Anyway. This has fucked me up like nothing I can remember since reading the testimony of war crimes victims as a part of a human rights case 25 years ago. Human beings are human beings. And monsters are among us, taking lives for sport and amusement, and broadcasting their murders for pleasure.

Chief Justice John Roberts (R)

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas' answer to the SCOTUS ruling on Texas.

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

BREAKING: Federal grand jury REFUSES TO INDICT New York Attorney General Letitia James again

“It is time to talk about lustration, the process of vetting and removing from public service those who engage in or support extremism or seek to undermine democracy.” Lustration: remember this word, because we’re going to need it.

My personal thought here: rather than organizing it under Article III, invoke 14AS3 as authority to disqualify complicit appointed and elected (incl. state level) officials — and set cooperation with a Congressional truth & reconciliation committee as a necessary condition of re-qualification.

Elise Stefanik just humiliated Mike Johnson so hard his son’s phone got an alert

Read through the Brian Cole affidavit. There seems to be a lot we do not know about the bombing attempt. All we know is that Cole bought parts that could be used for the bombs or could be used for any number of things and was in DC around the same time. Lots of room for reasonable doubt there.

You can understand almost all of American politics with just two numbers: 71% of Republican voters opposed Medicaid cuts. 100% of House Republicans cut Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Holy fucking shit.

No one seems to hate Star Trek like a Star Trek "fan" judging by the reaction to this. I remember when Star Trek just kept rehashing TNG plots, which is why VOY never truly lived up to its potential and ENT's first seasons were repetitive. Doing the same thing over and over again is not good TV.

I have a RATGDO at my house, and it is absolutely fantastic. The fact that greedy companies like Chamberlain/LiftMaster want to charge more and more for basic services are exactly why right-to-repair laws are so important. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

Wow.... Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep

You have to understand that he will win the nomination because the people who run the MN GOP are the most extreme racist MAGA right. That's why they have not, and will not, win a state-wide office and why they consistently nominate absolute nutjob losers like Royce White.

Well, that explains why MTG left Congress early...

"Whether it takes him going to a Sunday School class or familiarizing himself with our country’s foundational documents, I hope the president soon learns that God doesn’t make garbage. God only makes beautiful things. And my Somali neighbors are beautiful"

This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...

One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

It's officially #SpotifyWrapped season, so we're flipping the script by unwrapping Spotify. Tell them to drop ICE ads now! Since Spotify won’t protect immigrant communities, we’re using their own celebration to hold them accountable. Cancel your subscription to get them to pull the plug on ICE

Yes, this is worth listening to. In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled. Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...

The full video of the rant about Omar and Somalis is so much worse than even the snippets that can fit into text quotes can properly convey. It is the longest he's maintained a train of thought on a single topic in months, and he's just reveling in it the whole time like a pig in shit.

you should definitely do this nancy, your trump+13 district is very secure in a special election

The Feeding our Future fraud case in Minnesota amounted to $250 million, and most of the people involved have been convicted. Sen. Rick Scott committed *$1.7 BILLION* in Medicare fraud, and the GOP elected him to the Senate. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

A #thread on Minnesota, Somali-Americans, and what binds us: Last April, I had the privilege of meeting 1-on-1 with my Congresswoman, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, at her office in Washington.

This senile, racist old pig needs be thrown the hell out of this country.

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

Keep your eyes and ears open Twin Cities - the fascists are out in full force today.

“.. The US lost an average of 4k private-sector jobs per month over the last 3 months (ADP data), the first 3-month decline since the 2020 recession.” - Bilello

ALERT FOR TWIN CITIES: Massive ICE presence reported at Riverside and 23rd. Be on the lookout for hostile forces, and make sure to take down license plate numbers and any other identifying information. Watch out for each other out there! monarcamn.org

The cops are afraid of people protesting and/ or mutual assistance because it undermines their control. They want to be a clearinghouse for all information and concerns; they do not want people forming community groups.

That was a weird cabinet meeting yesterday

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing

Normally I would say “okay it was a low turnout electorate so you have to mark down the swing to the party with a higher propensity to vote coalition”. But. Uh. 94% turnout versus 2022 means that you shouldn’t by much.

These fascist pieces of shit need to get the fuck out of my town right fucking now. Use every legal means of resistance against these Gestapo assholes. Record them, jeer them, make them know they are hated.

An 18 point swing is, without putting too fine a point on it, utterly apocalyptic for the MAGA party. That’s the sort of numbers where vulnerable GOP members go back to molesting their children and livestock rather than run again. And we haven’t even hit the bottom for them yet.

This sort of swing, extrapolated, along with the others we’re seeing, turns into about 250 Democrat House seats. Maybe a little less.

a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

I would take any of our Somali brothers and sisters over any MAGA traitor, hands down. Somalis have had to fight for recognition, for peace, and for community. The racist assholes trying to tear them down are scum.

This sort of margin is the sound of the GOP majority dying, their political patrons running for cover, many of their minions becoming paralyzed with fear of what a future Dem government might do to them if they break the law for Dear Leader.

The Youths are about to learn why for a large part of Millennials' 20s, the word "Republican" was a slur and anyone who was just pretended to be a libertarian.

The numbers out of TN-7 are nothing but bad news for the MAGA party. The swing isn’t just in the areas where the district was gerrymandered from the old Dem district, they are *everywhere.* And Trump is not going to get more popular. Not even the GOP’s cheating may save them.