Great reporting and a knockout final line: “Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

I mean, three years is a long time and a lot can change, but I know how I would bet as of now.

I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

"Trump II administration figures often speak the language of merit in order to contrast it to 'DEI' or 'affirmative action,' but in practice they only hire incompetent clowns—so long as they are also loyal clowns." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...

The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.

My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.

Forgot to post here! Asked Mamdani for comment on the anti-ICE mobilization that sabotaged a major ICE raid last wkd. Mamdani described the action as people exercising their free speech, that he looks forward to protecting that right. He has not previously commented on the community defense.

On left: President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025: "The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States." On right: (Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.

It's legit really funny (and not a small bit concerning) that the actual dystopian evil robot we've managed to create is Yes Man. A sycophant who will tell you whatever you want to hear and attempt to do whatever you tell it to, and has no sense of responsibility or discretion or professionalism.

Here at the International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in DC, Carla Antonelli is being into its hall of fame. Not only is Antonelli the first trans woman elected to the Spanish Senate, she's an actress. Apparently best known for her role as Gloria in the medical drama series "El síndrome de Ulises."

Yeah. Drowning and not fighting to survive proves you are a non-combatant. Struggling to save your life shows you might be a threat at some point in the future. Possibly. Either way you die!

Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

The public needs to hear testimony from Admiral Holsey about why he reportedly opposed the boat strikes, and how and why he was apparently relieved of his command for it.

2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

This is really important. The problem with the Roberts Court is not that they are conservative. It's that they are bad judges.

As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court. Justice Kagan in dissent: “We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.

Alito's response literally was that his view is "indisputable," contra the 100+-page opinion (of a Trump appointee no less!). I know I'm fixating on that paragraph, but it's 🤯.

What a pack of fools we are. We threaten them, making it clear that we may not be a reliable ally. Then we get angry that they - quite understandably - don't want to rely on us as they rearm. Duh.

And the US Navy is completely incapable of responding to this "threat" with some course of action short of a missile attack? I don't believe that.

"Staff were left shaking their heads when one student asked to be excused from class so he could attend a court date on a gun charge. Other recruits were even discovered to have tattoos associated with gangs and white supremacists when they stripped off their shirts during workouts."

Supply chain expert Retsef Levi has a specific MO. He makes vague statements about alleged harm of vaccines. He presents no data supporting these statements. He is among the most arrogant and intellectually bankrupt characters to whom I’ve ever been forced to listen.

Not to mention the fact that it is all B.S. They are actively allowing corporations to poison the water, air, and dirt and blaming everything on vaccines. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

ICE out in S Mpls again today. No reported detentions so far from these. We're seeing various cars, illegal license plate covers. Noticing they're not staying in one place very long (<10min) & scatter at whistles/honking. Seems like response test + avoidant of our known ability to mobilize.

The death of Lia Smith shook many in the trans community to their cores, while online it seemed like the top priority of non-trans people was to insist there's no proof that the 21-year-old's ban from her beloved swim team caused her suicide. Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.

must be pretty bad when the Daily Mail is running smashmouth exposes on a GOP admin www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Affordability isn't a con job. It's the American people's top priority.

Damn I can't believe Senator Tom Cotton (R-Shoot Protesters In The Streets) thinks that extrajudicial murder by the state is fine

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year Merkley: 7 Murphy: 5 Sanders: 5 Warren: 4 Markey: 2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders: Durbin Gallego Hassan Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Reed Rosen Whitehouse

A member of the House Republican caucus said this. Oh. So things are BAD bad.

baldur’s gate 3 made d&d 5e combat *almost* tolerable by automating every single mechanic that does not directly involve player choice and it’s still where that game grinds to a halt and frequently ruins its pacing

one of the wildest stories i've seen in a minute: twin brothers who previously pled guilty to hacking the State Department while gov't contractors... got new jobs as gov't contractors.... then allegedly deleted a bunch of gov't data... and were just arrested again. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/v...

Kamlager-Dove: We also know that DHS has a habit of taking people to hospitals under false names so they cannot be located. This prevents their family members and lawyers from getting to them. And so we want to know: is this what also happened to Vicente?

please study this man's brain in a lab

Is he just like, on the French internet a bunch? Where did this obsession with Islam come from lol, it's a marginal religion in the US that's not particularly left leaning (Muslims have similar views to Protestants on social issues in the US)

Quibbling over the semantics of the second tap also runs the risk of suggesting that the first tap was something other than murder.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.