This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa. But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.

Off we go!

BREAKING Trump’s troops must get out of Los Angeles, a federal judge rules. (Ruling paused until Monday.) Look out for more coverage soon at All Rise News.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

I got asked to input my birthdate when I opened Blue sky today. Is that because of those countries implementing social media age restrictions? Because I've been here for a while, so it can't be a "finish setting up" thing.

Having given talks and published work about why this is a TERRIBLE idea, I gotta say, I’m not enjoying having to look on in horror as they actually do it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

If you put powerful AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior, we are going to create so much porn. New frontiers of porn. Porn you haven't even imagined.

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

'Homeland Defender' to decide who enters is so gross

That movie is *a ride*

I asked SouthCom why it used a Jerusalem Cross in a post about an operation in which the Trump admin has killed at least 87 people in Caribbean/Pacific missile strikes. “There is no other communication intent for this image” except showing soldiers “in a ready posture,” Col. Emanuel Ortiz told me.

A gem of a town in my home state.

“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree

How very not surprising 👇

This is my religion

Saying this ahead of hosting the FIFA World Cup, the largest annual sports event in the world, is self-ruining stupidity. With how violent ICE has been and now this threat, how many people are gonna want to travel here now?

What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough

Norris answers his critics with first F1 title - www.reuters.com/sports/formu...

“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.

When far right authoritarians team up to “defend democracy” by dismantling multilateral institutions, you know it’s an absolute con job.

"The judiciary is barely holding up. At this point, it all comes down to people having the will to resist. My concern will be the same next year as it is now: Do people have sufficient backbone to resist, or are they going to start looking out for themselves?" — @bradmossesq.bsky.social

Look at you, Lando

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Happy Birthday, kid. May you get the Internet argument you want today.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

There is no lawyered-up stretch of logic in which Mitch Bradley didn’t order a war crime and by extension, expose everyone under his command to liability for his unlawful actions.

Germany did this with Red Army Faction, and the FBI used to treat terrorists as criminals. We need to shed the GWOT approach to terrorism and get back to treating it as a (complex) criminal justice issue.

A magnitude 7 earthquake has rocked Alaska on Saturday, Dec. 6, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

'If I Did It'

It’s gonna be like “The Death Of Stalin” where the toadies, sycophants, and wannabes compete at everything - including walking in from the driveway. It’ll be an open scrimmage of untalented sociopaths jockeying for the cameras and podcast mics.

There is no point along the chain of command—from then-VADM Bradley down to the crew member triggering the missile—where anyone has any excuse whatsoever for giving or following that order.

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

So gratuitously and pointlessly spiteful and petty.

That’s … not headed to us then … that’s going to South America.

Everyone go look up jus ad vim.

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

Hegseth? Russia?

For those wondering how to distinguish a judicial warrant from an administrative warrant, www.motionlaw.com/the-differen...

The most basic journalistic follow-up question is *right there* "Which ones?"

This is the third newsroom (at least) with an FBI leak about the suspect being a Trump supporter. Seems some FBI folks — presumably not the political hires —are very eager to get this out there.

55th Annual Bowen’s Wharf tree lighting set for Saturday

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news. For the Irish for a start.

Russia signing a friendship treaty with you is the traditional advance notice of an invasion.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Cloudflare outage hits major web services including X, LinkedIn and Zoom – business live

Edinburgh Airport says no flights are currently operating due to an IT issue.

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This decision follows the organizers' choice to allow Israel to compete, despite concerns over its conduct in the Gaza war.

This action largely considered the worst racist atrocity of the Civil War was led by CSA Gen Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK. But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️