look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Look, everyone gets bored over a long winter break. But we can make good choices—read, play board games, do a puzzle, go on a walk. Or we can make bad choices and invade a sovereign country of 29 million with no plans for the aftermath and no care for the geopolitical repercussions.

If you're trying to honor the Prince of Peace by bombing people, you're doing it wrong.

Every year I am shocked to rediscover how astonishingly bad I am at wrapping presents.

i recognize it's just a performance arts center and we've all collectively stopped giving a shit but changing the signage of the kennedy center is explicitly prohibited by law

HEADS-UP, Evanstonians: Bovino and co. just caravanned into town. Keep your eyes open and your whistles out.

You don't get to murder us because Israel did terrible things. You don't get to murder us and call it pro-Palestinian. You don't get to murder us.

that isn't just racial profiling -- this sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing.

Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

years of spouting disinformation on Fox News taught him to never fact check before making a claim

After spending the day going through my inbox, I’ve decided I would pay twice my regular subscription rate for half the number of newsletters. If I have a paid subscription, it’s because I want to support your work—not feel guilty that I can’t read enough of it!

Say a prayer for the civics teachers of America, who are trying—against all odds and daily headlines—to teach our kids how democratic government is *supposed* to work.

You should absolutely opt out of this feature—and you should absolutely know that doing so will screw up your existing user experience because tech companies are awful. Opting out eliminates your inbox categories (e.g., social, promotion, primary). I went from Inbox 150 to 3,147.

“All charges against her have been dropped.” ICE lied. Again. With impunity. They’ll do it again when they inevitably kill a U.S. citizen. Congress could restrict ICE if Republicans cared to.

So it’s worse than we thought

Among maaaaany other things, do these vehicles know how to drive on snow and ice? Because there are some major nuances in understanding the different types of wintery ground coverings and how to navigate them. You're processing a million tiny details at once.

One thing I learned from “The Wire” is that even professional gangsters have enough decency not to do hits at church newrepublic.com/post/203321/...

“Quiet, piggy.” Whatever filters the man once had—and there were vanishingly few—they are all gone. All I see is a senile old man in a home, abusing the staff who are just trying to take care of him because his children will no longer speak to him.

I dunno what it is with liberal journalist dudes quoting Buddha, but let's consider it the red flag of 2025.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

US intelligence determined that MBS ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered with a bone saw. Trump today: MBS didn't know, and "things happen." www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

Is there any reason to think that Trump’s about-face is any more sophisticated than thinking he can say he wants all the files released and then tell Pam to only include the ones that mention Dems? The man is basically Mayor Humdinger when it comes to covering up his misdeeds.

This is what we’ve been saying here in Chicago since ICE arrived. When they’re chasing down landscapers and kidnapping guys coming out of coffee shops and terrorizing nannies in parks, they’re not looking for criminals. They’re criminalizing being brown in America.

This can’t be said often enough

The elite few people in this country who are actually in a position to stand up to Donald Trump are totally silent.

Biggest reason to read NOBODY’S GIRL right now is to understand why Ghislaine Maxwell should never ever ever get out of prison. Even after ingesting a ton of Epstein coverage, I thought of her mostly as an enabler, but she was every bit as evil and culpable as Epstein. No pardon ever.

It is a harrowing read. But the very least every member of Congress can do is make it through a few chapters of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir NOBODY’S GIRL. My god.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Not one more solitary word about what WOMEN have ruined. Ever. The nerve.

I don’t want to tell the bishops how to do their job, but maybe if they’d focused as much attention on immigration as they did on largely baseless “threats” to religious freedom over the past two decades, Trump’s fear-mongering wouldn’t have been so successful. Ahem.

Nancy Pelosi would never.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime. We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.

Just passed a painter’s van flying a big ol’ Mexican flag in one of the neighborhoods ICE has been targeting here. That’s the energy in Chicago right now and I am here for it.

It’s fantastic that Virginia is getting its first female governor and Detroit its first female mayor, but holy cats I am ready for the day when that’s no longer a thing and people have gotten over themselves about women in leadership.

Voters may not be excited about the Democratic Party at the moment, but they have HAD IT with the party that could stop any of Trump’s cruelty & despotism at any point and chooses not to.

One more in a big night of long-overdue firsts!

Nearly every county in Virginia has shifted blue in a massive statement against Donald Trump.

I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

A pox on every lily-livered Democratic leader who sat out the NYC mayoral race. Step aside and let change come through.

Only surprise is that this hasn’t happened more.

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

“The horror that might be played out nationally” — Democrats

Yes, it's heartening to see Chicagoans (when ICE is everywhere in Chicagoland, we are all Chicago now) come together to protect each other and our neighbors. But a reminder that one big reason for our whistles is tech companies keep caving to Trump demands to take down ICE tracker websites. Still.

Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS. This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped. It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.