"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

It certainly looks as though the Trumpers are using last weekend’s shootings in Rhode Island and Massachusetts as a pretext to do what they wanted to do anyway: seal off the United States from immigrants, excepting those with lots of money. newrepublic.com/post/204633/...

A 13th immigration judge has just been fired in San Francisco. With other judges retiring, the court, which started 2025 with 21 judges, will have just four in the new year. It has the worse case backlog of any immigration court in California. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-i...

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Fundamentally, this article — about the fraying post war order — can’t say anything new, but is something worthy to read or listen to if you have time for reflection this holiday season. reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/11/24/t...

Thread. This was one of the early Trump administration’s great triumphs according to early Trump administration officials, some of whom have since moved on. Marco Rubio solidified his position in Trump’s inner circle by agreeing with them, a sound career move. Via @annamaria.bsky.social

Another kid killed crossing the street. Police say "it was foggy." Nothing to see here, apparently.

Today, it’s him on his lunch break. But tomorrow, it could be you.

As one of the replies point out, these aren’t the first cops to “figure out” that they act with malicious impunity by driving you somewhere in tough climates. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

I'm from Minnesota. This is attempted murder.

going to hand it to the author and the San Francisco Chronicle for getting right into it from the jump www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Heating fuels in the USA. Bizarrely, liberal states in the NE USA prefer the most polluting choice, fuel oil, which also emits the most carbon dioxide.

Elon Musk and Marco Rubio still exponentially killing more people than Hegseth and RFK Jr combined btw

Sen. Andy Kim’s fight against a bill seeking to remove most of the authority of New Jersey's comptroller’s watchdog represents an increasingly rare example of a US senator taking a stand against the power structure of his own party.

People have been talking about those outrageously cheap BYD electric vehicles in comparison to American engineering and factories for quite while, but I haven’t seen theory for why they’re so much cheaper than what the Korean firms produce…they are not slouches by any means.

So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.

Claude was such a memorable animal. I will always associate him with a chapter of trips with my young children, now closed. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?

On this giving Tuesday, consider giving to a publication that will not hand it to Trump for his reasonable concerns gofund.me/a2ccdd485

Was reading up on trifluoroacetate — among the shortest PFAS/flurocarbon, and sometimes a byproduct of these pesticides the EPA just approved — and it really looks like a contaminant from chemical engineering hell: highly soluble in water and with virtually nil degradation.

So about Admiral Bradley….military personnel can’t very well be expected not to follow illegal orders if the most senior officers do. No, because Pete Hegseth said to is not a valid excuse. By @taracopp.bsky.social & Noah Robertson [gift link]. wapo.st/4oyWISF

@shoe.bsky.social Costco delivers for the faithful once more!

The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...

Re, Jeffries, “no ceiling:” it feels like last generation’s pitch, about fears of resentful wreckers that would bring the cultural revolution to the United States. I think the professional class is ready for a new idea: leaving these billionaires around is like leaving out a loaded gun.

The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.

With children I prefer to clear the airport via BART: given booster seats, the fast loading requirements are stressful. But BART doesn’t get me all the way home and costs as much as an uber. I’m not sure what the policy design is there, but it’s not good.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’ What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors

Was just listening to a @lawfaremedia.org episode that was discussing the Ukrainian domestic politics about this guy: it seems a good thing he’s left the government.

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.

Thread. As the Trump administration seems intent on betraying Ukraine, it is end also to be moving toward war with Venezuela. @joshtpm.bsky.social tries, with limited success, to work out what the Trumpers want to do and why. I’ve not had much success with this myself. But here’s my guess….

The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan declared strong support for Taiwan. Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.

Shooting incident near the White House today, via @joshuajfriedman.com. Neither the President or the Vice President are in Washington today.

Really seems like there ought to be backup systems for this. I suppose in principle a couple of LTE broadband cards would do the trick, but it’s asking a lot of a cafe owner to also know telecom. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Lawless. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/j...

I can tell you what's polluting and parching the eastern farmland of Oregon. (It's the farms)

One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble. If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Ventilation was one of the original public health measures featured in early building codes in London and New York City. While contaminated water supplies were the real cause of cholera and typhoid outbreaks, airborne disease spread and high CO2 levels continue to plague modern buildings today.

Since X pays for engagement and it’s now a right wing cesspool, posting racist rage bait is a great way to earn money if you’re in a developing country. It’s also how Fox News and right wing podcasters make money as well. Sadly, pandering to racists sells.

Guy has been detained for 8-9 weeks. He came here as a baby. He has been here 50 years! katu.com/news/local/l...

I’m howling.

Air filters don’t even solve ventilation … how bad are high CO2 levels for alertness and rigor? Studies suggest: pretty bad. One of the unlearned lessons from the pandemic was getting a handle on indoor air quality for Americans generally.