Putin explained NATO to Trump. Now Trump wants to leave NATO. Operation Putin's Puppet nearing successful completion.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

Trump posted today that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and if that's not a threat of genocide I don't know what is.

Happy Passover / Chag Pesach Sameach!

“Illegal” is shorthand for the structural hypocrisy of a system that exploits the labor of undocumented workers without creating legal pathways for them.

Eid Mubarak! Nowruz Mubarak! Happy Spring!

I am so damn tired of the “fake news” label, which is a childish, petulant, way of referring to coverage you don’t like. Coming from persons in power - up to and including the president - it’s also a chilling authoritarian move.

“Welcome to your new AI assistant” is just nature‘s way of saying “Your tech overlords hate you and want to see you dead”

The same person telling us we can't address diversity, equity, and inclusion - and who orders removed signage that truthfully discusses how the first US president was an enslaver - that same guy unapologetically uses his megaphone to spread the most vile racist crap.

It matters in which department a government function is housed. Ben Rhodes makes a cogent case that the post-9/11 transfer of Immigration enforcement from DOJ (rule-of-law) to DHS (counter-terrorism) is a key structural problem underlying today's hyper-militarized, constitution-flaunting ICE/CBP.

I can't tell you how much I won't miss seeing Bovino's face in the news for a while - that is, not until he's put on trial.

Those who claim to defend 'Western civilization' are today gutting the institutions on which the West's civil, peaceful coexistence has rested for all our lives.

For the US to destroy NATO over Greenland would be game, set, match for Putin.

My commentary on events in Minneapolis and the administration's punitive and discriminatory new "Operation Parris" policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting resettled refugees.

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...

The entire US foreign policy establishment needs to speak out with one voice on the idiocy of saber-rattling toward Greenland - and the world-historical catastrophe that would result from following through on threats to annex it by force.

I don’t think it should be unreasonable to hope that a few more GOP senators can find it within themselves to speak out about how absolutely bananas it is to threaten to invade and annex Greenland.

Impeachment before Greenland

What is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.

🧵There will be much to say about Trump’s military actions. Yes, he should have sought congressional authorization. But too much analysis leaves out how Venezuelans, both in the diaspora and at home, understand what just happened. Their perspective should inform our understanding.

Since he likes to put his name on things, why not “The Trump-Epstein Files”?

This is International Migrants Day. Business and civic leaders must speak out against this administration's cruel collective punishments against legal immigrants, refugees, and asylees and the unacceptable police-state excesses of its immigration enforcement campaign.

Fortunately, the boat that transported María Corina Machado out of Venezuela did so without being attacked by U.S. drones.

With all of this administration's drastic and unpopular policies, now would be a good time for politicians on both sides of the aisle (and especially the electorally nervous GOP!) to begin rebuilding trust with immigrant communities by finally passing the Dream Act.

When a party’s electoral prospects start looking shaky, its leaders must have a very low opinion of their voters to be doubling down on the most vile racist pronouncements.

The US government is engaged in a policy program of mass exclusion. It is not a ‘crackdown’—which means strict enforcement against lawbreakers. It seeks to exclude refugees, students, and family members immigrating lawfully, and to exclude US citizens smeared as undesirable. Not a ‘crackdown’.

On Thanksgiving, we can be grateful that the United States - for all its flaws, historical and present-day - is a place where millions of people from all over the world have found refuge, freedom, safety, and opportunity.

Tonight it may be instructive to Google the name “Herschel Grynszpan.” History shows the horrors that can result when an act of violence perpetrated by a single person becomes a pretext to punish an entire group of people.

Government by an endless stream of threats is ultimately incompatible with government of, by, and for the people.

This really is beyond the pale. Trump on Khashoggi's brutal murder: “You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you liked him or didn’t like him, things happen." www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...

This is what the Trump/Miller/Homan/Bovino blitz has brought us: neither good-faith immigration policy nor public safety, but a long series of abusive actions by armed, masked thugs. Every child in that daycare has been traumatized by this incident. Such horrors are happening every day in Chicago.

The cesspool that is Twitter/X is extra cesspooly tonight.

".Among other things, the company would have to deploy one million humanlike robots and boost its stock market value to $8.5 trillion from $1.4 trillion today.Control of Tesla Is at Stake in Vote on Elon Musk’s Pay Plan" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

The FY26 Presidential Determination(aka refugee admissions ceiling), is to be officially published tomorrow WITHOUT legally mandated consultations with Congress having taken place.

Given Trump's announced intention to resume testing of nuclear weapons, I urge folks to seek out informed commentary and follow the authoritative @thebulletin.org (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) - which as of January 28 had already set its famed "Doomsday Clock" at 89 seconds to midnight.

Anything the President doesn't like, he calls "fake." That's all that word means when he uses it. It's as simple as that.

This is the most willful, unlawful destruction leveled against a federal building since September 11, 2001 . . . and of the White House since August 24, 1814.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker at the Chicago No Kings Rally, October 19 2025: "Are we building a society based on human dignity or domination?"

The Trump administration is dismantling the US Refugee Admissions Program and lobbying other countries to weaken protections for at-risk refugees and asylum seekers - threatening fundamental global protection principles. My commentary for @global-affairs.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzuzayv

Has Bluesky's search function been disabled?

You can substitute “US” for “UK” and add “and brutal, illegal shows of militarized force under the guise of immigration enforcement”

The Trump administration has broken faith with the American people, who have welcomed refugees into their communities for decades - and refugees who have been waiting in line for years. A record-low refugee ceiling aligns with this admin’s consistently bad-faith approach to immigrant/refugee issues.

What a shameful chapter of US history we're experiencing. A harrowing middle-of the-night raid on an entire five-story apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

RIP Jane Goodall, who performed an immeasurable service for humanity by helping us get to know and care for our closest relatives in the web of life.

Here’s to the leader of antifa

The President seems intent on cutting both drug prices and free-speech protections by 1000%

Anyone who thinks that throwing trans people under the bus provides an offramp from the Niemöller escalation (i.e., "first they came for . . . " ) needs to think hard about the implications of the utterly dehumanizing rhetoric coming from these and other elected officials.