Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

I don’t completely agree with the take. Yes, it’s about having cronies take over Venezuelan oil and paying part of the proceeds up to the boss. It’s exponentially larger and more profitable than shale. But those same cronies have no interest in lower oil prices, nor does good buddy MBS.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

Cannon should be weary. If she is too useful as an apparatchik she’ll never get that SCOTUS nomination.

Indeed. Their loyalty to a would-be king is anti-democracy, and anti-American. The founders created guardrails to protect our democratic republic from a corrupt president. But they did not foresee an entire corrupt party enabling him. Who will stand up against it? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Laws schools should teach this as the “party first” exception to the Equal Protection Clause.

"Each crime makes MAGA more vulnerable and, thus, willing to take greater risks to avoid accountability"

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

DJT just met with MBS. It doesn’t serve the clique to have oil prices go down further, so forget about that. This does not mean that the US won’t do regime change in VE to get the oil $$$ and kick it back up to the boss - only that none of it will be designed to lower energy prices.

Other than a million+ Russian casualties, which means little to Vlad, the impaler essentially gets everything he wanted except for control in Kyiv. Naturally, he will continue working towards that last goal even if non-militarily. Everything else sounds like more graft opportunities for T’s cronies.

A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

To the billionaire, self-serving, “libertarian” death cult, this all makes perfect sense - and they’ll spend $$$ to convince you of same. To anyone with a rudimentary understanding of healthcare economics, this only makes sense if Washington also lifts the obligation on hospitals to provide care.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” -Thomas Sowell-

This. Now imagine inventing a political philosophy to meet the every need for ratification from these psychos and then spending enough money on promoting it that 40% of the population masochistically accepts it - in the name of Jesus nonetheless.

Look how RFK Jr. just fled the scene! lol

“Conflict with his faith”, in the case of political Christianity, is a very fluid term. It depends on the desired political outcome from leadership at the time. Alas, this is why political [whatever religion] is a bad idea for those who are serious about the integrity and honesty of their faith.

The cheeseheads just reelected this freak who is still stuck in circa 2022 QAnon. Even MTG has moved on.

The good people of Wisconsin just reelected this freak who’s stuck in circa 2022 QAnon. Even MTG has moved on.

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

24 corporations are giving Trump millions to build his new White House ballroom. 16 of them have government contracts. 14 are facing federal enforcement actions. Coincidence? We doubt it.

On cross: “Agent Latimore, are you sure it was mustard you smelt?” Two uniformed Subway sandwich makers are visibly entered into the courtroom and sit down in the audience. Cross continues: “Agent Latimore, I want the truth …”

"If there's one thing I know it is that power can always be made ridiculous. The bigger that fellow gets, the harder my laughter will hit him." - Charlie Chaplin, on laughing at fascists, as discussed in this great @ptklein.com piece: www.howtoreadmovies.com/how-to-laugh...

Why yes. Yes it is the new replacement for Obamacare. It’s called “Kickup Care”. Kickup to the boss, and then get care. It was very popular in banana republics of the 1950s, so now it’s being brought to America! You’ll love it - a lot less red tape.

Up until 2025, the answer “I know nothing about my pardons” might have been scandalous. We’re in remarkably strange times when an autocrat weirdly subjects himself to such questions and his bizarre, self-incriminating answers are simply acknowledged.

You’ll see when trump sends him a medbed

What do Venezuela and Nigeria have in common?

If I see as much as a single video edit I’m suing for $10 billion. Your move, CBS.

Regular Americans are like frogs in a slowly heating pot of water. I agree, let the GOP do its worst on SNAP, Obamacare, etc. The frogs may feel different when moved from the pot to the fire. Yes, Trump will look for ways to help his base exclusively. I think that won’t work for various reasons.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

This is his “Let them eat cake moment”

In defense of Greenblatt, it’s not like history has any examples of how Jewish folks fare under right wing populist/fascist governments.

Somehow, Jewish Trump voters did nazi this coming. I mean, exactly where did they think a right wing populist political movement fueled by global conspiracy theories was going to end?

Popular Christianity is malleable and directed by its leadership for political and financial ends. Those who thought Christian Zionism - a relatively recent adaptation - would last forever have seriously miscalculated. When conspiracy obsessions take over, they will always land in the same place.

I think it has graduated from “contrarianism” to become national psychosis.

None of this is the goal, though. The goal is to loot the country. All that stuff in the headline is what the oompa loompa cult gets in return.

Watch this ICE agent getting arrested for drunk driving tell a cop that he uses race to decide who to target. "You're a ginger, so I'm sure you're legal."

If he declares an emergency and cancels elections then he need not run. Why should the divine right king subject himself to the whims of the smelly masses?

Criminal regimes don’t leave office voluntarily. They really can’t due to legal exposure. So we can all see where this is going, right?

Allow me to cut to the chase. Venezuela has oil. In the oompa loompa’s eyes, brown people and communism may deserve what they get, and violent threats may build power. But this is really all about moving that oil to the control of his supporting oligarchs (and, of course, getting a cut).

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

I can hear the “we’re looking forward, not backward” press conference right now

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Wow! Very impressive for them to do all of this in 2020 while Trump was president and they weren't in the government! Very normal post from the President of the United States!

Did he really write “futile”, as in “resistance is futile”? Are they all Gestapo caricatures out of Central Casting?

Yes, but given his winging the design and the construction schedule, it will end up having the material quality and authenticity of a cross between Trump Taj Mahal and a The Cheesecake Factory.

Huh, turns out Arendt was onto this too. From "The Alliance Between Mob and Capital," Origins of Totalitarianism, Chapter 5.

Will they join the next one - that the 22nd Amendment is “not settled”.