the only thing trump seems to be actively engaged with as president is this ballroom

It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

why do all these evil tech demons keep using Philly as a testing ground for their bullshit? nobody here has Amazon treat money. we don’t need this!!! share.inquirer.com/pzulOm

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

NEW: The Supreme Court will once again consider the legality of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, this time (likely) on the merits.

how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on

They need an urgent hand getting shelter

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins

Gonna be shameless and plug @henrybarajas.bsky.social and my Death To Pachuco series which is a crime noir comic about the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots told from the perspective of the Latino and Mexican American youths! Check it out here! imagecomics.com/comics/relea...

for those of you counting at home, that's $50M/day x more than 120 days, that DHS budget isn't going to last anywhere near as long as it was intended to

This is also where I stand

Trump's Jan 6 pardons were so sweeping and vague that DOJ now claims they decide who they cover. There’s no modern precedent — and maybe no historical precedent, either — for a president to delegate his pardon power to subordinates on a pardon this vaguely worded. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper sprayed "in the face" & "pushed around" by ICE officers during a raid in Tucson. "I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress." DHS denying it. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/12/05/g...

Hello. I’d like to report a war crime.

Readers are treated to a photo of a thoughtful-looking Hendrix, wearing a navy suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, with a caption saying “he was stunned by the intensity of the uproar and the fallout on his life.” fair.org/home/nyt-cov...

OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind. ​The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.

Lindsey Burke, long a proponent of dissolving the Department of Education, is now overseeing its dismantling from the inside. Billions in programs have been shifted, half the workforce cut, and core services for low-income students and students with disabilities thrown into uncertainty. Read more:

Now read this paper by Senator Bill Cassidy about how he set up hepatitis B vaccination clinics in East Baton Rouge. The man sold his soul to the devil on this one. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9358383/

John Roberts has been a GOP operative, in "institutionalist" clothing, through all of his career. Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem... He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles. Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.

Additional footage of the pepper spray incident involving Congresswoman Grijalva. At the end of the clip you see what looks like an HSI agent fire what appears to be a pepper ball at her feet. x.com/Rep_Grijalva...

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New piece. On how media, leaders, and all the rest of us focus breathlessly on individual personalities on the far right instead of the networks they’re part of. And in realizing that, we can find the answer for how to defeat them. Networks, networks, networks.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

Some Gaza fundraisers as the winter weather gets worse, a thread: Ramzi is needing money for food and tent rent if you have anything to donate, no matter how small. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ramzi...

also if you run a cool publication and like my writing, please hit me up, I am EXTREMELY open to assignments right now!!!

!!! The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee. "We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M

This is a really smart piece by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social, which echoes something I've long thought. The American right is simply better at creating an ecosystem of social mobility for intellectuals than the left broadly is... www.vox.com/on-the-right...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order. The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.

I‘m sharing a Palestinian account everyday and today is Samar. Samar fled with her children at the beginning of the war, but her husband stayed, he was killed and their home destroyed, she also lost both her parents. She is trying to take care of her kids Tala, 13, Basant, 12, Imran, 10 and Zeina, 5

Fox Business attempts to do a segment on spiking small business bankruptcies, but one host says "is it chapter V or 5? I don't even know" and another one gets mad about the segment itself (because even discussing rising bankruptcies looks bad for Trump) But note the voice of reason at the end!

NEW: The FDA’s new top drug regulator is “utterly unqualified” say experts. Tracy Beth Høeg is a physical medicine doctor who became a right-wing star for her opposition to COVID-19 mitigation measures and questioning of the mRNA vaccines. More here: www.importantcontext.news/p/utterly-un...

'Four university-led efficiency projects have been backed by the Scottish Funding Council under a new funding stream designed to address the sector’s financial sustainability. The news comes a week after Jacqui Smith...ruled out a similar national fund' for England.

Adam Connover interviewing Siri Dahl (adult film star and sex worker) over KOSA, and why it is bad.

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

As prices continue to climb, and millions set to lose their healthcare. Trump and his billionaire friends are telling America that "Affordability" is a con job. I'm sure his next statement will be something along the lines of, just be happy with what you got and shut up about it. Fuck You

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

Solidarity will see us through.

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If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain). But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.

Hillary Clinton thinks social media is brainwashing people against Israel. The truth? Western media outlets covered up Israel's crimes - and the only way to get the unvarnished truth was to use social media.

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

Every time someone scoffs at the importance of medication I want to be like cool hand me your phone and your shoes and text me from a mile north

What a good day to be a trans woman soccer player in NSW. A TERF has to pay $50,000 to one trans woman soccer player and $45,000 to another. And all of Kirralie Smith’s social media accounts have to display a public trans apology. #30 my number ❤️

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.