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The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

• Vaccines don’t cause autism. • COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids. • COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children. The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters. Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.

We still don't have any SCOTUS order in the Texas redistricting case. As Texas noted in its filing: The "deadline for candidate filing [is] ... December 8." Alito's "administrative" stay of the district court order means the new districts are in effect absent a further order. Background:

Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."

Is anybody else seeing long lines outside your local bookstores of kids dressed up like their favorite characters from "American Canto"?

A hearing scheduled for Thursday in Albany will focus on the question of whether John Sarcone's backdoor appointment as acting U.S. Attorney for New York's Northern District was valid; Sarcone got a thumbs-down in July from the district's federal judges. Brendan Lyons reports.

Over 800,000 people become naturalized U.S. citizens every year, gaining the right to vote in U.S. elections. Now, that right is being targeted by the Trump administration and the GOP. @yuniorarivas.bsky.social breaks down the right-wing war on naturalized citizens👇

"John Falvella Construction Services, Inc. has three Google reviews: two giving the business one star, and a five-star review written by Falvella himself." Sarah Trafton, the newest addition to the Times Union's Hudson Valley bureau, reports.

More evidence that Mars has a colorful history. In the past, the Red Planet probably had rings at certain times, and a larger moon (or moons) at others. In the future, Mars will probably have rings again. 🧪🔭 eos.org/articles/sed...

Please don’t lecture us by claiming that Republicans care about drug traffickers or people suffering from addiction while Trump has pardoned several of the most notorious drug traffickers in history and funding is cut for rehab programs.

The Trump admin has been quietly pressuring Europe to not seize the Russian billions for Ukraine. He fully intends to give it back to Russia and likely will find a way to profit himself. Shame on America, and shame on Europe

if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Is it possible that there are now issues where I am to the right of Bill Kristol??

The one thing Donald Trump has always and will always be afraid of is the truth. And right now, he’s scared.

Evaluating nominees is explicitly his job as a Senator. What "others" can give advice and consent of the senate?

Sooooooo this is another interesting wrinkle that I don't think any other media org has pulled on yet TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy

Not sure the "we're totally responsible for all the illegal murderings, except this one, which people are upset about, so we didn't order that one" is going to stick.

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉

i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.

Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Putin has signed an order to establish ‘security zone’ in Ukraine along the border with Russia, within the area of responsibility of the ‘Northern’ military command” His goal is to expand control over the border regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv. Taking over Kharkiv has always been his dream

Seems about right...

If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?

It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him. So there’s that, too.

Alexa, play music!

If immigration judges are neutral and independent as due process requires, then they must be independent from the Executive Branch. We must move immigration judges from Article II to Article I to provide a check on a lawless administration like this one.

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

Faced with calls to kick Kelly out of Bethlehem Central High School’s hall of fame a few years ago, school leaders chickened out and just shut the thing down — thus disrespecting the blameless Eva Marie Saint. My take: They should recommission it, boot Kelly and then give it a proper Viking funeral.

It’s exhausting to keep demanding better from establishment Dems too beholden to capital to ever challenge the billionaire elite’s GOP puppets. We’re wasting time as our democracy crumbles into dust. Instead, we should vote them out & replace them with reps who WILL vote to impeach Hegseth

Trump keeps telling his MAGA supporters that he’s NOT doing this for himself. $Billions in his pockets and tons of parties ($1 million per person to attend) say otherwise. He’s been a corrupt lying bully and businessman his entire life.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

The $MELANIA token debuted at a sky-high valuation on a wave of MAGA hype, surged as much as 25,000 percent, and then plummeted so brutally that anyone who bought in at the top and invested $12,500 is now left with about $118, noted Occupy Democrats in a scathing post on X.

Franklin the Turtle's publisher about Hegseth's sick post bsky.app/profile/nanc...

#VoteAFTYN Tennessee Financial losses: The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture projects Tennessee farmers will lose over $430 million in net farm-level losses for 2025, with some individual farms expecting to lose nearly $800,000. All because Republicans screwed over Tennesseans.