It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black. And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sit with that.

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Tuberville: "Unfortunately we've got the Woke Bowl, because we're getting more and more woke. We got Bad Bunny or Bad Rabbit at halftime. I'll be watching the TPUSA halftime show. It's just unfortunate we've gotten to this point."

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."

So this is why Trump is fixated on Greenland. Vengeance strikes again. This guy is dangerous.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Jacob Frey: “We have seen consistent unconstitutional practice by ICE discriminating only on the basis of - are you Latino, are you Somali - & then indiscriminate pickups thereafter — ppl are walking around on the street with their passports. That's not American. That's the furthest thing from it”

Gov. Walz to MS NOW: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. "The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

“That’s slavery.” Civil Rights lawyer @oliverma2026.bsky.social (running for CA Lt. Gov.) reminds us ICE detainees work in for-profit prisons for $1/day just to pay for phone calls to their families. Cruelty is big business. P.S. @CoreCivic’s new CEO’s last name is “Swindle” — beyond parody

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As much as this month has sucked, it has also given me enormous hope in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinarily selfless things.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

GAY LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL AND TRANS LIVES ARE SACRED. OUR JOY IS REVOLUTIONARY AND OUR EXISTENCE IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. WE DESERVE DIGNITY, SAFETY, AND CELEBRATION EVERY SINGLE DAY. STAND WITH US AND LET'S BUILD A WORLD WHERE EVERY QUEER SOUL THRIVES.

AOC: They are sending ICE into the streets. They’re invading other countries. They are tweeting crazy shit. But what they’re not doing is lowering the price of groceries…

The so-called president is once again showing the country if you don’t bow down, he’s cutting you off. 🗣️This is Fascism‼️

Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely

Something horrifying is happening in America: Because he was filming ICE Nazis, whuch is protected under the constitution, an American citizen in St. Paul, Minnesota was brutalized to the point of becoming unresponsive. What happened in Nazi Germany is happening in America. 😳👇

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Q: How can markets trust the Fed is independent if it looks like there's a criminal investigation into Powell for not complying w/ Trump? MIKE JOHNSON: Powell is an individual. He is not the Fed. And it's a serious allegation if he was not truthful in testimony to Congress. We don't play favorites

By an overwhelming margin, Britons agree that Elon Musk's Grok is engaged in the generation of pornography and it should be shut down.

The "How DARE you question Dear Leader's lies" defense.

WHAT YOU DON’T SEE ON THE NEWS‼️

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Read @asharangappa.bsky.social and see through careful expert analysis why this was murder open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The 2026 election has already begun. In the words of Amanda Gorman in her poem for Renee Good, “If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we’ve been”.

Gifford: This ridiculous rhetoric by the president—it’s going to impact every single American because it makes them lose faith in us. That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.

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This week: we execute a U.S. citizen. Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.” It's so transparent what's going on here.

In the age of Trump, even White women aren't safe. Renee Good—a White woman; murdered in broad daylight by law enforcement.😢 Do you get it now, America? I've said it many times before and I'll say it again: Everybody's Black now. Vote him out. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The response of the Trump regime in blindly defending the ICE shooter who murdered Renee Good is a warning to us all. They are telling you that Trump’s henchmen could literally kill you or your family for any reason and they will defend it. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/there-is-a...

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

. Say her name . . . ... Renee Nicole Good 💔 🙏 💔

In the age of AI slop and “flood the zone” propaganda, this is how quality journalism will thrive, because there will be strong demand for that kind of verification.

Clarity, @aoc.bsky.social speaks with clarity

“We've been warning for weeks that the Trump Administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to public safety.” @governorwalz.mn.gov’s #CupOfJoe is honest, pained, & resolute. We rise together. #StandWithMinnasotans

You're right and I join you in apology. Boomers were supposed to keep the passion we had and the determination to change the status quo in the 60s and 70s. We made so many positive moves towards a more perfect union. When did we become what we had fought against? I'm so fucking mad!

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From Maduro to Stephen Miller. People in Venezuela can’t catch a break.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay. A few comments, in a short 🧵>> bigthink.com/the-present/...

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Stephen Schwartz, the composer of 'Wicked,' says he'll no longer host a gala at the Kennedy Center. "It no longer represents the apolitical place for free artistic expression it was founded to be,l Schwartz said. "There's no way I would set foot in it now."

great job to all these media organizations misleading readers into believing the grok AI bot is in control, not the people turning the dials behind the scenes. we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.