I bet the federal agents feel great and big and tough for doing this constantly!! Big men!

Also, watch the video. It looks like they sent the prelude to the shootout in Heat, but all for a day laborer near a Home Depot

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Here's a disgusting new twist to the Kavanaugh stop: Are you aware of Zorhan Mamdani? WHAT THE HELL? Read this @chicago.suntimes.com times.com story about how ICE stopped an Illinois state highway worker doing road construction. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The earlier post should read: I don't think Ankara will release Demirtaş (no matter how unlawful this decision may be)&simultaneously give the green light to the parliamentary commission's visit to İmralı. With his message today, Demirtaş has placed the second at the top of the list of priorities.

I don't think Ankara will release Demirtaş (no matter how unlawful this decision may be) or give the green light to the parliamentary commission's visit to İmralı. With his message today, Demirtaş has placed the second at the top of the list of priorities.

I have some sympathy with this perspective, but it would be more productive to examine the political-economic bases that have allowed Europe to undertake these programs, and that are now under immense strain: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No U.S. officials will attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa this month, President Donald Trump said Friday, repeating his claim that White South Africans there are being murdered and oppressed — an allegation that lacks any evidence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

My column. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/a...

Social media misinformation driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone they don’t need

Exclusive: US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

A third Tunisian opposition leader launches hunger strike in prison reut.rs/3WHxiqD

This is where the shredding of US state capacity leads to permanent damage to American society

A detail right from the Gulag Archipelago, and also from our immigration system. The entire thread is infuriating.

They really stuck the landing on this one.

After successfully advocating U.S. policy shifts in the Trump admin, Laura Loomer is now pitching banning Muslims from elected office to members of Congress New from me @mmfa.bsky.social: www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer...

In the weeks before Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral dream went up in smoke on election night, a handful of independent spending groups spent more than $55 million supporting the ex-governor or attacking his ultimately victorious rival, Zohran Mamdani.

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

Articles like this one are why I make regular donations to @thecity.nyc and if you can afford it, I hope you make one too: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/z...

Brazil top-court panel majority rejects Bolsonaro's prison sentence appeal reut.rs/47N15Dk

LUCE: “.. the opening act of Trump’s second term is over. .. Only the naive would bet on an unmolested midterm election,” but “big victory margins are by far the best guardrail against skulduggery.” @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7913...

Magic carpet.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

"Ellis cited a series of examples. She noted that Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino [...] admitted in a deposition that he lied when claiming he was hit by a rock before tear-gassing people in Little Village last month."

Whole situation is deranged and is a perfect encapsulation of how to lose a war due to lawyers

They know what they’re doing is wrong.

Authoritarianism beyond borders.. this is serious problems for dissidents in exile too.

"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology." on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa: ecfr.eu/publication/...

For more on that. professorbuzzkill.com/2022/01/10/m...

The Trump admin is making the planes run on time in the same way that Mussolini made the trains run on time—by not actually doing it, but by pressuring everyone to just say that’s what’s happening.

Quite a headline.

I would suggest launching the ADL monitor, but not sure what's the point of monitoring an organisation that has made itself irrelevant.

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

A good reminder from @gonultol.bsky.social that you can write about the West's willingness to accommodate Erdogan without actually endorsing the West's willingness to accommodate Erdogan www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

So there's a City Council member in NYC who's just like an agent of the Chinese government?

This whole thing is just getting dumber. They've had diplomatic relations since 1992.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a US resolution to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of his White House visit next week.” Makes sense www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

as I've pointed out before, many states barely pay their legislators.

Certain blockbuster obesity drugs will be available for as little as $149 per month and more Medicare enrollees will have access to them under two deals announced Thursday by the Trump administration. https://cnn.it/43XXyAP

This is appalling. There has to be a way to hold massive companies accountable for *knowingly* facilitating & profiting from criminal behavior. And yes, I understand the value of Section 230, but here we have a trillion $ company that profits by letting its users get scammed. Has to be a better way.

Join us! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Will Schumer get the hint by Friday?

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

Seems like Ankara is lurching towards releasing political prisoner Selahattin Demirtaş, which in itself is good, but only as a means to further divide the opposition to the AKP and turn the HDP into a pocket party, which is bad

COMMENTARY: Ami Ayalon, one of Israel’s legendary gatekeepers — the intelligence chiefs who’ve shouldered the country’s security since its founding — is deeply pessimistic about Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

GOP response to retirement of a Dem who was worried about his family and had to spend Thanksgiving at a hotel due to threats: "his chickens are coming home to roost." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

People seem to think democracy is ineffective, while autocrats get things done. But this case shows something we know: as autocrats purge dissenters and hire yes-men, their hubris leads to self-destructive mistakes. It is counterintuitive, but autocrats perform worse than deliberative democracies.