M. D. Silverman

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

She's making six figures right now, but that's on hundreds of books. She's not making huge amounts of money on any one book. Mostly, she's just marketing shit barely well enough to fool people into thinking she has a real product, and then not getting them to stick around.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.

The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

I'm going to win.

Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) Accardi v. Shaughnessy

The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.

It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.

Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.

It includes:

-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders

And more. 🧵

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Highlighting America's lib-left eras has a major 2nd benefit:

It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.

People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.

i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view

stop endorsing their world view

I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.

AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

Once again, we do not believe that turning over "lists of Jews" is ever helpful to the fight against antisemitism.

Dartmouth College, where I teach, is offering faculty grants to *incentivize* adding genAI to courses. Doubly-depressing, because in addition to the pro-AI stance there’s an astonishing failure to recognize that AI is already on courses, that cheating is incredibly common.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.

Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

Again, what prevents Russia or China from taking Greenland (apart from geography, logistics, etc) is a NATO alliance that includes the United States, the thing that Trump already has but is determined to destroy

On an icy Friday morning, Mahad Omar watched armed federal agents run down the street and tackle one of his neighbors to the ground. They handcuffed the man and put him inside a black-tinted S.U.V. Mr. Omar, 28, an Uber driver, immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago. He had never imagined seeing something like that in his community. “Minneapolis is a great city,” Mr. Omar said after the agents had left and residents emerged from their homes to discuss in hushed voices what they had seen from their yards and windows. Several women wept. “It’s never been like this,”said Mr. Omar, one of thousands of Somalis who fled civil war in their country and came to the United States through a federal refugee program, many of them settling in Minnesota.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Infuriating. Heartbreaking.

the power to declare war is vested in Article I. For it to be anything other than a formality, it necessarily empowers Congress to constrain the president's power to wage non-defensive war.

Article 1's declaration of war is meaningless verbiage if the president can simply wage undeclared war.

The Trump admin’s reckless ICE operations are trampling on working people’s fundamental rights and freedoms.

We demand that ICE stop these dangerous operations and leave our communities and workplaces before even more innocent people are hurt or killed. https://bit.ly/4sFzgGL

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

encouraging signs this isn't going to be easily buried

Trump Posted Unpublished Jobs Data Early in Social Media Post President Donald Trump posted a chart on social media Thursday evening that included figures in the yet-to-be released December employment report.

someone probably made a lot of money off of this.
the reason these numbers are kept under seal until 8:30am sharp is that they move markets
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...