DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

What kind of person looks at the world Musk, Ellison and Zuckerberg have created and comes up with this addled take? Even if you take a neoliberal approach to the money, it's not about the money. It's about the power to control the electoral and media environment.

it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president

Beginning to think there may be a causative relationship between not knowing how stuff works, being ignorant of history and being a gigantic, spittle-spewing racist

If Trump is taking money to side with Russia that is treason.

The fact that Turner can't answer a simple question like this is telling. 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

The racist attempt to turn the U.S. into a fully self-sufficient autarky will only decrease outside investment and make all of us poorer. Trump and his friends are hastening America's decline.

“Trump has flipped the table on the deliberative approach favored by his predecessors. The damage won’t be easily undone.”

This is the key. Educators will have to both adapt to AI *and* ensure that students are actually learning the material and can produce output *without* AI. The world will expect graduates to be able to use all the tools the workplace expects. But students *also* need to truly learn the material.

Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

I fault Biden some, but the norms preservers who stymied his agenda — shooting down the John Lewis VRA, stripping care-economy plans from Build Back Better, branding the infrastructure bill as bipartisan as if to trumpet a return of normalcy — definitively failed. Definitively, disastrously failed.

maybe I’m getting way over my skis here, but shadow docket L for the Trump administration feels like a bigger “elite republicans are turning on Trump“ moment than any of the previous ones that have been hyped.

Because spiking a story when an embarrassed source refuses to comment, gives that source veto power over the story.

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

I think we have established that Bari Weiss is an odious person. But wait... it gets worse. She's an admirer of Bukele and his concentration camps, and thinks its funny that people get sent there. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

All I want for Christmas is Democrats for start driving their social media traffic to their Bluesky posts, not to Twitter. Folks are welcome to post on Twitter/X but we should not be driving traffic there. Am amazed this remains a common tactic.

To be fair, this is an issue progressive writers often grapple with: the best takes are also the most stale and obvious, because conservatives are obviously terrible and what they get wrong is "stuff you should have learned not to do in grade school."

The through line of Weiss's journalistic ethos is that criticisms of conservatives are stale the moment they're uttered because they're predictable, but literally any take that cuts against a liberal/left line is a bold insight never before heard or seen in such startling fashion

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

i always look back on this email as predictive of where she was heading

Well, they've finally found their excuse for blocking all offshore wind: a Defense Department report says they create problems. What problems? Sorry, it's classified! I wish I were making this up.

There are plenty of obvious reasons to do this: Nobody under the age of 30 actually uses the site! You're rewarding Elon Musk! But the most important thing is that some politicians and consultants are stewing in bot-driven, expensive Nazi propaganda, and it's giving them really bad, cruel ideas.

Adding this to my thick file of "stuff that if Joe Biden did it Trump voters would have stormed Washington DC bearing pitchforks, but since Trump is doing it they could care less."

Wow— “Government silence is a statement…If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.”

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Trump is no longer making any pretense of sanctioning firms supplying the Russian military. He is shifting the US position steadily to a pro-Russian position, including support for Russian military operations in Ukraine.

In case people need a refresher: The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there. Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.

Logan Paul and Andrew Tate both wrecked within hours of each other. The light is beginning to return.

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

These are not real races! There isn't any doubt about the outcome! It's like breaking down Sanders or Warren's re-election when the money spent mostly goes to helping other candidates. Using these kinds of races as usable data is complete malpractice

The information environment these guys swim in is nothing short of cult-like.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) appears to have pulled a photo containing images of President Donald Trump from the thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein it released Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

On the one hand, they have redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein Files. On the other hand, they have put it on the Kennedy Center.

Dems could definitely force a Bondi impeachment vote, and with it a Senate trial. This would be the perfect set-up for the 2026 midterm season. Let the GOP factions fight it out while Dems are unified for truth & justice. It's political malpractice if they don't do it.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

I don't see any alternative but impeaching Bondi. Put Republicans in Congress on the record that they are OK with the coverup.

The simplest possible explanation for the Trump administration's actions is that Trump sexually abused minors with Jeffrey Epstein and there is further evidence in the files he's trying to cover up.

I want to raise a few issues with this ... - The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025. - There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025. - There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees. - 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.