Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

these people aren’t “visionaries” they’re drunken blackjack players with a self-replenishing pile of chips and a bunch of sycophantic dopes saying shit like “splitting 10s is genius sir”

Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet, died #OTD in 1784. Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at 7 & one of the best-known poets in 18th-century America. Her achievements were a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement. poetryfoundation.org/poets/philli...#OTD#poetry

Today I was awarded the inaugural Silver Hull Peace Award from the fine folks at the Crypto Marina on Lake Winnipicacki. Fam like it too.

What a fucktard.

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

You know the saying “a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich,” that’s because it is incredibly easy to secure an indictment. As a career public defender for 15 years, I can tell you how rare it is for a grand jury not to indict. This happens only when a case is absolute BULLSHIT.

congrat's to ya'll

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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

And there's the motive.

Like a child with a new shiny toy

“What have I done!” 🤡

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

New Column: It took a village of cowards and weenies to make a man like Pete Hegseth defense secretary. newrepublic.com/post/204017/... via @newrepublic.com

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

“The entire place seethed with the most monstrous delight in the cruelty." Imbibing madness, and lust for domination. The coliseum and Lincoln's Second Inaugural. @philklay.bsky.social on Augustine, boat strikes. No one has the words quite like Phil. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

So they don't even have to pretend "pure motives." They just have to say "this was for partisan reasons, not because of race" and they win. It's disgusting and stupid, but that's where we are.

The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In which Erick Erickson had to come up with a fictional hypothetical in which he is the victim just to oppose a despotic move of self-aggrandizement by the president.

I'm struggling to articulate this in my teaching: there is a point in preserving the ideals of avoiding fear or favor and exercising reasoned judgment in law, even if they have to be kept in exile

It's like all these RW edgelords' cultural touchstones are just bullshit slop-summaries that grok spits out. They never do the actual reading.

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.

That the tariffs and National Guard deployment cases are still sitting on the Supreme Court docket while it greenlit an unconstitutional racial gerrymander tells you all you need to know about its priorities.

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

This clown is so desperate for a Nobel it's hilarious

But have they tested it relative to his recommended approach: give everyone brainworms?

My latest: "It is possible there are more ways to abuse the pardon power than Trump has found so far, but we would be hard pressed to think what they would be." www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-par...

there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

This bird’s greed delights me

Grifters, Ring-Kissers and Supporting Hatchet Men: It’s Time To Vote for 2025’s Golden Dukes talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grift...

Lots of interest here, and I will write about it. But what jumped out at me was ZM's observation that the laws we need are already on the books. We just need to enforce them. I mean, OF COURSE, but... it needs to be said.

Forty one minutes they watched them struggle then killed them anyway.

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

Anyone here with political aspirations, please take note. We live in an era, policy-wise where there is such a dearth of humanity that if you simply allow basic fundamental baby-brained levels of human decency to guide your policy it’s like 99% certain you’ll be goddamn Superman to the average voter

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

GD DJT

“We have little children going to school today whose president called them garbage.” ~Gov Tim Walz #Minnesota #GovWalz

Did the Supreme Court review that safety replay?

At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.

This is really important. The problem with the Roberts Court is not that they are conservative. It's that they are bad judges.

Ugh. SCt reinstates Texas map giving new seats to Rs, n/w/s finding below it was race-driven. Return of the shadow docket in all its nastiness--consequential case; big leg up to Republican party; dubious & threadbare ruling, failure to respect district ct, lockstep conservative supermajority 6-3.

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.

JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Work requirements have also failed real-life tests, largely because nearly two-thirds of Medicaid participants already work, and almost all the rest are sick or disabled, in school, or caring for relatives. lnk.thebulwark.com/3YbSm96

NEW: "George Santos with a Gun" — here's the first in a series of reports based on my 9-month investigation into Rep. Cory Mills. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...