This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social

If the military is obeying Trump’s orders to murder random fishermen who pose no threat to the US, what do you think will happen when Trump orders them to fire on protesters in the US? Because that day is coming, bet on it.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

yes, it’s really that bad.

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported. I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the washington post

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

“‘Let them go back to where they came from,’ Trump said as JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.”

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

Just wondering how West Point will spin any of this when everything goes back to normal. They sat by and let the military profession be eroded. Everything I learned in those granite walls was just talk and no action.

A short thread on the extremely successful, victorious protest of hundreds of people in NYC today that kept ICE vans stuck in the garage instead of kidnapping people along Canal St.

The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive. Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma. 1/

💯 Fomenting fake wars, tanking the economy, promoting white nationalism, invading American cities, tearing down part of the White House, innumerable acts of corruption, destroying federal agencies, etc. Where is the line, Congress? What more does he have to do to damage our country?

not removing Trump is a dereliction of duty and it needs to be treated as such

Every single day ICE agents are threatening people and terrorizing communities. We’ve seen ICE pepper spray babies, disappear US citizens, slam distraught mothers and fathers to the ground—now they’re terrorizing St. Paul. ICE is out of control and should be abolished.

The rage and anxiety I feel about ICE in NC. But not helplessness. Lots of good people are out here. Follow SiembraNC and many local organizations sharing info if you want to know how to help.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and it is now clear to me that the President of the United States is a pedophile. But at least I know that the Cracker Barrel logo won't be changed any time soon.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

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In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

I don't know what fool is being quoted but that is a *staggering* misunderstanding of what Scipio Africanus did. Scipio Africanus was one of the major architects of a *two century* long Roman military commitment in Spain and also set down permanent security commitments in North Africa.

Between this and the tariffs and the ICE raids and the 'maybe war with Venezuela, Iran and/or Nigeria' I am having a hard time imagining how I would invent a 'GOP actually *trying* to lose' policy plan that would be distinguishable from their current policy set.

Great scoop here!

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Historical FYI: Nathanael Greene was asthmatic, had a limp and a perpetually infected eye, and was constantly sick. He was also, as Cornwallis wrote, "as dangerous as [George] Washington. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources–there is but little hope of gaining an advantage over him."

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)

I remember in the early years in Ukraine it was such a target of mockery that Russia put out propaganda videos showing soldiers doing backflips and throwing axes while instead Ukraine focused on mastering logistics, the thing that actually wins wars. Now the US is wanting to go down the russian path

‘Why is this candidate who is so good on paper and so good in person, so scrutinized?’ @mollyjongfast.bsky.social asks: Does the electorate have problems voting for women for executive positions? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Trump parties, while American families go hungry.

I am hanging out at mile 18 of the NYC marathon for a while. Such a beautiful day! A bit too balmy for a marathon but great for spectators. The elite runners will be coming by Lots of cheers for the wheelchair participants

Great to be out in the South Ward of Newark yesterday! Home stretch going strong!

Mamdani: You know, there wasn’t a single New Yorker I spoke to who told me the reason they were voting for Donald Trump was so he could spend $300 million on renovating a White House ballroom.

“Mass un-blackening, it’s happening / you feel it, y’all?” – Jarobi White of A Tribe Called Quest, “The Space Program” (2016)

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Vance obviously figured out in 2022 that his only path to the Senate was to go full MAGA and lean hard into the dickishness of the movement for the new persona he created. But deciding that there is no limit to how far you will go in your awfulness is certainly a choice.

We really should lose the neo part post haste. They really are just run of the mill Nazis like they always have been. They know this so we should too.

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.: —Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks —Bribes from ABC & CBS —TikTok sale to Ellison —Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base —Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

it makes me angry every day that they’ve arranged their lives so that the right has constant access to them and the left has none but they frame that as neutrality

Absolutely insane that the President of the United States has sent militarized secret police to attack multiple American cities, all at the same time.

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL. It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

bitches defend bitches

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea