A just peace that can last, with Russia ending its aggression and NATO providing credible security guarantees with troops on the ground to deter Russia from attacking a third time? Or a conqueror’s peace where Ukraine surrenders, gives Putin what he wants, and leaves itself open to future attacks?

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

The current American political system

The Trump admin is targeting people who combat disinformation and hate online because the Trump admin is filled with people devoted to spreading disinformation and hate online (the president included). www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Din Tai Fung in Times Square is closed today, which seems like a MBA case study in an international company lacking local cultural competence

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Bottom line of a fascinating thread. Getting high quality results from an LLM is possible, but it requires a high level of sophistication on the part of the user, and significant time and effort.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

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.

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

“It’s called separation of powers—we separate you from your powers!” a 1973 political cartoon from Herb Block still works for today

Coercive diplomacy requires a threat AND a promise not to carry out the threat of the target complies.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

"The perpetrator of this deed brings down upon all of us the painful charge that we Americans are prisoners of violence, destruction, and death. That is the tragedy of it. Restraint, gentleness, and charity. Virtues that we so desperately need have had a dark day." —Chet Huntley, 1968

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

Covid vaccines released last fall sharply decreased the risk of ER and urgent care visits in children, according to new data released by the CDC — providing a striking counterpoint to Trump administration rhetoric about the shots Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...

What is wrong with Trump's engagement in the Russia-Ukraine war (everything): 1. Russia needs to be pressured, but Trump refuses to do that & gives no arms or money to Ukraine. 2. Trump regularly abuses Ukraine & Zelensky, but demands nothing from Russia. /1

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different. Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?" Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The extraordinary environmental degradation caused by US ag is rooted in agricultural exceptionalism & the myth of farmers as land stewards. “Where the BLM has conducted [environmental] assessments, it found grazing had degraded at least 38 million acres, an area about half the size of New Mexico.”

@hcrichardson.bsky.social today.

Today in 1972, as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ron Evans were rocketing toward the Moon, one of them looked back and took this iconic photograph, the first to capture a fully-illuminated round Earth and the only one taken by a human being.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

This is so fucked. It means they already studied for and passed their citizenship test (which I guarantee most Americans would fail). They were just waiting for the ceremony to make it official.

Brockmire is now on Netflix, if you were still clinging for excuses to not watch.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Today was day 1 for Squid Facts advent calendars, a stellar day! We have 3 of them going in 3 apts in our bldg, so each day we can debate whether the Eel Fact, the Crab Fact, or the Frog fact was best. 🐸🦀🐍 Day #1 all were great but Eel Fact wins! So glad I got some extra eel ones to gift next year!

On this first day of Advent, I know one more Eel Fact than I did in November. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations: 1) Make money 2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1 3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine And that’s apparently it. Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war

I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.

Visiting on their national holiday... What do you mean, Turkey Day isn't the national holiday of Turkey?

On June 21, 1970, a seven-man court-martial in Da Nang sentenced Michael Schwartz to imprisonment for life. Private Schwartz, from Weirton, West Virginia, was 21 and married, with a three-year-old son. Schwartz was convicted of killing 12 civilians. He was acting under orders. ...