The White House surely wants to see one of these ICE crackdowns lead to violent pushback. They've got untrained unqualified goons acting with impunity. It seems deliberately designed to provoke an incident. But do the goons get this? Do they know the big plan is to get a couple of them killed?

we're going to win, they know it, and they shudder every day about it

must suck for a white supremacist swine when white people from extremely white countries don’t want to be come to the shithole he’s making of his country because among other things they have democracy with sane leaders and health care

The Trump administration is getting desperate enough to try criminalizing loud noise. A federal judge in Oregon has issued an order blocking the administration from enforcing a new rule that would make “loud or unusual noise” near federal buildings a criminal offense.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

One popular topic of scholarship in the post-MAGA-era (whenever that may be) will be which people/programs killed the most people.

Citizenship is now for sale for the low starting price of $1,000,000. Forget if you're actually going to be a good citizen for this country - as long as you've got the bribe money, they've got the golden ticket to let you in.

The United States, History's Biggest Lawless Pirate

Every few years, the GOP majority pushes us closer and closer to a system of election by oligarchs.

Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now. And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...

It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President. This is a big deal! If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.

It’s not clear why the mere fact of having to sit for multiple cognitive examinations—without releasing results to the public—would exonerate Trump from reports he’s in mental decline. trib.al/MPJ0U7b

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

The President is bragging again about passing a basic cognitive exam they give to determine if your brain still works.

An officer tells us it showed up unbidden on the computer today. For lack of anything better to do they tried it, asking when the latest NDS was. It replied with a history of Nintendo.

Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.

Just gross.

Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards

Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines. When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices...

CDC folks: Disability rights aren’t optional -- they’re law! ✨ Check out this megathread on protecting your Reasonable Accommodation (RA) rights. Read it without all the scrolling 🙂: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Your voice is more powerful than threats from a weakening, unpopular president. If they hear enough from you now, legislators may still do the right thing. Hoosiers, call today and tell them to vote no: 317-232-9400.

Indiana Republicans are under significant pressure to do something they know is wrong: rig the maps and silence voters. Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.

In recent weeks, Trump has become increasingly agitated whenever reporters press him on statements he made that he now insists he can’t remember

"Gus is a kid with special needs. A kid who did nothing except be born in a nation where cruelty has become a badge of honor for fascist monsters. To the adults who did this, hear Me. You screamed a slur at a child. You tried to frighten a family. You chose hatred over humanity. You are cowards."

Same Supreme Court said Biden was overreaching when he tried to cancel student loan debt. This Court must be reformed. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wins 2025 hands down

Every word of this.👇

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana December, 2025

I think central planning by the dumbest guy you've ever heard of is bad for the economy

Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.

Sheer genius: let’s take all the money that ALL taxpayers are forced to pay out for his moronic and pointless tariffs, and use it to pay-off farmers so they don’t vote against him next year. Just keep bending over, chicken-shit Americans. Your acceptance invites more of this abuse. Fascists …

This is ridiculous. $12 BILLION for farmers and nothing for people who need health insurance. Grampa buying the farmers.

What in the actual hell

OLC ratified keeping Lindsey Halligan in place as interim USA in EDVA despite a judge’s ruling that she was invalidly appointed, NYT reports. Under the ruling, only the district's judges may now appoint an interim USA—but they haven't publicly moved to do so. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

...since MTG is resigning, now would be a great time to assess the pensions of all former government representatives...what y'all think???

Every elected Dem should do this. Absolute #FloodTheZone with mockery of Trump. The more folks do it, the more ludicrously it oh-so-rightly appears to be.

Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.

One of the most consistent realities in the history of capitalism is that without regulations companies will fuck you up, whether you are a laborer or a consumer

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

✅ SANITY CHECK ✅ Do you remember ONE YEAR AGO this week, when The Economist magazine declared our economy "the envy of the world"? Now, we rip farmers out of the world market with tariffs, and at the same time give other countries billions of taxpayer dollars, who were our direct competitors ... ?

100% THIS!!!!

Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”

I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.

Common sense right here.👇🏼