Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

Update on this thread with a new action by Trump that was on Harold Hamm wish list: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c... Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Interior Depart said the projects posed "national security" risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments

The Oath Keepers built a massive stockpile of guns for Jan 6th and kept them in a hotel in Virginia because of D.C.'s strict gun laws.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

Robert Reich dancing his heart out to celebrate the weekend is the energy workers deserve. The only reason millions of us have 2 days off, an 8 hr day & basic protections is because unions fought, struck & sometimes bled for them. Fight like hell to protect our unions.

The Trump administration recalled more than two dozen career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior posts worldwide as it seeks to enforce President Trump’s “America First” agenda, according to current and former U.S. officials.

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

There's always a Tweet.

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

The only "black" that the current administration will ever endorse. Many will get what I'm saying—many wont. The tea will scorch your lips and tongue. Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️ #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein...

The more I see the RNC push Vance out there and murmurs of him running in 2028. The more I worry about us not taking it seriously like Trump 1.0 and repeating history. For the love of god, please dont let this guy be Trump 2.1

BREAKING: Judge Cannon rules that her restriction on Jack Smith's classified documents report will end on Feb. 24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

NEW: Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, is suing to stop its renaming to the "Trump-Kennedy Center" www.axios.com/2025/12/23/t...

My first thought when I see Donald Trump running away from a crowd while holding something of value? Definitely the idea that he’s selflessly delivering it to someone else.

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.

Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOW show has 2 Epstein survivors blasting DOJ for failing to properly redact names, leaving some survivors‘ identities newly revealed. They suspect DOJ’s top priority is to protect other people — not the survivors. “We’re being re-traumatized by our government.”

The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks. If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.

"One of the big reasons why a lot of us grew up as conservatives is we were afraid that if you give too much power to the government, someone bad could come in and use it for their own personal gratification and empowerment," @gtconway.bsky.social says. "And here we are. This is exactly it."

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves

Bari Weiss does not seem to have a good understanding of what's been going on with the Alien Enemies Act, including that courts -- including SCOTUS -- have repeatedly faulted the administration for failing to give detainees a meaningful opportunity to challenge being sent to El Salvador.

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

I keep hammering this point home to those who haven’t followed the story. Thanks for following this issue so closely and so well.

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

Which is why Bari Weiss tried to bury it

Weiss has only been on the job two months and already has all of Bluesky raptly watching "60 Minutes"

They did what now? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/s...

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

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"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."

For years, opponents of school vouchers worried that the program could be exclusionary. Now, as they roll out the new program, Texas officials are looking to bar funds from going to some schools with links to China or the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Felon47 is the deranged one...

"7 in 10 Americans say they're barely able to pay their bills." www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

If you're not for "both sides do it" journalism and you're weary of "symmetrical treatment of asymmetrical facts," what's the alternative? One answer is point-of-view journalism plus a very high standard of verification, as @gregsargent.bsky.social demonstrates here. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

"Breaking precedent, networks interrupt prime time for Trump political diatribe." popular.info/p/breaking-p... I wouldn't mind the networks prime timing his talking points if they explained what they're doing. Just say, "'ordinarily we wouldn't, but we have changed." Or better: he has changed us.

The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."

Once in a while you win one. “The board determined, after careful review, that Sinclair’s offer was not in the best interests of Scripps and our shareholders as well as our employees and the many communities and audiences we serve in the United States." coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

From a Columbia Journalism Review interview with former Vox Media executive Liz Kelly Nelson. She explains — clearly — why some of her best journalists were leaving Vox to set up their own practices. www.cjr.org/the-intervie... So clearly that she eventually joins them... Read on:

Discuss: "The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

A LOT of Teslas in Orlando and a big increase in "accidents" this past year "a 2023 Tesla was attempting to park when the vehicle accelerated &struck a woman who was putting away her items in her vehicle, a 2019 MINI. The Tesla also struck a sign & impacted other vehicles" Out Of Control #TESLA

Surveillance pricing is a term that sounds right out of some dystopia, but that’s exactly what instacart’s “smart rounding” is. It’s more than inflation, imagine pretty soon having surge pricing for shopping at the grocery store

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

A little racism from JD before he lets slip the irony of how a politician can completely sell out any remaining integrity he might have in order to get elected (cough, cough, Trump is America’s Hitler) And maybe the guy accused of wearing eyeliner shouldn’t make fun of a woman’s manicure