I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough. Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Looks like it’s going to be another perfectly normal day from the American right-wing.

Trump's prosecutions of Comey and Letitia James fell apart precisely because he ousted career prosecutors who insisted on following facts and law. His installation of a pliant stooge is what blew up in his face. On the pod, @davidkurtz.bsky.social is great on this: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Pam Bondi’s DOJ values fealty over competence. This is the expected outcome

BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Total lunacy

Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb

This was horrifying to read… untold numbers of babies and mothers being subjected to slow, torturous, and often times preventable deaths during delivery due to misinformation, willful ignorance, or stubbornness

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.

Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao

New meme format just dropped:

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Remember when the DOJ and Pam Bondi were gleefully firing seasoned, competent, career prosecutors over tweets, refusals to lie to the court, or willingness to jeopardize their law licenses?? This is the result

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Insanity

good morning GOOB MORNO

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart: *Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander *Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map *Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next: newrepublic.com/article/2033...

A somewhat funny inter-cameral subtext to Thune absolutely screwing Johnson on ths Epstein bill after having screwed him on the CR with its comically corrupt payout to 8 members of the Senate R caucus.

Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”

you’ve now got MTG and massie both in open defiance, and trump doesn’t seem to be able to do a damned thing about it, other house republicans are going to notice

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on

He doesn’t need the House to vote to release the Epstein files. He could release them today but he hasn’t. He’s hoping for the Senate to bail him out or will then fall back on “we have an active investigation” to prevent release.

The $2,000 rebate could be the friends you made along the way

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Palpable desperation

Trump is melting down on Truth Social this morning over Epstein.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

Raskin on Ghislaine Maxwell: "The fact she was able to be transferred to a prison camp where no sex offenders had ever been allowed to enter before, much less live there, is an indication they've got some kind of meeting of the minds about what Trump can provide to her & what she can provide to him"

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

Since this administration loves to charge people with making false statements (see, e.g., Comey, James), I assume they will be charging Maxwell for lying to Blanche and the FBI agents who interviewed her, right?

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com