Some say that Lindsey Halligan is a wildly incompetent lawyer. Others say she gets her cases resolved incredibly quickly.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale... Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This Thanksgiving it's important to help others if you can. There are some true angels in this world helping families at risk from #ICELawlessness You can be one of those angels with a little generosity of time or money. Check out nouswithoutyou.la Maketheroadny.org Or joinourbridge.org

Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement. "If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."

you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.

BREAKING: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) responds to Pentagon investigation: "I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies"

Of all the people to attack, a sitting US Senator, husband of a congresswoman who survived being shot in the head, a former Naval aviator who flew 39 combat missions and a freaking actual honest to god astronaut who’s been to space four times! These are not bright guys.

This is likely unlawful command influence

This is who she was. Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best. Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...

Elon Musk is not only an immigrant, his brother spilled the tea that Elon was in the US illegally. And as this tweet shows, he is also a dipshit with absolutely no self-awareness.

New threats from Trump: The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."

It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

They line up perfectly.

I now desperately want to know if Mamdani's team had planned ahead for this photo op to happen, or if it just occurred in the moment...because it's so perfect I can't believe this was just happenstance.

Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.

It’s been a really hard day and I told myself not to make it worse by opening Bluesky and finding out how bad everything else is, but goddamn I’m glad I did. 😌 This shit is better than ice cream. 🍨

Thread. 🧵👇

Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

DHS claimed that on September 26, a DHS officer claimed that they were forced to deploy riot munitions because protestors were "becoming increasingly hostile." In fact, "the [Body Worn Camera] video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force."

DHS claimed that agents were forced to use riot munitions to disperse an "unruly mob" on September 19. In fact, "the scene [was] quiet," and then "almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating 'fuck yea!' as they do so."

On October 28, DHS's social media account claimed that on October 23, "rioters" had "shot at agents with commercial artillery shell fireworks," thus forcing agents to deploy tear gas and riot munitions. Judge Ellis reviewed the video. This was completely false. The explosions were DHS's flashbangs!

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

“Yes, Mr. Trump has raped many women and children, has masked goons kidnap people off the streets to be tortured in foreign concentration camps, and murders fishermen on the high seas, but he’s fundamentally a humanitarian.”

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

MTG had enemies on the left for 10 years. She never needed protection. After two days of being Trump‘s enemy, she needed security. That should tell you all you need to know!

Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress. But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right? (1/2)

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Greene drives a Maserati.

The charges against Natalie Greene were announced by...Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba. Genuinely shocking that this case was brought against a Republican Congressional staffer.

Many of the details in this story are incredibly fucked up, but others are just remarkably stupid.

You can see photos of the body modifications in the indictment (tried to post here but Bluesky flagged as disturbing content, which it is): www.justice.gov/usao-nj/medi...

On July 23rd, 2025, Greene was found lying in a wooded NJ area with her hands and feet bound together w/ black zip ties after her co-conspirator had called 911. She had cuts and lacerations. But detectives confirmed they were actually done by a body modification specialist in PA who they interviewed

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

He wanted to hang his own VP. Is this surprising??? 😮‍💨

I would like to share something. A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly

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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic. Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim. Four of mine were in there.

While everyone's paying attention to the Epstein files, a big story just broke about another alleged human trafficker with ties to Trump — Andrew Tate:

Today we won a big victory in Texas but the fight for democracy is not over. We all need to steel ourselves for the battles ahead. We won't win them all, but we can never lose sight of what we need to do to prepare fee and fair elections.

When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP. While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.