"There were many, many beatings, Quintero said: 'If we talked, they would beat us.'... Routinely, the guards isolated detainees in a dark room known as 'La Isla, he recalled. At one point, Hernandéz Romero has said, he was dragged there and sexually abused..."

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

After the private equity firm Alden Capital purchased the Chicago Tribune some years ago, many of its best people left or were pushed out, diminishing the paper and its importance. But those who remained do great work, like Mr Pratt, here. The first draft of a terrible history.

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

Texans in the playoffs and Cowboys going to Cancun 😆😆😆

NYT, Tuesday: everyone is simplifying and exaggerating Christian nationalism! NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...

The USAID cuts by the Trump admin were devastating and fatal. But one American group teaming up with locals in South Sudan to bring fresh water to tens of thousands of people, showed me how they are stepping up and saving lives. Videos, photos, interviews inside:

For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw

Many thousands of Venezuelans have found themselves stranded abroad or alone at home this holiday, prevented from gathering with relatives after President Trump declared the airspace around Venezuela closed more than three weeks ago.

Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.

Where we are

Fresh off his headliner speech with the TPUSA grifters.

GRIFTERS

Kash lied to congress.

The U.S.'s major airlines stopped selling flight records (name, flight from, flight to, credit card number) to the government after our months of reporting on the issue www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

See also bsky.app/profile/matt...

Some more resources for folks available in this thread. Built on over a decade of research across the social sciences. But maybe not available in North Carolina??? Who knows. bsky.app/profile/andr...

This should have been the sentence!!!

She needed Clarkson and Gagne’s NAR guide for reporters: religiondispatches.org/a-reporters-...

Trump reportedly flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet at least eight times in the mid-1990s, according to an email the Justice Department released:

what’s that? my usurious student loan payments are going to kick back in under less favorable payment terms in 202…8, a presidential *election year*? www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

oh look [checks notes] 2007 prospect.org/2007/10/10/f...

If you are reading the NAR article at the NYT please listen to this as soon as you finish. The NAR is a violent movement bent on destroying democracy. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Another podcast resource to counter the bad NYT piece by Worthen. What's that phrase. "I got time today...." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

If you, an academic or a journalist for a liberal coded institution drop into a place where the church leaders talk about the seven mountain mandate & call America god's chosen land, they're going to be nice to you, especially if you're white! It's not as if they don't know they're being evaluated!

Just know if I come for you on a social media, you deserve it. As someone who has taken a lot of abuse on platforms, I never pull chains unless it's something really awful you have said or done that's just plain wrong or vindictive.

cc @antheabutler.bsky.social

Aim is to advance “America first agenda” Africa is the continent most affected by the removals, with ambassadors from 13 countries being removed: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda. apnews.com/article/dipl...

ICE killed an Eritrean Imam in one of their concentration camps this week. Can you imagine if it was a pastor?The dovetailing of #Islamophobia and immigration cruelty is because white Christian nationalism is our stated public policy. It really pisses me off. We have to fight it with all we’ve got.

I'm sorry, but my villain origin story is that I was at Fuller Seminary as a student back when the New Apostolic Reformation was being created by C. Peter Wagner. When he moved from Pasadena Ca. after mapping Pasadena for Demons, he went to Colorado Springs. The rest is history.

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.

Time to tush push 🦅

SHIPLEY NO WHAT THE FUCK HOW IS THAT A WAY TO START

Omfg I cannot!!!!!!!!!!

There is actual racial discrimination occurring and people are suffering but sure, let’s focus on the musings of a bunch of elite white men posting from their elite positions about how they are the primary victims of racial discrimination in this country. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Alliance Defending Freedom helped to overturn abortion rights in America. Now they are bringing the blueprint that has been very successful here around the world, with a special focus on Europe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”

Seahawks are beasts!!

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

Pay attention to this thread. Ronit has a great book that talks about the history of chaplain corps!

What's most clear from this speech/order is that Hegseth knows very little about the chaplain corps -- its history, its purpose, and its operations are not what he imagines them to be.