This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

It's kind of unbelievable how hard Bari Weiss and CBS News have been pushing their interview with Erika Kirk. Just total propaganda.

As Frida points out, the obtuse response of Australia's PM to a growing wave of virulent antisemitism over recent months has been chilling. But the heroic acts of this man, amidst the horror, were a reminder of our common humanity.

The hero of the Hannukah massacre has been identified as Ahmed Al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner. He disarmed one of the gunmen. He is Muslim. May he be an inspiration to the world.

The DOJ is issuing marching orders for a witch hunt on US citizens, and virtually no corporate media outlets have covered this catastrophic memo. Those who did report on it masked it over and whitewashed it.

🧵A leaked DOJ memo shows the Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public. If you align with any of the following, congrats. You may be headed for Bondi's list. Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.

🧵Trump pressured a foreign government to release an accused child rapist. On January 14, Andrew Tate texted a friend that he’d received word from Trump’s people. They were “on top of things,” he wrote. He’d been told he’d “be free soon, but Trump needs to see me in Miami.”

Armed ICE agents trapped U.S. citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every single person was a U.S. citizen.

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social piece skewering the absurdity of people like Tucker Carlson and JD Vance claiming a monopoly on human flourishing rooted in hidebound patriarchy they want to impose on everyone else not privileged enough to appreciate it: www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...

Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.

Fact-check: true

The RFK, jr effect.

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

This thread perfectly distills why CBS News is disgracing and humiliating itself even though there is no market for broadcast news being even more pro-Trump.

Shame on you, @cbssports.bsky.social !

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data. My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

New in PN: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy "He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the WH over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters."

“The howling we’ve seeing from the administration over the war crimes scandal shows how attacking the press can backfire. The ferocity with which they deny things in the eyes of actual skeptical reporters only shows that it’s a sore spot that needs more attention.” Read this:

Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

For weeks, Trump officials have refused to send him to Costa Rica even though he said he'd accept that. The ruling savagely details extensive misconduct here. We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Every disaster movie starts with someone ignoring a scientist…

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Dear Senator Marshall, you have no f*cking clue what you’re talking about!! STOP platforming these guys!!! @kaitlancollins.bsky.social Just as an example…here in CT my premiums jump from $700/mo to $1700/mo. This jackass has NO idea what he’s talking about!!!

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

The 81-year-old, second-richest man on earth, calls up president directly and demands that he be allowed to use $100 billion including capital from world’s most repressive regimes and Trump’s son-in-law to conquer a massive entertainment and news complex to preserve “competition“

Dad got involved: “.. Larry Ellison, a Trump ally, called the president after the Netflix deal was announced and told him the transaction would hurt competition ..” @wsj.com $WBD $PSKY www.wsj.com/business/med...

Halle-fuckin-lujah!!!

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

A MAGA grandpa in Wyoming called 911 and told the operator to “call ICE” on an Amazon delivery driver simply for speaking Spanish. “There’s this guy in front of my house who can’t speak English. You need to call ICE on him.”

US and Russian officials participated in a coordinated attack on Europe which saw thousands of bots spread disinformation and terroristic rhetoric against the European Union.

Trump’s human trafficking adjacent adult son, Trump jr, is spreading Russian disinformation now. (🎥 @nextatvofficial.bsky.social )

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Saxo Bank has a list of “Outrageous Predictions” for 2026 — including the arrival of Q-Day, in which quantum computers “breach digital security .. bank accounts, emails, and digital wallets are no longer encrypted, which leads to the ‘collapse’ of Bitcoin ..” www.home.saxo/-/media/docu...

“.. The national-security strategy, he said, ‘establishes the baseline from which Beijing negotiates, and the baseline just moved.’” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests. www.politico.eu/article/top-...

Russian nihilists created the Chernobyl disaster. Now they have bombed the site to create another disaster. Trump loves them.

🇩🇪 German air traffic control services are recording a significant increase in incidents involving drones, according to NZZ. 208 dangerous air traffic disruptions caused by UAVs have been recorded this year through November.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”