🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

like the Count of Monte Cristo except way dumber

The new National Security Strategy mentions preventing NATO expansion as a U.S. priority. That is all you need to know, but it gets even worse.

We have reached the “begging us to come back” stage of X’s decline

> no keyword suppression or manual downranking HAH HA HA HA HA

Why is Trump pulling critical resources away from the frontline with China... Why do you think?

Rutte: Allied defense spending and production must rise rapidly. Our armed forces must have what they need to keep us safe. And Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself. We must all accept that we must act to defend our way of life now, because this year Russia has become even more brazen

Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Ovcharenko has a question:

Today in “Watergate was a harmless high school prank relative to the things Trump does on a daily basis”

Most recent polls suggest that only 38% of Ukraine's population are in favor of giving up any territory, even if it means the war must drag on.

Molotov-Ribbentrop 2.0.

With the Russian dictator becoming more open about his ongoing program of selling the country and its resources off to China in exchange for war funding, Russians themselves are starting to realize what's going on.

EU countries agreed to indefinitely freeze Russian assets, clearing the path for a 210 billion euro Ukraine reparations loan, with Hungary and Slovakia expected to oppose, Euractiv reported. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-gree...

“Trump pretends to pardon…” would probably be the most accurate description, but I’m told that accuracy is a form of bias that risks alienating pro-Trump readers.

He can try but he'll likely lose that in federal court because surprise surprise you can't withhold funding for made up reasons like "oh this woman who is a crazy supporter of mine is a criminal let her go"

AG Weiser says Colorado will not release Tina Peters from the state prison in Pueblo if Peters' attorneys or representatives of President Trump show up and attempt to remove her from state custody.

AG Weiser says President Trump's attempt to expand presidential pardon power to state charges is "an off the wall legal theory." "It's total garbage," Weiser said. "Any lawyer who argues in favor of this should be embarrassed and ashamed."

"We're not going to give in," Weiser said. "Those who cave in, those who are folders, they're the ones who end up sacrificing."

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions. "This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."

The diplomacy is accelerating, but so is the pressure on Ukraine to accept dangerous concessions. Ukraine’s deep strikes and Russia’s mass attacks on energy show this war is still being decided by capability, not slogans. https://buymeacoffee.com/meaninuak/top-news-today-11-december-2025

It's sabotage.

Something something federalism something states’ rights something local control something Article I something One Special Boy something something

Another destroyed Russian aircraft and +40% higher than average Russian personnel losses.. Rough day for Moscow's imperial fantasies project.

My God, it’s a full-court press to get her out. A Fed govt that could not care less about prison conditions suddenly cares… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

And this does not leave me thinking he is drawing neat lines between federal and state jurisdiction. He wants to be a dictator, and he just tries to get away with whatever he can.

So I get the point that this could just be a preemptive federal pardon for federal crimes no one has charged her with (and I assume will be outside the statute of limitations by the time Trump leaves). But then why did the Feds just try to get her transferred to a Fed prison for her state crime?

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

A French MP calls for a no-fly zone over Ukraine. French MP Frédéric Petit urged Europe to launch SkyShield — a joint operation to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian drone attacks. “We can’t let children be murdered in their sleep,” he said. 👇

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

The new Time Magazine cover of the AI tycoon "Stealworkers" is, deeply ironically, hand-drawn painting. They are sitting on a steel beam floating in the air, connecting to no actual building.

ironically this isn’t even AI

To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."

The daily value of NATO is not that it fights wars. The greater value is that it prevents them by binding together the strategic nervous systems of democracies. When that system weakens, the United States does not become freer. lnk.thebulwark.com/4pAE7qK

I wonder what the fraternal order of police spinzone is going to be on this one (gender)

Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)

Chillingly lawless armed raid on Crimean Tatar lawyers defending victims of Russian repression khpg.org/en/1608815349

That is a Russian propaganda extortion threat. They do it all the time.

It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.

Check out the Slate piece I posted above because your reaction of disbelief is very justified.

This is something that Democratic congressional-led comprehensive immigration reform can correct and clarify.

The budding Russo-American alliance aims to divide and dominate Europe and Canada. Start brainstorming how to resist. Best short-term strategy is to empower Ukraine to defeat Ru. apple.news/ANXb0ZCdSS3C...

It would be great if SOMEONE could try to fight populism without adopting its most questionable methods. There is a mountain of stuff on which to criticise Starmer. The "island of strangers" accusation is, in my view, mendacious and low - albeit that it has been repeated so much it may *feel* true.

Hamas is still around and will launch another October 7th-type attack on Israel as soon as they can manage it. It's an eventuality. They started this war and have not been defeated.

you can very often terrify people trying to break social norms at you by returning the favor even more so

@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and the whole Democratic crew playing 4D chess, conceding nothing, blocking authoritarian takeover at multiple levels, letting the Republicans set up a 2nd shutdown trap for themselves, and defending the Constitution... All while in the minority!

But still eligible for a sales bump if it wins an APSA book prize

Pierre Poilievre has lost 3 caucus members in ~ 5 weeks: - 2 to defection to the Liberal side - 1 to a resignation as a lawmaker (after talking to the PM about floor crossing) He could lose a 4th if Aaron Gunn decides to run for B.C. Conservative leader

lol, lmfao

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