Carl Gregg

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face The opinion, written by a Trump appointee, cites Chief Justice John Roberts right up top.

Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs

"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"

In Pulpits and Pews, Catholic Churches Urge Compassion for Immigrants

NYT: In Pulpits and Pews, Catholic Churches Urge Compassion for Immigrants

By Mark Bonamo, Dave Philipps and Pooja Salhotra
@davephilipps.bsky.social @poojasalhotra.bsky.social

Gift link!

yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

I have the pleasure of never getting my coffee at Starbucks, but if you occasionally or regularly do, please refrain in solidarity with the workers.

Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

FBI agents were told to 'flag' any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says President Donald Trump, bowing to days of pressure, asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to get grand jury testimony about Jeffrey Epstein unsealed.

Maybe it's time to make more noise about this? Last spring a thousand agents frantically redacted all mentions of Trump's name in the Epstein files. How does that square with what can and will be released?

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.

The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

ENDING A FILIBUSTER TO SAVE THE FILIBUSTER IS THE DUMBEST ASS SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!

democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3

My thing is that 15 is not “barely legal.” It is, quite comfortably “Statutorily ILLEGAL”

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy America After Meritocracy

I gotta say, thirteen years after it was published, I think this holds up

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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Harriet Tubman probably won't be on the $20 bill until at least 2030 — here's why The Biden administration said it would "speed up" efforts to put Tubman on the $20 bill. But a lengthy bureaucratic process may make that impossible.

Proceduralism run amok: Everyone knew we should abolish the penny. Why didn't Obama or Biden just do it? Obama announced in 2016 he was putting Tubman on the $20. Biden announced in 2021 it would take until 2030 to put Tubman on the 20. Trump is putting himself on a dollar coin this year.

When Biden was in the White House, and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, why did they keep all this Epstein stuff covered up?

Believed it’d be improper, running counter to the goal of restoring public perception of impartiality? That’s the relatively least damning answer I can think of.

CNBC Headlines: Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: 'I know how dirty donald is' https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/trump-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-emails-house-democrats.html

A remarkable headline from @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/t...

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

"Democrats are falling on a grenade for the Republicans, and telling themselves they had no choice."

The long term solution isn’t getting rid of Schumer. The long term solution is abolishing the US senate.

21st century multiracial democracy has no use for a legislative body that gives the Dakotas twice the power it gives California.

'I was not the right kind of Jew,' says US Jewish teen deported from Israel (RNS) — Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterman, are deported.

Read the full story: religionnews.com/2025/11/11/i...

"If Democrats didn't exist, it would be necessary for Republicans to invent them." -- Elie Voltaire.