The Republican Congress spent almost two years and issued a nearly 3,000 page report on Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. What Trump is doing is orders or magnitude sketchier and not one of these pardons lasts longer than a day in the news cycle & Congress is silent🙃

Walz comment, via NBC: “The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Lost in this one because its so absurd is that this is, again, a blatant violation of the emoluments clause and this is a clear case of someone trying to influence the foreign policy of the United States through gifts given to Trump.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Transparent, open bribery.

Everyone knows only one twin gets a soul.

A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

They're trying to escalate. They're trying to start something so they can put it down violently. Why else would she say stuff like this?

The only thing Senate Dems should be approving are convictions and removals via impeachments. There is no justification for Democrats to approve any appointments sent to the Senate by this lawless administration.

“But he thought—“ I don’t care what he thought. The person with the badge, gun, and government paycheck is meant to be held to a higher standard than any old yahoo on the street. If he thought he was going to be hit he should have jumped out of the way WHICH IS WHAT HE DID. And then he killed her.

Impeach Kristi Noem.

Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.

Everyone is so scared of being accused of overreacting to Trump that they simply fail to react to Trump

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

Just really fucking angry at how unnecessary this all is and the pathetic cowards who let it happen. Do your constitutionally mandated job and put him in jail before he does it to you first.

Trump has pardoned MULTIPLE drug dealers - Silk Road, Binance, former President of Honduras - so this has NOTHING to do with fighting drugs. This is about oil, only oil, only ways for Trump to enrich himself and his political and financial allies. zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Generationally, the US Senate is comically unrepresentative of the general US population. Source: buff.ly/SvkDT4I

Writers and publishers vastly overestimate my interest in spending the last weeks of the year reading their articles and posts I skipped all year long. I do appreciate end of year music appreciation lists, though.

When I say WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, I mean agriculture is eating the earth. Farms cover 40% of our land, and they’re overrunning a soccer field worth of forest every six seconds. When you eat a burger, you’re eating the Amazon.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Funny how they can move so fast to illegally put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, but so slow to release all the instances of Trump's name all over the Epstein files.

Not a day goes by that I don’t miss my dear friend Melissa. An incredible piece.

Everything started going downhill when apple took away the headphone jack

There are SO MANY other ways to effectively fight the the fucking right than screaming into the social media void and making yourself feel as awful as these dickheads actually are. They want to exhaust you here so you feel helpless everywhere else. Fuck them. Conserve your joy, online and off.

I’m convinced that the antivax movement will look like an absolute act of stupidity to historians. The US willingly reintroducing measles is just baffling…

Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

I think it's disgusting that the Times chose to try and rehabilitate these goons. What the article actually demonstrates is that the young Republicans are chock full of racists. The story chronicles the constant firing of staff because of their racist & white nationalist views.

Even more than the fascism and white supremacy, the very core of MAGA is the endless drive to make us accomplices in Trump's own narcissism. Their primary ideological commitment is "Trump is great" and they will attack and punish us until we, too, admit Trump is great.

Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.

Deleting cyber monday emails like it's my job.

fraudsters stick together

Trump should go immediately to jail having his son-in-law, running private investment firm, negotiating with Russians for deals of hundreds of billions of dollars to benefit Trump family clan. Most obscene corruption & betrayal of national interest in history. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

"Rolling two six-sided dice (2d6) gives results from 2 to 12 with a bell curve distribution. Seven being the most common result, two and twelve being the least common. But what if one could do this with a single die?"

Deleting black friday emails like it's my job.

Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know: in J.R.R. #Tolkien's Númenor, the people conducted annually Three Prayers - ceremonies in praise of Eru. The last of these was "Eruhantalë" - or "Thanksgiving to Eru" - and took place at the end of Autumn. Image: David Greset #BookSky

Important developments. The Montana Supreme Court has played a really important role in heading off far-right conservatism in the state, so of course the Republican Party is weaponizing the ethics process to attack them.

Why do Democrats still support subsidies for rich farmers who hate them? It’s dumb policy and dumb politics. Stop obsessing about America’s 2 million farmers. Start thinking about America’s 350 million eaters.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...