At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.

Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵

I hope so.

This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied. He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.

it occurs to me that maybe elon really did think this was a "roman salute," given that his entire understanding of the roman empire seems to be "nazi herrenfolk ideology, only with togas"

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

This is a good point - even if you are to grant Labour benefit of the doubt on strategy (generous move right now) - last week's strategy was "we are too weak to do thing which annoys some MPs" (break manifesto pledge), this week's is "we must do even more difficult thing which annoys more MPs more"

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

The widespread threats of violence used to try to intimidate elected officials and others who speak up publicly are impacting our political life; an overview report would be helpful and maybe stir some pressure to go after all these anonymous terrorists. The individual cases add up....

re: Olivia Nuzzi

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Yep.

Concur.

👇 Seriously folks. If Trump wanted the files to be public, they would be public. Please let's not pretend "waiting for Congress..." or "DOJ ethics regarding pending investigations..." suddenly pose some obstacle, esp not after a year's worth of Trump/Bondi behavior to the contrary.

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

Good.

I was under the false impression the good people of Britain had backed a government that was to be lead by a human rights lawyer. I must have mistranslated “human rights” from the original English.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

You wouldn’t know it from corporate media, but there’s a mobilized, determined movement protecting San Francisco from a deepening crisis under a rising authoritarian government. Meanwhile, billionaires and their politicians do their best to erase or co-opt this work. Read my latest blog for more.

Not all heroes wear capes, but all heroes do everything they can to obstruct the secret police.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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“The least a man can do at such a time is to declare himself and tell where he stands…I am in love with freedom…I am deeply suspicious of people who are beginning to adjust to fascism and dictators merely because they are succeeding in war. From such adaptable natures a smell rises. I pinch my nose”

i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.

Accurate.

just occurred to me that someone oughtta tell the Trump administration to stop seeking emergency stays of injunctions bc how you gon be anti-woke while filing for equitable relief hmmm

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

Crypto ATMs are almost perfectly designed to facilitate financial crime from the most vulnerable Americans. Be very suspicious of anyone who asks you to make a deposit into one; they are designed to make it impossible for you to get it back. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

7. You can liken this to saying "how many men with Irish last names rob 7-11s" and then rely exclusively on security camera video where the robber took off their mask and showed their ID to the camera. You only get the dumbest criminals if that's all the data you have. Thus "at least" $28B

3. That creates MASSIVE conflicts of interest. If you are buying and selling crypto and you aren't conflicted, you are almost certainly being taken advantage of by someone who is.

2. First, to the fraud this analysis doesn't even touch. In any other financial market it would be illegal to be an exchange operator and a issuer of securities on that exchange. It is illegal to be a broker of your own securities. Brokers and dealers are separated. Crypto does none of that.

More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American. Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’. Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Homeslice just out there straight-up announcing he raped a child. Let's see how that works out for you, scumbag.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/16/b... We are living in the stupidest dystopia.

I don't believe that she Labour Party has been taken over by "Manchurian Candidate" type moles who are working to destroy it from the inside, but I DO believe that if it had been, their actions wouldn't be a heck of a lot different than what the Labour Party leadership are actually doing.

Trump's new autopen scandal. Every accusation is a confession.

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.

The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

DHS is diverting money appropriated to fighting terrorism and child trafficking to deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

This question might as well have been written for CBS News by the White House press office.