Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

A piece worth reading on the spread of misinformation. This is a provable fact and we need AI that corrects mistakes as quickly and broadly as it makes them. open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...

Facial recognition errors can have life-altering consequences. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social warns that ICE’s new approach — treating AI matches as definitive IDs — violates currently-understood DHS policy and endangers civil liberties.

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

@samgregory.bsky.social has written a fantastic piece on the risks of deep fakes and what can be done about them. As he correctly points out: "When any piece of evidence can be credibly dismissed as synthetic and any fabrication defended as real, we lose the ability to establish shared truth."

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

So much big news in local elections.

JUST IN: Judge Currie orders DOJ to submit a more compete transcript of the Comey grand jury proceedings, noting that the transcript she was provided — of the lone witness — does not include Lindsey Halligan's remarks or presentation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Administration officials were taking bets on how long the shut down would last. Taking bets on the government operating and people's livelihoods is incredibly callous, even for this Administration . . . apple.news/AP_0pYhf1Sfi...

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

The federal government now pays lots of masked agents to stand in parking lots & aggressively discriminate against shoppers on the basis of skin color.

Those $376 Million Obama renovations people like Jesse Watters are using to defend Trump? One problem — They were approved by Congress after a BUSH administration report said they were necessary: www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

This should be getting considerable more attention than it is receiving - www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists." Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.* newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Great to see the work of the Howard Law AI Initiative mentioned in this article - apnews.com/article/arti...

NEWS: RM Jamie Raskin’s statement on Trump’s DOJ filing criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey:

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Not hard to imagine, really. Charlie Kirk literally called Floyd a “scumbag” and blamed his death on taking fentanyl.

WASH POST: “Trump has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks… including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

There’s probably no connection between Trump’s post suggesting slavery wasn’t that bad, his restoration of monuments honoring Confederates, and renaming of military bases to honor traitors who believed that it was simply a property right being taken from them without just cause.

I wrote an essay a few years ago about a U.S. soldier during the Civil War who visited the plantation where Solomon Northup (of 12 Years A Slave fame) was enslaved. The soldier wrote in his diary that the horror of slavery was even worse than what Northup had written. web.archive.org/web/20140120...

idk - branding humans like cattle, chaining them to dead bodies, feeding them to each other, filling them with gunpowder then blowing them up, burying them alive for insects to eat -- it being so bad mothers killed their children and people jumped from ships to drown seems, like, super bad dude

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

"Free D.C.! Free D.C." Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.

In a world full of choices, why would I choose to use a product that is intentionally engineered to say that Black people are less intelligent than White people? www.reuters.com/investigates...

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

New gig www.linkedin.com/posts/roylau...

A pretty basic FBI rule of thumb is to always go into an interview knowing more than they think you know. No way Blanche digested the whole Epstein/Maxwell case. Original prosecutor fired. No FBI agents. Victims left out. How did he know how to test her credibility? What follow up questions to ask?

Schiff uses his questioning time to highlight to Assistant AG Dhillion that her views on DEI are so extreme that they're out of step with Clarence Thomas

Another sure sign that the fix is in. Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus on X: "We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case." And says they're already in discussions with the administration.

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Racial profiling for $100, Alex.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

Important piece from former US Attorney Tim Heaphy. What the University of Virginia Should Have Done www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

She later corrected “Muslim” to “Sikh.” The bigotry stayed exactly the same.

Amid fallout from Trump's attacks on law firms, former Manhattan U.S. attorney leaves firm that made deal with the president www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Essential reading.

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.