fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Attn: Brett Kavanaugh

This has "become the norm among Repubs, while Dem pushback has too often been perfunctory. The defamation campaign against Kharbouch could easily have led to his being physically harmed or killed. Unless Islamophobia & other forms of racism are fought head-on, the US is headed for a dark future."

"By making bigotry explicit, Trump & his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves." In fact, “In the last five years, the [r word] has gone from being nearly unused on Twitter (later X) in 2020 to being prominent in the current context.”

The worst of the worst, they said.

Attn: Brett Kavanaugh

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

"Miller has outlined something more comprehensive and sinister—an elaborate worldview that...centers immigrants as a threat to 'civilization' in terms that echo the rhetoric of those determined to exclude people like his ancestors."

We are failing our kids

Words DO MATTER. This is deeply moving.

"The agency spokeswoman said in her statement that the grant funds were being reinvested to 'better serve special needs students.'” Just not Annie, who is deafblind. #Orwell

“Immigration officers dragged [citizens] from cars, detained them for days, fabricated claims of assault, routinely used excessive force and denied medical care. … Agents “treated children with reckless disregard for their safety and wellbeing.” #KavanaughStops

In a season shadowed by tragedy, we light Hanukkah candles as a reminder that even the smallest flame pushes back the darkness. May these nights bring comfort to those grieving, resilience to those shaken, and hope to us all. Chag Sameach.

So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him. Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.

"Why do so many people tolerate, even cheer, violence when it’s carried out by someone in a uniform? Why is it so easy for two armed men choking a restaurant worker on the floor to be rebranded as just “law enforcement”?"

New ICE data available today prove that DHS lied in response to my report last week, showing that over 70% of people booked into ICE custody had no criminal convictions, and just 5% had violent criminal convictions. DHS will lie about anything... www.cato.org/blog/new-dat...

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

"Bove told...federal prosecutors that the WH no longer intended to go to the trouble of intercepting vessels at sea, arresting crew members, seizing drugs, collecting evidence, & so on. Instead, [he] suggested that the admin wanted to simplify the process considerably, & 'just sink the boats.'”

“They should do it the right way”

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

"Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand."

“A man died with his hands and feet bound behind him, and the official explanation is suicide. No emergency congressional investigation. No mass protests demanding accountability. No institutional response adequate to the horror of what this represents.”

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

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There have to be consequences for how Bovino’s brutal raiders keep ginning up charges against innocent people that are quickly dropped as soon as the spotlight moves on.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

If you haven’t yet, read Ronan’s book about the actual club of NYC media men and their long history sexually abusing women, helping each other, talking horribly about women and forcing NDAs to keep it quiet. Too many predators and coverups still in the industry.

“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.”

“The effects of discriminatory practices leave a permanent stain: potential lawsuits, diminished trust in the federal government & lasting trauma for the city’s large immigrant & Latino populations. “ ATTN Brett Kavanaugh.

“I told them I’m a U.S. citizen, I know my rights,” he said. “All they said was, I don’t (expletive) care.”

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

ICE is out of control. This week, ICE shot a canister of pepper spray directly into a family’s car — hitting a 1-year-old baby. The family was shopping at Sam’s Club when the agents drove by and sprayed the chemical agent into the car with two young children inside. Abhorrent.

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

"An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago...bragged about the incident in texts afterwards," saying: “I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” “I’m up for another round of ‘fuck around & find out'” “Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”

Fox fell for a fake AI video about "SNAP recipients threatening to 'ransack stores'." When called out they rewrote the story to be about 'going viral,' w/ the same URL & timestamp. "The deception is in the architecture: casual readers...would have no idea the entire premise had been fabricated."

On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day. (Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat." ATTN Brett Kavanaugh

FLASH: Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to murder Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

A load of shit by any other name, however, sends a starkly clear message: “Trump’s post is not only juvenile but also betrays striking contempt for tens of millions of Americans he ostensibly leads and for the concept of democratic free speech,” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

ATTN: Brett Kavanaugh

14-year-olds in DC: They need to be tried as adults! 30-year-olds praising Hitler while trying to make policy: Just a bunch of kids making edgy jokes. Give em a break!

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

“They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”

ATTN Brett Kavanaugh