That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

All that hot air about the major redactions being about protecting victims and they didn’t even bother to redact a bunch of victims. Financial institutions, co-conspirators and potential customers, though? They’re pretty good at that for whatever reason

I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

“Dr. McCoul is disappointed by the University’s unexplained decision to uphold her termination, but looks forward to pursuing her First Amendment, Due Process, and breach of contract claims in court very soon,” Reichek wrote in a statement. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/t...

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect https://theonion.com/musk-signals-willingness-to-bid-more-than-97-billion-to-acquire-respect/

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Conservative political correctness is out of control.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

These new pipes don't hold water and sometimes have lead in them but they're cheap to make and my stocks will be worthless if plumbers don't adopt them exclusively.

some good climate/energy news: * 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!) * 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free * The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Trump wishes a Merry Christmas to "the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein … only to 'drop him like a dog' when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him." Trump then says he dropped Epstein before anyone and had nothing to do with him.

The people in charge of important things in tech are a putrid combination of arrogant, greedy and stupid.

Sometimes, the preservation of exploitable complexity is essential to the success of the business model.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Seems somewhat relevant as the trump admin promises people thousands of dollars in a “stipend” to leave during the holiday season: This article ends with an account - one of so many - of a family of three following the rules and orders, and after informed that ICE officers present had “our orders”…

Just mint an nft with it so it's impossible to copy!

One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.

we should probably figure out at some point exactly how much of our government runs on what is basically a pirate code.

It's a weird world when dutifully regurgitating a bunch of carefully curated information that the world's richest man gave you is "fearless journalism," but reporting on how the government is kidnapping innocent people and sending them overseas to be tortured is "not moving the ball forward."

“Like Prime, but with human beings.” Marketing gift link. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center's board, has sued the admin over the attempt to add Trump's name to the building — arguing that renaming would require an act of Congress since the original name was established through legislation signed into law.

The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.

Eichorn was busted *the same day* he introduced the bill: IIRC he drove straight from the Capitol to the Bloomington hotel where he thought he was meeting a 17-year-old girl

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

Fed. judge rules that New York's law prohibiting state authorities from sharing DMV vehicle and address information with federal immigration authorities is not preempted by federal law, nor does it violate the supremacy clause. Link is in this news report --> www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

There's an audio recording of him, not an aide, asking for votes to swing a state in a Presidential election and that wasn't enough to get him locked up or even keep him from the White House

Born for prison

Supreme Court rules against Trump, bars National Guard deployment in Chicago

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

It's true that this is wild to watch. DOJ's social account — and, likely, DOJ — is being run no differently than an online-sleuthing account. (Or, more accurately, an online grift account cannibalizing others' online-sleuthing.)

“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically .. “.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

"Katz also said Israel would establish Jewish settlements in northern Gaza to replace settlements that were dismantled when Israel pulled its troops and civilians out of the enclave in 2005."

Circling back

The GOP "healthcare plan," if they ever come out with one, is going to be "Peloton is 80% off and only the rich get chemo." The point of RFKism is that healthcare is a consumer choice, and the right choice is Instagram woo. If you didn't go to the Equinox juice bar the ensuing cancer is your fault.

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

lol www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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.