This is what it looks like when an attempt at authoritarian consolidation stalls out. The wheels are coming off the bus

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Leo should just excommunicate Vance and ACB and see what happens

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

There was a time when Barron was off-limits for ridicule because he was still just a young man, but that time is long past.

oh you mean sending masked gestapo around the country to abduct the ice cream man isn't very popular? you are telling me this for the first time I wish everyone who wanted to hand it to him on this one an especially shut the fuck up

This drop comes after several months of stagnation on his immigration approval rating. I’ll be keeping an eye out to see whether other polls reflect a drop.

New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

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Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration

I agree that it is WELL past time that Democratic Party leadership figured how to use the “I don’t know what that crazy fucker is gonna do and that scares me” effect to our collective advantage

man are you fucking stupid? "legal experts say." enemies of the people indeed.

Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...

Responses available when Republicans respond to denouncing ICE fascism with pogromist blather about immigrant rapists: 1) "The Rapist in Chief in the White House doesn't give a fuck about that; he's disappearing veterans and Green Card applicants and guys who just want a job building houses"

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

those who fought should feel vindicated by history, those who would have thrown an innocent man to the wolves should be pelted with rotten fruit

absolutely massive, historic W for the republic's defenders

Trump administration vincible.

I donot thenk my behaviores reports shoulde hav anny barings on my Grismouse haul. In my opinyin.

Tammy Duckworth was personally livid that an amendment to cover IVF for US Servicemembers was stripped out. "The speaker's conservative Christian faith has denied servicemen and women their access to a health care option that the President said he was going to make available to all Americans."

I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...

MTG wants a schism, former republicans want a schism, all my homies love schisms

Impeachment is not "sacred," it is a parliamentary procedure. Please be serious. What they're really saying is it's a lot of work and they don't want to do it. Makes the claim that they are "laser focused" on "cleaning up corruption" a bit suspect.

Sharice does it again

this might be the first time i've seen a community note on x that serves as a punch line to the tweet

goddamn, i didn't think we were going to speedrun *all* of the second GWB admin

1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James. — “This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.

Like u shouldn’t be scared of this dude, he is a massive pussy who will turtle after one punch

Miller is such a whiny little bitch

It’s Christmas morning. Snowing outside. You’re sipping a sweetened coffee beverage that you save for days like this, and watching your kids open presents. You feel a pleasant heat radiating from the fireplace. Every phone in the room buzzes or chimes. You glance at your own. It’s happened. 🎄

And another thing I'm not mad

Respectfully this is not a “legal experts say.” It’s just not arguable. It’s like saying “weather experts say the sun sets at night.”

Important point of view. As an ardent Unionist , I hate all the Confederacy stood for. But we shortchange our study of history by not studying their stories. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/never-apol...

juice drying up

Broader than any particular criticism of just one or two leaders of a fake party which is essentially not real, I think it is a shame that there is not a meaningfully constitutional strain of liberalism and leftism. It is bad that nobody takes seriously the current legal order & need for overhaul.

lmao at Mark Cuban coming back to Bluesky to whine about high taxes on billionaires

The harrowing of hell, if jesus were a coughing baby

I keep worrying that Jared Polis is going to pardon Tina Peters in the name of National Reconciliation or to keep Trump from making his life harder or something and that's probably the real purpose of all this stuff

Goddam why does 1918 go so hard

He's at 38-60 on immigration! 31-67 on the economy! These are abandon ship numbers

I never know how to react to the latest news, so let me just say one more time: immigration is good. It helps immigrants and it helps native-born people. It makes the world richer, culturally and financially.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

The press has stopped asking Trump about the Epstein Files. Pound him on the Files and the Bombing video. Over and over.

Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.

$5,575 for an average seat at the FIFA World Cup Final with a significant proportion going straight to Donald Trump. Boycott this shit.