One way to quantify the GOP's attack on free and fair elections: My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Mich ham se vergessen!

In Berlin kostet einmal Busfahren jetzt so viel wie vier Monate Anwohnerparken 🤡 www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/einze...

I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.

Ohne Worte: Wie der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Verkehr Schüler*innen an einer Straße ~ nicht gezählt hat ~ um dort wieder Tempo 50 einzuführen. Wie viel Ignoranz und Imkompetenz ist zulässig? von Boris Buchholz aus dem @tagesspiegel.de-Newsletter für Steglitz.

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

Examining colonialism does not *compete* with examining the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Examining colonialism is part of examining the history of Europe, including the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Says everyone from Aimé Césaire to Götz Aly.

#Diop erzählt welche Vorteile es geben könnte, das Thema #Kolonialismus in die #Gedenkstättenkonzeption aufzunehmen ⬇️

Was die Verschärfung beim Bürgergeld bringt: - Applaus von rechts außen - mehr Hunger - mehr häusliche Gewalt - mehr Kinderleid Was sie nicht bringt: - Einsparungen Ach ja - Frohe Weihnachten ihr lieben Christen überall 😘

Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.

First off, this wouldn’t be the first time Bondi tried to trick the public with a binder full of chicken feed. That’s what she did back in the spring, which infuriated the MAGA voters who took Trump and his cronies at their word that they’d release the files.

Incipit: "Une civilisation qui s'avère incapable de résoudre les problèmes que suscite son fonctionnement est une civilisation décadente." Césaire, Colonialisme. Ouf!

Wir haben 101 Überlebende an Bord, doch Italien weist uns an, 4 Tage in den Norden zu fahren! Aber ein italienisches Jugendgericht hat geurteilt: Minderjährige & ihre Angehörige sollen in Pantelleria, Sizilien, von Bord gehen. Wir fordern: Alle Überlebenden müssen jetzt an Land!

I and no doubt many other people have been dreaming of this for months: Wow, what if these two fantastic educational interviewers were to interview each other?

Everything you always wanted to know about the economics of "AI" but were too ignorant to ask. Thanks to Pauls Kedrosky and Krugman:

If my memory is correct, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social admitted at one point that the whole "liberal media" thing was just working the refs. Hey Bill, now that you've renounced the dark side, maybe you can confirm?

People definitely do not understand this

The Founders built a system designed to enable and legally legitimize popular resistance to a tyrant, via strong free speech protections, the right to jury trial, and all sorts of restrictions on direct federal government action against individuals. And the People are resisting, as elites cower.

#Berlin: Verkehrsministerium präsentiert Entwurf fürs Tempelhofer Feld: www.verkehrsrundschau.de/nachrichten/...

Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm really fascinated with the mainstream political reporter stance that the U.S. isn't grotesquely corrupt and our regulators haven't been utterly eviscerated by that corruption they're like the band on the titanic

A €120 million fine: The DSA ruling against X for deceiving users and denying access to data is a stark reminder of just how much Europe benefits from strong regulation edri.org/our-work/eu-...

Punchline: the Trump administration is lying about clean energy to hide that its scheme to ban clean energy is really a scheme to drive revenue to big fossil fuel donors; from your pockets to theirs. Don’t be scammed.

Yet again, actual data show wind and solar are the least expensive power on the grid (and getting cheaper by the day). So the Trump administration is just lying about that.

⚡️Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption. Donald Trump Jr. warned on Dec. 7 that his father may walk away from Ukraine, parroting Kremlin propaganda about corruption in Kyiv driving Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

I don't understand why European leaders aren't communicating this

If they ever let me teach a semantics class again, this is definitely going into the lecture about prototypes.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

BREAKING: Bau das Walter Lübcke Memorial direkt vor die Parteizentrale der CDU! Investiere jetzt in Beton und mach eine einmalige Gedenkstätte vor dem Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin möglich. Eine neue Brandmauer, ein Ort gegen das Bündnis von Konservativen mit Faschisten und Mördern: cdu-denkmal.de

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out! Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.

If you can’t make it to an independent bookshop to buy books for Christmas presents and have to buy online, buy them from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. Free shipping ends tomorrow. uk.bookshop.org

Anyway. Please buy my book when it's out ⬇️ #SoInEtwaIstEsGeschehen

Zum Schusswaffengebrauch gg. ein Kind in Bochum: Laut vorliegenden Informationen betraten Polizist:innen die Wohnung mit gezogenen Waffen und fesselten die Mutter. Warum die Bodycams ausgeschaltet waren, erklärt Minister Reul: »Man habe nicht mit einer gefährlichen Situation gerechnet.« Bitte was??

Unreasonable search and seizure: Fourth Amendment.

we have to go back. to warn them.

Ute Bondes @senmvku.bsky.social sucht ein Planungsbüro für die Erneuerung der Berliner Allee. Zwar gibt es in der Aufgabenstellung Prüfaufträge für Fahrradwege, allerdings wird das gewünschte Ergebnis – keine Rad-Infrastruktur zu schaffen – bereits vorweggenommen. www.bund-berlin.de/service/pres...

#OtD 25 Nov 1915 thousands in Chicago attended the funeral of martyred @IWW union organiser and songwriter Joe Hill. He had been fitted up for a crime he did not commit and was executed. Learn more about his life and works in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/joe...

Die in den 90er Jahren angelegten Grünflächen Berlins werden Stück für Stück dem Profit geopfert.

How many legs does a sheep have if you call its tail a leg?

I do all these crazy, ancient Japanese martial arts? What relevance can 17th century budo possibly have in the 21st century? You'd be surprised. peterboylan.substack.com/p/is-budo-re...

How did our oil get under their country?

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

One of the greats.

In Chemnitz wurde neulich diese schöne Fahrradbrücke eröffnet. Jetzt kam raus: Der Radverkehr ist seit Einweihung im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 32% gestiegen. Von 777 Fahrradfahrern pro Tag auf 1027/Tag. Der alte Satz: „Build it and they will come“ wurde also erneut eindrucksvoll bewiesen😊

👉 https://www.vcd.org/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/falsche-prioritaeten-vcd-fordert-stabile-finanzierung-fuers-deutschlandticket-statt-steuergeschenke-fuer-den-flugverkehr #öpnv #bahn [3/3]

Eat your own dog food.