Absolutely true.

$10s of billions spent on new infrastructure for what they claim to be a temporary problem. What do you do with capacity for hundreds of thousands of prisoners in a couple of years when the intended occupants are no longer here? If they are not designed to shut down, the are designed to be used.

I just quote posted a 🧵 on the mess w/CBP being given a laser weapon by Hegseth to try out for their operations along the southern border. There are a couple of different reasons this was both bad overall & just not a very smart thing to do. 1/

NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court. More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

What are we doing? 🇺🇸

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

So what are trans people who can’t get their original birth certificates supposed to do in these situations? Now that passport restrictions are back, this is what people are stuck with. She can’t obtain those docs so her passport is effectively blocked.

Antitrust is for nerds.

😕🇺🇸

Doublespeak

Nice.

Sometimes, all we have is a day's work. thescribblingsinthemargins.substack.com/p/a-days-wor...

Yes, Beach confirmed this with his own post. By law, only the images of deceased people can be put on US currency. No kings.

So, we are now engaged in a literal War on Drugs. Does that mean the President will request a Declaration of War from Congress as Constitutionally required? If we are at war with drug dealers, does that make street dealers enemy combatants? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Yep

I feel this.

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right. They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA. All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Good question..

An essay on the complexities of the first person. Was Adam an I or an Adam first? open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

2018 story that didn’t generate widespread denials and defamation claims.

Every time.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

If you care about the Epstein files, Trump does not want your support. You heard him.

What an embarrassing clown show.

since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here): juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

In appreciation to those of succinct character, who don't need our silly commas. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

A first exercise in revision and demolition and the art in the cracks in the sidewalk. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

Senator Padilla was provoked by Noel’s patently imperialist declaration that they intent to occupy LA until they “liberate” it from their duly elected Mayor and Governor. In short, she declared an invasion until they achieve regime change.

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

The estimated cost of the unnecessary troop mobilization to Los Angeles ($134M) would have funded gender-affirming care in the military for the next 26 years. The trans military ban was never about funding.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

As I said yesterday: We can no longer believe any numbers the Trump Administration gives us. 🚨 We must find a way to gather, organize, analyze and share data from local and state sources ... though R-dominated states may soon follow the Vought(P25)-Trump lead.

This is your chance to get in on the ground floor! Read more poetry!

Various spooky things in spooky places doing spooky activities. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

Ah. So, all the attacks on Harvard are supposedly about stopping antisemitism on campus... but they need to hire a holocaust denier in the name of "diversity of viewpoints." Got it.

Sometimes, we must consume what is outside us. Sometimes, all we need is to sup upon ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

During the records case, I argued that the records were US property and Trump could not take them home and keep them any more than he could take home Air Force One and keep it. It sounded convincing at the time.

What am I missing? How is Jeanine Pirro qualified to serve as Interim USA for the DC District? www.gao.gov/legal/federa...