This is the case widely shared on video where a man had a seizure while in a chokehold. DHS accused him publicly of faking.

FILED: Our client Carlos Zapata Rivera has sued a federal agent for using excessive force against him on November 6, 2025. www.aclum.org/cases/zapata...

Trump's arch (cartoon from the archives)

Burying the lede. This is not about good taste. This is Donald Trump claiming that one of his supporters murdered Rob Reiner because they were mad about Reiner's anti-Trump stances.

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

Rand Paul on mid-decade redistricting: "I think it's gonna lead to more civic tension & possibly more violence in our country. Think about it: if 35% of Texas is solidly Democrat & they have 0 representation, how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel they're not represented"

the entire thing is a spectacle based on a professional provacateur who comically gut put in charge of CBS news interviewing the bereaved wife of a far right political rabble rouser. No big mystery why adverts are squeamish. anyone w a media background says no shit

Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this

The Trump administrations bugs out on fusion energy. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...

👀 Holy shit. Hey @forwardky.bsky.social, “guest author” means that you contacted the author and asked them if they’d like to write something for your blog. It doesn’t mean cross-posting their entire article verbatim without asking and making people think they wrote it for your publication.

I've been remiss about posting videos to YouTube. Will try to do better. Here's my conversation with Adam Tooze, which I found really enlightening. Properly edited transcript at my Substack, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAC...

This flailing shows how unprepared the GOP is to be the dog that caught the car. Tens of millions of Americans are about to see their already too-expensive health insurance rates skyrocket. Millions will end up with no coverage—all thanks to the GOP, who, meanwhile, gave billionaires more tax cuts.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Our civil war right now — our third civil war, I believe — is about identity, belonging and a place called home. I think it’s going on all over the world,” Thomas Friedman tells David Brooks on this episode of “The Opinions.”

Signs on the doors of some Salt Lake City businesses www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Aside from this being an incredibly onerous requirement--how would you even do this?--this is so fucking Orwellian.

"I truthfully don't understand why we brought special operators into this to launch drone aircraft and destroy boats and kill people other than performative politics," @markhertling.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rM6OSX?utm_...

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.

The new AI economy; how data centers are sold to the unsuspecting. (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

It is both deeply ironic and profoundly funny that all these overconfident maga chud dudebros are convinced they'll be at the top of a meritocratic system, when in reality they're actually the ones who've benefited most from what they themselves characterize as non-meritocratic factors.

Oh hey and they didn't even have to commit a war crime to do it. Funny how that works.

The Post identified cases of U.S. citizens being targeted by immigration enforcement agents that are documented in video and witness accounts. Lawyers and community leaders said there are many others involving people too frightened to come forward.

If he’s still alive this time next year, there will be neon signs here

Free entry to National Parks will now be granted on President Trump's birthday but not on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth —Axios

“Many Republicans have been reflecting on their initial reluctance to confirm Hegseth.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Given the largely supine nature of Congress under Republican control, the stability of American democracy depends more than it should on the Supreme Court,” the editorial board writes. “So far, it is failing to live up to its constitutional role.”

Thanks a lot, Olivia. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And Great Leader got a Hole-in-One on every single hole. He saved hundreds of millions of lives. He kept the hurricanes away.

So *odd* that this was missing from the criminal complaint. Weird!

“I might be second in line to take over the presidency from the oldest POTUS in history — but I have no idea what the laws of war are, nor do I read laws or the news, who has time — there’s all these tunnels here, I just wander the tunnels looking for empty cubbies to hide in”

The Epstein saga continues. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested on Sunday that U.S. military officials might have committed a war crime in President Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a Washington Post report said that during one attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors.

He hurt thousands of people. He finally was convicted, and went to prison on Nov. 14. Trump set him free the day before Thanksgiving. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

The Turd sure likes those fraudsters. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

This reporter asks a legitimate, followup question—something the White House press corps doesn’t do all that often. Trump isn’t used to this, and you can see how it gets under his skin. Reporters need to do this more often, or at least come to the defense of those who are willing to do it.

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

Karoline Leavitt's brother says his only concern is for his son. The mother of his child can rot in hell. I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.

A Brazilian woman who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by ICE

Noah Shachtman on Turd Trump's screwing the national economy for his own benefit. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Maureen Dowd fairly accurately describes Trump the turd (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

CNN, NYT, AP, and other media orgs literally have interviewed families of people killed in Caribbean boat strikes, including some who say they were just fishermen. Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?