You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Disastrous

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

This is *extremely* weak leadership from Jeffries and Schumer. When the wannabe king ignores congress to initiate regime change abroad, they are requesting a fucking briefing sometime soon.

How it's going.

We’ve seen what happens when a reckless American President tries to run a foreign country on behalf of rich oil executives. Trump’s corrupt & illegal actions jeopardize the lives of Americans, the stability of the region, and the rule of law.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

🔴 One more child has reportedly died from hypothermia in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces continue to block shelter aid for hundreds of thousands stockpiled at the border from reaching displaced Palestinians. And as the territory braces for another winter storm overnight and into Friday, reports...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

Crucial intervention from @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money. LPE lfg lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda. What does he need to do immediately during his first 100 days in office to make his promises real? We're kicking off our "First 100 Days" series with a look at his plans for universal child care, via @brycecovert.bsky.social: hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

I'm done with teaching for the semester, but I'm in the middle of grading. To procrastinate grading the book reviews that I require for my American Legal History course I'm gonna make a thread of all the books that the students reviewed.

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*

Okay, so this exists now! 😬 Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .

Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin. New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.

Photo of an ambulance stuck in gridlock traffic

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Still nowhere near enough anesthetics are available in Gaza because Israel is deliberately choking off medical supplies in open violation of the ceasefire — forcing patients to undergo surgery without anesthesia. Author’s father says he entered the operating room with his brother, and “couldn't...

Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.

Shared values.

Four Legal Aid Society leaders — Twyla Carter, Adriene Holder, Meghna Philip & Alice Fontier — have been appointed to Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s transition team, bringing vital insight on housing & the criminal legal system for New Yorkers. https://legalaidnyc.org/news/mamdani-transition-team/

The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...

From Secret Law (2001-2024) to None at All (2025-present) By Brett Max Kaufman www.justsecurity.org/124776/secre...

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

My moderating skills were a little rusty, but this event still turned out SO GREAT thanks to @sandynurse.bsky.social & @ngusdorf.bsky.social!! If you want to learn about how NYC government works (we get deep into the city budget) you absolutely can't miss this event!! youtu.be/kTZb8XlVJs0

Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk was detained by 🇨🇦 customs agents and, for four hours, was asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and his position on Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Zeteo has made a searchable database of all new 26,000 files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite Trump saying this is a scam with "all arrows pointing to the Democrats," these have a whole lot of Trump in there. In fact, he's mentioned in these more than anyone else. Take a look for yourself:

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box. New from me for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...