Beautifully written, urgently terrifying. "In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder...If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread..."

It's been a year of unprecedented attacks on freedom of speech and particularly on freedom of the press in the United States. Regardless of your political leanings everyone should be worried about government attempts to silence expression.

Good for the WSJ for refusing to be cowed by Trump’s bogus lawsuit over the Epstein birthday card story

Amen

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made. SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

brava www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/12/per-...

The New Yorker’s Ian Frazier included a jab at Skadden and Paul Weiss for their Trump capitulation in his year-end Christmas poem 😂

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You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

Lmao for sure man *TRUMP SUES BBC FOR $5 BILLION OVER 2024 DOCUMENTARY EDIT

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Remember all the enablers of this heinous operation.

As I shopped today for Hanukkah gifts for my grandson, I couldn’t stop thinking of all the families whose lives were disrupted tragically this year, in this country and abroad. Luck is so random, however much we tell ourselves we deserve our good fortune.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

Immigration crackdown leaves teens to care for siblings after parents get detained An immigration crackdown in Louisiana has forced some teenagers to grow up fast after their parents were arrested by federal agents.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith to launch law firm with ex-Justice Department lawyers // from @agoudsward.bsky.social - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I don’t know how Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson keep going. Their jobs seem so demoralizing, day after damn day.

you can discriminate based on race if you're doing it for partisan reasons, and not purely out of racial animus

BREAKING: Grand jury declines to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after dismissal of first case. @arimelber.bsky.social reports on "The Beat with Ari Melber."

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new gerrymandered congressional districts map in next year's mid-term elections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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

SCOOP: Dan Richman, a key figure in the now-dismissed case against James Comey, has filed suit over the gov't's handling of data seized from his devices. He says his constitutional rights were violated — and seeks to block DOJ from further use of the materials. open.substack.com/pub/annabowe...

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City. All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.

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BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something

And the quoted lawyer advised US Special Forces during the peak of counterterrorism operations. He presumably isn’t squeamish about what constitutes a war crime.

SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I’m already full after eating the clingy bits from the pumpkin cheesecake pan and taste testing the whipped cream. This is what happens when your Thanksgiving assignment is dessert.

A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government. By PETER EISLER, NED PARKER, LINDA SO and JOSEPH TANFANI

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