i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

Seems like poorly repackaged “actually your anti-racism is just classism and smug superiority over working-class people,” which is how shitty people try to portray racism as just regular-guy working-class how-everyone-talks.

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

Today at North Avenue Beach. If you've followed me for some time, you'll recall my best buddy for many years, Ajax. North Avenue Beach was his favorite place to be. On this day, four years ago, Ajax spent his last day on Earth. Today, I remember my best buddy. I love you always forever.

HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."

In a just political world this would bring down an entire administration

Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act: "There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created." On the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Federal grand jury rejects another 'Midway Blitz' case, this time against Laugh Factory manager From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“.. Once upon a time, a chief executive openly signaling that he’d reorient a newsroom to appease a sitting president would be a five-alarm corporate scandal ..” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social $PSKY www.status.news/p/cnn-paramo...

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

More counterproductive vice signaling from these clowns. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Also doesn’t acknowledge that Richman’s appointment had lapsed in June 2016 and he was technically never reappointed, per docs I reviewed. But gov’s concession re: Feb. 2017 is important bc most of its public evidence against Comey post-dates that period www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

"During a visit to Washington in recent days, David Ellison [of Paramount] offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he’d make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump’s ire..." (gift link) www.wsj.com/business/med...

Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...

Before the ink could even dry on my post yesterday, Trump has viciously insulted yet another female reporters. Thankfully, lordy there are tapes! open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...

@matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Jonathan Turley is obsessed with me to the point that it's creepy. I suppose I can't expect more from a guy who is essentially just Mike Lindell with tenure.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.

ABC News and MS NOW reports that a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges

I would love to see metrics on the depth of the audience for this embarrassing cack of all the modern thinkers/doers/innovators you could platform to demonstrate a knack for journalistic innovation, you pick the phony wife of a billionaire-backed propagandist who spent his days misleading toddlers

Mel Robbins is welcome to leave her morality at the door during the holidays in the name of keeping an uneasy family peace, and if you choose to do the same, that’s your prerogative.... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actually-m...

I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face, sobs admiral who committed war crimes for leopards.

@markhertling.bsky.social warns the gravest threat to the U.S. military is the erosion of the values that keep our forces lawful and legitimate. He implores Congress to investigate whether unlawful orders were issued in the Caribbean, and hold every official to account.

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If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.

“Home and abroad.” A notable sentiment given that the administration has labeled not just the people it is killing on these boats as “terrorists” but also domestic political opponents.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis. H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

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The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW

"Donald Trump was so inconsolable about National Guard troops being in critical condition, solely because he had callously used them as props, he went golfing. Again."