this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government. birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.

Because, unlike many institutions, it has the guts and integrity to stand up to a bully———Why Costco is the only big retailer to challenge Trump on tariff refunds www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kash Patel must have forgotten to tell the American people this part yesterday. Must have slipped his mind.

So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life — We will always refute it & combat it" Unless you’re J6 insurrectionist who attacks the capitol — then you receive a pardon & get called a patriot…

There are three Islanders players pushing Blackwood. If this counts, just get rid of the goaltender interference rule.

What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence. We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.

This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nation’s death warrant.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about what's at stake for chronically ill contractors and freelancers as Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits expire. When you're already sick, the possibility of not being able to afford health insurance at all is terrifying. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.

The Trump Administration's continued weaponization of hunger as a political tool is nothing short of cruel. The administration is once again trying to take food away from Colorado families and punish our state for protecting people’s privacy - we won’t allow that to happen.

"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” Gift link: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

AI Jesus? Rogan has jumped the shark, and that's saying something.

"First, Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere...He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.

here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"

Lindsey Graham says the Pope better get on the “right side of history” and support Trump’s push to use military force to overthrow the government of Venezuela

Absolute Nazi shit.

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

Democracies run on rules. Autocracies run on allegiance. Reuters makes clear which direction we’re moving. #holdfast #getsmart #SteadyState www.reuters.com/investigates...

Precisely.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

What is the matter with these people? ------------Empathy is the new Christian battleground www.axios.com/2025/11/30/c...

Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts. n.pr/3M3fPqx

This article is well worth reading.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

Yesterday, a masked man pointed his rifle at protestors in Minnesota. Instead of protecting their community, St Paul PD protected him & assaulted peaceful protestors with physical force & chemical agents. A real community defense force would fight off ICE’s masked kidnappers, not beat their victims

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.

Ah yes, the people against political violence, the ones who claim they do not have a political violence problem! Here they are being non-violent once again!

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office. At the core of the program is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and in the government. With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

As Twitter's new geolocation tool started to reveal accounts’ information, the effect was like watching the Scooby Doo kids pull one disguise after another from the villain of the week. Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.

So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together. #DougForAlabama

😔😔 www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/u...

If only Donald Trump could read: “OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

NARRATOR: That is very much not the oath they took

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...