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Christopher Landau on X: "Justice Moraes, a sanctioned human rights abuser, has brought Brazil’s Supreme Court into international disrepute and shame by flouting traditional norms of judicial restraint and brazenly politicizing the judicial process. The US is gravely concerned by his latest attack on the" / X Justice Moraes, a sanctioned human rights abuser, has brought Brazil’s Supreme Court into international disrepute and shame by flouting traditional norms of judicial restraint and brazenly politicizing the judicial process. The US is gravely concerned by his latest attack on the

Ooh what a shock! The State Department is outraged (that their escape attempt was foiled): x.com/DeputySecSta...?

Utterly lawless

Trump Says He Plans To Meet With Bolsonaro Before Learning In Real Time That He's Been Arrested

OK so wait. Trump talked to Bolsonaro last night and was planning to meet him “in the very near future”? Sounds to me like he was in on the escape plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work

Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S. The statement from a Costa Rican official conflicts with what the Trump administration told a federal judge about its attempts to deport the undocumented immigrant

They lie about everything all the time. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.

Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.

Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.

bsky.app/profile/sent...

trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year

Fox with a "SHOWDOWN WITH SOCIALISM" graphic with Mamdani and Trump

So how'd that go

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?

Mamdani: I've spoken about --

Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.

They had misidentified the intern.

Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.

This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.

Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:

brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...

Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.

Unintended consequences can be brutal.

In a profession where the most prominent journalists are increasingly jockeying for position on the best-seller lists and talk show circuits, you'd think one of them would've figured out that punching the bully back would be the most effective way to distance themselves from the pack.

Europe Scrambles Over U.S. Plan to End Ukraine War Mostly on Russia’s Terms

Trump caves to Putin www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

failure to imprison (at least) Bovino when this is over would be a catastrophic failure of democratic governance

The thing is, they lie. Over and over and over again. I don't think there's been a single incident in Chicago where their initial account proved out. Reporters should simply *not* be reporting what they say as fact, ever.

So far we have successfully cost the NYT $60,000 in annual subscription revenue over Bret Stephens' horrible column. A drop in the bucket for them, but it's important to exact a price for pushing war propaganda.

NYT homepage headline gets the story all wrong:

The section on “credibility” is a must-read, especially for any journalist who thinks that what DHS says bears any resemblance to the truth.

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

Officials Move to Drop Case Against Drivers in Chicago Immigration Clash

The Trump admin's case to the Supreme Court that the situation in Chicago justifies a National Guard deployment rests partly on the actions of two motorists.

Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...