The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

I like the suggestion here that a mob boss ("patrimonial" if you must) regime is particularly vulnerable to charges of corruption. It's singing @adambonica.bsky.social's tune.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Make a Bond movie academic The Worldcat is Not Enough

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

The State of Jefferson maniacs are literally secessionists

Refusing to faithfully execute an important law that passed Congress with only a single no vote should be an uncontroversial basis for impeachment and removal.

an episode of black mirror about a man who stays with his parents for the night and lowers the thermostat, causing an arctic blast of frigid air that envelops the earth, and leading to a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice, written by my dad.

CBS News has cancelled a story about Christmas because Stephen Miller was not allowed to argue that only Italian-Americans are worthy of salvation.

Make a Bond movie academic Committee Royale

Quite possible that this operation was put together by intelligent people who are simply trying to get Trump and Hesgeth to stfu

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are being trolled by Stephen Miller.

kind of comforting to come back to Chicago, turn on WXRT, and hear the same music they've been playing since I was in high school

Such an unbelievable loser

These are Roberts Pardons

I would be interested in hearing from people who know this world whether this is headed toward Ms. Weiss resigning, the professional journalists jumping ship, or both.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Really hard to imagine this opinion coming down the way it did if Illinoisans hadn't rallied to protect their neighbors and Pritzker hadn't publicly and forcefully resisted the administration.

Big ups to Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social who flagged this argument that SCOTUS relied on (that regular forces refer to military forces, not federal law enforcement).

Justice Alito seems to have missed that the government's account of the Marimar Martinez shooting has been completely discredited.

Tbf they probably fired the people who initially looked into it

When your physical therapist shows you a new stretch

Smart stuff on the MAGA project's dependency on state capacity that DOGE and Vought have sabotaged. One small note of caution is that the buildout of the federal police (immigration) state continues apace, and we don't yet know how it will end.

"I am deeply worried that President Trump has brought about a collapse in the governing capacity of American political institutions...But I am no longer worried that President Trump has created a durable political economy that realigns the electorate." newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...

A legend indeed

Have they tried putting one of those “protected by” signs out front?

A funny thing about the Epstein law is that if there's actually a prosecutorial memo exonerating Trump, DOJ is required to disclose it without redactions except for the names of victims.

Well worth a watch. archive.org/details/ceco...

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

Can't have HBO producing documentaries about what happens to migrants the government renders to El Salvador

Even on her own terms, an on air interview with the victims of torture is very different than a newspaper's summary of what happened to them, and it certainly represents a novel and important contribution to public debate over the legality and morality of their treatment by the U.S. government.

Durbin is also considering a blue ribbon commission, but doesn't want to be hasty on that one.

ooh a lawsuit, what a political genius

At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is

On Sunday, @60minutes.bsky.social pulled a segment on torture against US deportees in CECOT, El Salvador's mega prison. Curious what the story said? Read HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social's report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

This is going to end with Bari Weiss interviewing Stephen Miller, nodding studiously along as he explains the need to cleanse the blood of the country.

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

We needed to get more reporting from Nayib Bukele.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

This account of how the Trump admin carried out a once-unthinkable overhaul of government in 2025 is based on a year’s worth of messages and interviews with more than 1,200 current and former federal workers. Please read from me and @merylkornfield.bsky.social. wapo.st/4b14KAy

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

this isn’t how you legally redact documents. there’s always some segregable text that isn’t sensitive, whether it’s headers, dates, or whatever. this is almost passive aggressive.

Inherent contempt means sending the House Sergeant at Arms to arrest Bondi fwiw

What's poetic about Stefanik is that she knew exactly what she was doing, every step of the way.

Oh my god I was right