Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

How could people not know, after living through Trump’s first term, that he’ll say anything—whatever works for him in the moment? trib.al/4f0XkDA

You have to admit that Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and instantly turning it into her personal Tiktok page is freaking funny as hell

This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

THIS MUST STOP. ICE and the federal government should not track the movements of private citizens.

fucking yikes! internal movement controls are a sign of an increasing authoritarian state.

Perfection:

The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.

This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.

WaPo Page One: @washingtonpost.com

Enough of these data centers.

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

It used to be an impeachable offense. Now it’s a daily occurrence.

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.”

Gavin Newsom: “Trump is one of the most destructive presidents & human beings in my lifetime — I think this republic is at real risk of this country being unrecognizable — I have no patience for people who want to indulge it. This guy is reckless. He has wrecked this country” #Trump: A+++++

god help us all

My grandfather didn't have $1 million for a Trump Gold Card. He was 10, poor, and didn't speak any English. He ended up making good, and a lot of money. I wrote about him in 2018. I liked us better when we understood what the American Dream meant to the world. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.

Trump is so CORRUPT

“Your kids should get less for Christmas than kids have in a communist China.”

Surfing in the Morocco’s Sahara desert a few miles from the Algerian border. And the biting sand.

Um, I’m in Morocco’s Sahara desert a few miles from Algeria and 50 km from the nearest town/ road and I still have three bars of cell service. I only get three in my neighborhood in Los Angeles. For $250/ month. Don’t you love American big business and how they fleece us?

A lot of people are wondering where and when the resistance to Trump will happen. When I dug in, I realized it is all around us. Regular people are fighting back to defend their communities. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES. Trump and his minions think we’re STUPID and don’t know how much money we’re paying for stuff.

This transcript is like reading some random, senile 85-year old bigoted uncle being put in charge of U.S. foreign policy. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

"During a visit to Washington in recent days, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he’d make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump’s ire, people familiar with the matter said." 👀

"Why should we believe *anything* this administration says without supporting evidence? That’s not a rhetorical question." It's a dangerous question, but they have forced us to ask it. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z

Ah, so now Texas MAGA wants their version of the Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers organization in schools. Nope. Sue these motherfuckers.

I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.

The insider lobbying game is repulsive www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The 81-year-old, second-richest man on earth, calls up president directly and demands that he be allowed to use $100 billion including capital from world’s most repressive regimes and Trump’s son-in-law to conquer a massive entertainment and news complex to preserve “competition“

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

Lonsdale is, among other things, the founding board chairman of that "University of Austin" thing that Bari Weiss is backing. That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."

What a disgrace

"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

A glimpse into Trump world

ICE detain U.S. citizen for 24 hours—mock Somali woman's hijab & touch her inappropriately. "She was pleading with them—but they ended up sexually assaulting her," said cousin. Agents had jumped out of 2 cars & zip tied her hands while she was running errands at the mall. Elk River, Minnesota

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Everyday for the last ten years, Donald Trump has used his bully pulpit to incite violence against Americans for any reason he decides. He is a terrorist. His supporters are terrorists. We do not negotiate with terrorists.

The Supreme Court is a JOKE. Illegitimate and despicable.

If/when Democrats regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.

A real time measure of reliability: An experimentation in thinking about things: open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...