Netanyahu is very happy to make Trump look stupid

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Michigan Avenue right now.

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way. --Ezra Klein

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law. Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

In the business we call that both "sub optimal" and "fairly normal, at least in state court." The fact that their main witness literally says "not only did he not tell me to leak stuff, he explicitly told me not to" doesn't help them.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

/3 Here, by the way, is what the Supreme Court ACTUALLY said about Trump’s theory in Texas v. Johnson 36 years ago:

Absolutely made up.

I mean, they're as ready right now as they'll ever be.

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

Trump to a right-wing influencer: "Do you know the name of any of the funders? Because if you do, I'd like you to give them to Kash or Pam or Kristi as soon as you can. That's all of you. These are people that do not have good intentions for the country. That's treasonous, probably."

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has increasing influence over President Trump, sources say

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

And that's why they hate antifa

I want the names, states of admission and bar numbers, and employer for every fucking attorney that uses this, and I want them not only disbarred, but beaten with a lead pipe.

Please do, I'm sure that guy would love the payday.

Brb need to travel to DC, get a burn permit, and burn a flag in front of the WH.

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders. Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

This is the solution to “prime day.” Nothing for Bezos. Support your local bookstores while buying online! Buy Preeti’s books! And mine!

Dude, just use a blocking app

DEI for me, not for thee.

The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today. Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review. Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.

"Weiss is a shameless opportunist and troll whose 'expertise' [...] has largely involved trolling everyone left of center for engagement clicks with culture war dogshit and dangerously shoddy reporting, then crying like a full-diapered toddler when people criticize her for being generally terrible."

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats. Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become. Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others. Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I didn't realize that when Pete Hegseth said the military needed to be in shape he meant an oval

Corporal Chungus...

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.