“But it remains possible to envision a different ultimate outcome. In it, Miller’s mass deportations mostly fall short, the government mostly follows court rulings, civil society’s resistance holds, and the public backlash to Miller’s masked storm troopers only grows.”

ANYONE in Congress, from either party, receiving ANY funding from AIPAC, the Heritage Foundation or any of the oligarchs, should be tossed at the first opportunity.

Congratulations to Stephen Miller, whose particularly vile brand of racism and hatemongering makes him a worthy Scoundrel of the Year. This can go on his mantle alongside his “Most Mayo Reich-Winger” and “Most Literal Dickhead” trophies. newrepublic.com/article/2046...

That's Trump™️Hell™️

May Trump rot in hell, very slowly.

I encourage everyone to read the piece @gregsargent.bsky.social wrote, and perhaps to revisit my take on the fellow from earlier this year as well. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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Day #344 As long as it includes pedophiles......... that is the priority. Don't you think? Release the files. #proudblue #pinks

Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.

I’ve always enjoyed your piece reporting the Japanese Imperial forces were about to strike Pearl Harbor. If only people had listened to you.

By multiple measures the United States is a less healthy country than it was a year ago and I think any coverage of MAHA should make that clear.

As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you

The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza

Don’t most, or all, childcare centers NOT let a non-parent or someone approved by family, to enter their business?? It’s for security purposes because of shit like this. That dude is a fucking idiot and a racist.

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Artist boycott of The Kennedy Center continues to grow “Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled-they are selfish, intolerant, & have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all ppl” — Roma Daravi

It's simple. If you perform in a building named "Donald Trump" you are a Nazi. Any questions?

Can we also discuss the mixed messaging of the attack on the "facility" in Venezuela...which suggests quite brazenly that no-one in the US government actually knows what they bombed.

The MAGA right is fighting each other again. The losers are their constituents.

21 predictions for 2026, low confidence but plausible, which I find is the best way to do predictions and then feign clairvoyance. www.offmessage.net/p/my-non-pre...

1/n Powerful and gut-wrenching photo-essay presentation in @washingtonpost.com by Jonathan Edwards. Investigative/explanatory journalism at a very high level. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... If you haven't lived in DC, you may not appreciate how much this is a city of **trees**.

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

Here's what I totally don't understand. I can have a tax discount on a $90k ute that will always cost a fortune to own. Or. I can have a $50k sedan that's better in every way. Why do Australians buy the tank?

A young white male on steroids and meth is the right's new shiny object. He and white supremacist Nick Fuentes say they're voting for Gavin Newsom because JD is fat and ugly and that Newsom is good-looking. OMFG. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLuZ...

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier. newrepublic.com/article/2026...

Whoops!

This is obviously distressing but also who the fuck are they going to hire?? They’re already recruiting guys who weren’t qualified enough to be mall cops. Where are these 14k people coming from?

“Come to my free seafood feast… just cut off the bad bits.”

yep, well said, and as I try to argue here, Stephen Miller's hubris at the outset was very evident; he and his allies fully expected that the "shock and awe" (Homan's actual smirking formulation) would push the mass public into acquiescence

SCOTUS gave Trump and all future presidents a “get out of jail free” card by conferring near-total immunity from prosecution. So, looking at other democracies that hold leaders to account, it’s fair to ask: Which country looks like the banana republic now? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Why do people keep insisting that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an ally in the pro-democracy movement? She literally helped foment the January 6th insurrection and has even talked about how everyone would have been armed if she had led it. This woman is an enemy of democracy.

It's old, but still germane.

It's not just your imagination.

“Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is?” Some sense from @naomiaklein.bsky.social ‬⁩

Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2046...

I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.

I don't know if Charlie Kirk can sing or play, but I'm real sure if he can, that's not where he's doing it.

If you turn the volume down, Kennedy looks like a lobbyist for the tanning bed industry testifying about why it needs a bailout.

this is how i find out charles de gaulle is dead

The craziest thing I did this year 🤦🏽‍♂️

This.

i read this and i just see a lazy person with a skill issue