The DHS and federal agents lied in their justifications of use of force against protesters during "Operation Midway Blitz" in the Chicago area. Videos from agents' body-worn cameras show them brutally and without provocation attacking peaceful protesters. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild : Marten Moose Otter Pika Yellow-bellied marmot

A lot of what Trump is doing can be called next-level awful, at least in its egregiousness. But one thing he's about to do that no president has ever done. And it's something Republicans have dreamt about doing forever. Millions of Americans are about to be intentionally uninsured by the GOP.

It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.

It's not just the regime constantly ignores laws and court orders. It's they are also dismantling all the oversight of their abuses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

The Corruption of American Foreign Policy www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Former JAGs Say It’s Murder

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Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit. n.pr/3M80fdi

More evidence of Donald Trump's dementia. His import taxes (tariffs) raise about one-tenth as much revenue as the income tax. Unless he wants to raise the ANNUAL deficit by $2 trillion, he can't replace the income tax cepr.net/publications...

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates. Thread [1/9]

" ... anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time" -- lauren's law of technological enshittification

"Russia accidentally destroys its only way of sending astronauts to space" For the first time since 1961, Russia has lost the ability to launch crewed rockets. Ooops www.independent.co.uk/space/russia...

Congressional Republicans let Trump put an alcoholic rapist in charge of the Pentagon, an anti-science kook in charge of our health, and a 22 year old intern in charge of counterterrorism. These people do not act as if they actually care about Americans or the constitution.

One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.

The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story. The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth. And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.

Please click on the picture below taken by Carol Guzy. We must not forget what is happening every day in this country and we must never, ever, forgive.

What has made it possible for the president to ignore the Constitution is that the corrupt Supreme Court has let him. The Roberts Court is the root of the destruction of the American Republic.

The Framers anticipated a president who wanted to be a king. but they couldn’t build a political system to could resist a small cabal of billionaires who purchased and shaped an entire political party, and used their money to select Congressmembers, judges, and staffers who want to destroy America.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

Trump 2.0 is a coalition of malevolent authoritarian ideologues and lazy, get-rich-quick scammers. Some see Russian authoritarianism as a model to be emulated, others see Russia as their ticket to easy money. As far as Putin is concerned, they’re both just useful idiots.

They tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington

It is odd to me that, like, you'd think it'd be parody if you said: to be clear, they only like the bad bits of Western Civilisation -- but that turns out to be true. They like the rapacious imperial murder, but not the art or intellectual achievements or civil liberties, etc.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

A widespread pause on migration from what are deemed as “third world” countries marked the most aggressive immigration intervention of the second Trump administration.

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Trump offered a full pardon today to the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of drugs into the United States.

So many trials to come...

“Never have so few done so much to so many.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” is the greatest founding myth of any nation ever.

Immigration is a massive net positive for the US and always has been. Every argument against it is grounded in racism. Them's the breaks, kids. But you can't centrist your way out of this.

An incident occurred at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. The launch pad 31 operated by the Russian Roskosmos space agency was heavily damaged during the last missile launch. It is the only operational launch pad for the Soyus and Progress rockets in the Eastern hemisphere.

What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Trump’s grandparents were foreign-born immigrants. They ran a Yukon brothel. His father was the first member of his family to be born in America. His mother was a foreign immigrant. Trump forgets that he belongs to a family of very recent newcomers who struggled and resorted to pimping to survive.

It is time to notice that his frontotemporal dementia is so far advanced, he cannot restrain himself from attacking female reporters. He's called one "piggy," one "a terrible person," one "ugly, inside and out," and now this one "a stupid person." All women, all in less than a week.