… and he SERVED ✨

“Framing autism as some kind of disease that needs to be eradicated is harmful. It hurts autistic people living their lives right now.” In @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #autism #neurodiversity #VaccinesWork and have nothing to do with autism

“As a matter of plain reality, an unarmed speedboat, even if it is carrying cocaine, is not a warship. And none of the 11 people aboard — not merely the two initial survivors, but also the nine people the U.S. military killed in its first strike — were fighting anyone.”

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

we're gonna find every federal social media account was run by a team of 5 broccoli haired groypers who test their memes on a group chat with vance and musk

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Here are the declarations of Secy Noem, DHS GC Mazzara, and DOJ DAG Todd Blanche on their decision not to follow Judge Boasberg's orders to halt surrender of Venezuelans into foreign custody on 3/15-16/25.

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

KGW reports that a federal contractor is looking to hire staff for an ICE detention facility in Portland which could be an indicator that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to open a new facility in Oregon. www.kgw.com/article/news...

We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICE just released new detention statistics. As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

UPDATE: The 9th Cir. will not rehear this case en banc. Judges VanDyke and Bumatay dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc, arguing that parents have a constitutional right to prevent their trans children who run away from getting mental health care and shelter services.

I literally thought Trump's new FIFA Peace Prize was a dude crying into his hands.

I watched Schoolhouse Rock as a kid. An egregious one was "Elbow Room" which glorifies the US march westward by totally erasing how that expansion geographically and numerically spread slavery. Also missing is the role of the feds in funding/carrying out Native dispossession and sometimes genocide.

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.

Honestly FIFA doing this is singularly FIFA, like the time it paid for a shitty music about itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

ICYMI there is apparently lot of scandalous behavior happening on the administrative side of the city, including hiding millions of dollars from city council and firing the city employees who tried to tell them about it.

I really just cannot get over this. Jeffries has to go. If you have any hope for the Democrat party, remove Jeffries from his position.

Has drugs ≠ Making war These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it. There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.

STARES IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PROFESSOR MODE

At the end of this clip, Berman had Cotton taking the position (which is de facto the Administration’s position) that the President on his own can declare who he wants to to be terrorists and to kill them under inherent Article II authority.

wow i cant believe it wasnt a democrat trying to bomb themselves to overturn an election they won

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The U.S. government continues to kill people for the amusement of the President and other members of his administration.

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."

At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.

The main institutions of the Federal Government—White House, Supreme Court and Congress—are in complete shambles.

I've said it before, I'll say it again--these sons of bitches on the Court piss me off w this 'presume the legislature acted in good faith and wasn't being racist' thing why on Earth would I presume that?! what on Earth does it take to overcome that presumption?! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

NYT corroborating and extending WaPo's results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Judge Beryl Howell was frustrated by the gap between DOJ's arguments & DHS's, Bovino's, and Tricia MClaughlin's public statements: "This defense ... assert[s] the position "don't believe either what we say or what we do, just trust whatever we tell you now." 1/2

Also, most importantly: It was an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.

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Mark Twain. Pencils and white gel pen on toned paper. #caricature #art

He’s saying fhe civil rights act and 14th amendment shouldn’t exist bsky.app/profile/samt...

The Trump administration’s egregious immigration enforcement tactics have put people who are legally participating in immigration proceedings at risk of detainment and arrest when they show up at court. These aggressive tactics are inhumane and do not make our communities safer. 🧵

A Missouri appeals court just handed a big win to reproductive supporters by rewriting a summary of a GOP-backed ballot measure to repeal the right to an abortion after concluding the prior version was misleading in many ways. Decision here: www.aclu-mo.org/sites/defaul...

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In 2021 I spotted Gen-Z MAGA influencer Lance Johnston on a livestream at Nick Fuentes’ annual groyper conference, held outside the TPUSA summit. He covered his face, not wanting to be seen with the other groypers on camera. This week Johnston joined the Pentagon press corps

This vending machine at East 48th Avenue doesn’t dispense chips and soda, but life-saving prescription drugs for the homeless: westword.com/news/denver-ho...

A lot of people do not want to hear that there is an intense pro-police and pro-prison turn among the left. E.g. the drive to limit the pardon power, which is the only way some people get any relief from excessive sentencing on the state and federal level. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...