Mr. F

"That's a hell of an act, what do you call it?"

"The unitary executive!"

*Trump hosts Klan rally on White House lawn.*

Hakeem Jeffries: 'I'm not sure burning crosses is going to bring down the price of beef for hard-working American families.'

Zohran’s messaging would be better if it was more catered to me, a notably mercurial and unreliable coalition partner

"I'm just following orders." in three time frames 1830s American West, Native American being detained 1940s Nazi Germany, presumably a Jewish person being detained in stripes Present Day USA, ICE detaining an immigrant family

Finding a way to make people “other” and using that to instill fear and control.

That has been the cycle throughout history.

Those without substance or the ability to lead have no other tools.

It will continue as long as we allow it.

We have to stay vigilant.

(Poster seen in Portland, Oregon)

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”

In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

this has become a very important video to me

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Many of the world’s most notorious dictators have carried their countries toward ruin, such as by slashing public assistance (Chile’s Augusto Pinochet), appropriating funds for themselves and their cronies (Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko, Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Putin), or engaging in catastrophic wars or revolutionary campaigns (Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Mao Zedong). But the Trump administration is unusual in its apparent commitment to destroying the pillars of America’s long-term prosperity – education, health, research, and climate policy – and decimating trust in, and goodwill toward, the US abroad.

What @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social says here.

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-... Syndicate Newsletter

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.

We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

I'll never get used to sheer, unadulterated meanness of this administration. They're completely unconcerned about lifting people up and solely focused on tearing people down. It is a movement that is absolutely devoid of a moral center. We need to present a clear moral vision in opposition.

The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.

Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.

John Roberts > Roger Taney.

Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

Every paper in America should have a 6 inch headline:
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.

The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness

Trump's Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy President Trump's new strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

I agree that this is an important guiding insight...and 90% of Americans don't know this.

What is the role of journalism if not to hammer this point home until people understand d it?

This is evil.

Next season on The Studio

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."

-The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242

congrat's to ya'll

Top Virginia lawmaker delivers cryptic retaliation threat as TX GOP maps get green light A top Virginia lawmaker uncorked an eyebrow-raising response after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Thursday night allowing Texas to use a Trump-backed redrawn congressi...

Virginia's Democratic Senate leader Louise Lucas answers SCOTUS' biased Texas gerrymander with her own promise: '10-1.' Virginia is currently 6-6.
www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Great. Some crooks give this asshole a trophy and now we’ve got to call football the Gulf of America.

This priest is right.

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS

(hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Note that these lines quite deliberately divide Black majority precincts among the districts. This map would never have passed scrutiny under the pre-Roberts Voting Rights Act.