Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Seems not great.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear. Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

One wild thing that's probably not gotten enough attention this year is the administration refusing to let members of Congress inspect immigration detention facilities, a violation of the law. This story has some details on how that's played out. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.

How many students were suspended and missed graduation for protesting genocide while these students are running a neo Der Stürmer on Harvard's campus without so much as a peep from the administration. It's untenable.

The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released. “Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?” flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...

Absolutely on point and correct. But the wild thing is that feminism feels similar to the democratic party - it’s done some good stuff and I will support it because the alternatives are horrific but it feels wildly insufficient for these times.

That’s why conservatives are pouring millions intro trad-wife bullshit and birth control disinformation. They need young women to believe the erosion of their rights is a good thing, actually! It’s not enough to oppress women—they want us ^grateful* for it. (We’re so much prettier when we smile.)

I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Let's be clear here, Elon is using a neo nazi term to call for the ethnic cleansing of Europe.

Color me shocked.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

When you hear someone on the street adding a few extra blocks to where they are - yeah I’m on 34th and 6th. Sir that is optimistic but we’ve all been there.

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center? Anne Frank

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Here's an example of how useless and frustrating internet laws to "protect kids" are in practice: When I'm in Ohio, where I am during the holidays, I can't use my Bluesky DMs—unless I hand over my ID to a company owned by Epic Games. Why? To protect kids, of course! spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have...

3. A lot of flu means a lot of sick people. It doesn't tell us how sick those people are. #CDC says so far "severity indicators remain low." Fingers crossed. As you can see, the situation has changed a lot since just before Thanksgiving (left). This map will get much redder in the next few weeks.

Cases of Black students being called the N-word, taunted by classmates saying "white power" are being ignored by the Trump administration. @megomatz.bsky.social, @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I found the Ed Dept has not acted on any racial harassment cases since Jan. 21 to hold districts accountable.

This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

Where this is headed... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s Education Department is ignoring discrimination against Black students. The department’s civil rights office has not entered into a single new agreement requiring schools to address racial harassment of students, my colleagues & I @propublica.org found. / News Tips: ProPublica.org/tips

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

NEW: After a lung transplant, Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of tacrolimus, a critical drug to prevent organ rejection. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case.

The perversion of the 1st Amendment: Putting the religious beliefs of therapists above the rights of their patients. “In a 2-1 opinion, the court said the law illegally restricts speech that reflects the moral beliefs of therapists.”

Because the endgame of the anti-trans folks isn't about surgery, or hormones, or bathrooms, or sports teams. Those are way-stations on the path to the world they're trying to build, which is a world of stifling gender conformity. And you can't beat them by giving them part of what they want.

Extremely normal and not absolutely breaking the bonds of how our society functions in anyway at all. Let’s all pretend it’s fine?

What the absolute fuck - this is pure child abuse - in our name and paid for with our tax dollars. Apoplectic and heartbroken. Good thing I can count on my senators chuck and Kirsten to do anything at all. For fucks sake. @schumer.senate.gov @nadler.house.gov

That looks nothing like Janet Mills but also Susan Collins has sent more than $400,000 (not a typo) to this group over the last few years...so Collins is literally paying for these gross and indefensible AI ads. Maybe somebody could ask her about them? #MEpolitics

Yes, these are real ICE agents in the TPUSA merch room. Everyone is getting selfies taken with them. This seems fine

What happened to canceling Xmas? Can we bring that campaign back? I cannot hear one more Xmas song.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Lotta people learning firsthand, really unfortunately, about the horrors of premodernity

This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it. They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.

Evil shit.

Another student walkout happening now at Beaverton School District schools in Oregon demanding proactive protocols for ICE activity near schools. The walkout last week had a massive turnout and even resulted in some students from one of the middle schools who participated being suspended.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The clean NJ transit windows that you can actually see through feel so nice. Which is a real statement about the decrepitude of this system.

Today’s NYT reporting NONE OF THE PLACES MENTIONED HERE ARE NEAR THE PACIFIC Is the suggestion that designated terrorist organization boats are going through the Panama Canal? The extremely regulated one??