"Move to the center. Inject some civility into your hate speech."

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

I think this is the point most missed. Right now I am a citizen by the constitution. To strip me of it requires an amendment, or SCOTUS making up bullshit; only the latter is possible. If my citizenship isn't from the constitution, then I am a citizen at the whim of Congress, which will be stacked.

It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship. The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.

I have *zero* proof of citizenship because my parents has no proof because their parents have no proof and their parents have no proof… you have to go back to the early 1900s to find anyone in my family becoming naturalized. Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.

🚨BREAKING: Trump is waiving remaining fines against Southwest for its holiday meltdown — and he’s shut down the government suit against the airline for “chronically delayed flights.” The announcement came from the Transportation Dept, now run by former airline lobbyist Sean Duffy.

Breaking treaties while pretending not to break treaties. Identical twin of rewriting the constitution while pretending not to rewrite the constitution.

Utah has had universal vote-by-mail since 2019, and a recent poll found that 87 percent of Utahns trust that their ballots are counted accurately. But Utah’s governor signed a law this spring that ends this system.

Liberal democracy is not a person; it's a set of institutions. The $64,000 question is how - and whether - we can rebuild *that.*

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

Virginia takes a necessary but not sufficient step to protect ordinary ratepayers from data center electrification costs. (1/2) www.eenews.net/articles/vir...

Disturbing

West Coast Health Alliance, and Leading National Medical Organizations Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns Hepatitis B vaccinations for all infants at birth have reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections in the United States by 99 percent. RFK Jr ended them. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...

I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources. Welcome to irrelevance.

The top priority listed in this document is “Ending Mass Migration.” Hard to highlight a single passage here—this entire page is a pretty explicit defense of using the state as a means of enforcing white supremacy.

What is next for MAGA?   I wrote about the MAGA civil war, the dynamics shaping this ugly struggle for supremacy on the Right, what Trumpism without Trump might look like, and why MAGA is likely to emerge more ideological and more radical.   Some thoughts from my new piece for @zeit.de:

Relitigating every stable aspect (vaccines, birthright citizenship, the 2020 election, etc.) of American life has been exhausting. Every day feels like a colossal waste of time that just consumes so much energy that would be better spent on literally anything else. Exhausting!

This inaugural award is probably (I hope) the only time it’s given. I means seriously what does FIFA know about peace?

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

"Only a fool would reduce our problems with schools, crime, urban decay, and so on to refugees, who comprise less than less than 1 percent of the population." Or the president of the United States, but we repeat ourselves. lnk.thebulwark.com/48EQjzA

In 2017, Trump called up Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to tell him what a great job he was doing with the drug problem. Duterte told the media Trump said he did it "the right way" Duterte is awaiting trial in Hague right now for what he did. edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/p...

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said earlier today that seeing this video was "one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service." "People will someday see this video and they will see that that video shows ... an attack on shipwrecked sailors."

Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Achievement gaps exist at School District of Lancaster due to lack of resources: official lanc.news/4pNk9IK

Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”

The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted a stay, allowing Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026, delivering a major win for President Donald Trump and his unprecedented national effort to rig the upcoming midterm elections.

if you're trying to automate news for speed frankly you've already lost the plot, for a number of reasons. very telling that this has a lot of words about "how" and almost zero words about "why"

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Really good reporting. Learned stuff I didn’t know. Trumps comments are reprehensible. Real leaders don’t talk the way he does. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Mike Johnson is set to swear in Republican Matt Van Epps about 36 hours after he won his election. It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit

NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

The city of Lancaster’s budget process and explanations are so much better than the county.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives.

I posted this… The press must contact each person standing behind the President today during his racist rant. Ask them if they agree with him and give them the chance to distance themselves. Publish or broadcast their responses and their names.

We should all be appalled that a person entrusted with one of the most sensitive jobs in all of government seems to be treating his work as child’s play.

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...

Exclusive: The four-star admiral in charge of Caribbean operations had concerns about the legality of the boat strikes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to retire shortly after they started.

Yes, this is worth listening to. In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled. Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

These tech guys (who seem to believe they are geniuses / philosopher kings) like to use Trump's "derangement syndrome" line to describe liberals and whoever else … meanwhile listen to them speak and its clear they are in an echo-chamber and experiencing derangement like few others

This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t. No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.

Seditious conspiracy is the most serious crime charged for Jan. 6, with Oathkeepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted. Absurd accusations of sedition merely for saying troops should honor their oath and follow the law are not only meant to intimidate, they also aim to render the concept meaningless.

If you are wealthy in Trump’s America, you can commit any crime you want with zero consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

"The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight." Great piece by @mollytaft.com