Mindy Tucker

A screenshot from the edited video President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social on Sept. 2, 2025, showing a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, overlaid with the headline, "Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal" and the DEK, "“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”"

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. interc.pt/49Z6zxr

Thank you… I got 74 and I did take it personal!

Fairhope Public Library accepts donations to cover withheld state… The Fairhope Public Library was presented with over $42,000 in donations from EveryLibrary during its regular meeting Monday. The funds were raised after…

Alabama officials cut off funding for a public library that refused to bar access to the "The Handmaid's Tale" and other books they deemed sexually explicit to anyone under 18.

Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.

Culture Wars Are For Cowards And most people don't like bullies.

I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Tomorrow I will defeat my family.

It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie? A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.

No contract? NO COFFEE!

What happened to Jamal Khashoggi? Trump resurfaces memories of journalist’s brutal murder President’s claim that Mohammed bin Salman had nothing to do with 2018 killing contradicts US intelligence

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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

They drugged him, suffocated him, sawed him into pieces, and took him away in suitcases and bags. Just don't think we should let any one of those details slide.

Jamal Khashoggi was unavailable for comment.

YouTube video by ApotheounSAK NBC 1978 (NB See Us) #1

If it's a terrible slogan, why did I wake up singing it 47 years later?!

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."

The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

Gift link for if you'd like to spend the weekend mad.

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

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Kristi Noem sits on a horse wearing a cowboy hat. In the background is Mount Rushmore.

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

The Eviction Kings One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.

We have a stunning story from @thomasbirm.bsky.social in @thenation.com. It's about how one of Israel's biggest companies, with deep ties to the IDF and illegal settlements, is taking over huge swathes of US real estate—with tenants paying the price. A MUST-read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

lol, my flight was canceled. all of this inconvenience so that the dems could cave anyway

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.

Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Loser behavior

In the marketplace of ideas, you’re a Dollar General with a going out of business sign.

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

Do What You Believe In How to navigate a complex political world.

Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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‘Very painful,’ former Miss Hawaii fights to stop her husband from being deported Cheryl Bartlett, Miss Hawaii 1986, plans to hold a peaceful rally after her husband, a native of Brazil, was taken by ICE agents a week ago.

Former Miss Hawaii Cheryl Bartlett is legally blind and depends on her husband Rogerio Araujo, a native of Brazil, for her care. They've struggled for 17 years to get US citizenship for him, and he was recently kidnapped by ICE and faces deportation.