Kavanaugh should never be allowed to live down the Kavanaugh stop

We told them they could gamble their way to the truth! And they bought it!

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.

Everything about this murderous military campaign in the Caribbean is wrong. Illegal, immoral, bad strategy, based on lies and nonsensical justifications. We’ve suffered too many deaths from opiate overdoses so we’re going to kill some people far away who may or may not have some cocaine? Insane.

The protester faced prison — but the charges got dropped right after video emerged. Cole Sheridan told his story to @chipmitchell1.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face, sobs admiral who committed war crimes for leopards.

NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit. And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it. It's vice signaling as a way of life.

JD Vance pushed the recent Russia-friendly "peace" plan, effectively trying to get Ukraine to surrender. It didn't work. But it's hardly the first time. Why does he keep trying to help Russia win? Because he's a far right ideologue who sees Putin as a culture war champion. New from me, in @ms.now

Leavitt confirms the Trump administration is only letting in white people

If your doctor decided you needed an MRI (indicating concern about something serious) and you claim that you didn't ask why or what part of your body he wanted to look at, you are: 1. Really stupid; or 2. Dangerously detached from reality; or 4. Lying; or 4. All three. 🎯

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

I'm not sure I can stand to watch the Sunday news shows anymore. It has just been an endless series of watching journalists get dog-walked by fascist propagandists (with little to no coherent pushback on the truth).

Courts need to stop assuming the government is acting properly or telling the truth about anything. The regime has torched any reason to abide by the "presumption of regularity" in the courts. That era is *done*.

“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.

Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.

Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”

I'd rather they just confront them on why they're using fascist jargon for ethnic cleansing while calling for ethnically cleansing America. There's zero value to setting up consistently dishonest people to lie about it, frame it for the public first, and only then challenge them on it.

Just getting a ton of fascist propaganda from the federal government in my facebook feed lately. The war for Western Civilization rhetoric is straight out of old-school fascist propaganda. And "Americanism" is 1920s Klan rhetoric. Full stop.

Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom. Among the provisions: -Pay a big bribe -Give the govt data on students -Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism" -Be cruel to trans students What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?

Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!

Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1. Not in spite of, because. That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.

So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy. Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.

I talked to @jasonaw.bsky.social about why I’m unsurprised, but distressed, how many Project 2025 applicants cited explicit authoritarian figures as influencing their thought and career choices. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Department of Homeland Security posted an active call for far-right ethnic cleansing today. Not a dogwhistle, not a euphemism, just directly saying “we must eliminate all non-whites from America." The US is not "on the road to fascist authoritarian white supremacy." It's at the destination.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino arrested a protester on charges of assaulting a federal officer at a Broadview immigration facility, but video evidence later contradicted his account and showed the protester being pushed to the ground instead.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

Dear press: Maybe when Trump insults a colleague ya, I don’t know, speak up? Thanks

Declaration of white supremacy

The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want. In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

Gutting US counterterrorism and federal law enforcement capacity was a bad idea. Sorry to get so partisan. I know the president wants to see more political violence in the US, and thinks it's important for federal forces to prioritize crackdowns on nonviolent, noncriminal migrants. I just disagree.

At this point I'm expecting Cillizza to also become a major player in the scandal. Obviously not in any sort of intellectual capacity.

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

In other NEWS: Masked agents took at least 15 street vendors from Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. “Worst of the worst,” they aren’t. Story by @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social & @zareensyed.bsky.social about neighbors rallying to support culture under attack www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/c...

Really not a fan of coverage that goes “Diplomatic Agreement Reached, What an Achievement!” in the headline and “except all the major points of contention still have to be worked out and no one has the slightest idea how to implement what’s been agreed to” in a subhead or body. That’s a disservice.

A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it. A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

The Palace of Versailles in France is now displaying robes created over 300 years ago by Inohka, or “Illinois People” — Native American tribes whose homeland include Illinois.

Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx

"Ukraine has indeed agreed in principle to the framework deal reworked in Geneva. But the thing is these are not "minor details," as a US official put it. The issues still to be worked out include the two biggest and most contentious matters: security guarantees and territory." - Miller