The world will be standing room only

Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3. I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.

It's a bit too on the nose with Trump literally being so thin skinned.

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

Jack Smith, p. 27: "There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case … [W]hat he was not free to do was violate Federal law and use knowing-- knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function. That he was not allowed to do."

For folks still struggling with the math: There are ~345 million US citizens. There are ~245 million white US citizens. This is what they mean by "Peaceful ethnic cleansing." Their plan ends with deporting all non-white people. Not "undocumented criminals." Not even "all undocumented people."

"It’s not hard to come up with these plans. They just do it half-assed" - Mark Cuban on politicians who don't take healthcare policy seriously. lnk.thebulwark.com/3L9cCFO

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

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

Euro expansion comes with a commitment to rule of law. It’s the culmination of a long deliberate process. In contrast, when dollarization happens it’s an emergency response to a local economic crisis.

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

Happy New Year with real fascist stuff about expelling a third of the nation. Wonder who’ll be targeted.

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

The Trump administration is freezing federal child care funding to all states, not just Minnesota. abcnews.go.com/US/hhs-freezin...

If you're madder about some made-up racist ragebait than: - Trump's illegal oil war in Venezuela - ICE detaining US citizens without recourse - Congress authorizing $8.6B OF YOUR TAX MONEY for FOR ISRAEL Then perhaps you are simply not equipped to understand this moment.

I Was Wrong About RFK Jr.: he's not even a broken clock; he destroyed U.S. leadership in global health, and ruined our ability to trust our health agencies. He's done nothing right. via N. Adam Brown @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

Hegseth told DOD officials to stop communicating with Ukrainian counterparts. "It’s 100 percent Pol Pot,” a senior military officer explained. “There’s very much a Leninist angle here, like, we’re going to tell you the sky is green, and so the sky is green.”"

Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Between his murderous attacks on suspected drug-running boats and his repatriation of captured suspects, Trump is undermining the process usually used to gather intelligence on cartel leaders. Intel used for lethal strikes against civilian targets has now repeatedly proven inaccurate.

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names

"William McLean, the family’s attorney, said it’s still unclear why the appeals court ruled the way it did. There is no written opinion. “If the Board of Immigration Appeals doesn’t reopen his underlying removal proceeding, I’m not sure what else we can do,” he said."

We revealed the existence of Mobile Fortfy, ICE's new facial recognition app that turns the system used to vet travelers at the border inwards to U.S. streets: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

As we argue per one of our five registers of Global China, Chinese tech is driving planetary modernization. Its impact & scale is almost immediately global and transformative for the global north and south. The global renewable energy revolution, for instance, is not achievable without global China.

No notes. Actual cultural history applied as perfect metaphor.

Tacoma Dome Link Extension due to open in 2035, restoring this service after 107 years...

Mass firings, buyouts and heightened uncertainty led to an exodus of federal workers in 2025. More than 300,000 employees will be out of the government by the end of December.

Denaturalization requires clear evidence of fraud or illegality. It cannot and should not be used as a political weapon. Setting arbitrary, politically motivated quotas for stripping citizenship is a serious threat to due process. This will be fought in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

More artists are cancelling their shows at the Kennedy Center Posted by jazz act The Cookers ====>

this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read from McMegan, I think, which is a remarkable achievement

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

It’s always funny how taxing unrealized gains is a no-no but borrowing against it is fine. How about we make borrowing against any and all unrealized gains an immediately taxable event.

Good on the Cookers

I follow this doctor on TikTok.. He posts about new doctors every year and gets the ugliest comments.. But he is unbothered as he should be because it’s very cool what he does…

Under the Biden administration, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) got private firms to pledge to hit certain memory-safety goals. This was called Secure by Design. Then Trump cut CISA's budget and Musk's goons forced out much of CISA's staff, ending Secure by Design

Ideally .gov would simply rewrite the old, unsafe code in modern, safe languages and make the result available to everyone. Or it would sponsor open source developers to do so. Or, at the least, it would coordinate an industry group, create financial incentives, and mandate memory safe code in gov.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

The lawless killing spree continues over the holidays. Per usual, neither the "Designated Terrorist Organization" supposedly operating this vessel nor the "narco-terrorists" killed are identified.

There's risk to mail-in voting from changes in USPS processing and from litigation at SCOTUS that aims to eliminate postmark‑based grace periods altogether komonews.com/news/local/u... votingrightslab.org/2025/11/12/s...

The last four words are also important here. The USAID cuts should primarily be seen as a eugenicist project. Elon Musk and the far right, generally, believe that foreign aid is a part of the Great Replacement.

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

The Russian ‘press’ also thought Trump was selling out Ukraine yesterday - and they’re thrilled