THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Before this year, the US govt hadn't taken a direct stake in a healthy commercial firm since at least the 1950s. Now, it's taken 14, with more coming. My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social laments 2025's worst policy development: "The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist" t.co/GYs7bvDhO5

Not the Onion. apnews.com/article/trum...

No one could have predict... Oh wait they did.

Armed Parkland police officers ran away Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

In keeping w “Kavanaugh Stops,” let’s call these Kennedy Pox.

With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets

The corruption in this administration is getting more and more blatant.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

As Brit Hume says, when Pete Hegseth says he "has the back" of Admiral Bradley, he means he's plunging a knife into it.

Without immigrants, the US is headed for economic contraction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?" Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC

This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison!

500,000 violations.

Hear, hear!

Good thread on why people defend abusers and rapists. Including famous ones they don't actually know.

Every time I get groceries I am admittedly amazed. The prices just keep climbing especially on the most random shit. Like bell peppers. What the fuck man. Those shouldn’t be at the price they are now. What the actual hell?

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

She probably wasn't supposed to admit that we are attacking Venezuela for oil.

Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.

Flag Code much? 🇺🇸

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

That sterile injectable your Dr. is giving you that was made in India, it could’ve been made in the same room with dead rats still stuck in traps. The FDA can’t tell you it wasn’t because we have no one doing inspections.

Your pacemaker could need an over the air update. You’re not getting it because there is no one to process the paperwork to allow that.

That guacamole you’re paying extra for at chipotle… could be filled with pesticides at harmful levels. We don’t know because no one is in the field to test the avocados before they cross the border.

Remember how he said he would lower prices “starting on day one”?

The loud part out loud

The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...

"I'd actually prefer it if these stories expanded from their interrogation of Meg Booth about her association with the Nazism of her husband, to also start interrogating her and every other Republican about their association with the Nazism of the Republican Party."

We need to repeat this over and over until even the clueless leadership of the Democratic Party gets it: We need to address THE COST OF BASIC NECESSITIES. Housing. Food. Transportation. Child care. Jobs. www.politico.com/news/2025/11... #democrats #DNC

Future Dem candidates take note

Trump pardoning the guy who helped boost his family's crypto scheme is par for the course, but we can’t look away. He’s abusing his power again and again to enrich himself and his family. The most corrupt president in history — and it’s not even close.

A timeline of events involving the shooting of news TikToker Richard L.A. and the subsequent lockdown and student walkouts at Santee High School. The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

WH allows criminal bribe anonymity

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Trump is bringing corruption to new depths - accepting huge bribes from foreign leaders in return for policy favors. If you haven't heard about this yet, you need to read this. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Think about it, take all the time you need

“It’s almost absurd that this would be acceptable. And for what? There’s no military benefit. There’s no community benefit. It’s posturing with militaristic bluster at the expense of the safety and well-being of the community.” calmatters.org/politics/202...

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

Call this what it is: rank corruption. Major corporations funding a president's vanity project is a textbook model for pay-to-play. Why else would tech giants, crypto firms, and defense contractors care about a 90,000 sq ft ballroom?

Excellent take on the big mistake being made by the billionaires supporting authoritarianism. Elon is the first to feel the burn, but he won't be the last.

Last weekend saw a lot of road closures in Toronto. Great to see ambulances using bike lanes to get people in distress where they need to go quickly. The trope touted by Ford and his like that bike lanes delay EMS response times has been proven false time and time again. #bikelanessavelives

This is TAXPAYER MONEY he's talking about. Trump wants $230 million of YOUR MONEY.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history