NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again. With @startribune.com

Most Americans — and a third of Republicans — are worried about the balance of powers tipping too much toward the White House. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

We finally have an administration that will listen to those vulnerable, lonely Russian diplomats www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...

A former politician in Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. party was sentenced on Friday to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Trump administration is rebranding immigration judges as "deportation judges"

Every day, there's a stronger and stronger argument to make that Steve Witkoff is the single-worst diplomat the US has produced in a generation—and potentially ever.

The new Trump proposal for Ukraine is somehow even worse than the ones before: it would have the US recognize not just Crimea as Russian, but all of Ukraine's occupied territories as Russian. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...

The FBI infiltrated an encrypted chat of immigration court watchers in New York. Then it issued intelligence calling them violent extremists—terrorists. As I told @theguardian.com, this targeting of people who show up for immigrants is straight COINTELPRO: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oh good, they left Chiropractors as professionals but not Nurses, NPs, PA’s or physical therapists That’s infuriating

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Twelve years ago, the Revolution of Dignity began after students were beaten for protesting Yanukovych’s turn from Europe toward Russia. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Bill Cassidy: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” 😒

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone. This is what community looks like.💙

Sorry everybody, I deleted the video, didn’t mean to, just wanted to add this YouTube link. Keep your eye out for these guys. youtu.be/21exssUUmQs?...

Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.

The propaganda that works on the Right is that they alone are righteous and the Left is evil. The propaganda that works on the Left is that both sides are evil.

It is not true that all the work for the peace plan was done in Moscow. We google translated it to English all by ourselves. by Steve Witkoff and Donald Krasnoff

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Amen to this. 🙏

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

The Epstein scandal has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party. Epstein trafficked not just in the bodies of the children he abused but also in social connections that could bring elites together.

A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January: acasignups.net/cdc-website

Quiet, Piggy.

Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!

A 26 yo law student with a Maserati pays a man to cut her up in a method designed to intentionally cause scarring in order to "own the libs". Pretty much the perfect metaphor for 2025.

it's always the guys you most suspect

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Laura Loomer is one of the stupidest people alive and she’s advising the president.

I wrote up an Olivia Nuzzi explainer. If I never have to write about this nightmare of a person ever again, I’ll be grateful. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

How are rural residents supposed to shop around for emergency care? What do they do when there's only one hospital for miles?   Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!

Personalized gold bars from the Swiss. Used jumbo jet from Qatar. Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto. The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.

John Oliver and Co did a great explanation of what public media does, and who exactly the funding recission actually hurts (Hint: it's not liberal elites.) Also very proud to see my old friend and former WBEZ reporter Lauren Chooljian featured for her amazing work. youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...

Blackout the system. ⚫️ We ain’t buying it. 🚫 This year—spend time, not money. 🥰

Is there any evidence that she's who she says she is? That she worked for Democrats? Can't find anything prior to fall of 2024 when she made a big show of leaving Democratic Party. FWIW, there's an Evan Barker LLC registered to a $2m 4BR single family home in SF (Nice!). 1/2

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1

Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon — Piggies, The Beatles

It was Miami Herald local reporter Julie Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social who actually covered the Epstein story and blew it wide open. She cared about the victims and Epstein's crimes, not access. National outlets not only didn't, they refused to. They thought it was tawdry and beneath them.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?