wrote about the State Department's made up censorial rationale for banning visas for some folks based on their speech. It's nonsense. www.ms.now/opinion/marc...

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Trump is tapped into the stream which produces children of immigrants who hate all other immigrants. Pulling up the ladder behind themselves. The "I got mine" party is not here to help you.

i live in a major historic black city represented by a white republican solely because of a gerrymander where's my article

No they aren't , lol

from the live free or die crowd - ICE taps new surveillance tech as Trump cuts down privacy protections - it was always a just dress up and a childish tantrum share.google/xbq4OiBHbt4t...

A woman in Minneapolis went to observe and record an ICE raid in her neighborhood. Immediately, she was thrown to the ground and arrested. Is this America? dianeravitch.net/2025/12/25/m...

Ah this is sad news. Howie wasn't only a great blogger, he really brought our community together in LA in ways that haven't been replicated. He was whip-smart and never held back. RIP

My good friend Howie Klein passed away today and I am bereft. He was a fierce progressive, music impressario, creative organizer, passionate world traveller and the mensch of all mensches. Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.

Holy shit I never saw this post! Not only was he on Epsteins plane before he literally used it DURING HIS CAMPAIGN lmao

Apparently Trump bought Epstein's plane for his campaign? This can't be legit, right? No one would be that stupid.

Literally

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

devastated. but what a fucking life. I used to email back and forth with Howie since the aughts when he was a logger and only really learned about his influence on the music that shaped my life really after Obama won. just look through his Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_K...

Oh no! What a loss, one of the OG prog bloggers, Howie Klein, has passed away. 😔 Rest in power. @downwithtyranny.bsky.social Howie, spot-on, from 2019: 🌐 downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-...

Santa's over open water near Venezuela. Let's hope Pete Hegseth isn't still awake.

I did not have Scott Pelley reminding Weiss that her job isn't part time and wtf. who had Walter Cronkite coming back from the dead to call her a basic bitch. share.google/GPzWKoxUPBNQ...

Is there *any topic* where this vile mofo doesn't insert himself into the center of it? Would be nice if Rudolph dropped a big fat 💩 on the WH for the rest of us, & Santa leave multiple bags of coal. No one in that place is gets a gift...except a stint in prison in a few years. 📺 is.gd/viUVmW

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

Not everything is terrible

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

OK I've watched it. One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.

after winning a 40 billion bailout from Trump in order to possibly halt economic freefall, cons are now celebrating the economic miracle that is Argentina. who will bail the US out?