It's Fitzmas Time!

This will be quite a match-up: Trump's personal attorney who has never tried a case vs former Chicago U.S. Attny Fitzgerald who among other things "went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and even the White House in court — not to mention several Illinois politicians"

Oh it’s getting to them …..

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

Something like 50-75% of this Discourse is trying to avoid the most basic condemnation of the Hamas administration - they started a war without any way to provide for their own people because they counted upon the world's horrified pity for suffering Gazan civilians to mobilize armies in their name.

I know fear clicks are more lucrative for online media than anything else, but come on, Josh. You're smarter than this. The memo is an obvious, *obvious* bluff, not an order to actually do anything. The magic word here is "consider".

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written nine years ago but i still love this piece. and it remains a great guide for understand the deep history of conservative media ... Meet the Archeo-Trump, Wally George talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/meet-...

Maybe just more Hegseth idiocy, but if this were happening in another country where an authoritarian leader was trying to consolidate power, we'd be very nervous

Holy fuck. One gets inured to insanely brutal ice videos. But this one stands out. He just throws this woman into the wall basically

There was a recent article showing new mayors in high crime cities spent tons of money on kids and after school programs and murders dropped in each city. Black mayors see drop in violent crime with new strategies | AP News share.google/DBYTEERaVaT6...

Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Very excited for Comey to get the memo from the line prosecutors to the US attorney explaining why there’s no probable cause for the charges in discovery on his selective and/or vindictive prosecution motion.

You can dislike South Park for lots of reasons, including its specific takes on specific topics, but this entire "it promotes apathy and nihilism" bit has to stop already. It regularly featured a main character giving a speech about the takeaway lesson, before people called the show "too preachy."

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Probably mad about South Park

Is South Park the real news outlet now?

A week after Brendan Carr threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license if they didn’t pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!, causing Kimmel’s show to be pulled for three days, South Park spent its whole episode torturing the Trump-appointed official. www.thedailybeast.com/south-park-t...

South Park isn't just a cartoon anymore; it's now a documentary.

This is not a dunk, just context. The South Park video game, Fractured but Whole (2017) is a barely-veiled 20-hour lesson to its audience on how and why people maintain certain gender identities and sexual orientations, neither of which is essential or rigid. They've been good guys for a while.

The South Park guys should bring back the killing Kenny every episode a bit but for Cartman now that they decided they’re switching teams for Woke 2.

South Park made Brendan Carr poop himself! Sign me up. 😆

FCC boss Brendan Carr had a cameo in 'South Park' where he ends up in the hospital with a parasitic infection that prevents him from talking "I'm afraid he might lose his freedom of speech"

Well, really he doesn’t know what he’s admitting because he has no idea how the FBI works, or the laws, or the protocols, or any of that.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Or people thought that he'd bring back the Before Times. That's what hit every other incumbent government worldwide that was up for reelection and which had to deal with the worst of covid.

Trump: Charlie Who?

REPORTER: Do you think this deal honors Charlie Kirk? TRUMP: We're doing very well as you know with the trade deals. We're doing very well with China.

Not sure that Trump remembers who ol' Charlie is

The science is absolutely clear— there is no link. Full stop.

When NPR doesn't take a stand against obvious bullshit...

The science is clear; what's unclear is why NPR is disinclined to acknowledge it.

Guys you’re not getting the federal funding back just say it doesn’t cause autism

This is a horrendously irresponsible headline.

Reposting from March 2025. Time to bring it back.

DOGE officials have been completely unaccountable. They’re hiding their own work from oversight with armed guards and putting all of our sensitive data at risk. DOGE must be dismantled before they throw even more lives into chaos.

It's almost like DOGE was complete bullshit. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

We’re all paying for the 7 month vacay the RIF’f employees have enjoyed. DOGE and Felon47 are champs at saving money!

A DOD employee tells me they've been talking with colleagues, and the most common word they're using describe all of this is "bizarre." They're also noting the security risks associated with a decision to tell the world about a large gathering of the most senior U.S. military leaders.

I have asked top Republicans and Democrats, in the House and Senate, with jurisdiction over the U.S. military, if they even knew about this meeting and/or know any details about it. No response from any, except Rep. Adam Smith's folks, who say he's overseas.

One DOD employee tells me nobody has said a word about this at work. They asked an aide to a high-ranking military leader about it: "First he'd heard of it."

So uh, per WaPo, Pete Hegseth has ordered all top U.S. military leaders worldwide -- some 800 U.S. military generals and admirals -- to report to a base in Virginia next week for a mystery meeting. Short notice. Nobody knows why. 😳 www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

A vision of a post crypto legitimization future where it threatens the banking system and the dumbest people imaginable all complain that we bailed out banks and not "the people" i.e. morons who got fleeced.

"Disney Adults" and "brunch liberals" have done more to fight fascism than most far leftists.

Like I keep trying to tell people, when you underestimate "Disney Adults," you do so at your own peril. We know a villain when we see one.

New rule: if you always have some excuse why you can’t vote against fascism, if you ever claim that maybe the fascists need to win in order to teach their opposition a lesson, you are not actually to the left of people who vote for the non-fascist option. You don’t get to call yourselves “the left.”