Off to a good start

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

My take on people wearing face masks is very simple: It's not my face, so I mind my own business. That's it. That's the whole take.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?

🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

This is profoundly un-American. No—that's not right. It's *anti*-American. It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions. The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

Why is James Cook trending did the hawaiians get his ass again

How was your year? Probably not as good as the year the 500 richest billionaires had. www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

#GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social 🚨ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? Mike Johnson waited 50 DAYS to swear in Adelita Grijalva but he swore in Matt Van Epps from Tennessee 48 HOURS after his special election. Mike Johnson is a piece of shit.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

The Trump admin has decided it will no longer commemorate December 1st, World AIDS Day. Fed employees have been instructed to refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches, or other public-facing messaging.

I hope this wrongly identified woman sues The Blaze, Glenn Beck and every other (ir)responsible individual/entity for every penny they are worth. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jan...

This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD. All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold. Definitely zoom in and read for yourself. Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.

Quiet part, meet out loud.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin. He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S. Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed. Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Yet another death due to a woman's pain being dismissed by a medical institution, even one of their own.

I wrote something about ProPublica's latest devastating report jessica.substack.com/p/propublica...

Alexei ❤️

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com A green card holder returning from vacation. An asylum recipient at a “routine check-in.” A woman reapplying for her work visa. All of them were legally in the U.S. when they were suddenly arrested and detained by ICE. nyti.ms/4i5gsM5

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Do republicans yelling at us about Bill Clinton realize most of us were children during his administration and legally prohibited from voting? lol This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

“According to the amended suit, people detained by federal immigration officers in Oregon have been held in [ICE] field offices in Portland and Eugene without access to a lawyer, even when those attorneys are present on the property, immigration attorneys say.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Don't cross a picket line.