Waiting for all that wealth to trickle down

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

I am running for State Senate. Join me: forms.gle/Q151nPYHfiYg...

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Paul Weiss partners had no courage when this guy bent a knee and bowed down to Trump so I assume they won't do anything now. But every one of them with bear the mark of shame. www.law.com/americanlawy...

More like Paul Yikes amirite.

“Minnesotans’ relentlessness offers a blueprint for how to react when ICE inevitably arrives to stir up trouble where there was none; how to look violence dead in the eye and say not in my town; how to provide aid laterally when you know those at the top won’t be passing any down.” My latest—

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

I literally mean abolish ICE and the entire deportation machine

I think the history of police reform provides a very clear cut counter example

The federal government is paying Louisiana $1 million a month to house ICE detainees at the notorious Angola prison. lailluminator.com/briefs/ice-a...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

honestly do not like the raw simmering rage and disgust that i experience day to day

AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) has partnered with Human Rights First to create the Ready Now! App. The app is designed to alert the people in your life if you are detained or kidnapped. It also included emergency planning and connection to legal support should you need it.

Plato?? The Philosopher Monarchist?

Rubio says it was a simple arrest operation and not an act of aggression — an arrest operation in which dozens of Venezuelans and 32 Cubans were murdered should be called a massacre as well as an act of aggression.

Harrison Reed my word what a strike!!

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Hundreds of migrants with no criminal convictions are being sent to CECOT to avoid constitutional protections and public scrutiny. CBS had the story. It passed every review. It was killed anyway. This is not journalism. This is state run media. Let's Address This:

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

“According to a recent survey from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, almost a third of Republicans under the age of 50 openly express racist or antisemitic views, a finding based on a poll of about 2,800 mostly Republican voters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"

The real kicker here is that Newsom would never grant amnesty to 2 million+ noncitizens.

I got into a tug of war with my toddler holding the measuring tape today. The battle ended at three feet.

This place is soaked in blood and most of us hate it

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

Probably because 1/4 of the curriculum is dedicated to mastering useless and formulaic statewide testing

WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.

“If Stephen F. Austin composed the score for Texas’s manifest destiny, then Greg Abbott is the lead singer of Manifest Destiny’s Child”

“The mystique of the Rangers as a legitimate law enforcement outfit necessary to combat the dangers of unsettled land still permeates American culture.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

I wrote about the Texas Rangers: www.currentaffairs.org/news/abolish...

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

‘It is goddamn murder incorporated.’ @premthakker.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social discuss recent reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly ordered all on board a boat in the Caribbean to be killed with a double tap strike in September. Watch: zeteo.com/p/murder-inc...

“A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by ICE agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.”

Fit check ❕

The takeaway here is that there are times when Antonin Scalia valued diversity in elite institutions (when it helped him get a prestigious job he really wanted), and times when he did not (when a Black person got to go to Harvard) ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...

America 2025.

I had the honor of speaking on a recent panel about the boat strikes with Laura Dib (WOLA), Brian Finucane (Crisis Group), Katherine Yon Ebright (Brennan Center for Justice), and Amanda Klasing (Amnesty Int.). This is the most comprehensive discussion I have yet seen on the topic. Please share.

up late eating halva rooting against Josh Giddey #real