BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Ughhh

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Vermont Lodges Complaint that it Wasn't Them

POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

They’re not going to deport 100 million people. The sentiment should be taken seriously. At the same time, these people can barely do what they’re already doing, they’ve lost or are losing public and institutional support, and the midterms are eleven months away.

Previously when DoD tried to hand off rescue efforts for a survivor in the Pacific to Mexico he was lost at sea. That may be the expectation with this hand off to USCG. If these supposed “narco-terrorists”are rescued, what then? Expect USG does not want custody subject to any US legal challenge.

This is what Trump did to the White House, and a good metaphor for what he did to the country.

“A Middle Way”? Between what?? Fascism and liberalism??? ‘“Long before Hitler unleashed his assault on globalism, popular support for free trade, the League of Nations, and democracy was waning,” wrote…’ 🗺️

Why would anyone ban aid groups? I mean anyone-not-attempting-genocide, that is. 🗺️

What a beta cuck. If he was a *real* star — like, say, Obama — they‘d let him deploy the National Guard wherever he wants.

“…Africa is emerging as a key arena in Beijing’s efforts to internationalize the yuan, especially in nations that are heavily indebted to it. Kenya this year converted $$ loans it owed to 🇨🇳 into yuan-denominated debt, Ethiopia began talks to do the same, & 🇿🇲 said it would consider following suit…” 🗺️

They ought to send reports with bottles of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Khor vodka. Whiskey Pete will soon want them hourly. 🍸

“In the future, historians will struggle to describe that feeling, particular to this #Trump era, of being prepared for the bad, crazy, and disruptive things that he would do, and yet also totally, utterly shocked by them.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

#HowDemocracyDies. In one-sided political violence.

Or, as Orwell put it: “Four legs good, two legs bad.”

Politics are a social science, characterized by reflexivity. It’s dynamic, adaptive, evolving, and constantly innovating. Here’s how the New 21st century competitive authoritarianism works: RULE BY Social Media TERROR. Will it outcompete liberal RULE OF LAW?

What do we call MAGAts who have been “mugged by reality”?

2nd world problems:

“… The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator — a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet. …” 🌱

This is not the conclusion that someone who crashed their economy — in a brief but epic real-time display of total ineptness and disregard for reality — would come to in a functioning society.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

What do you call this act? “Conservative fiscal policy!”

These clowns are just making up duties and rules and laws. Artists don't have any duty to sing for fascists, and only a fascist would try to force them to.

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

“Bankruptcies soar” is certainly what you’d expect from Donald Trump www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

You thought #neoconservatives were bad? Think again. And just wait for the next #neofascist quagmire. 🗺️

The worst design feature of the last 15 years; wish they could all be ripped out

That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.

Pharaonic conservatism.

The Great Convergence of the 21st century, where Washington and Beijing meet: A surveillance state to repress dissent. Call it “The Xinjiang Consensus.”

Articles like this are why I have a print subscription to the LRB. But increasingly, as in this case, I find myself unable to wait for my print copy to arrive before reading. That’s how good this publication is. Indispensable.

Congratulations to Thierry Breton, who really does seem to understand how to heighten contradictions and provoke imperialist idiots into demonstrating how much of a threat to everyone they actually pose. 🗺️

“… To halt Trump’s worst abuses, Stephen Miller must be made toxic—which is not hard to do, at least not if people are granted anonymity. The costs his bigotry causes—the dollar signs, the trade-offs the monomaniacal implementing of his bigotry entails, the human cost… —must be made visible. …”

Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

‘…“Vive la France!” Indeed.’ 🗺️ 🇫🇷

“… I don’t think we are moving towards any kind of [international] system. We are moving into a system where anybody can do whatever they like, regardless if they are big or small. As long as you have the ability to wreak havoc, you can do it because no one will hold you accountable.” 🗺️

The Trump-Vance Russia First policy continues

We are a long way from the “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” days of US foreign policy. Trump’s policy is Russia First.

Especially at the rate that 🇺🇸’ans are gulping down Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 drugs! Or will that dependence become a “national security” trade exception, requiring local production and intellectual property “theft”, under Republican state-capitalism?

Looks like Americans are getting poisoned by Big Coal as our holiday gift www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/c...

I’m shocked that a rent-seeking oligarchy would lead to policy outcomes like this.

I am not a toy. I am a 100-year commitment. Please think twice before signing up to an unreformable collective security organization for Christmas.

Prize for dumbest 🇺🇸American commentary of the year👇🏻 goes to Graeme Wood in @theatlantic.com. Either a failed attempt at irony or an intentionally vicious slur accusing 🇨🇦Canadians as a people (without evidence) of being inherently “treacherous”. 🤷🏼😒🤷🏼 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

🎶 Simm-ply haav-ing a wonderful Christmas time! 🎶

What does “conservatism” mean? Nobody seems to know any more. But if it is to mean anything at all, it could do worse that “the belief that disruption per se is bad”.

The party of “national security”