As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

In IL, becoming a licensed hairstylist requires 1500 training hours & state exams, a process that takes up to 2 years. To become an ICE fascist licensed to kidnap & kill people you can drop out of high school, turn 18, and take a 47 day training. This is what “meritocracy” looks like to fascists.😐

White supremacist talking points. No dog whistles.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Good morning, beloved. Know justice. Know peace. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

"The objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group." Experts in genocide prevention warn that current U.S. policies toward the trans community match historical patterns of mass atrocity. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

Well this is ought to but won't wake people up.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Regime change in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban resulted in the return of the Taliban Regime change in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein resulted in the rise of Daesh (ISIS) Regime change in Libya to remove Ghadaffi resulted in chaos and a decade plus of civil war 1/3

Destabilize foreign nations through invasion & forced regime change for resources. Refuse & demonize asylum seekers. Rinse. Repeat. This is not what peace looks like. Neoliberalism is a deadly worldview.

Given that guns are the leading cause of death for children in America, school shootings are rampant, men represent 98% of mass shooters, & white men represent 60%—I have absolutely Zero problem with daycare workers slamming the door on two anonymous angry white men screaming “Where Are The Kids!?!”

“Since the ceasefire & hostage deal came into effect on 10 October, at least 401 Palestinians have been killed & 1,108 injured. At least 1,500 structures have been destroyed. Over 11,000 people remain unaccounted for.” —Israeli Human Rights Org Breaking the Silence It was Never about the hostages.

“We don’t wanna give out tampons” Yes you do “We don’t wanna give away groceries” Yes you do “We don’t want to host health screenings” Actually you do… because that’s what your values look like

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.

if she had just left the planned broadcast alone, we'd already be on to some other topic

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, an Eritrean imam from Ohio and a 46-year-old green card holder, died while in immigration custody on Dec. 14 at a private detention facility in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. religionnews.com/2025/12/21/e...

BREAKING: Israel’s Cabinet approves proposal for 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank. This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years. 1/2

Good morning, beloved. Love is a group project. Make sure you do your part. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot force him to stay awake while his military seizes Venezuelan oil tankers, I will have to choice but to vote for him for a fourth time in 2028.

This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nation’s death warrant.

This week Trump's ICE fascists illegally kidnapped & deported a 19-year-old girl to Honduras despite a court order to keep her in the USA—while Trump himself pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of running Honduras "like a narco-state" & accepted millions in bribes from drug traffickers. smh.

Islamophobia is skyrocketing. I'm *finally* seeing some US news outlets mention it. Yet, even now, zero Muslim American voices on their panels. I'm an American Muslim, a well published human rights lawyer of 15+ years w/2.1M followers & my substack gets 2M+ reads per month. We exist. Bring us on.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

This administration made the decision that keeping immigration enforcement fully staffed was more important than keeping air traffic control staffed. That was a DECISION. Everyone needs to know that.

The sheer number of people Trump pardoned — 1,500+ — and the magnitude of violence many (most?) of them committed means it is statistically likely that a fair number will be revidivists, potentially for more egregious crimes. The pardons should be a top story EVERY DAY

The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”

I better not get not one email from the Democratic Party begging for money.

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

We’ll see? We’ve already seen. They’re willing to starve people as a negotiation tactic. They aren’t here for good faith deliberation. They aren’t working with anyone.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

For no particular reason, reminding y'all that Brown U scholars estimate that U.S. led post-9/11 war & violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, & Pakistan from 2001-2023 resulted in a total death toll of at least 4.5-4.7 million people & counting, mostly Muslim civilians. Still no WMDs though.🤔

The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.

Today is 105 year anniversary of Ocoee Election Day Massacre. On 11/2/1920 a white mob murdered 30 Black people, & burned 25 Black owned homes & Black churches—all b/c Black people dared exercise the right to vote Ocoee's entire Black community was exiled. No Black American moved back in until 1980

Bloomberg just doubled down on his support for Cuomo. Bloomberg—who has hoarded $109.4B—has spent $8M to get Cuomo elected. That's like the average American household spending $4.38. Billionaires got us into this affordability crisis. They will not get us out. Abolish billionaires. Vote Mamdani.

The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken. n.pr/4qBqlF7

There's never been a Black counterpart to the Hulk because the levels of anger we have to deal with on a daily basis are above what it takes to make Bruce Banner go green

Indeed. If people that wealthy want to give money to the government, they should pay more taxes.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Pathetic

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.