You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained. His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing. He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

cc ukraine

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

"Sonia Sotomayor answered like the only adult left in the room, warning that he was 'asking us to destroy the structure of government' and strip Congress of its power to create genuinely independent agencies altogether"

The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now. snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...

i just realized that 60% of americans don't know what coup d'etat means and nobody explained it to them they just didn't know what we were saying

NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

hey #maddow folks wondering why trump's burning down cdc: he fears justice when people realize he spread covid as part of his coup attempt. jack smith noted, while laying the groundwork for his coup, before the election, trump repeatedly spread the false narrative about mail-in ballots causing fraud

about whether to defy the courts?

For policymakers, lawmakers, commentators and the public: We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats I teamed up with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

if russian intelligence were managing trump through this coup attempt then they would get him to establish the practice of getting military to obey illegal orders early. and an opportune place would be here, damaging usa regardless of what happens, moving and potentially miring forces away from UA

"trump's security strategy"? hey npr he's the greatest threat the country has faced. his intents don't include national security he's attempting a coup again he's trying to seize the military fyi

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tells 60 Minutes that President Trump was furious with her for pushing for the release of the Epstein files. Asked what he said, MTG says Trump told her it was “going to hurt people.”

boycotts work, as a way for people to influence companies.

listen I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply

They reportedly want to open an enterprise investigation. Here is an excerpt from the relevant portion of the FBI manual about when you can't start an enterprise investigations

NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.

funny how some people wonder why trump is focusing on venezuela. opposite side of the world from the ukraine conflict. too many people ignore the russian agent story and they end up looking silly when they can't understand all the things explained by the theory. kgb recruited trump in 1987.

⚡️Ukraine returns 1,859 abducted children, Zelenska says in Paris. According to Ukraine’s national "Children of War" database, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children have been abducted from Russian-occupied territories and taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February 2022.

like with so many aspects of the authoritarian plan, it's a bit too good to come from trump circles, but looks much like russian intel work. there is an ongoing pattern. it's as though putin advised trump that he needs to start establishing the practice of military following illegal orders, early.

immediately, in this administration, trump launched a massive operation to flag trump mentions in the epstein file. it's a striking thing to do. it was before the epstein/release-the-files topic trended, which was july. interesting timeline: 1/

remarkable, interesting talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zs...

about the "kill everybody" order

We must never believe what we are being told.  We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.

So I guess no one is actually going to hold her accountable for sending innocent people to a concentration camp?

I actually hate to say it but it looks like the new “Media Bias” section of the White House webpage is weird application of the frameworks we put together in academia to study “false news.” I see elements from my prior work, from UW, from Stanford. They learned only enough to manipulate better.

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...

👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏 👏There are no war crimes without war👏 👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏

Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live: snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

grateful for @pattonoswalt.bsky.social speaking truth www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTOx...

“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:

interesting that in the trump/mamdani meeting trump seems focused on gaining followers from the commy segment

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

the piece of shit must be sweating in his boots, saying something like that

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

"a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, and a rapid Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk Oblast is not imminent" and the US officials who keep saying so are repeating Russian propaganda

qanon junk was amplified by the russians to cancel out all trump's epstein stuff it always seemed that way. too coincidental, and perfect mirror messaging. "trump is here to save us from the child sex trafficking elites"

live news is almost irresponsible. these shows present themselves as authoritative yet they let heinously destructive falsehoods broadcast on their air and they're not able to correct them in real time.

authenticating with someone again

A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The pile of lies is stunning. First, no crimes at 1/6. Second, wrong to investigate. Third, unusual to get toll records of people instigators called. Fourth, wrong to suspend notice while investigation ongoing. Cherry on top: vote yourself $500k as victim of nothing wrong.

Ghislaine Maxwell: as she is doing time already, Congress shd immunize her which would force her to have to testify (she is currently objecting based on the 5th A). She can be prosecuted if she lies or refuses to testify. And it would make it that much more outlandish for Trump to later pardon her.

RESOURCE: We published toolkits with concrete ways for religious leaders and communities to push back on authoritarianism. Get all of the Faithful Fight toolkits here: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/the-faithful-fight

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

good find by @arimelber.bsky.social in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027794.txt. a week before epstein is arrested, to bannon he cryptically says "Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating" in context of discussing epstein's political power www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70i...

wapo snuck in a good article

trump said it's ok to call him fascist @radiofreetom.bsky.social