It’s never different. No peace for the @baltimoreravens.bsky.social fans. Just endless stomach churning.

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

This is really great news. I am a huge admirer.

Failure to recognize this moment as part of the centuries long battle against white supremacist oppression is a dangerous denial, and a gift to the American fascist project. @sifill.bsky.social is right on.

We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.

“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Yep, my sense is that Vance is the figurehead for the less-obviously-Nazi wing to push ethnonationalism into the mainstream.

Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash reut.rs/3MMG44O

This is plain obstruction and demands consequences.

Local grandma receives $30 Barbie from Canada, then $802 tariff charge from shipper | Click on the image to read the full story

RAW STORY: “@RepJamesClyburn joined @RepRoKhanna in calling for the impeachment of AG Pam Bondi over her agency’s failure to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein...” www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-26...

Yes. Well this is what Rev. William Barber has been saying on loop.

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘But but… something something… Mamdani… intifada…something something’

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

I am IN, @kerrykennedy.bsky.social. So many of us are in.

Montage of Howard Lutnick over the past 9 months constantly moving the goalposts on when the economy is going to be booming - 4Q! 1Q! 2Q! 1 year! He was asked in March when it wasn’t going to be Biden’s fault anymore: “We own the economy in the 4th quarter!”

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The University of Virginia named the longtime dean of its business school as the flagship’s next president, despite calls from Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) and others to pause the search for the top post until Spanberger takes office next month.

This is the energy I need.

Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, a social media platform known as a haven for white nationalists, falsely wrote this week that Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio — "will never be an American."

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Of course.

Hey Congress! Somebody print this out for Speaker Johnson & Sen. Thune. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Well sending Blanche out is the tell. We’re not seeing anything of consequence.

You may remember that in August, the Middle District Court of Florida ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit over book bans in the state. He said none of the books were obscene: bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

Get ready.

Trump’s Education Department is ignoring discrimination against Black students. The department’s civil rights office has not entered into a single new agreement requiring schools to address racial harassment of students, my colleagues & I @propublica.org found. / News Tips: ProPublica.org/tips

Wow.

In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit. Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.

Last year, one-term Rep. Anthony D’Esposito lost after adding his mistress to his official payroll. This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

JUST IN: As deadline nears, Trump administration appeals judge's ruling blocking attempt to cut off Harvard's federal funding. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about the largest-ever law firm tie-up, with 3,000 lawyers and combined revenues of more than $3.6bn. ft.trib.al/IrIhLwD

Here's a 🧵 with quotes from "Is It Too Late?" by @sifill.bsky.social. Please read in full & subscribe. "Many of those with the biggest platforms know very little about race, so they protect their status as experts by insisting that race is not the issue." sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...

Ugh.

So systemic discrimination DOES exist! But white guys are the victims of it! The most intellectually, politically, and culturally lazy cohort in modern history - white guys of mediocre intellect, creativity, & personality who can only ape the theories, language, laws, & struggle of Black people.

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually. Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts

Wow.

The Triibe is back Bluesky! To celebrate I just donated. You can do the same. Support local media. @thetriibe.com is why we know what’s going on in Chicago. thetriibe.com

This was posted on X by the Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commn. It’s not that we talk about “identity” & “race” too much. It’s that they wanted to hijack the language,legitimacy & infrastructure we created to vindicate the rights of Black people & women for THEIR race & identity.

For a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Then came the 2000 election, which led to Bush v. Gore. Legal experts discuss how the landmark case changed election politics on The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4jbTVxO