So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

NEW: From the Bronx to Accra, lives are being rebuilt — or dismantled — under a U.S.–Ghana deportation pact few know exists. In Ghana, I met the people caught in between: the deported, the waiting, the afraid. Read the story: capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-dep...

Wonderful and important piece.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Bearing witness, 26 Federal Plaza.

eles assim

Dictators do even more damage on the way down as they do on the way up.

Soviet humor increasingly relevant in the USA. www.reddit.com/r/immigratio...

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

“You think your fat kid needs toys? Fuck em. Tell that hog they’ve got enough slop. Tell em Don said that.”

RIP to this poor lady, who could have been any one of us. If you want to drive a 2-ton beheamoth through the thronged streets of our city, you should pay through the nose for the privilege AND be capped at 5 MPH. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/w...

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

I love her.

That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)

Niceness and joviality are *disarming.* I worry about my own vulnerability to it—the instinct to smile back at a friendly face.

Run this water conservation ad from the Koch administration instead of the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. You'll have em sorted out by middle school

I think this administration has made it fairly clear that being alive and from the wrong country constitutes being “in the fight”…

The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison

Barbarity

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.

I wrote to the NU Alumni Association yesterday to request my removal from all mailings including homecoming etc in light of this news. I urge alums, especially younger alums, to do the same. They need to know this is going to affect the future of giving at the school.

me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane

My kid will be applying to college in a few years, and you best believe I am keeping track of the institutions that abet Trump like this.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

“The most responsible way for colleges to prepare students for the future is to teach AI skills only after building a solid foundation of basic cognitive ability and advanced disciplinary knowledge.”

Namesake of my alma mater @baruch.cuny.edu and righteous dude.

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

The opening anecdote in this story is about a man who talked to an officer because he thought he was a local cop, and he was actually ICE.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media

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

A grim and fascinating read.

Would a nutjob do *this*? (proceeds to have an affair with my phone’s autocorrect)

Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right

ICE like a virus creating pandemic conditions: empty streets, people afraid to leave their homes.

Watched "E.T." with the fam last night, and it really struck me how the film captures the joy of riding a bike (it feels like you're flying) and how bikes give you the freedom to go where cars can't/won't. Seems to me that an underlying message of the movie is that bikes rock.

Barack Obama said he wanted to look forward and not relitigate the crimes of the Bush administration regarding torture and Guantanamo Bay. That allowed for the drone war to proliferate and for even more expansion of executive power under Trump.

City of Woodburn, Oregon declares state of emergency following sustained, illegal assault by government-aligned militia forces against local citizens