As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

FUCK ICE

It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.

“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.

Today's absurd sci-fi headline that's somehow our reality: Fact-checkers barred from immigrating to the U.S.

I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

"elite capture of the fourth estate" feels like the grim answer to a lot of questions these days I gotta say they're emboldened to say this shit because they know the entire media apparatus will just hand them the mic, applaud afterwards, and tell anyone who says WTF?? to shut up

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them. 6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th. Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent. Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.

Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)

Thank you, @mboaz.bsky.social, for the cite to my third-country removal tracker. I updated it this morning with a new map and a new entry. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

There is of course a long tradition of US military commanders giving exactly this order - from Col. John Chivington at Sand Creek in 1864 to Gen. Jacob Smith at Samar in 1901, or Capt. Ernest Medina at My Lai in 1968... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood

Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.

Exhibit 926 in criminal contempt proceedings. Noem’s declaration is due Friday to Judge Boasberg.

This America is right here for us if only we wish to build it.

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"

Any time an article quotes Stephen Miller they should include a parenthetical about how his mommy and daddy bought him a $450,000 DC condo so he could wind up Jeff Sessions' Chief Racism Officer

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

"The consensus is that *the* factor to blame is the thing in our pockets. For most of us, our phone has become both an external hard drive, storing everything we used to remember, and a portable Las Vegas, ensuring we never have to suffer a boring minute." nymag.com/intelligence...

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

AS I WAS SAYING

truly disturbing video from palatine. agents appear to drive onto a sidewalk in pursuit. as they wrestle to put a young person in the car, the driver starts to pull away. the person recording shouts, “they’re tasing him!” unclear if they actually used the taser, but you can hear it charging up.

in chicago’s austin neighborhood around 8 am: this horrific video posted to social media shows at least four feds open a person’s car door, then handcuff and abduct them from laramie avenue.

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

retire bitch

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.

It seems like this idea would simultaneously destroy the ACA while also giving people huge checks from the Trump administration?

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

These migrants have been misused by 3 states at this point— the U.S., El Salvador, VZ— and it’s important to show all of that. Especially because at this point so many countries are forgoing any consideration of human rights, it’s all just state interests and transactions — using migrants as barter

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

i do think that openAI is unusually careless, dangerous and reckless amongst the majors, and understanding why is going to be an incredibly important task for future regulators

openAI needs to be burned to the ground and everyone at the decision making level belongs in prison. (cw, this is the worst one yet, beware)