An important point that needs to be made on the AEI website. The best deal that the Trump administration is willing to offer Ukraine is still an abomination. Trump has so warped expectations that too many can’t admit this. @kschake.bsky.social www.aei.org/articles/tru...

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

This absolutely correct point isn’t getting enough attention. This framing of government services as public goods, & the moral and practical failure of alternative approaches that value only what is profitable & leave public goods unacknowledged, should be at the forefront of our politics right now.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump on Jan. 9, 2024: “I was never on Epstein’s plane.” Newly released documents: Trump was on Epstein’s plane multiple times.

These are the criminal words of a gangster regime: “It’s an honor to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S.” – Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Dec. 21, 2025, accepting his appointment as DJT’s “special envoy” to Greenland. ...

American social media platforms are banned in Russia. Have you noticed Donald isn't sanctioning anyone over that?

It’s good that SB1070 has such a clear pedigree in Arizona. Do they reserve that for the most clearly unconstitutional bill of the session?

“The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

concentration camps.

“.. if an applicant can find Trump at Mar-a-Lago or a White House event and ask for a pardon directly, Trump is often inclined to be helpful, administration officials said—particularly if someone says the magic words: ‘unjust persecution.’” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality. Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

ICE is out of control.

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

#ResistanceEarth An ancient Indigenous settlement has been discovered amid the industrial complexes on Corpus Christi Bay. Indigenous groups are battling to preserve the site, which sits on several hundred acres of scrubland, crisscrossed by wildlife trails. insideclimatenews.org/news/2312202...

Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

Also can some smart lawyer explain to me why the president being on the receiving end of a lawsuit distracts him from his job, using SCOTUS logic, but him suing civilians doesn’t?

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies reflect its “America First” priorities, a move critics said would weaken U.S. credibility abroad.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

ICYMI: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considered recording or following law enforcement to be obstruction of justice, and they said "that sure sounds like obstruction." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

Your daily reminder from the oligarch currently buying all the media for more minority control. Because intimidation as well as manipulation is how fascism delivers it. bsky.app/profile/404m...

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.” Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.” Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.” Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.” The pattern is ... not subtle.

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047... I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.

Bari Weiss wanted to cover up torture because she thought Stephen Miller's perspective was needed first. That's the headline.

24/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.

An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.

A corrupt banker was being prosecuted for bribery, so his daughter donated $2.5M to Trump's super PAC—and suddenly, Trump's DOJ overruled career prosecutors and let him off with a fucking misdemeanor. It’s crazy how easy it is to bribe these people.

“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond. truthout.org/articles/pol...

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Thank you, @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, for giving necessary attention to what’s going on with public education attacks in South Carolina. My story is but a drop in the bucket of the broader plot to make America dumb again. Education strengthens democracy. Destroying it hurts us all.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

If you are a whistleblower and need legal representation, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social may be able to help Please contact us www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/pro-bono-lit...

If it’s going to air later with just some extra interviews why is it necessary to take down all the promos? (rhetorical question)

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.