Why? So they can work out a story together?

BREAKING: Chicago police officers can turn off their body-worn cameras while being questioned by their supervisor immediately after they shoot a member of the public, the federal judge overseeing efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department ruled Friday. @wttw.bsky.social

People: Sooner or later, this is all of us.

Powerful piece about the evolution of schools away from the realities of childhood. "The track has become narrower and narrower, so a greater range of people don’t fit that track anymore,” he said. “And the result is, we want to call it a disorder.”

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“insists that we “listen to the law” —but can she hear what the law is saying given her disconnect from our current reality? Her failure to acknowledge that reality makes the book seem . . . like an effort to burnish an authoritarian regime that is being enabled by a regime-friendly Supreme Court.”

“The labor market is being carved up with precision: * Women, and especially Black women, are being cut out. * Men’s gains are being supercharged.”

It would be great if Senator Wicker would provide real leadership in opposing the imposition of this Russian plan on Ukraine. Will he?

Yet another seriously researched and reported story showing that the violent criminals are the ones in uniform.

This swaggering dudelet is so much worse than we have realized.

Seriously tho, this is a well-reported piece that make it hard not to conclude that Patel is using government resources to enjoy the trappings of a mid-level celebrity, like hosting his buddies for a golf retreat in Scotland. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

Probably hardly any conflict of interest with these parties and their interest in sovereign wealth funds or much anyway, maybe.

The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.

We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double-digits if we turn enough voters out: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Read this excellent piece and take note: "The Trump administration is now a mouthpiece for Russian demands and an agent to have Russian wishes met."

" . . .if this plan is forced on Ukraine we will need to add a new verb to the diplomatic lexicon: “Trumped” — to be sold out by an American president, . . .history will never forget the men who did it —Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Dan Driscoll — their shame will be everlasting.

I mean . . . Any grownups in the house??

To residents of NW Georgia (Dalton, Rome, and other towns and places) who want to point this out: Congresswoman Greene's DC office telephone number is (202) 225-5211.

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Since wealthy men do not use public transportation in any form and do not send their children to school on busses, this makes perfect sense.

I know this is rhetorical but my stab at a real answer: because they are trying to get funding from VC people who are ideologues like Peter Thiel and Thiel doesn’t want us to have libraries

I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:

Trump is giving illegal orders. It's not debatable. There is no justification for blowing fishing boats out of the water in the Caribbean on suspicion of drug smuggling. It's cold-blooded murder. Not war, not policing, murder.

As the US bows to Russian demands to destroy Ukraine's sovereignty, take note of Allied sacrifices to arm and save Russia during WW2. "The Arctic Convoys were a monumental collaborative effort to provide aid to the Soviet Union to bolster its defences against the invading German forces."

Inspiring piece, and a reminder that each of us can do something in our own community.

Comey's reply on his motion to get grand jury transcripts is by far the most interesting of the filings in that case today (including govt cherry pick of transcript). A lot of this explains why the 2nd indictment would have problems even if it was legal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

with a Nazi symbol, the Iron Cross, as the poster's avatar. subtle.

“Under the Roberts court, it won’t be enough to rewrite the rules of the game. The umpires are the problem.” Amazing history/analysis of how we got here.

Lest we forget what the “peace deal” is all about.

“Here we are in 2025 and every time we pull back the curtain on wealthy, powerful men, we are reminded again that they don’t see women or girls as people at all. It’s depressing and enraging in equal measure.”

How bad has the illegal/unconstitutional pressure from this admin become?? Well, listen to these public servants.

Great summary.

Meanwhile, conservationists are recording birdsong to understand the effects of their forest reclamation work. Turns out, it's effective! Enjoy.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

2/2 I've been a Mac-only guy for nearly 20 years. (And also Android phones.) Cook hasn't yet given Apple's brand that stench of Tesla's. But he's moving in that direction.

'Scrubbing the files!' Epstein brother makes stunning claim GOP 'sabotaging' full release

#1 in my book. Every day.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Remember that time New York elected a Muslim mayor and MAGA shit their pants saying Sharia law was coming to NYC, and then like a week later Trump gave F-35's to Saudi Arabia, the capital of Wahabbi fundamentalist Islam, where 17 of 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens? Just to open Trump Tower Riyadh?

Helpful analysis.

Honestly, listen to this analysis of the Mag. Judge's ruling. It's both technical and shocking as the judge eviscerates the govt handling/presentation to the grand jury. He calls out the incompetence, sloppiness, fraudulence and bad faith of Halligan and, by extension, Bondi.

Reupping, from the weekend. Folks should look a little more closely at Pam Bondi's re-ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's so-called indictment. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/15/p...

At 3 pm, I will be doing a Substack Live interview with Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com about Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick's Opinion & Order requiring disclosure of the full grand jury record in US v. Comey to the defense, on the basis of eleven (11) separate types of prosecutorial misconduct.

Wow, that's just great, Kevin. A bright future for young people, at last!

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

One might!

Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety. apnews.com/article/fann...