Kudos to @djpressman.bsky.social of the UConn AAUP who is quoted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Ah, but, “that many Americans have said.” Please, no.

I need some clarity on coked out versus alcoholic personality

Mental health tip: never listen to a Trump speech. Read the transcript if you must (it’s part of my job) but spare yourself the torture of watching a crazy old man spewing out fantasies.

And it's not too late to order the book in time for the holidays at the usual websites or @stanfordpress.bsky.social:

Amazing to see all the different ways people are slowing and stopping Federal abductions.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Really thought-provoking read.

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

Will every campaigning Democrat commit to holding the regime’s criminal leaders accountable if they retake Congress? I hope we’ve learned the consequences of just moving on.

Our portal at oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct will allow Californians to upload photos, videos, and information about interactions with federal agents that may be unlawful.

I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"

What you're seeing tonight is why @runforsomething.net builds a bench *everywhere* -- we've got great candidates with local experience & authentic communication skills ready to run and win in places no one saw as competitive six months (or years) ago.

I imagine they will start to remember the Constitution.

Our foolish and illegal foreign military adventurism is OK because it’s closer

I will hand it to the New York Times for pretty much saying it like it is.

Where's Michael Dell on this one?

Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.

I don’t know how Zohran Mamdani will be as mayor. I wish him well. But I do know that human decency and human connection goes a long way and we need more of it in our elected leaders. So hats off to the Mayor-elect for serving both meals and holiday greetings.

“tantrum management”

Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history? Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

One aspect of the lawful orders discussion boils down to this: Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"

“America needs to secure his release NOW.” Amen!

Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.

We have reasonable contract demands, @uconn.bsky.social Time for you to step up. #uconn @uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social

Terrible consequences of terrible Federal policy. #children

"The U.S. Coast Guard specializes in at-sea interdictions. And using Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles against boats is...like “trying to cook an egg with a blowtorch.” One wonders: Is this what U.S. pilots and drone operators enlisted to do?" (George Will)

THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️ 🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)

This is crazy.

Disgusting. Nothing more than hired thugs. We could jail them, but TACO will pardon them anyway…

Those boats we are sinking in the Caribbean and Pacific are small and at best very lightly armed and we have the most powerful Navy in the world. Yet somehow we can’t stop them, detain the crews, seize the drugs (if any), and we prefer to just kill people instead. Not a good look…

Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...

On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has: -Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks -Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise -Made the largest cut to SNAP in history -Canceled the annual food security survey Shameful.

Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024. Here's the data. @chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com immediately revert to tired framing of Democrats as just progressives vs moderates about to fight each other. That's not yesterday's election story.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Hot take: Democratic landslide

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Thread. Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.

“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Mr. Cheney said. (NYT)

YASSSS 👇

This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.

What is this unknown "solution"?

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.