Timeline cleanse. Okutama, Japan.

Dems need to abandon the idea, fed to them by certain commentators, that Trump's 2024 win represented a durable cultural shift against immigration. It's blinding them to the possibilities of this moment. Check out this exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/2061...

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...

I don't know how many times we will be told by the legacy media that Trump is moderating or backing off only to then see he is worse than ever. He is an authoritarian. He enjoys the cruelty. And the first thing he had Pam Bondi do after the shooting was to try to leverage it to get the voter files.

Are there still ICE agents on the ground in MN? Is there still no accountability for the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? Do you even know the name of the man who murdered Alex? THERE IS NO PIVOT. You can't pivot if you do anything differently. Read the above to see what is wrong w/ below

The lies themselves should have been a major story: “Trump Administration lies about brutal Border Patrol killing seen on video.” presswatchers.org/2026/01/mome...

Sen Chris Murphy warns Dems: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether." On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

All of us who have reported on and studied authoritarian models know very well that what is happening in Minneapolis is part of a model that is being tested. It has never had anything to do with migration or anything like that—it is about exercising influence and control through violence.

I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

To the "civility" people, saying the word "fuck" is violence, but the cops shooting tear gas is "peace keeping", ripping a parent from their children is "doing their job". They want to control the definition of violence and their monopoly on the use of it.

Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.

The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.

This Giving Tuesday, we're fundraising for the people and pets who need us most ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/2026-clinic-...

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

It's amazing that the Dems aren't showing pictures of Trump tearing down the White House East Wing everywhere. The fact Trump is doing his best to hide it should tell them something.

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

"For all of the worry that people had about changes years ago, things like the Fairness Doctrine, the one that really slipped by everyone that should have been a real worry was...allowing these large corporations to control lots of local TV stations." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk's Murder Reveals The Failure of a Complicit Corporate Media With @muellershewrote.com open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

This dog had a tumor the size of a watermelon ❤️‍🩹

The instinct to fact check White House claims that the signature on the letter is not Donald's is how they win. It's how they move this into the realm of two competing truths. Just mock them when they make those claims.

Holy fuck, NO. THIS FOOTAGE IS THREE MONTHS OLD. Stop. Doing This!!

Yes, but has the Times yet featured the rogue’s gallery of Republicans who are participants in ending democracy in this country?

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

Breaking news: Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. on.ft.com/4mNocUo

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Paul Manafort: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump. George Papadopolous: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump. Mike Flynn: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump. Roger Stone: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump. Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Democrats really don't understand the information environment. The "base gives a shit" about the things you relentlessly signal they should give a shit about. They have on their radar the things you PUT on their radar. The GOP is so much better at this game and it really shows.

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Don’t call the new concentration camp in Florida by the evil nickname they gave it and don’t call the spending bill by the stupid fucking winking term. Don’t do their branding for them Jesus fucking Christ.