A federal law requires that the image on national parks annual passes be chosen from a public photo contest. @ashleymurray.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/11/r...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: We are Russia's next target. And we are already in harm's way.

On December 1, the Trump administration fired eight immigration judges in New York City without warning or explanation. President Trump has now fired around 1 in 7 of all immigration judges nationwide since reentering the White House in January. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-h...

PSA: if you join the ellison/weiss team at CBS News, you are telling the world that you are okay with subverting journalism & bowing to Trump’s autocratic whims. No amount of money or cushy gig can make up for the fact that willingly signing on to all that is an utter disgrace.

Exactly. And this has been true of much of the Republican Party for some time.

“…this Supreme Court, which now believes that it has the power not only to say what the law is but to say what the facts are, decides that it can see the facts better.” @sifill.bsky.social

Trying to guess now how many sitting Supreme Court justices want to attend Trump rallies and would if they thought they could get away with it. I think my answer is five. It’s definitely not less than four.

Yesterday I argued in the Supreme Court to defend a 50 year old law that prevent corruption in our campaign finance system. Meanwhile, Republicans are attacking the 60 year old Voting Rights Act in SCOTUS as well. We won't let them gut democracy without a fight.

Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.

quite something that almost every court in the land except like one in Amarillo and the highest in the land routinely tell Trump to go pound sand

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

What!?

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Immigration is a clear net plus for the economy, the research here shows. It also makes plain the racial angle behind the government's turn against it.

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."

"Unsurprisingly, the White House is trying to lie its way through it. The only explanation offered so far for Trump's mangled hand is a laughable one about 'frequent handshaking.' And president now says it's 'treasonous' to report on his health."

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

You need to put a hat on that baby head.

Never forget youtu.be/xuUkvE0H1Ig?...

No one is going to want to come here

The DOJ Office of Legal Counsel reportedly issued a memo claiming the civilian boat strikes were lawful? If true, it’s beyond the pale That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have filed a complaint for an immediate investigation I explained on @ms.now 👇

NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

This is a good thread

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

Voting for Trump fundamentally means you lack the capacity to onboard information

The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Per the Library of Virginia: "Jane Minor was emancipated as a result of her healing skills during an epidemic in Petersburg in 1825. Her medical skills allowed her to prosper & over the course of 2 decades she purchased & emancipated at least 15 women & children." She freed Phebe Jackson here:

Dr. Harriet Rice, the 1st Black woman alum of Wellesley College, earned her MD in 1891. She worked with Jane Addams at Hull House & was a researcher at Columbia University Medical Center. During WWI she served in France as a military physician & was awarded a medal by the French government.

Alina Habba is out as fake US Attorney.

Trump administration announcing $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers n.pr/3KyYPrO

"She said she repeatedly told the agents she’s a U.S. citizen. “I just kept repeating it — I’m a U.S.-born citizen. I was born and raised here. This is my home. My baby’s waiting for me...” She screamed “Leave me alone...” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization. He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship. What a betrayal of American values!

Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Good.

The case is submitted. What a shitshow.

On the other hand: Jesus Christ could be making these arguments against the Trump administration and we'd still lose in front of this court.

Deepak Gupta has been defending independent agencies—their leaders, structure, and workforce—since the very start of this administration. Why he wasn’t asked to handle this seminal case is beyond me.

You know things are bad at SCOTUS when the guy aruging for your side makes things worse than the guy arguing for the other side.

In future, pick people who WANT to make our arguments. Instead of peopel who want to make their arguments but moderately.

I'm not live blogging the Trump v. Slauighter args (can Trump fire everybody args). I will be writing about it. But I come here to say: Dear Liberals, please STOP ASKING former Republican clerks to argue our side of the case. I know you think they "speak Republican." But they also SUCK.

Listen, ending your elite Reverse Uno with, “I’m praying for him,” is cold as ice.

What kills me about this post and repost is that Anthony already cleared them both on this point in his excellent co-authored piece in the Cornell Law Review (online) just this summer. But Ilan is seeking a name for himself. And Barnett…well… publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

I’ve tried with this guy. I really have.

On December 7, 1942, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dorie Miller manned anti-aircraft artillery & tended to the wounded under heavy fire; he was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Navy at the time. This American hero of Pearl Harbor was killed in action 2 years later.

Navy sailor Neil Daniel Frye was killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. He was buried with full military honors. His decorations include the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal & the Bronze Star Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. www.fayobserver.com/story/news/m...