BREAKING: Judge Cobb finds that Sec. Noem's second and third efforts to restrict congressional oversight access to federal immigration facilities still likely violate Sec. 527, issues an order blocking both during litigation.

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Don't quite agree. No contempt for the voters that put him there, but certainly a budding contempt for those who continue to support him now after all of the corruption and hostility towards the American people.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Gah. Compounding the AI energy gobble with increased fossil fuel consumption. The ROI for both the companies and the public is terrible. 😞

A blockade is an act of war. There's been no declaration of war from Congress.

Surprise! And now what a mess to untangle. [Gift link]

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

They are pretending they don’t understand the way tariffs work.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

NYT charts a further significant slide into authoritarian dictatorship based on the Trump regime's use of secret pollce and lethal violence to silence peaceful protesters.

He’s already sh*t all over it. But yeah.

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

Vile and more vile.

The EPA enforced a record low number of environmental laws and regulations during the first year of President Trump's second term in office. n.pr/4tgcipI

Another from WSJ, that bastion of left-wing liberalism (😉) … [Gift link]

WSJ’s own response to Trump’s editorial claiming his tariffs are winning. A bit more kiss-ass than ideal, but still a sound correction vis-a-vis the facts. [Gift link.]

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

More attention here, please.

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We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Republicans seem to think that we reduced unemployment since Trump took office. The opposite.

Likely a secondary motivation for Rubio, and for Trump to strengthen his position among Cuban Americans.

Here's a nice graphic from NYT [https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000010624752/why-trump-is-fixated-on-venezuelan-oil.html] So this is who we are now. Bullying thieves.

“I caution Minnesotans: This is going to get worse before it gets better,” Walz said. “This is because Donald Trump is in trouble.” Unfortunately Walz buckled. Yes, he should have been more diligent, but if it's not tied directly to him or widespread across his administration, he should have fought.

Not defending Maduro, but let's not be naïve. This is about oil. Plain and simple. Oil and lots of it.

“What have I done!” 🤡

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

Another major accomplishment for RFKJr.

For what it’s worth: Russian war channels confirm arrival of the North Korean troops to Ukrainian Huliaipole

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

While NYT and the major media are just saying how it's a tough and critical decision for Zelenskyy, HCR did a great podcast breaking down just how bad the US-proposed deal is for both Ukraine and the EU. Congress was blindsided. The American public seems largely ignorant of the content. 😥

"The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide." boltsmag.org/voting-right...

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

There is no debate -- “An order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be disobeyed when such act is unlawful.” Manual for Courts-Martial United States (2024), Part IV, ¶ 14.c.(2)(a)(i) www.sja.marines.mil/Portals/135/... #HOLDFAST

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

In contrast to the positive contributions to scientific progress as described in the documentary The Thinking Game [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32150119/], there is this. [NYT gift link] And we will see a lot more of both (at breakneck speed).

This is sly posturing to counter the building backlash. Publically, she's starting to acknowledge the pains her base encounters daily, but when it comes to voting, she's still backing the MAGA/Trump agenda 100%.

No explanation, but it is clear that this is politicization of the military and about purging those who might be voices against deploying our armed forces against our own population in US cities. Their combat records far outshine those of Hegseth and his buddies.

The results in NYC (Mamdani) and Virginia (Spanberger) convey different messages. They are very different voter bases. I suspect the nation is more aligned with Spanberger, that centrist liberal politics isn't dead (even in NYC), but Cuomo was an appallingly poor candidate. Still, congrats to all!

NEW: Are we a step closer to seeing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report? My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-step-clo...

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Scary that this lawsuit could very well be successful before a Texas jury that accepts the Trump/RFK Jr. propaganda over science. [Gift Link]

It's swell that the FBI is exposing fraud and criminal schemes in sports betting. It's a great distraction from the graft and corruption in the current administration, like the insider trading around the tariff flip-flopping, or Tom Homan, or Trump's current grab at $230 million of taxpayer money.