This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

Read this Youre welcome reason.com/2025/12/31/d...

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.”

Y2K didn’t take us out. Freedom Fries didn’t tear us apart. Sports heartbreak never broke this city’s spirit. We could survive anything. What we have now? Much harder.

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas

ICE is out of control.

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom: ▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m ▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m ▶️Palantir: $10m ▶️Ripple: $5m ▶️Parsons: $2.5m ▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5 Here's a gift link. There's more in the story 🧵…

This is the second week in a row that Brennan has had what I will call a regime moment and while I see people wondering what pressure she's under I will say that the fact she is still there doing this job should lead people to question whether she's fine with doing this.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHd1v

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should

NEW: A review of more than 100 Alabama court cases found some immigrants saw harsher punishments than citizens, even when they have fewer prior convictions. Defendants said they believe their citizenship status tipped the scales of justice against them. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Reminder that the entire Hunter Biden investigation was predicated on sex workers investigation. Now Gary Shapley, who championed that investigation by badly misrepresenting it, is in a senior IRS position.

“I’ll be involved” is another big broken norm.

Nothing would make Putin happier than having Trump destroy the US-EU relationship and having the US ditch NATO. That's his Christmas list of idea outcomes.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

Excellent analysis today from @atrupar.com in PN: The GOP "has done untold damage to the nation over the past two and a half decades, particularly during its domination by Trump. America would probably be far better off sending it into the dustbin of history." www.publicnotice.co/p/late-trump...

This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

Greg Bovino calls NANCY SINATRA "a main cause of violence"

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

It has been confirmed by journalists and AI analysis that Trump's "peace plan" was written by Russia, translated into English, and then forced on Ukraine. Trump serves Russia. America serves Russia.

What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?

If you haven't yet, definitely read @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's post on EB White and fascism. As I said, I think this name will totally backfire. But still read Chris' post. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence "Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."

Epstein was scheduled to have breakfast w/Bannon 2 days before his arrest.

no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.

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Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am proud that my law firm is representing this amazing organization in this critical fight for the right to vote.

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines

Millions of Americans who will no longer be able to afford healthcare need to know the names of those who took it from them. Democrats should rent billboards in South Carolina: THE COST OF YOUR HEALTHCARE DOUBLED BECAUSE OF LINDSEY GRAHAM

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

“Leo inherited what wld become his first apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis, whose views he embraced while revising it to reflect his thoughts. But both pontiffs felt that those who did not see care for the poor as “the burning heart of the Church’s mission…need to go back & re-read the Gospel”

These people who have never had to work in their fucking lives and don't come from working class backgrounds love providing their expert commentary on how anyone supporting left populists popular with all but the ruling class are somehow mistaken. Little puppets dancing for rich scumbags

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.