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Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt. As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media

There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented. ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”. Why is ICE harassing women?

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

I think this gets it exactly. It’s equal parts fascism, nihilism, solipsism, and stupidism.

HEY LOOK👀 You are less likely to die if you have had a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Maybe you should book a vax appointment today

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.

part of the reason i've got such contempt for the doomerism around "they don't think they'll have to win an election again" is that this belief — which i agree some of them hold — critically endangers the entire project, it doesn't strengthen it. they are incapable of shifting strategy or pivoting.

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

Being a parent is full of complicated logistics and most people are like “please can you just tell me the evidence-supported best practices for their medical care” — almost no one wants to have to fend off whatever Gravel McBearGuts feels like experimenting with

"Supai, the only village on the [Havasupai reservation], is one of the most remote communities in the 🇺🇸... The mule train, which makes the 16-mile, 6hr loop up + down the canyon 5days/wk, is perhaps the most extreme manifestation of the USPS mandate to 'render postal services to all communities.'"

I grew up in California in 1970s. The air was brown and stinky and gave me headaches. A lot of people had asthma and low grade lead poisoning. I left at 19 in large part to get away from the toxic air. I live in California now and the sky is clear and it's easy to breathe. I don't want to go back.

3 Questions: 1) What are we doing? 2) How is this pro-life? 3) What are we doing? www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

We are deliberately not taught this in school.

source:

Unclear of exact circumstance or who is woman is, but it reminds me of a broader issue: The GOP basically had one cosmetic job; have their violent fun with ethnic cleansing but do it in a way with just a shred of plausible deniability so that enough Hispanic voters didn’t see what is so clearly…

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

This is too much.

A recap of tonight's special election in TN-07 (plus a WAY-TOO-EARLY model of the 2026 midterms). A swing of 13 points would put Dems over 250 seats in the U.S. House. A more reasonable scenario—say, D+6—still gives them the House, and maybe the Senate. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-s...

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

fucking incredible

This is a Michael Scott sketch almost literally

Government by and for 12 year-old boys

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

That is one hell of a first sentence.

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis “The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

W/o showing his work, Prasad blames at least 10 pediatric deaths on the COVID vax. Meanwhile, a "2023 JAMA paper said that during the 12 months ending in July 2022, 821 people aged 19 and under died of Covid." The authors also indicated that was an underestimate. www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

THIS. Everyone can find one thing to do to help.

Say it with me now

The mayor of Akron, Ohio. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

The director of the FDA is using unverified submissions to the VAERS database to claim the Covid vaccine resulted in 10 pediatric deaths. Anyone can submit anything to VAERS. To demonstrate, a doctor famously reported that the flu shot turned him into the Incredible Hulk.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Arcadia covers as much ground as any modern play. It asks huge, clear questions, but never overtly, and gives no answers. And it finds a form that never restricts this - it allows it to expand.

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration

Today in worker exploitation

This was a fellow human put in harm’s way for no good reason. Her death is a tragedy. May it strengthen our resolve to defy this depraved and lawless regime.

A polling thread: - Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months - He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s - Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation - Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇

A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.

Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...