"A court order issued Wednesday revealed that the city Department of Investigation (DOI) has an ongoing investigation of whether Mayor Eric Adams violated ethics laws — a probe that is proceeding even after the mayor got his corruption case tossed after the Trump Justice Department abandoned it."

Just a straight up Klan rant at this point. His ability to control his impulses is declining by the day.

Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.

William Wolfe, if he has ever exceeded the speed limit or littered or jaywalked, is a criminal. Given those facts, William Wolfe, by nature of being a criminal, is a public safety threat. (Am I doing this right?)

…a racially profiling Donald Trump branded masked secret police force that doesn’t care if the (particularly brown) people they’re rounding up are citizens or not.

Unclear of exact circumstance or who is woman is, but it reminds me of a broader issue: The GOP basically had one cosmetic job; have their violent fun with ethnic cleansing but do it in a way with just a shred of plausible deniability so that enough Hispanic voters didn’t see what is so clearly…

PROFOLUS: A novel statistical model developed by scientists revealed at least 78,318 deaths in Gaza from October 2023 to December 2024 due to the Israel-Hamas war. Life expectancy at birth also fell by more than 40 percent.

An NYPD officer violated NY's sanctuary city laws limiting the department’s assistance to federal immigration agencies by accepting a request from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to flag individuals facing deportation, a new investigation report charges. buff.ly/HDcCRT1

Creepy as hell. Those poor girls!

Trump’s USDA is threatening to withhold food stamp funding for 20 Democrat-controlled states if they don’t share recipients’ sensitive personal data. Yes: Trump is weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans, including children, to score cheap political points. The cruelty is endless.

McNally cuts him off: The conditions that were observed by attorneys for plaintiffs, the court is not going to assume those are the only issues. There are some themes in the writing that I saw, and I want to be very clear about that. She's explaining the rules of civil procedure to the defense

I'm listening in on Judge McNally's hearing re: discovery shenanigans in Moreno v. Noem (Broadview ICE facility case). Follow along here!

Judge McNally: Why has the government not provided information about the food orders. Defense: (something about Subway orders?) It's hard to follow what he's saying. Says plaintiffs got information about sandwiches from third-party vendor. Now Judge McNally is reading the order on discovery to him

There was a time when US Attorneys were the best of the best. That is clearly no longer the case.

Defense: Some of this information has not been produced in the manner that they want, but ... and now he's just rambling about the burden of producing discovery. Says they have turned over "some documents." McNally: That doesn't answer my question.

McNally: Points to interrogatory asking about food service and showers inside Broadview. "What is the problem with answering that question?" Defense is saying something about not as many people being inside the facility negates the need for information.

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated security protocols meant to protect U.S. troops by using a personal device to share sensitive operational details on the messaging app Signal.

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report. Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

Happy Wednesday! We're halfway through the week! We had some low clouds that provided just enough visual interest as his sun broke through the horizon line this morning. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

We only rate dogs. This is a very cozy bed bug. We advise you to get a new bed, since this one is taken, and kindly request you only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (TT: coldsmuckersuncrustable)

Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Homan threatens to arrest Mpls police chief O'Hara for expressing concern about ICE tactics: "Bottom line is when ICE or Border Patrol shows up, they'll have gear on, & they may be wearing a mask to protect from doxxing themselves and their children...he ought to put his badge in the dust drawer"

After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.

This can't be true. How can they lose a child? I remember when I lost my son at Santa Cruz Beach and I went crazy looking for him. That poor father. And he is probably locked up and can't do anything about it. 😭

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

30' boat with 2x100Hp outboards loaded, can travel 35Mph, best case. Venezuela to US = 2300 miles = 7 days 24/7. 7 days x24 hours x 10 gal/hr x 2 motors=3,260 gallons of fuel=20,000lbs Plus fresh water and food. Open boat. Hurricane season. I call bullshit.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:we7sidyj3b5or2r7trtpfzt7/post/3m5tv4q4wvk2u.

The Thiel-linked Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) hosted a panel featuring Stephen Wolfe (author of the Case for Christian Nationalism) who wrote that “Non-Christians living among us are…not entitled to political equality.” ISI supports over 70 student-run publications across the country. 1/

There is no diplomacy in the democratic sense: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

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13/ I wish they had sounded the alarm sooner because the post-liberal takeover of conservatism has been going on for a while. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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5/ “Three Heritage…directors, @LarryArnn of @Hillsdale, Michael Gleba of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, &…@KevinRobertsTX, are trustees of ISI & attended the Friday meeting. None…questioned the judgment of platforming Yarvin” despite “being confronted w/ a long list of damning quotes from Yarvin.”

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“ISI is a prominent conservative collegiate intellectual institution,” which also “runs the Collegiate Network, a collection of…conservative newspapers on college campuses across the country.” Last April, ISI invited 8 college students to dinner w/Tucker Carlson & ALEX JONES. JFC 12/2/25 … 1/

Highly consistent with their lack of respect for the bodies, possessions, and will of others. Imperious and rapey AF

Sources in the Trump administration told @zeteo.com officials “intentionally use popular music from vocally anti-Trump performing artists, in order to trigger a negative response from a famous liberal & provide further amplification” of neo-Confederate memes: “We do it on purpose,” one official said

It isn't. It violates their DMV permit and if egregious enough could get them suspended. Waymo has also been doing it in a variety of ways all along. It could also subject them to a NHTSA recall if the behaviors are known to be unsafe, as happened to Tesla AP/FSD when it was making rolling stops.

How is it legal to program cars to break traffic laws

“They’re bending traffic laws, getting impatient with pedestrians and embracing the idea that when it comes to city driving, politeness doesn’t pay… Waymo has been trying to make its cars “confidently assertive,” says Chris Ludwick, a senior director of product management with Waymo”

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—pardoned by Trump while the counting in Honduras’ current presidential election is still in progress—-was accused not only of drug trafficking, but also of election fraud during the 2013 and 2017 Honduran presidential elections. 1/

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

No true follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ could support this person. But a lot of fake Christians do.

“The garden will also pay tribute to Dr. Dawn K. Smith, a researcher with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose work helped prove that pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, can prevent HIV, and who pushed to expand access in communities of color.”

It’s gotten difficult to link to sources in 2025 because so many of them are paywalled - and still failing because normies can’t afford subs to every news site. The free sites are overwhelmingly right wing propaganda sites, funded by billionaires with very deep pockets. Seems like a problem.

Leader of newly expanded paramilitary force, accused of bribery, promises to arrest law enforcement in dissenting cities

Trump is petitioning Aileen Cannon to keep the Jack Smith documents case report secret permanently. Anything less, his attorney Kendra Wharton wrote, would “perpetuate Jack Smith’s unlawful criminal investigations and proceedings.” Hiding his treason. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...