"money's real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored."

Crowds are showing up🔥 Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors. More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14. Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com

Today, I ran OCR/OHR on hundreds of scanned images of my personal journals from 1978-1981. Wow! What a strange, interesting, wonderful, brilliant, stupid, screwed-up kid I was. (I wonder what a smart psychology graduate student might build from this.)

Any Democrat who is not campaigning on ensuring Pete Hegseth and those following his orders are tried for capital murder is not worth voting for at this point.

"Will we permit the destruction of American democracy on our watch?" Have we, already?

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

Today, I ran OCR/OHR on hundreds of scanned images of my personal journals from 1978-1981. Wow! What a strange, interesting, wonderful, brilliant, stupid, screwed-up kid I was. (I wonder what a smart psychology graduate student might build from this.)

Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.

French Revolution. Look it up

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

If you read one piece on Trump’s pernicious new National Security Strategy, read this by @himself.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/programm...

#Trump government demands access to European police databases and #biometrics - fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202... "even EU member states do not grant each other such extensive direct database access" damn cheek - get lost

Newly sworn in Rep Grijalva-AZ, was spayed in the face with pepper spray by ICE during a protest against 12/5 federal immigration raid at Mexican restaurant in Tucson. “When I presented myself as a MOC, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed,” Rep Grijalva wrote. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies. nysfocus.com/2025/12/06/d...

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A reminder that Trump's apparatchiks and goons, from ICE assault teams federal prosecutors to official spokespeople, are constantly and shamelessly lying about almost everything. The public needs to understand this: Lies are the default.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

If there is justice in the world, no one who serves in the Trump administration will ever be able to find employment again

I'm reading through stuff I wrote 50 years ago: hundreds of pages of bad science fiction I wrote from grades 5 through 12. I can see patterns, lots of rage & death, poor riffs on Tom Swift, Ray Bradbury, & the Six Million Dollar Man. Some of this stuff reads as completely new to me, today.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Chairman Mao announces his new state-run transportation plan

Yeah this is bad. Trump admin appears to be laying the groundwork to purge regional Fed presidents, all of whom are up for reappointment in February.

Makes sense. The Senate is no longer part of the United States government, right?

Today's reading distraction: "Mal Goes to War" (2024) by Edward Ashton. amzn.to/4iPkngn @edashtonwriting.bsky.social

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Buying Time Warner is now an official point in every bubble

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Every time I begin to wonder if my Pop Culture and Politics class isn't timely enough...

By utterly amazing coincidence, a company backed by Trump son's VC firm got a $620 million military contract.

- Cruelty. The point Internal memo halts oversight of prison rape protections for trans inmates  www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

I’m beyond tired with liberalism taking solace in dissents from the liberal justices. THEY ARE MEANINGLESS WORDS. THE DISSENTS MEAN NOTHING.

No they won’t, because it would spell absolute disaster for Amazon. They have offloaded massive amounts of the most expensive (and difficult) part of the job to the USPS. “Smile” will implode If they have to be responsible for “last mile”.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.

AHEM zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...

Look at these ICE thugs with their masks on chasing this woman down the street. Terrifying and grotesque. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

For my current work in progress, I'm trying to track (a representative sample of) litigation against the Trump administration that features First Amendment claims or otherwise implicates free speech. To that end, this tracker from @lawfaremedia.org has been incredibly helpful:

The Supreme Court lets the Texas racial gerrymander go forward, overruling the three-judge district court. In so doing, it tells us that as of December 2025 it is too close to the 2026 election to redraw maps. 1/2 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The corrupt Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map that will boost Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that found the new boundaries were likely unconstitutional because they were drawn based on race.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

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What could possibly go wrong? www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...