This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.

talk about the Streisand effect

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Let me help you out. Yes, you are.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

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

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court. Justice Kagan in dissent: “We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”

A lot going on—too much—but I jotted down a few thoughts about a key, unanswered question for our times: How courts are useless in dealing with unrepentant presidential racism. And yes, much of the blame lies with the Supreme Court of the United States. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.

🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.” @evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Stephen Miller said the building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving to the good ones 🎉

“Right now he’s feeling like he doesn’t want to live anymore,” Arnaout said of Wael, “because they took the main reason that he’s fighting for.”

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

“Having a United States senator subject to discipline at the behest of the secretary of defense and the president — that violates a core principle of legislative independence,” Kreis said in a phone interview. apnews.com/article/pent...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.

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...

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

⚡️ BREAKING… just now… judge blocks MEMPHIS National guard deployment… dailymemphian.com/article/5689...

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

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.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

This should’ve been the record-scratch-freeze-frame moment where you put the draft down and went for a long walk, Bill

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.

Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races? I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over! 🧵

Schumer right now. 😭

Feckless cowards

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Ouch

There is a book out called “The Sin of Empathy,” which is written by a white Christian nationalist cult leader out in Idaho. The idea that the left is “weaponizing empathy against Christians” is an EXTREMELY popular & growing sentiment being bolstered by the church. And we all need to be aware of it

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.