Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

1) Remember he said something similar about Marie Yovanovitch. 2) I'm really not sure how the cartels are going to play in Trump's imperial ambitions and I think most Americans should think seriously about that. Many of them are 2 degrees from US Special Forces training.

Like this Administration, this is obviously a fucking joke.

The first family corruption continues.

DOJ makes it clear: If Judge Boasberg wants to pursue a contempt case against Kristi Noem, he's going to have to pierce privileged conversations she had with Blanche, Bove and DHS lawyers – something DOJ says shoudl only happen at a trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

If you’re someone who was brought to the States as a child and spent your entire life working to build houses or run a local business, we send masked men to expel you from America. If you’re a rich scumbag who made millions on shady overseas deals, Trump will eagerly sell you a place in America.

Timeline cleanse: Antarctic sun dogs/halo version. January 2024, RAICA ice core project at Canisteo Peninsula, West Antarctica supported by Korea Polar Research Institute and US National Science Foundation. 🌞 ❄️

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

A whole Advent Calendar of Nigel Farage repeating Vladimir Putin's talking points. Brilliant. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

More wag the dog. We deployed Growlers to the region too. A lot of new signs pointing towards escalation.

@mikaelthalen.bsky.social got Whiskey Pete Hegseth's new AI to confirm that his boat strikes are illegal. san.com/cc/the-milit...

Drew Sheneman, Newark Star Ledger

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

Ok A.I. nailed this one, credit where it’s due www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation” www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...

Time for my "almost" nightly #Moon shot! #SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/8 Exposure time: 1/640 ISO: 800 Moon phase: Waning 66%

Looking for some #pixelart ? You found it!

My issue with him are his ties to Adelson bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

40,000 #Roman - era #coins discovered in #French village. The town was important to the #Celtic #Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar. #Senon #France Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee. But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The EPA reveals a new website, which looks just like it was written by the fossil fuels industry... and that's because it was. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The pope said "eat a bowl of dick"

Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Instant all-timer here:

Millenials. Gen X. What the fuck

In a major speech today, Stephen Miller says if we "subtracts out the immigration" (meaning, presumably, immigrants), the test scores of American students would rise. Actually, the precise opposite is true.

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

Nearly 40% of newly minted billionaires this year received their wealth through inheritance. This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015. Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.

Sprites over Château de Beynac. A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia. Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift. He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.

Excellent. 1. Zelensky wins & Trump & his cohort say "I didn't really care anyway" / "it was rigged" 2. He loses - Trump et al says "See!". 2a. Another strong leader gets in and doesn't give in or 2b. Russia succeeds in installing a puppet & Ukraine is lost All to appease the U.S.A (=Russia)

NEW: Federal prosecutors call CBP officer Luis Uribe "a serial rapist who turned his position as a United States Customs and Border Protection officer into a license to commit or attempt to commit gunpoint sexual assaults." Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...

...and speaking of this volatile industry, I know a lot of super talented folks are looking for work so reminder that we have SIX open positions right now across different departments, including a reporting job in Texas: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica

O'Hare-based Border Patrol officer sexually abused, robbed women in 2022, indictment claims DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...

America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now: -The US had been attacked -Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks -They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky -Congress authorized the action

Like QAnon, the election denial movement cannot exist if it ever finds the smoking gun of the 2020 election. Therefore, the evidence must always be just over the horizon — a movement that feeds off itself to live.

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10 *BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO

Pretty fed up wTrump voting farmers' bitching but worth note: he's offering American farmers is less than half what he sent Melei-ultimately $40,000,000-to bail that depraved twist out in Argentina Big pic, not much $$$ so maybe Trump wants farmers to go under so Gates & Thiel can buy up their land

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

Matt Wuerker, Police