the son he always wanted

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

The Mamdani-Trump meeting solidified it for me. Donald Trump is our first Generative AI president. Consider: ✅ Responses depend heavily on prompting ✅ Has a bunch of problematic biases baked in ✅ Consumes an unconscionable amount of our time, space, and energy ✅ Heavily prone to spewing bullshit

Stephen Miller:

welp

Welcome to the resistance… Donald Trump?

the NYT referring to "scientific orthodoxy" instead of "science" or "proven facts" or "the truth" is what helps you see that this newspaper is now, & has been for some time, a critical part of the fascist apparatus in this country

Ellison: Today, you should never get a Republican AG, because they’re not your AG. They’re Leonard Leo’s AG. They’re Donald Trump’s AG. But they are not your AG. They’re not Louisiana’s AG. They’re not Mississippi’s AG. They’re beholden to others.

“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”

The window smashing has become more popular it seems with ICE agents, almost as though someone tried it and faced no consequences. They ram into cars, smash windows, and later we’re told release the victims with no charges. What about the destruction of property? Who’s paying for that?

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

Finally a front page that does what it’s supposed to be doing

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.

Let’s check in on RFK Jr

Pence: "Our Founding Fathers championed the return of the Jewish people to Israel"

Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

The only affordability in fascism is for fascists and war mongers. Deploying 200 National Guard to Elwood, Illinois for 30 days cost nearly $3.5 million. Deploying 4,000 National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles was estimated to cost $134 million. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Here’s the Mexican Marines removing signs stating that the Mexican beach is a restricted area by the US Department of Defense. Yes, it’s real.

Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid. RFK Jr. is making shit up.

I think the word you're looking for is "commended"

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support. They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast. www.science.org/content/arti...

Spineless speaker does it again

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

“It’s now clear that potent opposition to the dictatorship requires concerted efforts by actors across the country, both in and out of government, all directed at bringing every abuse of the regime and its dictator to the attention of a public that is already alarmed.” Yes. Everything everywhere

Wow what a commendable act of grace by the Trump regime, dropping what I'm sure was an ironclad case against a defendant that federal agents shot 5 times.

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait. It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

When Jurassic World: The Lost World came out, with Ian Malcolm as the protagonist, based on the book, written by Chricton himself, I, who had voraciously consumed the 1st book, had to understand how exactly Malcolm could be the protagonist. I read the first page or two and never picked it up again.

the argentina bailout is the stealth thing that's killing him. it's gotten sort of desultory coverage in the mainstream media as far as I've seen, but people haaaaaaaaatttttttttee it. it's like every person who's glancingly heard of it has a grudge forever.

Our good friend the Credit Default Swap has joined the party

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

oh

This providing an example of the sorts of illegal orders the military should refuse.

“11.19.2025 - Raleigh, NC: ICE Agents Scatter Citizen’s Wallet and Cards Across the Ground Before Speeding Away” www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

the ties to epstein were ugly but it seems like it's equally important that *he wrote at length about sexually harassing a colleague"?!

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

In a remarkable and deeply unconventional dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith unleashed a blistering and bizarre attack on his fellow judges after a federal court struck down Texas’ unconstitutional racial gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The president also hosted a dinner for the crown prince last night. Guests included Elon Musk, who is back in Trump’s good graces, as well as soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and billionaire investor Bill Ackerman." embarrassing.

The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth. This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.

There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org