wisemet well met

I could see both her and Karoline Leavitt as Crucible Abigail Williams prototypes - lusting after the older, married man; accusing the wife of being a witch

Stephen Miller says he’s “proud Trump has stopped all refugee resettlement into 🇺🇸”
— other than (white) Afrikaners

When they tell you who they are, believe them

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

House GOP will hold vote on healthcare package w/subsidy extension after all, but DANGER WILL ROBINSON... With the Senate failing to pass either the Democrats bill to simply extend the enhanced tax credits by 3 more years or the Republicans bill to make everything worse yesterday, all eyes turn to the Hou...

🚨🚨🚨 House GOP *will* hold vote on healthcare package w/subsidy extension after all, but DANGER WILL ROBINSON...

acasignups.net/25/12/12/hou...

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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

Immigration advocates fear the Trump administration is conducting family separations far from the border for the same reasons as before: to deter new immigrants from coming and to terrify those who are here into leaving.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

💔This is Kostyantynivka.

The city, where 78,179 people lived until 2022, but today the Russians are destroying every street

📷: Khyzhak Brigade

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?

Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

For the first time in decades, I handed my successor an air traffic controller workforce that was growing instead of shrinking.

Disturbingly, the Trump administration can't or won't say whether that’s still the case.

Teen asylum seekers from Afghanistan sentenced for rape A judge has lifted reporting restrictions on naming the attackers, Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niaza.

England just prosecuted 2 teen Afghan refugees for rape. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good for him

“A New Deal against corruption”

Stewart & Favreau say Dems can’t just say they’re not as corrupt— they have to show 🇺🇸 they’d to make real changes to a corrupt system, and prove taxing A.I. billionaires (as @timmiller.bsky.social wants to) will lead to tangible programs for regular folks.

Were they even still collecting the data? Can we trust it’s accurate?

What were your SLRs?

2/ Some partners have quietly scaled back intelligence cooperation, and U.S. allies are openly warning about American interference in their domestic affairs. Everyone but Trump can see the reality: no European nation is asking him to lead them.

Agree. I would love to see campaign reform laws, though. Both finance and time limits. This whole never ending campaign cycle is counterproductive to democracy. I mean, 5 months should be more than sufficient. And make all primaries open and ranked choice.

And reporters wonder why Biden was not able to get voters to connect him with the billions his party invested in their name.

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour

btw, David Sanger should cover all Trump speeches - the best write up I've seen from the NYT to convey the lies and insanity. This is how it's done folks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Here's Rep Brian Babin (R-TX) claiming that the decision to deploy the WV National Guard to DC was taken by Joe Biden. This is the sort of abject lunacy and disinformation that one hears in Texas GOP rhetoric all the time.

Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"

@sbworkersunited.org began unionizing stores four years ago. They deserve their first union contract.

Oh you FEARED YOU WERE BEING ABDUCTED? WHAT’S THAT LIKE? Here we go with the “police are scared.” Then quit your job. QUIT YOUR JOB.

The isolationist right was never isolationist. They just wanted to shun alliances and international law while embarking on their own bizarre imperial adventures.

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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