“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy — www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

They need to release this video to the public

This is good from the mayor. Democrats should also be pointing out all the pardons for similar crimes Trump is handing out.

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

I read this as Doctor Who sold ketamine…

Current* conditions near Holland, MI:

I cannot stress how incredible the art for this is bsky.app/profile/feit...

RESULT: James Solomon will be the next mayor of Jersey City. Solomon, running on a more progressive lane with WFP support, has easily defeated the establishment candidate Jim McGreevey, the former governor who resigned in scandal two decades ago.

Every gift that you make today will be DOUBLED. Thanks to a few very special supporters, every dollar up to $12,500 will be matched. So, please make a tax-deductible gift before midnight to help protect NYC’s endangered species. 🧵

Current* conditions near Holland, MI:

"the cuts resulted in the Food Bank for New York City receiving 10 million fewer pounds of food this year" and "Children’s Aid eliminating a program delivering weekly bags of food to 1,000 people" gothamist.com/news/nyc-non...

There is a free tool to migrate from Spotify to Apple Music and you won’t regret it

Lot going on here.

Americans are spending more but getting less. Although overall US online shopping increased 3% on Black Friday, it was driven by a 7% jump in the average selling price, according to Salesforce. https://cnn.it/48cFAND

I hope coming out of the holiday Dems really blast Trump for this. How can you be bombing boats of fishermen with one hand and freeing cocaine traffickers with the other - at the same damn time.

the stadium DJ hitting Knuck if You Buck mid-fight is incredible work. you spend all season working to be prepared for that moment

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

This is the future Democrats want.

Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link) www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

The absolutely dark truth is that the Boy Scouts admitted girls because of falling participation and the fallout from decades of covering up sex abuse on a scale with the Catholic Church.

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

This remains #1 on the list weird things about America’s Weirdest Guy (who we made president).

Man I posted this 11 hours ago and I think the story has changed twice more since lmfao. Now the state dept is contradicting Rubio saying it is the plan and he's walking *that* back and just calling it framework. No one knows what anyone is doing in this admin lmfao

Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.” Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)

I'm struggling to get my head around this. Two explanations I can think of: 1. This is severe Trump administration incompetence with an incoherent and disjointed White House and State Dept. 2. This is some BS Art of the Deal negotiation tactic to make the actual proposal look comparatively better.

The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy. Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

I feel the same way as I did when the NYC schools chancellor went to congress to defend our schools. He stood up for what he believes in and won over opponents.

It helps to have values that you believe in and people believe you believe in those values.

"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."

*Mortal Kombat voice* Flawless Victory

This album, Lux by Rosalia, is splendid. Gorgeous voices in 10 different languages doing 6 different genres with a big orchestra.

Politico is calling Mamdani a transplant and if you lived and went to high school in NYC you're not a transplant, even if you weren't born here. That isn't how this works. Even (most) immigrants are not transplants.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

On Vance distancing himself yesterday from Trump's happy talk about the economy. Vance is in touch with reality. He can be briefed on data and listens to business types. If he's talking down expectations, he probably has pretty good reason to think the economy's getting worse.

It’s crazy to think this is how much they’re lying in a time when EVERYTHING leaves some kind of digital footprint. Like, imagine 1965.

For example, the incident on October 23 where DHS claimed that Bovino was hit in the head with a rock before he deployed tear gas at protestors? That didn't happen. He fired tear gas and then AFTERWARDS, someone threw a rock. He went back and forth on this under oath, repeatedly changing his story.

When she gets to Gregory Bovino, she finds him completely uncredible, and says he was evasive or outright lied multiple times across three days of testimony — and not just any falsehoods, he was not telling the truth about multiple things which were all captured on video, making it all very obvious.

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.

Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina? None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Ah so they're playing the hits.

Thanks @pattonoswalt.bsky.social for pushing back on Maher's anti-trans BS. The fact that he won't even acknowledge that trans people are being targeted by the government is insane.

Great thread.