This administration is animated by abuse

The government has broad authority to control admission but courts have held *repeatedly*, over more than half a century, that the First Amendment bars the government from denying visas to foreign citizens simply because it dislikes what they have to say. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

My daffodils are coming up. My roses are probably going to bloom.

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...

“Earlier this year, the White House falsely claimed that millions of US taxpayers’ dollars were funding “sex changes” in Guatemala — a lie used to justify gutting USAID, which has provided aid worldwide for more than 60 years.” www.latinousa.org/2025/12/12/s...

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

Read this thread. It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on. Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.

Once again, marginal income, capital gains, & wealth tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic

The RFK, jr effect.

The House is expected to vote this week on Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to make providing trans youth with gender-affirming care punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Life-saving health care is on the line. Tell your members of Congress to reject this bill NOW. 

This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

Trump’s administration wants to establish bounties and a network of informants—all seemingly refusing to rule out extrajudicial killings. Pretty unnverving reporting here. theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...

I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.

the AI industry powers authoritarianism, a necessity condition that allows the industry to steal, destroy the environment, monetize education, surround us with perpetual surveillance,... all uncontested www.wired.com/story/trump-...

As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.

Copywriters working across the field shared accounts of clients abandoning them or their agencies for cheaper AI output en masse. They've seen freelance work and rates plummet. Many were made to write the copy to train their own AI replacements. Whole businesses have closed their doors.

I ran a marketing business heavily reliant on copywriting. Once AI was released, client work dried up almost completely.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

On this Human Rights Day, I explore how the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Orr–that prevents gender diverse people from obtaining accurate passports–violates our obligations under international human rights law and court precedent. www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/blog/2025/12...

In context, his son-in-law Jared Kushner is leading the push, with Saudi money, for Trump's buddies at Paramount to buy WBD, HBO, and CNN.

New from me for the @wired.com Politics Newsletter. I broke down how the push to combine data across the government in the name of immigration enforcement has lots of possible unintended consequences, not just for undocumented immigrants, but for everyone. www.wired.com/story/dhs-da...

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.

This has been the plan since the outset, to make a Sovereign Wealth Fund AKA slush fund. I have yet to see anyone explain where the proceeds from the tariffs are going, and I suspect it’s the same place.

Seems under-discussed on here that the people who like the Trump peace plan the most are the former senior aides to President Biden and the most right-wing members of the Democratic congressional caucus, while pro Palestine think tanks and politicians (rightfully) describe the UNSCR as colonial.

Trump and his propagandists ran a multi-year campaign to redefine “censorship” and leverage false accusations of it to regain power as they redefine history and reality. As far as I can tell, most folks on the left are either unaware, don’t care, or don’t know how to respond.

This article explains why the right's "censorship industrial complex" myth has been so successful: "The government wasn’t defending her, she was banned from defending herself, and even potential allies were staying quiet, having sensed which way the wind was blowing."

And here we go www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising. Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

1. In a stunning new bill proposed by several New Hampshire republicans, transgender women could be charged with trespass for using the bathroom. The bill is the first to apply to PRIVATE businesses. It also ONLY applies to transgender women, not trans men. Subscribe to support our journalism.

$140m. Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I feel like this got missed? Time Magazine (!!) is partnering with a gambling company to integrate instant betting on news events, such as the genocide in Gaza (!!!!!!) The rate of collapse of media is absolutely blistering. Support your independent media outlets folks..... archive.ph/wip/kgyIz

You can mock people for thinking the leopards would dine elsewhere but it is unequivocally good that the demo that reeeeeally helped put trump back in the wh is seeing what is happening and apparently reacting accordingly

Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service." www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.

That study the federal government relied on heavily to contend that Roundup is safe. Yeah, well, it was ghostwritten by Monsanto. In fact, the evidence suggests glyphosate causes cancer in humans. Here's a dispatch from our resident Roundup expert.

trapped souls of the dead lusting for vengeance-ass trophy never seen a more clearly cursed object

The "free speech warriors" are absolutely setting the stage to make it a crime to say anything bad about ICE and CBP. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Neighbors alerted me to an ICE raid happening down the street so I went down there to help. It’s a fucking warzone. Smoke, pepper bullets, screaming. The street is blocked off with community members fighting back. All because they are raiding a fucking taco restaurant. What the fuck is going ON.

As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com says, the modern reactionary-right explicitly sees itself as part of an internationalist project, and is loyal to those ideological forces above any national or geopolitical interests.

It’s not “nationalism” in any American sense, loyal to the Constitution or values it embodies. It’s a white internationale intent on drawing a cordon blanc, you might say — and coldly willing to place democratic multiracial societies with long ties of loyalty to the U.S. outside of it.