Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.

OC Chief Brian Fennessy got the job as the first national wildland fire service chief! Chief Fennessy is a superb and experienced leader. I’m excited to see what he will do as the first head of the NWFS. We are lucky to have him in that role.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

Dan Bongino didn’t say it was just his “opinion” that the J6 pipebomb plot was an FBI inside job. He said he had a confidential source and was certain: “I’m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakin’ check and take it to the bank.”

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

The latter decision is usually blocking the former

These blatantly skewed maps in states like Texas & Indiana are direct result of Roberts Court decision in 2019 essentially legalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering which doesn’t get enough attention as one of worst things court has done www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.

oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said. I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I mean, this is an execution

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has granted Texas’ request to stay a lower court ruling blocking it from using a heavily gerrymandered congressional map the state legislature passed at the behest of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

Update from KQED about the earthquake "false alarm" this morning www.kqed.org/news/1206608...

Tom Cotton, pictured here dressed to go aggressively Christmas Caroling at a local synagogue, articulates his enthusiasm for the Trump administration‘s secret unreviewable power to kill anyone they want.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Reporters should *ask* these Republicans if any drugs were visible, and whether it would be at all plausible to "flip the boat," as Tom Cotton claims. Rep Adam Smith says drugs weren't visible and that the boat was incapacitated. Are Rs saying otherwise?

Blatant corruption on full display.

What an absolute disgrace. There must be consequences for this. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/lin...

Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.

100% the lawyers said "you can't do that," and 100% the deciders (including) POTUS said "who cares, there are no consequences." And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.

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.

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

Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people. He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*. The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us. We, the people.

The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.

Absolutely disgraceful and dangerous. He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.

Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps. I am not kidding. Look at the thread below. One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

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

Donald Trump is crumbling before us. Pete Hegseth is under fire for war crimes, with congressional inquiries looming. Kash Patel is getting publicly humiliated by his own FBI agents. RFK Jr.'s freak flag is getting national attention thanks to the Lizza-Nuzzi insanity. The wheels are coming off.

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

The DOD side has gone into full-blown crisis mode, as DOD/Hegseth attempts to both (1) make this all about just the second strike and (2) make Adm. Bradley the scapegoat for the lawlessness that Hegseth, Leavitt, and others have all but bragged about.

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.

Zillow property listings no longer show risk of fires, floods, and storms

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Republican senator pretends he doesn’t know any senators

First Republican to call out Trump’s corrupt pardon of the man who helped funnel over 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

All we can say about this is: WTF? lnk.thebulwark.com/48p9ywR

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."