New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Civic education needs to return to teaching George Washington's Farewell Address.

🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/

The only strategy that I might accept from the Schumer Democrats is that they wanted to force the House into session for a vote before December 2nd. Johnson seemed willing to endure a Thanksgiving shutdown to protect Trump. What now?

How not to play poker: Player 1: I'm in Player 2: I'll see you P1: I raise because I have 3 kings! P2: I'll raise too P1: I fold, because even though I have not seen your hand it is must be better than mine or else you would not have raised after I told you what I was holding.

At least 68 had one momentous summer.

Immediately going into my slides for my introductory lecture on data viz. Those red lines could have been made by sharpie!

Justice Gorsuch's newfound concern with the "gradual...accretion of power in the executive branch" is welcome but rich.

NEW from me: An Episcopal priest — a Kenyan national who works with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — has been detained by ICE, says diocese. The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

It is my hypothesis that less than 1% of the people who will burst out in song with "O Canada" at any mention of the country in conversation know the next words in the lyrics. It follows that you can become elite by knowing line two, "Our home and native land."

I won't vote for him in a primary, but I'll thank him for his service.

Trunk-or-Treats are symptomatic of declining social trust, and I will not participate. My kids are going to ring your doorbell and shout at you, as the Great Pumpkin intended.

Congratulations to me for replacing my car license plates. The front plate took two minutes. The back plate took two hours, two trips to the hardware store, and $14 of additional parts and tools.

Apparently, Reaganite free trade neoliberalism was always a psy-op, according to Bessent.

I think they released a new movie in the Halloween franchise? Something about a clown who terrorizes fishermen. At least, I saw this movie poster:

Turns out that the donor's name rhymes with "felon".

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029? THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

Holy f***. I totally did not expect to see what I saw. Seriously, I've been grasping for some kind of mass contagion theory in order to try to explain the utter transformation of reality in how these people think.

Can everyone in the media *please try* to build into their assumptions that every argument from the Trump administration will be bad faith cover? Nothing about the situation with Venezuela is about drug trafficking. It's about regime change and oil.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

There may come a day when this is seen as a centrist, institutionalist platform.

Well done to this professor for trolling the NYT...in the NYT. “What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

This will be of some comfort to coin collectors who were having a difficult time finding hoards of Roman coins in American fields.

What do you think made America great? I’ve traveled the world, and every time I come home, I’m reminded of what makes this place special: the culture, the mix of people, the constant diversity. I love this country. And I also know who truly hates America: • The KKK • 3 Percenters • Proud Boys 1/2

I'm going to guess that Mike Johnson told Trump that he can't keep Adelita Grijalva out of Congress forever.

I'm teaching a course on the Declaration of Independence next semester and I'm starting it in 16th century Europe.

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The A_________ First Agenda (never mind the missing letters).

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there. wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

How long are we going to pretend that this is a functional constitutional order?

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Its worth your time learning about an American infinitely more bad-ass than Pete fucking Hegseth.

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

A passage from the Debates at the Constitutional Convention quoted by Judge Karin Immergut in her decision blocking Trump's deployment of national guard units in Portland, OR.

My reflection while walking today: The bottom line of the American experience is that the Constitution and Rule of Law have never meaningfully contained racism, because the twin forces of "legal interpretation" and impunity for violent reactionaries have always been capacious enough to protect it.

Divider Posted 2 hours ago from @bennetthaselton.bsky.social via @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Cop outside a Portland ICE Facility pepper spray 2 protestors who were peacefully talking to another officer. These are sadistic ICE-Holes! 🤬 #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ResistanceUnited

Corruption. Cruelty. Incompetence. This president has hit a trifecta more completely than any other.

My requirements for my vote in 2028 now has two platform planks: 1) Tear down the ballroom. 2) De-monetize (refuse to recognize as legal tender) this coin.