If only Republicans could do something about this lawless regime. Alas.

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

Unconscionable 🤬 An ICE victim shares their story

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Let's start somewhere easy for Republicans. Impeach Hegseth.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress. But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right? (1/2)

He will do anything to avoid accountability. He has never been weaker, or more dangerous.

Goddam leftists!

this is the dynamic at the heart of literally anything conservatives have complained about since 2008

That's Guilty as Sin Fascist for: "Yes"

Another leech.

For my friends, everything...

1. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to President Trump’s announcement that he is revoking his endorsement of her. MTG includes two text screenshots she says she sent to President Trump today regarding the Epstein matter.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

The degree to which the American right has shed a sense of shame and openly embraces the most ugly moral stances possible is shocking. Fixing that will mean cultivating a hard cultural turn against such beliefs and using renewed shaming and social exclusion to punish those who hold and express them.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Growing list of reasons Trump should step down: - Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring - Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment - Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power - Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

He thinks you're stupid.

Exactly this.

Replace them all.

ICE drive-by pepper spraying innocent people and children. Tell me how we live with these monsters. We have difficult work ahead of us.

in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.

Between the Islamophobia, the anti-Semitism, the racism, and the homophobia -- it must be so bizarre to be afraid of basically everyone, all the time Pure loser shit

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

There must come a time when these men desperately try to bury their uniforms and insignia in the woods.

It feels very appropriate that my article, A New Satanic Panic, 36 Yale J. L. & Feminism 102 (2025) has appeared on Westlaw on Halloween. Seems like a good time to do a thread on the piece! SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Westlaw: www.westlaw.com/Document/Idc...

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Mad King

What a sad sack of shit.

Guillotines

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Kavanaugh, stop

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted Here are a few of them:

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it