Steven Cash gives a two minute primer on the Central Intelligence Agency. #holdfast #steadystate youtu.be/tR20ogbyG1U

So this is what we’ve come to? Guy with 340K+ followers calling on nurses to harm a patient? And no one in the mentions points this out? (But some in nursing endorse the thought.) No one wins in a race to the moral bottom…

Marvelous reporting, two sides of undocumented immigrant/identity theft coin. Points to obvious solution: bring these 12M souls out of shadows, legalize status, stop collective denial & ugly nativism. (No paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

"...May there come across the waters A path of yellow moonlight To bring you safely home." (John O'Donohue, To Bless the space between us: A book of Blessings)

Another under-the-radar outrage perpetrated by the Israelis against the Palestinians with complicity of certain Western governments. Enough already of this nonstop abuse.

1/15 The D.C. Circuit issued multiple head fakes on Judge Boasberg’s ruling that the DOJ/US Gov may be in contempt over El Salvador flights that took off in apparent defiance of judge’s pause order. Circuit Judge Florence Pan, in dissent, is not playing: she correctly observed that the court’s

Mercy, just watched Trump-Mamdani press conference—I think Schumer & Dem leadership had to be revived with smelling salts. NY Post hilariously nails it. We’re living in a bizarre time—but Mamdani is an otherworldly political talent & Demosaurs have something to fear now, finally.

the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.

JFC: Welcome to Idiocracy, the documentary.🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Not an auction, a brothel.

FL’s bloodthirsty Ron DeSantis executed Malik Abdul Sajjad yesterday, due in no small part to SCOTUS’s equally bloodthirsty 16th Century Six, who refuse to end this gruesome, atavistic practice. "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." Justice Harry A. Blackmun

May be worst part: also reintroduces hazing, a dangerous, ugly, dispiriting practice. Pete Hegseth shld be on trial if a sane gov ever retakes power.

Let’s be clear, ppl: @slotkin.senate.gov voted to sanction ICC for issuing Netanyahu arrest warrant, consistently gave cover & material support to perpetrators of Gaza genocide, abetted creation of largest population of child amputees in history: disgusting hypocrite shld STFU—we will not forget.

WTAF? As we wave goodbye to the rule of law, note that it’s prefaced w a complete breakdown in protocol & civility, featuring national “leaders” emulating the President in hurling epithets right out of high school.🤦🏻‍♂️ U.S. Ambassador to Canada Channels Harsh Trump Tone www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...

“‘The testimony of the people who know these surveys best, Meta’s own internal analysis,’ showed that the surveys were noise, not signal. Only someone who hasn’t used Facebook would say something that delusional.” Matt Stoller spanks Judge Boasberg bigly. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rule...

💯This is so good: “The media outlets and tech platforms that settled with Trump chose to give him money because they wanted to. They could have fought and won…” Read on, ppl, @lizdye.bsky.social tour de force review of Trump lawfare bullying rampage crushes it.

Imagine thinking Mace has a point in critiquing an investigation into Cory Mills? And for heaven’s sake, look how they bury allegations of horrifying sexual violence & related extortion way down near end in antiseptic terms. Something has gone wrong in our country—our Congress is dysfunctional.

‼️Holy mackeral, this just in, from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social — maybe we will see DOJ leadership DQ'd from all federal courts. Why not?‼️ Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Mass hysteria idiocy meets the red scare. These loons are ruining ppl’s lives over total nonsense.

We’re living a surrealistic nightmare. And among the worst parts is that the Dem Establishment—the Larry Summers party—whose worthlessness enabled Trump’s rise are also its political beneficiaries: he’s so bad they look good. We’re all hostages to this spiraling insanity. Only hope is Dem primaries.

Brilliant. Note this: “Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers.” I had forgotten who guided Obama’s extension of Clinton’s idiocy. In a better world, Naomi Klein wld the WH advisor, or occupant.

1/3 NYT has produced a reporting masterpiece, timeline of DOJ conversion into Trump personal law firm. Must read, however long. No paywall—NYT shld make this free. If news is first draft of history, scholars will look back on this & see how we, the frog, were www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I want to see the Dem leadership poltroons demonstrate even a fraction of this decency & courage.

Best piece by far on Summers & “wingman” Epstein, from Crimson, explains context, makes sense of confusing messages. Note their racist code name for the student. (BTW, her book’s jacket has flattering blurb from Tony Blair: coincidence?) Again, when does Summers resign? (Great job, student journos.)

119 West 23rd Street, ppl.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Among our era’s enduring mysteries is how Larry Summers has been able to show his face in public—how this horrible man was lionized, why he is tolerated, how ppl don’t fling drinks in his face at cocktail parties—his disgraceful behavior abt Stefanik’s attack on Harvard alone was reprehensible.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

1/2 I don’t think this serves GQP at all: more like it cld have been written by Dem base that sees this craven, cowardly betrayal exactly this way, same Dem base whose disgust w Dem Establishment has twice allowed antichrist into WH. But that’s just me. (Used screenshot bc I don’t want to

What used to be a Sunday morning treat reading NFL matchups (of course w win-loss records in parentheses) is now disgusting reminder that sports betting has infested our society (including g.d. betting lines). My next crusade may be against gambling in all forms—& f**k Roberts Court for this too.

1/2 Mind-boggling: we’ve reached East German Stasi moment when students inform on teachers who deviate from state orthodoxy. Snitch (a word I otherwise avoid) shld be outed & expelled or at least made a school pariah. (No paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Did the Gestapo wear masks? Or have ICE goons surpassed them here?

Who’s going to tell them?🤔

Deport ICE

The race is on: place your bets, ppl.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

These Gestapo SOB’s must be held accountable. Dems must let them know consequences will follow for all of them if Dems ever regain power. Same for all participating in high seas lynchings: 80 ppl have now been murdered. This administration has lost its damn mind.

I want to see the Dem leadership poltroons demonstrate even a fraction of this decency & courage.

This headline is misleading: the ICE heroic warriors in full combat gear & night vision goggles managed to subdue & carr off a 55YO cleaning lady who’s been here working & paying taxes for decades—paying these punks’ salaries, in fact.

1/2 Very moving. GQP has staked its future on US voters supporting mass deportation of 12M migrants who live & work among us, an expensive, economically suicidal plan, but w visceral, bigoted appeal. If Dem leader cowards continue to fail to stand up for these our neighbors, we’re doomed—& if

“Military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and, as such, are not subject to prosecution…” Not even close: laughably transparent Nuremberg defense. These worthless lawyers will eventually face bar discipline for this—& murderers they mislead now will face prosecution.

Each day we ponder some fantastic lunacy perpetrated in our names. Today I’m thinking of Prez & henchmen preparing to go to war w Venezuela to stop fentanyl from Mexico. Hegseth as Secretary of “War” is beyond any caricature from Strangelove to Wag the Dog: satire cld not ever conjure such a clown.

1/3 Truly embarrassing, slobbering “interview.” Starts w subject holding/promoting book by one of journos, gets worse. Had never heard Jay Clayton speak before: Bill Barr II. He mentions meme coin scourge, they don’t ask abt Trump/Melania/Lorenzo scam or conflict of interest youtu.be/USQ7aL3mEEk?...

A Dumbassistan instant classic: even the dogs are now shooting ppl in our glorious country.🤦🏻‍♂️ I can’t wait for Alito to pen a Sup Ct opinion defending 2A rights for dogs, no doubt based on solid originalist reasoning.👍🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏 Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol

💯💯💯Magnificent. Finally, the full interview, must see, ppl. Polanski, like Mamdani, is the real deal.

My head hurts at the painful stupidity of Congress & the Senate Dems masquerading as our purported champions.🤦🏻‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/jona...

Lawyers who produced this legal fiction “memo” are a disgrace & shld be disbarred. To rationalize flagrant criminality a priori knowing ppl “relying” on memo may face prosecution is outrageous. (Also among reasons letting Gitmo torture memo drafters & CIA evidence destroyers walk was appalling.)

Good morning. NYT Pitchbot does it again, infiltrating paper & planting satirical pieces.

"AI matching?" For foster care placements? JFC. Every generation, we look for the idiots running foster care & other residential care programs to find ways to make things worse. This crop have not disappointed. smhid

Catching up on @radleybalko.bsky.social’s Collateral, Episode 4 is again deeply moving, on injustice & stupidity of resistance to medical marijuana. (But I was wrong in thinking I cld not despise Bill Clinton more: he is even more loathsome than I realized.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

“Ladies & gentlemen, this way for the concentration camp.” The great @ellenbarry.bsky.social w Jason DeParle on impulse to lock up unhoused ppl. Providing housing & services is hard/expensive—& essential. Treating them as pariahs is no answer. (No paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...