Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

Nothing says projecting strength like having all of your traditional allies denounce you at once.

Stephen Miller sees three women on TV at once and demands an entire franchise be handed over to a 94-year-old. (I thought the new show was fun, fwiw.)

BREAKING Two people have been found dead at the home of director and actor Rob Reiner. The LA Fire Department said the ages of the two victims is 78 and 68 which matches the ages of Rob and his wife Michele. Full Story: bit.ly/497DhMd

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

One of the best uses of Roman-numeral suffixes ever

News. www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...

Border Patrol can operate anywhere in the country. The 100 mile zone is where they have heightened vehicle stop authority.

I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Both of the Georgia Public Service Commissioner Special Election seats called for Dems. This won't get the attention of VA/NJ/CA/NYC but for students of southern politics is incredibly imp--a rare ex. of Dems holding statewide elected offices in the South outside of NC & VA.

I have no words.

Just trying to imagine the reaction if a Dem president ordered generals to fly home and told them they'd be deployed to "straighten out," e.g., Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

Reminder that Thom Tillis cast the deciding vote to put this weekend Fox News host in charge of the Pentagon.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

Apple has decided a show about taking down white nationalists is too sensitive to air in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder

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On top of everything else, this is utterly insane capitulation to an administration that can barely tie its shoes in most areas and is already scrambling to avoid losing the House with a year still to go.

My history teacher (also a football coach) told us that the Civil War was caused by trade and FDR caused the Depression.

Competition keeps getting stiffer, but this might be the dumbest thing ever posted by an official government account.

Is the Trump administration really arguing that it has the right to kill—as opposed to interdict—in international waters based on an unproven allegation of criminal activity?

As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Also: 1) Is there any evidence that the people we killed had committed crimes in the U.S.? 2) If so, why not interdict and arrest them? 3) Either way, how is killing them in international waters w/out congressional authorization not simply murder?

Lets get a headset on Jordon and see if she can do any better

“It will embarrass us if you say the illegal thing we did is illegal” cannot be a real argument.

RICO for protesting.

A week after RedSpeed’s donation to the Senate GOP, the chamber’s transportation committee inserted a provision into a wide-ranging bill that could make the company millions of dollars. www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...

New @catawbacollege.bsky.social-YouGov Poll of North Carolina: Trump Approval: 45% Disapproval: 54% Stein Approval: 58% Disapproval: 30% Cooper App: 55% Disapp: 38% Whatley App: 30% Disapp: 35% Never heard of: 35% 8/11-18 of 1K NCians with MOE =/- 3.83% #ncpol www.catawba.edu/news/all-new...

Don't print lies in the newspaper. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Can’t even fathom how many people are going to die for this guy’s conspiratorial fantasies.

Dog Named Murph Lives Up To Name

10 million jobs coming next month!

I mean probably, just not in the way they mean www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

In North Carolina, a state very close to 50-50, Republicans have a lock on 10 of 14 congressional seats.

Via Trump's logic, Kamala Harris should file a $50 billion lawsuit against Fox. She'd have a stronger claim than Trump did against CBS. (This is arguably a misleading edit, and she actually lost!)

You would think that when the court is signaling to lower courts that they did something wrong, it might say why.

I have done a lot of things as a journalist. I have never had to call a source to ask if they'd put a hit on me. Absolutely insane story from Jordan Green in @theassemblync.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

Absolutely humiliating for everyone involved.

Do they think it’s a story that he answered the question accurately?

3 Democrats who could have retired died in office and have not yet been replaced.

The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc) It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.