VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...

No public appearances, to avoid public criticism; but will continue teaching, when his creeping in the guise of a teacher is precisely the issue.

"If we can't extract surplus value, capitalism would be ruined."

The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...

And while he is upturning the consensus on vaccines and eroding any remaining public trust in science, the NYT, Vanity Fair etc are laundering this man's reputation and impact as some kind of romantic figure, when he is truly dangerous. He may not lob bombs, but his death toll will be significant.

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Is "grass" not a well-known term in the US for a police informant?

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Happy 50th birthday to a perfect album

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Fascism will not be defeated by trying to distinguish between "economics" or "kitchen tables" & bodily autonomy. The ability of young women and girls, most of whom were poor, to say "no" to what is being presented as well-paid work seems relevant to both Epstein et al and economics.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz

Accusing the Left of "moralism" has been a preoccupation of conservative Catholics (who've gone from lapsed to revert) — like Christopher Lasch — for a very long time. TCW is just the most recent, pretzel version.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

you'll never guess which side

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Today's 🇪🇺Parliament vote has transformed the government of the EU. 🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy. A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:

Fascism will not be defeated by trying to distinguish between "economics" or "kitchen tables" & bodily autonomy. The ability of young women and girls, most of whom were poor, to say "no" to what is being presented as well-paid work seems relevant to both Epstein et al and economics.

naturally Krauss is in the email dump today, where he decides that because Feynman was a known sexual predator, he could be one too

“He quickly became a highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation.” Noam Chomsky, describing at length his profound friendship with Jeffrey Epstein: drive.google.com/file/d/1zKMo...

No one really believes that Trump is not a rapist of numerous women and girls. The Right has been redefining rape as miscegenation since Trump came down the escalator, ranting about "Mexican rapists" — while he was being accused of being a serial rapist & all-round creep. Been a long decade.

There will be a reckoning; I just don't know if it will happen in my lifetime.

I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

It is interesting how whenever I raise Bernie's (frankly terrible) record on immigration, people who call themselves leftists immediately jump into my mentions and start spewing right wing anti-immigrant talking points. Let me be absolutely clear:

Worked out well then

Kevin Roberts and the Opus Dei connection The president of the Heritage Foundation, who caused a huge scandal by defending the platforming the far-right figure Nick Fuentes, is a regular at the Opus Dei hub in Washington, DC garethgore.substack.com/p/kevin-robe...

Looting one of the most beautiful opening sequences in sci-fi film, because he wanted to substitute a floating view of the city with a private (guy's) view — from the audiovisuals of big screen cinema to the private phone, and a view that costs millions. Plagiarism as extraction & conversion.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Indeed.

I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.

Pop goes the weasel

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

"Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning them to pulpits and youth groups..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

'A former Australian soldier recruited to support a controversial Albanese government deportation plan is demanding answers after discovering a bikie gang [Finks] had infiltrated the critical border security operation.' www.theage.com.au/national/min...

Still, it's a very clear account of the role played by centrists in laundering Right-wing talking points.

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

PANIC!! My @smh @theage cartoon

Douthat in the NYT, trying to cobble together a "feminism, but for the Catholic Right." The Natural Law dogma of anti-trans obsessions writ larger. Along with the publication of "Women Are Ruining the Workplace," which should be segregated .. Why these arguments now?

Seriously though, this comes from a beautiful photo essay of a strange and troubling subject. I highly recommend it.

4. The city, for them, was a seething mass of “aliens” and “cosmopolitans” (ie Jews). It teemed with “foreign” and “degenerate” ideas and practices. Some of them, particularly Gerald Wallop (Lord Lymington), railed against its democratic impulses: he wanted a revival of aristocratic rule.