"A Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year shows that most countries view China rather than the United States as the world’s leading economic power.... This is a striking reversal from just two years earlier." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

If the $50,000 the typical exoneree gets were the width of a typical city block, the amount Trump is claiming would be the width of Texas.

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.

Putin's war in Ukraine shows where authoritarianism can lead: ~1.4 million casualties. An entire generation sacrificed for one man's imperialist delusions. We must not let any president drag us into war without congressional approval.

This young woman has lived in America since she was 7. On her way to visit family for Thanksgiving, she was abruptly detained, shackled, and deported to Honduras. It's not even clear if she had a deportation order. This isn't going after criminals. It makes no one safer.

This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos” Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Wrote about trump making very rich people worse www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...

the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Blowing the whistle always takes courage. In Trump's America, it gets you fired.

Brazil's Marina Silva said the "gravitational pull" of the US helped undermine the plan at COP30 for a road map to exit fossil fuels.

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

Benny Johnson had perhaps the best 2025 of any streamer on the right, drawing more than 1 billion YouTube views as he hobnobbed with Trump administration power players and GOP elites. His job is to have no principles. Business is booming. www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

This is just from the past week. @washingtonpost.com @cbsnews.com

Required boilerplate when quoting DHS: “Widespread misrepresentations by Department of Homeland Security agents call into question everything they say about their activities.” presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...

"This wasn’t a state dinner, but it was a state funeral for a billionaire class whose gusher is rapidly running dry."

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

Just like there USED TO BE prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insisted it was always “too soon” to “get political” about the latest mass shooting. We beat the shit out of that.

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war

Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”

Surrounded the *judge's* car threatening to smash in the windows

News of the White House's intervention on behalf of accused sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate comes as Trump is under fire over his ties to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

SCOOP: Last week, the Social Security Administration published a notice saying it will be sharing "citizenship and immigration information” with DHS, confirming what WIRED reported months ago. Follow along with me below... www.wired.com/story/social...

NEW: the IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Includes where and when someone flew, credit card used. Usually when the government gets this data from an airline it needs approval. IRS accessed a database it just paid for access to www.404media.co/irs-accessed...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Relatedly, here's me in May 2024: The "question of how our lives would be different under Donald Trump shouldn’t be siloed off from Trump’s autocratic aspirations. The two are inextricably linked." www.findinggravity.net/you-would-no...

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

this is no doubt right. I think this also makes Ds more willing to fight...and may give some gop incumbents pause on a range of things. we're still facing a fascist assault on the constitution for sure, though.

I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

This doesn't seem to have quite broken through into the shutdown discourse yet (unlike say SNAP). But as temperatures drop it's going to become a serious issue apnews.com/article/gove...

From @theathletic.com: Live sports are something people will continually pay to watch. That's why the current battle between ESPN and YouTube TV will not conclude with a winner — just losers, our columnist writes.

Gregory Bovino: “If you need (to) deploy gas, you deploy fucking gas!”

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

They deported a man in a vegetative state. He had called his family from detention until the calls mysteriously stopped, with no information.

🇸🇩 UN: Civilians Trapped as Violence Escalates in Sudan The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Denise Brown, warns of intensifying atrocities in and around El Fasher, after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized North Darfur’s capital last week. The UN reports summary executions, sexual violence, and...

Billionaires rapidly increase their wealth in the United States while poverty rises and life expectancy lowers. Meanwhile, military spending skyrockets, the federal deficit balloons, but relief for hunger is in limbo. Truly appalling: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @marcuschown.bsky.social

teen vogue did some of the hardest hitting work out there and this is a huge fucking loss

This is really sad. Teen Vogue has been one of the best outlets of the last decade, unflinching with moral clarity in the face of some real bullshit. @versharma.bsky.social & her amazing team have always treated their readers with respect - a too rare trait these days. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site