If Zohran ever called me habibi to my face I'd die on the spot.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

I’m hoping that someday soon, a reporter will publicly ask Stephen Miller where his family emigrated from, and when. And does he believe his family never assimilated, and did they recreate the horrors of the country they left? (asking for non-racist Americans)

Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith: “But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Potentially world-altering levels of brazen corruption by Trump, his cronies, and family www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

Hegseth & his henchmen seem to regard this as a videogame where they get points for each target they hit. These aren't human beings to them. (Not to mention we aren't even in an armed conflict. We're just killing people in international waters. Just so many layers of horrifying wrongness.)

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” ~Attributed to Samuel Adams. Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.

Indeed. The "Western Civilization" they like is Nero, Columbus, and Hitler at the apex of their power. They hate all the rest of it, especially the art, philosophy, and democracy. Hence stuff like their confusion and outrage when the Olympic ceremonies included the Olympian God of Festivals.

This paragraph is a journey.

What do my post-Thanksgiving introvert energy level and Anna’s phone battery have in common? They both have just enough to remind folks that Jack Goldsmith knows horrifying legal bullshit when he sees it.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman. Cruelty isn’t strength. Reject it. Always.

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.

Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."

So far, Trump has pardoned: Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas. Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs. 1/3

THIS IS BULLSHIT‼️ Undocumented immigrants already get almost no federal “tax benefits.” Fox makes it sound like there’s a giant welfare pipeline. Not true. They’re barred from Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, unemployment, and most federal programs, yet they still pay billions into the system.

This is the cruelty of MAGA and Trump supporters. It should never be forgotten. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

Northwestern just discarded every ounce of its now previous prestige. Same with ALL the other universities who've bent the knee. Disgraceful. Shame on you.

A university called Northwestern should have a compass.

Isn’t this something that should be investigated? What are the details related to this pardon? Who requested that a pardon be considered on behalf of Juan Hernandez. What documents, emails exist? Was anything of value offered? Who was involved in the process?

This is so tragic and unnecessary. My prayers go out to her family and loved ones.

Review: Filmmaker Rian Johnson displays his impressive skill once again in “Wake Up Dead Man,” the third installment in his “Knives Out” franchise. Like its predecessors, the new film is twisty-turny enough to keep you enthralled until the very end.

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

there are so many more items to add to this list but there’s a character limit

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law. The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

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A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors. Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.

It. Is. Murder.

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump is literally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of malnourished African children

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Exhibit A at the War Crimes Tribunal questioning defendant Pete Hegseth.

“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. “The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

I worked these issues with Todd. He knows what he’s talking about. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Secretary of Defense is the director of crimes against humanity.

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Whether it’s stating the basic truth on the President’s health, correcting RFK’s immoral nonsense on childhood vaccines, and holding their cast of “experts” to account, the time is now to stand up for the medical profession. I will continue to do across platforms without fear.