The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies. Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...

Me discovering I have let somebody’s email sit in my inbox for three months: “Well, obviously I can never email him again. I guess I need to wait for news of his eventual death until I can stop feeling bad about this.”

I've seen over a dozen accounts I follow post the "Hegseth didn't realize the photo was taken in a mirror" myth. First of all, selfies don't actually mirror-reverse unless you screenshot the preview. More importantly, if you look at the medals, they're not mirror-reversed. You can read the writing:

A month ago, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) launched a new version of their weather forecast website for the country. It has *not* been well received, and with a price tag somewhere between USD $2.6–62.5M (it's unclear), this has become a small scandal. www.bom.gov.au

...what

when its definitely not a hostage situation

There was a kind of a delight in being in tech after the 2000–1 crash, because it was back to us true believers. LLM-based AI has been coupled with the AI bubble. Once that bubble pops, I think we'll see the advancement of on-device, ethically-sourced LLMs, and I think they'll be fun.

Just thinking about how well this strategy paid off, after Democrats won 64 seats in the election a few weeks ago—damned near a supermajority.

Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.

NEW: DOGE no longer exists as a "centralized entity," according to the head of the government’s personnel agency --- But the longstanding White House tech team Trump used to house DOGE continues to work on tech projects throughout federal agencies. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

My observation in my area is that parcels that are owned by corporations are really owned by people who can afford to pay cash for the property, and prefer the legal protections of an LLC. I think this is really showing a rise in cash-only transactions, not corporatization of home ownership.

So…the Virginia Bar Association going to be disbarring her immediately, right?

And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Not today, Satan

The White House's LinkedIn presence has changed their icon from the presidential seal to Trump's glowering face, so now anybody who worked for the White House has this shit on our LinkedIn profiles. www.linkedin.com/company/the-...

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie. More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

This is just rebranded “civility.”

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

Email I received from [email protected] a few weeks ago.

This is going to come as a surprise to current federal employees who were, as of Friday, interviewing people DOGE sent them.

For the record, I believe this Reuters story is inaccurate. There is little evidence that this is true, and a fair amount of evidence that it is not.

Well there’s your problem

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I have just learned that French drains are named for inventor Henry Flagg French. Somebody should document this phenomenon so we can name it after them, but ideally somebody with a weird last name so it can be called the "False Effect" or the "Erroneous Naming Law" or whatever.

The **chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court** called to expand virtual hearings —citing this incident where ICE threatened to smash the window of a judge’s car — because people who work at the courthouses are no longer safe

Reminder: SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."

"Personnel office staffers also began to conduct 15-minute interviews with DOGE staffers to determine what exactly each did. At least one Cabinet member was informed that he was free to fire any name he found from lists of DOGE employees." Oh, poor things www.politico.com/news/magazin...

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.

Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.

I mean, you've gotta respect the quality of the security.

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.

Stephen Miller rushing into the Oval after Trump's meeting with Mamdani

Of course Trump likes Mamdani. He likes and agrees with the last person he talked to. He'll think Mamdani is great until he talks to somebody who doesn't like Mamdani, which will take hours, days at most, and then he'l go back to not like Mamdani. Trump has the intellectual depth of a puddle.

This will be useful evidence when we put him on trial.

I just got an email from a band using their mailing list for the first time in 16 years, and I'm actually fine with this? That's maybe the correct frequency for updates. (I don't think I want to risk flu/covid by going to a crowded venue in January, as much as I'd like to see Bishop Allen again.)

I have to look this phrase up every few years, and Monday was my 2025 day...and yet I'd still forgotten it by the time I watched this clip.

Come work for me! I'm hiring at @usdigitalresponse.org—somebody with experience as a government procurement FTE who wants to join me in providing pro bono support to governments in the U.S. who want to move to a user-centered, Agile software procurement approach. Remote, full-time, $145–165k.

Email from your mother

Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take." Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?

Mike Johnson *is* an attorney.

JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The most comprehensive story yet about Fernando Vazquez, the 18-year-old U.S. citizen who was abducted by federal immigration agents from a construction site in Cary, North Carolina. @ncnewsline.com #ncpol

Researchers raised the CO2 level by 150 ppm—the likely level in the 2050s—in a mature forest of English oaks and found that the oaks increased their wood production by 10%.