Merry Christmas. It is a time for renewal. As so much hate, tragedy, fear, greed, and division surrounds us, here’s to what we can do with this holiday spirit in 2026 and the years to come. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-...

People treating human beings like Amazon packages is why we need a new moral awakening, as @raushenbush.bsky.social and I expanded upon @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-...

Disgusting. “The administration’s goal, ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

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Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever. It might be time to rename the Streisand Effect.

Two things here: 1. Trump is *WILDLY* unpopular. 2. His Republican support is cult-like.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

I recall Caligula used to order that the heads of prior nobles or gods be chopped off existing statues and replaced with his own. Thinking of that these days for no particular reason. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

As we wrote in @columjournreview.bsky.social, the Orban playbook was to pressure media companies, find an ally to purchase them when that pressure made them financially vulnerable, then have the ally install loyalists to turn the outlet in regime propaganda. #BariWeiss www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...

No one is going to tune in to CBS because they know it won’t be critical of Trump but lots of people will tune out for that reason. Spiking the CECOT story to curry favor is a terrible moral and journalistic decision — but it’s also a terrible business decision.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

It sure looks like Bari Weiss is now acting as censor for an authoritarian regime, and getting rich for doing it. #Principles

If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32

"A moral reawakening would compel us to look honestly at what we are doing to immigrants—and why," write President of @interfaithalliance.org, @raushenbush.bsky.social and @ianbassin.bsky.social for the @thebulwark.com. Read their piece: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-new-great-awakening

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Choose love, not ICE. ❤️ NEW from Reverend @raushenbush.bsky.social & @protectdemocracy.org's @ianbassin.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com:

NEW: There are three reasons why this religious mobilization is so critical — and is having such a profound impact. One is moral, one practical, and one historical. Read about them in our latest weekly briefing: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/this-holiday-season-choose-love-not

Exhibit #3,467 that selling yourself out for Donald Trump gets you stabbed in the back in return whenever it suits him. They’ll never learn. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

The lengths Trump is going to to avoid releasing these files is EXTREME. I was not originally a believer that he had something massive to hide here but his behavior is pretty much proving the opposite. At this point we must conclude there's something damning there that he'll never let out.

W @interfaithalliance.org we just launched a six-figure ad buy contrasting the holiday spirit with what ICE is doing to our neighbors. @raushenbush.bsky.social and I on why and the need for a new Great Awakening to turn away from the hate all around us. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

This is North Korea level. How people continue to stand by this without being too embarrassed to show their face is beyond me.

Will a copy of the federal indictment charging him with corruption be in it?

the president shouting economic statistics at voters instead of empathizing with them on the cost of living is the type of thing that turned people off of joe biden in 2024

You can feel Trump’s grip on the one thing that has been his superpower— attention and narrative — slipping away. As his approval sinks, the attention grabbing tactics that used to work for him seem more and more desperate.

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

Fascinating data that Trump being president causes the highest number of congressional departures for a president's own party. Says everything about the way he treats a co-equal branch even controlled by his own party!

Let us recall that not that long ago, it felt around the world like freedom was on the march. Things have reversed in the past 15 years. But just as they turned backwards quickly, so too can they turn forwards again. May the spirit of Mohamed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring that followed rise again

The good folks over at @theunpopulist.net are putting out a lot of good content these days. Help support their anti-authoritarian work by subscribing www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

There are books with names like “The closing of the western mind” that document how nearly two millennia ago an empire drove away science and learning to bring on the dark ages. Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.

National Review: “The president of the United States is a hateful raging lunatic with all the empathy of Jeffrey Dahmer.” www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-...

The US wars in the Mideast for oil were the kinds of imperialist foreign adventures Trump literally ran promising to end. It’s just bananas that he thinks he can trick his base into now backing an even more egregious one bc he’s the one doing it. He really treats them like suckers.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social: It is the responsibility of Congress to declare and authorize the use of military force. Congress has not authorized a military use of force. There has not been a case made, and I think the absence of one really speaks volumes.

#LetsGoKnicks!!

The person who helped locate the Brown shooter is an immigrant. The person in Sydney who tackled one of the shooters is Muslim. Sometimes the people who are most willing to help others are from communities that know first-hand how much hatred threatens the values we need to live together.

When I wrote below that we, the forces of democracy and freedom, are going to win, it was based on this. Autocrats need allies to help them consolidate power. That doesn't happen when they're weak and bleeding support. He's now losing ground w his own base. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/we-are-goi...

No president in American history has profited off the presidency like this Not close Foreign money Crypto schemes Access for sale And a net worth up billions This week on @contrariannews.org we discuss Trump's top 10 profiteering scandals - TN contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

We are going to win. To understand why Trump is losing his race against time and the forces of freedom and democracy are going to prevail, read the latest from @protectdemocracy.org www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/we-are-goi...

“agencies are leveraging data collected for legitimate governmental purposes — tax compliance, pensions, medical and food security benefits, and now airport security — and repurposing it for surveillance.” www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/ice-is-mon...

"one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy." @jvl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

One of this enterprise’s premier products is a book it spent years crafting that purports to explain the US Constitution. What a bunch of frauds.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

I just don't see how the court can avoid at least sanctioning the attorneys at this point.

Unfortunately, under our Kavanaugh Stops regime, it is entirely rational for anyone who appears Hispanic to carry proof of citizenship at all times. The worst part is that it might not be enough: ICE/CBP keep arresting people who have proof of citizenship, refusing to accept its validity.

This story is insane, but the moral appears to be don’t fuck with @dfriedman.bsky.social.