This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.

Had not planned to shop today, but visiting Hyde Park had to stop by 57th Street Books—and cannot go in there without buying. These two, next to each other in store and both already on my to-read list, are now on top of my to-read pile. (Pictured on kitchen table just prior.)

there is a direct line from 2001/2002 - Cheney (gloves are off), Gonzales (Geneva Conventions are "quaint"), Yoo (Geneva doesn't apply to Afghanistan) - to today. a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.

Reading the deposition he gave in Chicago you can understand why it is that Judge Ellis tore into him. The first substantive question is "What is your role in Operation Midway Blitz?" Bovino essentially gives his title and no further details. 8 pages later, the lawyer gives up.

Journalists speaking to any Administration official have a simple question to ask: Please define “remigration”. It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

‘The distinction between the government's right to speak for itself and the First Amendment's prohibition on government censorship of speech often comes down to whether the government is attempting to "convince" versus attempting to "coerce."’ www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Northwestern: We are only doing this because of government coercion. Very helpful for any future faculty lawsuits in light of the caselaw on informal coercion / jawboning (e.g., NRA v. Vullo (2024))

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...

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.

It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.

Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: “It’s all about arresting people.” Ace @chicagotribune.com team reports on a trove of body cam videos www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...

Good story from Chicago's @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com on how CBP boss Greg Bovino is caught in yet another lie: “The video demonstrates that, not only did I have no kind of altercation with Bovino, I wasn’t even in front of him." chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Here, Putin says he never had any intention of signing any peace agreement. If you couldn’t understand this until now.

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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

We should never forget that our Guardsmen and women are our neighbors. Our troops always deserve our support—and my thoughts are with the National Guard community today and every day.

“The Board of Review is still working on a schedule to allow homeowners who have not already appealed to make their claim.”

OF COURSE the leaked transcript was an attempt to disrupt damaging US-Russian peace talks, which are extremely dangerous for Europe and Ukraine www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

Maybe quick ask your history department how capitulation to tyrants works out.

Thanksgiving myths endure for a reason. This 2013 piece by John Eicher explores how the holiday became a tool of national unity and why debunking it misses the point. inthesetimes.com/article/e-pl...

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“Trump and Vance imagine, because it has worked thus far, that they can grift endlessly. They do not understand that their grift depends upon … the honest labor and decent convictions of millions of Americans.” Timothy Snyder on “The Grift Bubble”: snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

And this excellent piece by the always incisive @timothysnyder.bsky.social reads strangely like vintage Slavoj Žižek. I mean that as praise, I genuinely do! snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

Witkoff advising a foreign leader on how to manipulate and mind-game his own president? And these kinds of actors trying to decide (even partially) Ukraine’s future? How about no. And also… subpoena. P.s. “We will do everything neatly.”

NEW: The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Finally shelled this season's #gardening #harvest of #beans: 364g (12.85oz) of dried painted lady and scarlet runner beans

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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

A Gmail parody has made combing through Jeffrey Epstein's emails with the world's most powerful as easy as opening your email.

I claimed some months ago that Trump's autocratic power was underwritten NOT by his national popularity, as is the case with other autocratic leaders (since he's not popular), but rather his deathlock on the Republican primary electorate. But leaving office entirely removes this discipline...

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.

The Associated Press is continuing to challenge the Trump admin in court over President Trump's attempt to bar the newswire from events unless/until it agrees to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." A hearing is underway in DC right now 🧵

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Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

Three days later, some of our mainstream media are latching on to who has been hoodwinked by Russia into endorsing the 28-point “peace plan”, and how easy it was for Moscow. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/979bdd6...

#USOC2026 4th Qualifying Round: "Win & You're In": BOHFS St. Lous holds on to defeat Chicago House 3 to 2 for their 1st USOC appearance in their 1st attempt, Goals by Michael Utley, Brian Bennett and Elliot Goodwin see the debutants through

We live in an age where there's a glut of information and scarcity of attention, mediated through platforms that prioritise engagement over accuracy, and emotion captures attention more readily than reason.

very nice goal with a backheel and a nutmeg in the build up

Kikis pulls one back in the final minutes. House 2–3 BOHFS. #USOC

Been a close one so far! 🕵️‍♂️ BOHFS 2 - 1 House 🏠 HALF Watch Here: fan.hudl.com/usa/mo/st-lo... #MidwestGrown

Windy City vs. Mound City ⚽️ A rivalry 135+ years in the making. With House taking on BOFHS this weekend for a spot in the 2026 US Open Cup, we’re revisiting 10 iconic Chicago–St. Louis battles that built the rivalry. 📰: www.chicagohouseac.com/blog/the-win... #OurCityOurHouse #USOC2026 #USOC

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These are people who entered legally and applied for asylum after entry while still in status. But the process is so backlogged that their visa inevitably expired while going through it. In every previously admin, so long as they didn’t commit a crime, they wouldn’t be detained. No longer.

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

BIG TIME PLAYER IN A BIG TIME MOMENT. ROSE LAVELLE GETS GOTHAM UP 1-0! #NWSLChampionship | Google Pixel

lol watching the NWSL final, which is taking place in San Jose, and Washington Spirit fans started shouting the now customary "Free DC!" chant at the 51st minute. An announcer just calmly comments fans are "raising their voices," leaving unsaid at least 2 layers of pretty intense political subtext.

The bizarre skit ended with “Max” pulling down his pants and getting paddled with a flyswatter.