i hate that we talk about "the union army" in the civil war. it was the army of the united states of america against an evil and illegal pro-slavery band of terrorists. the confederacy was illegitimate from top to bottom.

Some Thoughts on Measures We Can Support This Week open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

This could be you, me, any one of us.

BREAKING: Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia just secured subpoenas for Les Wexner, billionaire businessman and a long-time benefactor of Jeffrey Epstein, and Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the executors of the Epstein estate

Otherwise known as...the Affordable Care Act.

Utica: The Last Refuge See this movie!! In Wellfleet MA on MLK weekend, on Amazon Prime or Kanopy if you can't make it. You will be inspired, you will remember why we work against this regime and what we can be without it. open.substack.com/pub/hjs24pea...

People need to stop saying, "This is not who we are." This is exactly who we are, and we need to stop being that.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

In this Ohio town, it was a tradition: morning mass with the family, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, then over to the old auditorium to watch Ezra Klein give a speech he was paid $40,000 for. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Not surprising but important for Rep. McIver’s defense.

Your posts are always value added - which says a lot since I read so many. 💙

Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris says solitary confinement keeps no one safe. “The answer isn’t throwing them in a concrete box for years; it’s trauma-informed care, therapeutic communities, meditation programs, restorative justice practices.”

I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally. By David Brooks

Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slaves were giving massages the right way. by Ezra Klein

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Abrego is Trump’s white whale. And Miller and Blanche and… they will pursue him to the end of the earth and its our job to keep him safe and show that the rule of law, and of humanity, wins.

NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Helpful article. Thanks @heidijon.bsky.social ! hjs24pearl.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...

This is the basis of all of this. Media barely covered it at the time, in fact they dove into Biden’s age.

I have a teeny tiny tinge of sympathy for Elise. She was quite sharp when she started in Congress. Then she sacrificed all her integrity to serve Trump. And he, and all the other men in the GOP, treated her like shit. But mostly, fuck her for helping to destroy the US.

Elise Stefanik finds that enabling Trump's corruption and amplifying his hatred isn't the ticket to the top she thought it was.

ICE is arresting people at their marriage green card interviews, fully eligible, no criminal record, just to meet quotas. Cruel, pointless, and meant to scare people away from their rights. Don’t let fear stop you from fighting for your green card. #ImmigrationNews #USCIS #ICE #GreenCard

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

"So far, the merger of Silicon Valley & MAGA has worked out great for the industry; they’ve showered Trump w/contributions, made him feel important & special, & in return have gotten almost everything they want from DC. But this is an alliance they will come to regret." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

who needs opposition research when you have Trump's chief of staff?

Oof. @governor.ca.gov's press office has a website dedicated to Trump and all his criminals. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...

WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?

contrarian.substack.com/p/for-black-... magnificent first person account

So ICE is defying even SCOTUS in denying hearings. Which it does daily.

And here's where Justice Kavanaugh confirmed that all 9 justices agreed that AEA targets are entitled to hearings, which Bondi's guidance had denied them.

The extreme, crippling vanity when the intelligence is barely above average, usually just at average or nauseatingly lower, especially makes me want to vomit.

Terrifying abundance of people in ethically critical positions essentially prostituting their services to the Trump administration. The court, law, etc. No integrity at all. It's a profound embarrassment to be in this nation around vanity and prostitution of the ethical station for a few bucks.

“'The Malignant Incompetence of…' shows up, incomplete, on the phone screen, and I wonder who: Hegseth? Bondi? Noem? Gabbard? 'Health' secretary RFK Jr.? This time, it’s Kash Patel." Me on the worst Senate ever, tho maybe tied with 1st Trump Senate. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...

This a million times. Defy him, for pity’s sake! He has no clothes.

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

This is really good work.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country. like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*

There’s a real chance he strokes out tonight in a fit of rage.

Interesting. I was told I would be completely discredited when the evidence comes out. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Both Parties are the Same" and Other Poses We're going to need a blue tsunami to overcome Republican election corruption. So we need to face down some popular fallacies. open.substack.com/pub/hjs24pea...

Just walk out! You can leave!

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

If only it were just FOX, and not FOX, CBS, NYT etc — determined to kill the truth.