In this special issue, Hammer & Hope commissioned the photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to show us the Trump administration's arrest and deportation campaign. hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

Trump's absolutely correct that a new golden age is upon us—for white-collar criminals. My essay in @theguardian.com on how white-collar criminals just had the best year they've ever seen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

I didn't even think about this. Trump isn't just freeing villains. He's stealing from the victims to reward their crimes. We live in disgusting times.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

What a story about a CIA spy mission in the Himalayas during the 1960s that went wrong: A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a hush-hush mission the U.S. still won’t talk about. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

The Trump administration wants to make flying unsafe: unsafe because of surveillance, unsafe because of understaffed air traffic controllers, and unsafe because of gutted consumer protections. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely. New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

McSweeney's living legend, @mikelacher.bsky.social, returns to the site today with his first font-themed satire since "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

A foreign-born person who becomes naturalized is an *American*. It couldn't be more clear that Trump's immigration regime is about nativism, not immigration status. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance

It’s true - that’s far too few foreign born people to properly maintain American culture.

Hear from Athanasie in Rwanda about how the cash aid she received from last #GivingTuesday transformed her life. Give today and have your donation matched: GiveDirectly.org/gt

2/2 link: Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies. Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...

Broke: DOGE is dead Woke: DOGE was specifically constructed in a way to avoid accountability partially by zombifying the USDS which still exists as an entity Bespoke: Dead or not, there needs to be a blue ribbon committee and a massive internal cybersecurity review to root out all the damage.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Get this. In 2024, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made nearly $96 million for just *four months* of work. That’s 6,666 times what the average barista earns. PLEASE - don’t buy Starbucks while workers are on ULP strike. #NoContractNoCoffee Pass it on!!!

contrarian.substack.com/p/its-as-if-... wonderful piece

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

🚨Millions more are missing their monthly SNAP food benefits every day that passes with no clear restart date despite recent court rulings: GiveDirectly.org/snap

US citizen George Retes speaks out about his unlawful detainment by ICE. Institute for Justice website: ij.org

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

"...while Americans today have more opportunities than ever to speak, they have fewer opportunities than ever to be truly heard." This reflection from the Post's former letters editor--who read all 21,000 she got after the paper didn't endorse--is worth listening to. www.notus.org/perspectives...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Many talented #Ukrainian actors, artists, comedians, sportspeople, and others left their professional careers to take up arms and defend their country from Russian occupiers. Russia's war against Ukraine has taken the lives of at least 240 Ukrainian culture makers. This is a great loss.

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person. We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

How about the Dems come out and say: We protect human rights and the rule of law. Everything pretty much falls under those headings; electeds can get as granular as they like about issues facing their districts. But stand up and say: human rights and rule of law. It’s not rocket science.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

I am very happy to be taking part in a #NoKings rally tomorrow, and I know millions of you will be doing the same. Please share photos of your signs in the comments to inspire others! snyder.substack.com/p/signs-of-f...

Update— DHS Asst. Secretary Tricia McLaughlin just doxed the 13-year-old who was taken by ICE, sharing a copy of a police report on X with his full name and photo visible. She’s trying to prove the disputed claim that he had a gun. I’ve reached out to the city. I will not be sharing the post here.

The VOA headquarter "features grand New Deal-era murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel and other esteemed 20th-century artists—all of which could be lost forever."

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world Founder2: ok that works