Basically the shifting goals means Iran won, and I don’t say this flippantly

Great reporting from @davidkurtz.bsky.social: More than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported. Really confirms how we don't know the full extent of Trump/Stephen Miller's horrors because the victims are so marginal and so much is layered in obfuscation: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

The sad reality that welcomed me in Mexico.

they were gonna send Kristi Noem to a nice farm upstate but they were worried about the safety of the dogs

Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure

The rate of destruction of U.S. science is just senseless. It's willful, still senseless.

I’m just shocked the FIFA Peace Award Laureate would do something like this.

el corrido de Alex Pretti. QEPD. youtu.be/9adyTn55P9o

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Breaking news: An ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman during an operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, federal authorities said, an incident that came as the Trump administration has staged a massive enforcement effort in the city.

This is the alleged video of ICE murdering someone in MN today. It's not graphic, but it's egregious and it's clear that the DHS statement saying ICE did it in self-defense is completely bogus.

Article V. That’s the Tweet. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

And placing one’s trust in Trump has never backfired so I think he can rest easy.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

Delcy Rodríguez, meanwhile, is back in the country and directly contradicted Trump and Rubio. Says, there's no deal, and only Maduro is President. This could be true and she is trying to keep unity in the face of further American attacks.

Trump says that he has talked to Delcy Rodríguez, VP of 🇻🇪 and will work with her "to make 🇻🇪 great again." He says that M. C. Machado, the Peace nobel, "doesn't have the support or respect within the country" and not afraid of "putting of boots on the ground" to put the 🇺🇸 companies back in 🇻🇪.

The question of whether or not Maduro "deserved" to be taken out or not is the wrong question. The real question is whether or not this will lead to a better Venezuela in the future.

President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. Here’s what you need to know.

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

🚨 New: “Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year” “Vaulted him 118 spots on The Forbes 400, where he lands at No. 201 this year.” @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Every Trump appointee if they were honest

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

“It’ll put you in a position to be able to have a decent life, not one of struggle,” says a graduate of an Oregon workforce development program that supports incarcerated people preparing for their release from prison.

Merry Christmas Eve from Colonial Williamsburg.

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

Even the use of capital letters for "Designated Terrorist Organization" in this celebration of illegality is enraging. It makes the answer to the "how possible" question so obvious. Who can end this? Not a rhetorical question.

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...

“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

who's ready to become the joker!!!

I’m howling.

Richard Neustadt famously stated that we don't actually have separation of powers; we have "separate institutions sharing powers". Very different practical implications.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal

Breaking News: A jury found a man not guilty of assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

One year ago

ok who did this? ☹️

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨 In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels. doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/🧵

new from me: I looked at the wild levels of illegality on display as WH budget chief, Russell Vought, shuffles money around to ensure Trump's top priorities remain funded during the shutdown. it's a play meant to lessen the pain the GOP feels even absent Congress actually appropriating those funds

New in PN: How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history "If you’re wondering where Trump learned the trick of recasting American history as uniquely belonging to him, look no further than the current Supreme Court’s manipulation of the core legal principle of stare decisis."

Yet another lie about immigration from the Telegraph. Yet another correction. I explained why the Centre for Policy Studies numbers were nonsense 6 months ago, and the CPS has admitted I was right. Didn't stop the Telegraph from printing the lie. docs.google.com/document/d/e...