Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

This is very good

lotttt of people not ready for that discussion. it’s part of the reason why i’m immediately suspicious when military background is supposed to be a candidate selling point.

Andrew Taake, pardoned from a six-year sentence by Trump for January 6th related crimes, will not serve any prison time for a child sex crime because of that pardon. Taake pleaded guilty to online solicitation of a minor in 2016 and got three years in prison...but he already served three years/

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Compare the engagement. This is what Twitter is now, and it's pathetic that so many of our intellectuals refuse to admit it.

E g. The food bank here in San Diego buys bulk quantities of rice for a fraction of supermarket costs and re-packages it themselves in consumer-sized packages for distribution. Your money there goes much, much further than an in-kind donation. (In kind donations and volunteering are still good tho!)

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

We've been saying this 👇👇👇for a very long time.

THERE ARE SEVEN OTHER CANDIDATES DECLARED FOR THE MAINE D PRIMARY WE ARE A YEAR AWAY FROM BLUE NO MATTER WHO TIME.

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand need to condemn this filthy racism now.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

Now that I think of it, the comfort certain people have with antisemitic iconography is very much connected to gender panic. “Neurotic, effete wordcel with an expensive diploma and IBS” is a very specific stereotype to be contrasted with “masculine, blue collar tribune of the volk.”

i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%

yes. this has basically been one of the themes my column for the last few months!

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

Maybe one of the best paragraphs about the modern internet that I've seen written, jesus.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Within 15 minutes here are the replies that I got. This is the social environment that @mattyglesias.bsky.social thinks is “a fun place for jokes, news, ideas, etc.”

man

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

😕🇺🇸

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

Wonder if this is what it was like when Hitler had Albert Speer design and build a NewReich Chancellery b/c the old one was no longer deemed suitable…?

NOTE: This was an en banc request as to the "stay pending appeal" in the CA case that was denied, not the merits case. The merits appeal was heard today — www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Yq... — and, if the panel sides with DOJ on the merits, another en banc review could be sought at that time.

We're still dealing with the consequences of Andrew Cuomo's "experience."

i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

As important as it is to resist Trump, it's equally important for us to impose consequences on those who capitulate to his regime.

it keeps hitting me that he’s literally tearing down the White House lol joke country

Mike hasn’t clocked into work in 3-plus weeks, and hasn’t spent a full week at the office since July. “Been a little busy”: with what? Keeping cucumbers over his eyes so he can pretend not to see anything?

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

CNN reports that a highly trained and responsible ICE agent accidentally shot an immigrant and a US marshal

Trump wants to build himself a gaudy ballroom at the same time he is taking food away from children.

“We have no idea what you’re talking about, or what Republican extremist fed you those talking points.” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social tosses aside Mike Lindell’s *reporter*’s foolishness and explains how Republicans drastically slashed health care to give tax cuts to the rich.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Carney: Up until now, more than 70 cents of every dollar of military capital spending by our government has gone to the United States. With our new Defense Investment Agency, we’ll make sure we build more of our security and defense capabilities here at home

btw trump bombed another boat today

Why the fuck are so may people burning their credibility over this guy?