this is a stupid idea on its own but the idea of giving any new power to this administration at all, for any reason, is unconscionable do better

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

🚨 NEW: Federal and private lawsuits allege meat companies used shared data to coordinate prices and wages across the industry. The Lever's @brockhrehor.bsky.social reports 👇 www.youtube.com/shorts/VqrYl...

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

It was genuinely an honor to meet Mr. Chavarria at Tuesday's hearing. His story is incredible; grew up in a refugee camp in Honduras, graduated as a valedictorian at 15, got scholarships in the US, met his husband here, became a US citizen, and is now a school superintendent in Vermont.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

"I don't understand, we spent so much money buying media outlets precisely to spread propaganda." - Random billionaire

“A woman who was 4 months pregnant and experiencing bleeding had not been seen by a doctor for months. Another had a miscarriage and was deported while still bleeding.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-dep...

It is so sad to see what Bezos did to this newspaper.

You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...

Some argue Democrats overplayed their hand with “wokeness” like supporting DEI, trans rights and pronouns in bio. I also think Republicans have now overplayed the “anti-woke” hand with virulent racism and literal Nazi era talking points and tactics being their mainstream positions.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Abolish ICE. Any D elected who doesn't agree needs to be primaried.

Remember, part of Trump's National Security Strategy is to have "A resilient national infrastructure." This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.

Wrote about the ridiculous new Trump visa rules that will stop those who worked in trust & safety from getting visas at the same time MAGA folks are demanding more trust & safety work.

Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.

Of course…

One of the best things about no longer being on Twitter/X is that U.S. government officials aren’t active here. From what I can tell the most senior members of the Trump administration just post unvarnished racism all day, every day on X. Glad I moved on.

New from me at the @CatoInstitute blog: "For US Businesses, Tariff Complexity Is 'Death by a Thousand Papercuts'" www.cato.org/blog/us-busi...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.

this is the plot to an episode of the new South Park season

Just some footnotes in a doc @seamushughes.bsky.social found, ordering both counsel to show cause why they shouldn't be sanctioned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’ll be the funniest thing when he gets dumped once he’s no longer in government

“We’re the Discrimination Secret Police, here to discriminate against you. All persons of the nationalities to be given unequal protection of law, please step to the side so that we can use an undue process to deny your liberty.”

Such hateful, petty, bigoted trash bags. Their hate will never erase the history she made.

THE BOAT WAS HEADED TO SURINAME, NOT THE US, BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS.

The White House's National Security Strategy includes some smatterings of Great Replacement rhetoric, naturally. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

When everyone knows it's probably Grandpa's last Christmas so everyone makes a big deal about him

oh wow, the article has a clickable link that names his employer that's fascinating

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia. They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana. Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

Beyond cruelty and into fantasy.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.

Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."

China makes 70% of the world’s drones. Blake Resnick wants to change that. Backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, the Brinc founder is on his way to making his quadcopters the top choice for America’s cops—if only he can get the federal government to ban his primary competitor.

"Someone's ham done slid off the biscuit" may be my new 2025 saying.

A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”

Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”

To give you an idea of how ridiculous the gerrymandering in Nashville is, here’s our district. They diluted a third of Nashville into a rural area about 50 times as large that extends north to the Kentucky border and about a third of the length of the state to the east.

The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria. This is so gross.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.

Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)

Is it me or is there a REALLY focused effort to go after Walz and everything MN in the last 10 days? If so, why?