There needs to be a counter-concert to Freedom 250 to raise money for pro-democracy and civil rights groups. As Gen Alpha would say, mog them

No, Tina Peters should not have had her sentence commuted. She broke Colorado laws and was convicted by a jury of her peers. Here’s my statement:

Calling it: hackish professors will begin inventing arguments for presidential pardons to reach state crimes, just like they did in the birthright citizenship context.

Ironic that David Gelernter wrote that 18-year-olds are too young to vote, while cavorting with Jeff Epstein

Hearing him loud and clear.

Bovino isn’t disappearing — he’s just headed to the next city. Time for that city to learn from Minnesotans.

You go on reddit, and the nursing subreddit now has Alex Pretti as its photo.

American Nurses Association statement on the murder of Alex Pretti.

I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Per BBC News, Stephen Miller accuses Sen. Klobuchar and other Democratic politicians of "flaming the flames of insurrection." Using the word "insurrection" is a very deliberate choice.

I don’t know who this Minnesota man is, but he absolutely speaks for me.

I feel like the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting--where twenty children and six educators were killed--marked a turning point. The Republican Party decided it would no longer pretend to care about how many people were killed using guns. It essentially crossed the Rubicon toward not giving a damn.

What’s the point of having power if not to use it to stand up for those who are more vulnerable? That time is now Dems! When the racist goes after your colleague

Even in this dark timeline, it's amusing that the Administration has a knack for choosing the wrong people to mess with. James Comey, Letitia James, the good people of Chicago, and now Mark freaking Kelly.

As a Chargers fan, the Raiders losing to the Shedeur-led Browns is absolutely hilarious

This is utter insanity. We know that PFAS resist degradation and contaminate soil, groundwater, and surfacewater. We know that exposures, even at very low levels, are highly harmful. And we're intentionally spraying it on food crops grown on some of America's most valuable agricultural land.

Really shows that Trump really wants a friend more than another sycophant

Really hits the nail on the head.

If only Virginia Giuffre had lived to see this day and the ones that will follow.

Two things I learned at YLS are: 1) many elites see in-group solidarity as superseding civic responsibility 2) the more powerful the person, the more unhinged their email style So yeah let’s just say I’m not that surprised about the news today

Most Americans are trying their darndest to live honest, good lives. All the while, their prospects for a decent life are being destroyed by the sorts of elites who cavorted with Jeff Epstein. What is wrong with America?

‘Russiagate’ was one thing. The Epstein files are another. Except, actually, they’re not. This email suggests there could be a deal between Trump and Putin, a quid pro quo, facilitated by Epstein and Lavrov. Things make more sense now, like Trump’s red carpet welcome for Putin in Alaska.

At least with Iraq, the presidential administration made an effort to pretend there were WMDs and that legality mattered.

Dem Senators fold. Unbelievable. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

“Point-Blank Sandwich” would be a great band name

Ellis: "This is the Chicagoland I see. From Aurora to Cicero, and Chicago to Evanston to Waukegan. This is a vibrant place, brimming with vitality and hope. Striving to move forward from its complicated history."

Say what you will about the new White House website, but I love the mariachi music you can get by clicking the play button at the top.

Good news for transgender people at MIT. Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms. The latest from reporter S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

It disturbs me how many of my Yale Law School classmates are working for this Administration. I learn of another one every week. A shameful and cynical choice that should be a permanent black mark for them after democracy prevails.

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment. The case should be dismissed before trial.

The 2020 Vanity Fair article about how Stephen Miller and Katie Miller (née Waldman) met lives rent-free in my head:

Wherein the pro-business party creates a stable and predictable regulatory environment

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

I can’t speak for other professions, but I do know elite law schools teach anodyne conformity, not moral courage

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

This is all Jimmy Kimmel said:

The Ford Foundation -- which JD Vance expressly targeted in his speech -- hired Heather Gerken, constitutional law scholar and outgoing Yale Law School dean, as its next president. The selection looks prescient in retrospect.

Another underreported angle to ICE’s LG-Hyundai battery plant raid: The detained Korean workers were socioeconomic elites. Most were highly skilled workers from blue-chip Korean companies. That multiplies the impact of this blunder.

An underreported angle to ICE's LG/Hyundai battery factory raid: Three Japanese nationals who were assisting LG Energy Solutions were among those rounded up by ICE. Obviously, Tokyo isn't happy about this, either. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

“South Korea’s labour minister has said ‘not even prisoners of war’ would be treated as badly as hundreds of Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities following a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.”

This is indefensible. You can commend Kirk for engaging with dissenters in discussion and debate without preposterously elevating that to a full-blown positive appraisal of the way he practiced politics, which, in the main, involved being an indefatigable reactionary provocateur.

The following should be uncontroversial: The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a terrible crime. Political violence is corrosive to our democracy and only leads us further down the dark path we’re on.

Imagine how terrified you'd be as a Latino resident of L.A. If you go to Home Depot and look even slightly blue-collar, that alone is enough for ICE thugs to stop you and whisk you away from your family in an unmarked van. That's the on-the-ground reality that the Supreme Court refuses to see.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]