My constituent Any Lopez Belloza was wrongfully deported in shackles to Honduras without proper due process. Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.

we are going to win. have you heard this? we are going to win. “we are going to win.” it’s a beautiful phrase really. we are. going to. win. it’s a tremendous phrase. more and more people are saying it. “we are going to win.” many such cases!

The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.

Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans. Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

It’s wild what happens when people go through life under the assumption that every stranger is a threat and not their neighbor.

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Who has made this 🤣

it's good that we have hellfire missiles to defend ourselves from two guys hanging on to a capsized boat, who knows what might have happened otherwise

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a former Army Reserve major who got a Bronze Star for 2007 service as a squadron judge-advocate, is "still haunted by decisions I made in Iraq." "But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect." * Gift link⤵️

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit

BESSENT: When you come to this country, you gotta learn which side to drive on, you've gotta learn to stop at stop signs, and you gotta learn not to defraud the American people BRENNAN: Well, there is plenty of criminal behavior from communities well beyond the immigrant community

ICE is still here, in #s similar to what they had in August, before the surge. But I think the biggest reason Border Patrol left is it snowed, so there are no longer landscapers for them to kidnap BUT, this is a good point, friction=costs. It got _very_ hard for CBP to kidnap people in Chicagoland

Evil. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post...

There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video. They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is it because the answer is super racist and would cause a backlash?

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.

Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.

"Pete Hegseth was already on social media crowing about it and treating it like it was a video game." @radiofreetom.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social discuss the Pentagon carrying out another deadly boat strike in the midst of a controversy over a strike in September.

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Ah yes, let's bring in tourists from around the world and show them how the US hosts. It will be so dangerous form anyone to go there. Hey, come to Canada instead. We don't arrest tourists.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Double tapped

I'm in the big tent with Bill Kristol and Sabrina Carpenter.

An enlightening but very grim read. 👇 “If they wished to achieve their ideological prime directive—elimination of European Jewry—they could no longer defer it to some future moment of consolidated victory. They had to act while they still controlled the necessary territory and infrastructure.”

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?

It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.

Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.

The right's anti-empathy shtick has predictably slid into straight psychopathy. At worst these are low-level cocaine smugglers. More likely they're locals trying to make some extra income. Some are likely innocent. Meanwhile, Trump just pardoned a high-level distributor. And an ex-dealer leads HHS.

Border Patrol body camera captured this exchange with a young man and the older man (dad?) he was walking with: “Please,” the younger man says. “He has a disabled child.” “That’s not my problem,” the agent answers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...

And they keep saying Canada doesn’t have anything they want……🤣

It's weird this isn't being said much, much more loudly. There's a very strong instrumental reason for not doing war crimes—because you don't want to see the same thing happen to your own forces. The laws of war were created by states, for states, and states forget their purpose at their power.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

Trump 2.0, above all else, is characterized by a syndrome in which the regime's leaders are compelled by their own character defects and/or crazed ideological beliefs to commit crimes that leave even deeply jaded, cynical partisans for their side aghast and concerned for their own wellbeing.

Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today. So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Something is just a liiiittle off in this tiny map of Italy on my wine bottle.

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

On the eve of the holiday, a Trump family-linked crypto company disclosed in a securities filing that it had removed its senior leadership. The company's stock is down 72% since Eric and Don Jr rang the Nasdaq bell to launch the partnership. We're covering it here. Happy Thanksgiving.

The US tariff policy seems increasingly designed to deepen the trade deficit, penalizing things the US exports, while keeping expensive things it imports relatively cheaper.

As someone in software the only benefit to LLMs I see is it will slowly destroy the pool of people with actual expertise in building and running software making me more valuable.