it is truly political malpractice that the Biden administration had access to ALL these Epstein materials and just...sat on them

We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad". Seems suboptimal, to me.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

concentration camps.

What's endlessly frustrating is that Trump has done nothing in the last year that he didn't openly campaign on doing if he regained the presidency, but checked-out voters didn't bother paying attention, and lots of politically informed voters refused to believe him. So much rotten ignorance.

can we ask the obvious question of why the Biden White House fucking sat on all this for four years

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

This country needs a full accounting for all this administration has done. I don't wanna see any 'turning a corner' type shit. I wanna see the people who did this answer for their fucking crimes.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

probably said something like economic populism maybe stand up for people and dont support genocide

this whole thing is great

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

tldr: dont throw people under the fucking bus; stand for something

UPDATE: Faith leaders were arrested by federal police outside San Francisco's immigration courthouse. They had chained themselves to the building, blocking the entrance to shut it down to protest immigrant arrests. It worked: By 11 a.m., the court was closed for the day.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

On the most recent season of Platonic (Apple), one of the characters develops a catchphrase for her podcast: “Don’t ask, don’t get.” There’s some truth to this in Hollywood but only some. So this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread is on FAVORS. When/when not to ask and what to ask for. 🧵1

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Man, I was such a fan of Chomsky when I was 20 years old and he felt like a rare voice against the war in Iraq; I read almost everything he wrote and as I read I started to notice habits like selective quotation and oversimplification that really started to gnaw at me

“The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” - US Constitution Article 2, Section 4

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

they should be introducing new articles every week this dude does new impeachable shit every day i mean this seriously, not at all joking

Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.

Adding piracy to the list of crimes I see

this is how I know we are going to win - people showing up in middle of MN winter to fight for each other

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

This is our current reality in LA, DC, Chicago, and other cities across the US. Fascism is here. It just might not have affect you yet.

and democrats dont say it either

see you later

i know i know i know it sorta goes without saying - but jesus fucking christ can the same media that (rightly) made a serious issue of Biden's fitness spare two seconds to ask about the obviously rapidly diminishing capacities of one Donald J. Trump

I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it! (I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)

could the media (most of the media) be bothered to do the bare minimum and accurately report on this motherfucker's rampant gutter racism

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

honestly id rather the racist fascist shitbag was sleeping than doing things

Abolish ICE. Hold every single one of these motherfuckers accountable when we have power.

The internet's pal @kevinmkruse.bsky.social said a thing the other day that got me thinking about the dissembling rhetoric of white flight being ripped out of GOP discourse at about the same rate that an adult reasoning capacity is being stripped from Trump's brain and how shitty reality is for it.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

my most cynical take and yet the one i think is most likely: trump won't even be under ground before we hear democrats and liberals saying he was not so bad. ive literally seen this happen with bush, who murdered *thousands* to get reelected.

Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10 *BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO

Who has made this 🤣

yeah its strong words, Dana, we're talking about a fascist administration that is fucking murdering people

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

so the Dem line should not be "ICE should not wear masks" it should "ICE will be abolished, and all these motherfuckers will be held accountable"

this shit is just beyond parody, man

I can count on one hand, maybe two, the number of Democrats in Congress who understand the fight and don't deserve to be primaried