<Sean Connery voice> That’s the Chicago way.

In other words, the Feds relied on perjury to bring charges against the people they scapegoated in an attempt to justify their illegal gunfire at protestors who posed no risk of imminent violence. When I was an AUSA (2001-04), the DOJ Civil Rights Division would have indicted the LEOs under S242.

Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡 maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

Apropos of nothing much, a reminder that Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months in prison.

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

In today’s America, if an unmarked car cuts you off and three mask men get out and point guns at you, I guess you’re just have to assume they are federal agents protecting you from dangerous criminals and hope for the best.

I don't know, Heritage Foundation-tied publication, maybe white liberal women are mad because a federal immigration official shot and killed one of them. And then called her a "bitch"? You know, on camera? www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/27/w...

IDK why right-wingers keep bringing up Obama's record deportations, it just shows that if you wanted to have a conservative immigration policy without partisan militias occupying cities and gunning people down in the streets you could do it and a lot of americans would be fine with it

We know that famous American ideal, where the government has a right to shoot you dead because of “rhetoric.”

I’m in love.

Dont you know that teaching slaves to read is a crime!

and I feel like we were steadily heading in that direction for a half century (as i type on a shard of glass) and then this dude showed up, and a few other dudes like him, and now we’re in the mirror universe where people are trying to bring back slaves.

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks

So let me get this straight. The man who tore down the East Wing of the White House in order to build an oversized ballroom that no one asked for has launched an investigation into Jerome Powell over renovations to the Federal Reserve headquarters. Did I get that right?

The “Abolish ICE” Iwo Jima flag-raising image.

Timothy Ryan Gregg, 51, an ICE / HSI agent from Eagan, MN, was arrested in June 2025 for enticing a minor and production of child sexual abuse material. Gregg is a supporter of Donald Trump and his archived Parler profile is still online at web.archive.org/web/20210111...

Peter Hegseth tapping his breakfast keg with a little extra enthusiasm this morning.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases https://theonion.com/desperate-kash-patel-asks-shooters-family-if-they-can-solve-any-other-cases/

Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right. www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...

These are usually small businesses, 4-5 staff at a time being paid $11/hour for stressful, skilled labor. The witch-hunts that targeted them in the 80s were genuinely destructive to the landscape for providers generally

After Mamdani named Lillian Bonsignore as his choice to lead FDNY, a right-wing smear campaign began on X to undermine her because she is a lesbian. A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Read the response in full from @hrcberkeley.bsky.social here: humanrights.berkeley.edu/uncategorize...

NEW: @hrcberkeley.bsky.social says they were "shocked" to learn CBS pulled its 60 Minutes segment INSIDE CECOT "just hours before broadcast" after it "had already cleared CBS’s legal review and editorial standards," and directly respond to Bari Weiss' question about their students' analysis

"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

SAUER SITS, AMIT AGARWAL RISES Agarwal: FTC etc. have "been part of our story since 1790" - so if Sauer is right, the government has been wrong from the start. Any abstract theory that would wipe away so much history "should be a non-starter"

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

The Fauxbel Peace Prize.

In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

TIL that this is where David Tennant got his trans pride TARDIS pin. I WANT ALL THE THINGS. www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

“Ban all immigrants seeking refuge from persecution” is just a perfectly spot-on GOP Thanksgiving message

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: … Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

"Challenge scientific orthodoxy," is a funny way to say "Ensure people die of preventable diseases because he's a mentally-ill eugenicist."

The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses? Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow. This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.