NEW: The latest effort to hold Gregory Bovino accountable for his disregard of the rule of law. The Border Patrol official is the subject of a sanctions request in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case in Tennessee. This evening, at Law Dork:

the police came out and stopped a 39 yo dude named Reggie Williams in Memphis, aggressively demanding to know if he was Ethiopian or Ghanaian... tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/04/i...

I've been saying since 2015 that the assault on the 14th Amendment wouldn't stop at birthright citizenship. it's about rolling back reconstruction and returning to gone with the wind the electric boogaloo

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

it's rlly sort of an indictment of institutional thought and leadership in modern society... ur seeing ppl with a lot of power and sway humiliate themselves daily by cheerfully imbibing sewer water and anxiously looking around for approval.

I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

French authorities will investigate the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence platform Grok on X, the Paris prosecutor's office told POLITICO.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

"The analysis shows an outsize effect on noncitizen women, whose reported employment plummeted about 8.6%, or 1 in 12 out of work after raids began to roil Los Angeles in early June. "But citizens also showed a marked decline." www.latimes.com/california/s...

"We in Illinois have chosen to act responsibly" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/02/o...

that explains it komonews.com/news/local/w...

I missed this from the Manhattan Institute survey on December 1 of the "current GOP." 37% are Holocaust deniers, which, to my surprise, is greater than the percentage (33%) that believes vaccines cause autism.

The level of corruption in only 1 year is absolutely STAGGERING. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

to me, the "portland nice" thing is circumstantial. a lady flipped me off the other day, bc I was rolling very slowly through my green light while waiting for her to saunter across the crosswalk deep into her red light. I guess I should've complete-stopped inside the intersection for her majesty?

The thing about this is that the Yarvin quotation is a second-level non sequitur... Yarvin's using Hitler fan Fuentes's post about deporting Somalis as leverage to "warn"/threaten about Hitler -- the piggyback has no specified relation, so one must intuit the meaning (do what Fuentes says or Hitler)

Jack Posobiec, the guy posing next to the Hitler-admirer with the sweatshirt making fun of Holocaust victims, was a frequent co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast and his book about the left, Unhumans, was blurbed by JD Vance and DJT JR.

TRUTH

Reuters is reporting that several people have died in Iran connected to protests over the catastrophic state of the economy. Please join me in praying for peace and justice.

not me agreeing with Peggy Noonan 🫣 www.wsj.com/opinion/we-c...

this is exactly right: "If society is riddled with aggression, don’t blame testosterone; blame us for being too prone to dole out status for aggression." The concepts of "honor" and obtaining "honors" have been totally distorted by reactionary "realism" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...

I don't think I've ever felt more that Trumpism must be said in the same breath as Nazism... that one cannot talk about Trumpism without first talking about Nazism, to steal and repurpose a phrase from Horkheimer.

I'm not one for "even the Nazis," but yes the other salient point is that the Nazis didn't announce their extermination plan; they did things like this while pushing ppl to self-deport, and then rounded them up in phases. 1/3 of the population better get organized against the coming phase change.

Not even the Nazis were talking about getting rid of one third of the population… This is an utterly crazed idea of a “nation” literally walled-off from the world, purged of every scintilla of diversity, bullied into blank-faced white-bread conformity. Death.

happy new years, bsky. you made 2025 more bearable. thanks for all the weirdness and drama. <3

Is it too early to call 2026 a disappointing failure for Democrats?

Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.

This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Breaking: A federal appeals court just ruled that the Trump admin must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Newsom's control. Newsom: "I'm glad Pres. Trump has finally admitted defeat: We've said all along the federalization of the National Guard in California is illegal."

OKC manages that ability to play super dirty and be the darling of the refs at the same time.

what kind of hors d'oeuvres do they serve at this "hard party"?

Smith straight out of the gate making it explicitly clear that in BOTH of Trump’s federal criminal cases, there was “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” and that Smith’s team would have prevailed at trial.

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The facts!

This now appears to be a widespread & sophisticated criminal conspiracy. I suspect it's organized by a seal team. apnews.com/article/lobs...

The veracity of specific claims doesn't matter to the believers. The deeper story — of immigrants exploiting U.S. taxpayers — is something they already believe, and a few legitimate cases is enough to scaffold belief in the larger story and justify a witch hunt to manufacture more evidence.

countering violent extremism (funding arts programs)

The veto message for the ~voice-vote-passed HR131 doesn't say anything about retaliation against Colorado, and just frames the water project (for which the bill allocates about $1.3 billion) as fiscally irresponsible... www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Trump vetoes clean water for 50,000 in rural Colorado to replace contaminated groundwater. Pipeline project approved in 1962 (under JFK). Some federal funding added under Obama. Groundbreaking in 2023 under Biden. But Trump blocks interest free loan to complete it. coloradosun.com/2025/12/31/a...

Mengran Du and her team discovered the deepest-known ecosystem with animals on the planet during ocean dives in 2024 and were reported this year. She is part of 2025 Nature’s 10. 🌊 🧪

The story for November sea surface temperatures continued with the ongoing weak La Niña in the east-central tropical Pacific, as well as the persistent anomalous warmth spreading across the midlatitude regions in both hemispheres. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...) 🌊

cromulence, thy name is Russian MoD

Some good work by the NYT here nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...

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