Meanwhile in Russia: state media hosts and experts praised Trump's 28-point "peace plan," noting that it's in perfect alignment with Russia's goals and does not take Ukraine's interests into account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...

The SecState explanation of the essence & origin of the 28 pt plan presented to Ukraine BY THE US is a strong indicator of the lack of competence of those representing our nation in these efforts. Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.

State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US. Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them. Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.

For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Border Patrol agents BOASTED about shooting a U.S. citizen. Then, they LIED about what happened. ICE is a danger to our communities and families. We will not stop until we hold Noem and her rogue agency accountable for their lawlessness.

Today is Holodomor Memorial Day

Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Watch this 👇 I am proud to have @crow.house.gov as a fellow public servant and friend. Calls to arrest and execute public servants are outrageous. And calls to uphold the Constitution are important and our shared duty.

This is tyranny.

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

AI is a lack of consent technology

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo, a Navy veteran, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe. His goal is straightforward: He wants to make ICE agents uncomfortable.

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

Can I suggest we swap the witness chair for a gravel pit?

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros. Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

“They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

After all the Trump Administration fuss and pressure and lying about the Epstein Files, the vote to release them just slid through the Senate by unanimous consent! Talk about a whimper.

No one could’ve seen this coming.

This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

This is of course lower than if you just detained people purely at random.

has anyone responded to this point yet? ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement

DOJ is running a corruption scheme that allows Trump's allies to plunder the U.S. Treasury. It's like the mafia owning a casino and sending a daily part of the take to made men. It's brazen and outrageous.

Jim Henson performing Kermit the Frog with Peter Falk in a scene from The Great Muppet Caper, 1981 #Muppets #JimHenson #PeterFalk

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

OLC's not dodging the modern reputation of laundering policy into legalities. The combatant immunity portion seems straightforwardly wrong; as stated by the ICRC, there are limits to combatant immunity, and even csrrying out war crimes on orders is outside the scope of immunity.

As with other law enforcement, you have a First Amendment right to film ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens. Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays. Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.

The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants

AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.

I honestly don’t know what to say anymore. It is overwhelmingly clear at this point that the Republican Party has sold its soul to protect a child rapist, led by wealthy ghouls who will never have enough. There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.

In light of today’s email dump, I will say I have at various times found my way into online discussion spaces containing a fair number of important and powerful men, and it is the greatest cure to imposter syndrome that humanity has yet devised

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I wrote about Chuck Schumer newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Take the Democratic Party away from Democratic leadership.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

The Democratic Party under Schumer are nothing more than the Washington Generals. He has to fucking go.

If Schumer was a *strong* leader he wouldn't have arranged for just enough senators who aren't up for election to help the Republicans in exchange for nothing. This past summer he promised he was caving to get a better deal in the fall. Full of shit as always. Schumer has to go.