Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.

Frey framed it perfectly.

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

Certainly given the shooter's own video there is probable cause+founded suspicions to detain Ross right now.

And now it's really winter in America and there's no Gil Scott Heron around.

Seizing another country's national resources by military force for US oil and mineral companies to plunder while refusing the recognize the opposition leader with zero regard for the well being of the Venezuelan people does not make us the "good guys." bsky.app/profile/atru...

A very important distinction between the Trump Admin and successful competitive authoritarian regimes is that the latter focus heavily on redistributing material resources to their supporters while the Trumpers keep the wealth for themselves and try to buy the rabble off with content and slop

Wonkette's countdown to sneaking 2025 out a back door in a Hefty bag continues. 2025: The Year The USA Got Infected With Both Measles And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.wonkette.com/p/2025-the-y... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

Trump pulling out National Guard is also a sign that he isn't really deploying quite the dictatorial power that Stephen Miller apparently wants him to, and that the courts are still functioning, at least to some degree, as I suggested in this piece:

ALERT: Attorney for Epstein survivors estimates only 1% of Epstein Files have been released so far youtube.com/shorts/DLO7Y...

Stephen Friend was fired from the FBI a couple of years ago for siding with the Jan 6 rioters. Kash hired him back. Now Kash has fired him again for claiming that the FBI is lying about the identity of the Jan 6 bomber, and for ranting about Kash on a podcast. www.ms.now/opinion/kash...

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/FZJT8e2

These documents may have been sitting on Bondi's desk for months, another reason to consider holding her in contempt.

Of course there’s no NatSec problem with wind. And good move by Sen. Whitehouse to crash permit reform. Blame Trump for hi utility rates.https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/bonkers-doi-letter-halts-all-five-in-progress-offshore-wind-farms

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

Donald Trump just rejected two requests for major disaster declarations made weeks ago by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D). Sen. Michael Bennet (D) called Trump's denials "malicious and obscene." Polis accused the president of playing "political games." Are they right? They have a strong case! 🧵⬇️

Serious fusion firms chase engineers, regulators and boring capital. They don’t need meme stocks. A fusion company merging with Trump Media smells like a shortcut to publicity and a public shell, not synergy. When science needs media to exist, the problem isn’t fusion, it's dark money.

🚨 DAILY REMINDER 🚨 I post this video every day so we never forget Jan. 6, 2021 and Trump’s role in the attack on our democracy. An assault on the U.S. Constitution is an assault on America. Never forget. Vote the Republicans out!🇺🇸 #StayWoke ✊🏽 #Pinks 🌸 🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

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Worldwide ridifool or elf you want left on the shelf?

Maybe Trump is busy sampling some of the primo weed the strange folks in white robes brought to the Oval yesterday?

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“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Whole thread is like a snuff film that only involves reading other people's political opinions.

They had six guys plus a whole team of scouts - many of whom were pulled off teams going after terrorists - to arrest one guy with three misdemeanors. No wonder they can't catch the Brown University shooter.

Keystone KA$H: “We have Legoland surrounded. If the Brown University shooter wanders in here, we’ve got him.”

The FBI's inability to find the Brown shooter raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to law enforcement.

The "Peace President" is taking us to war for oil and conquest.

President Trump has taken us to war with Venezuela, but why? Regime change, power, graft, oil, land. On the House floor, I urged my colleagues to vote for my War Powers Resolution with @repmcgovern.bsky.social and Rep. Thomas Massie to block the President’s illegal war and protect American troops.

Orban is pleading publicly with his boss Putin not to punish him in a letter he wrote after the EU overrode his veto on frozen Russian assets. He also said Hungary's "loyal cooperation" with the EU on sanctions was over. Is he suggesting he was loyally cooperating before?🤔

Unqualified rat leaving a ship he helped sink.

It's a problem, not a hoax.

Trump really was Putin's best investment.

lol

REP. MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? KRISTI NOEM: We haven't deported veterans. REP. MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea. Oops! #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.

By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x

Must read piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com

Trump's Gas Pangs substack.com/@richardschr...

I’d take Biden’s policies over this administration’s bs everyday and twice on Sunday. Trump and this admin’s continuous daily shitting on Americans, the grifting, devaluing of human life and the danger he presents to the rest of the world is fucking exhausting. e.g.: ….

“…a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity. Accomplishing this transformation would involve undermining existing liberal governments in cahoots with Europe’s own far right, and turning Eastern Europe into an ideological wedge against its Western neighbors.”

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

Exactly what a Russian asset would say, even as Russia invades Europe and prepares to escalate the war inside the EU

Blatant lawlessness from Kristi Noem.

They're just mortals who should've been taken down when we had the chance. Six corrupt entities should never have the ability to crush a nation, especially since they're breaking laws, themselves.