Adam Smith

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The caption on this absolutely cursed TikTok reads “George Santos + Anna Delvey + Martin Shkreli + thong song has to be a political first.”

what is the point of these

America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording

www.404media.co/border-patro...

There were over 9,300 comments submitted and they were overwhelmingly opposed to the administration's unlawful actions.

Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump-Vance administration’s illegal national citizenship database - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Elected officials, state agencies, privacy experts, state and national organizations and thousands of Americans across the country oppose the government’s dramatic expansion of the SAVE system.

Thousands of elected officials, organizations, individuals, and state and local agencies just sent a clear message to the Trump administration--leave our personal data alone. My write-up of the recent DHS public comment period: www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.

Candy Crush did its version of Wrapped this year and I'm excited and not at all embarrassed to report I'm in the top 1% of players in DC.

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

My mom’s instagram has no pics, no bio, no anything. She just reposts stories that offer free stuff if you repost. I think she has it right.

Kushner said he wouldn't have a foreign policy role in this administration just like the Trump Organization said it wouldn't make new foreign deals, just like Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never engaged in a conflict of interest.

Ok but there's nothing more relatable than falling asleep during meetings that are just report outs.

I am simply going to have to go a little heavier on the squats this week

In my day, if you got a bad grade, you would simply team up with your best friend Dionne to get your debate teacher and your English teacher to fall in love so they would raise your scores--not launch some national discourse about it.

imagine going public about getting a bad grade on a college paper

I'm the guy at Facebook who decides you should get a push notification for an 8-day-old news story from a page you don't follow.

Trump-Backed Crypto Company Promotes 'Sh*t P*ss Skin Can'

sure why the hell not gizmodo.com/trump-crypto...

Noah is a great boss and an incredible leader who has built CREW into a critical organization fighting to protect our democracy. I'm excited for his new adventure and for CREW's next chapter!

Hey here’s @citizensforethics.org’s great resource page on the 22nd amendment and its history. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

YouTube video by Good Hang with Amy Poehler Ina Garten | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

This Amy Poehler / Ina Garten interview is a damn delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMH...

Mike Huckabee Is Peddling Sleep Supplements While Serving as Ambassador to Israel “Ambassadors need to sleep, too,” the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem said in a statement.

Mike Huckabee continues to peddle sleep pills as a paid pitchman while serving as ambassador to Israel.

“Ambassadors need to sleep, too,” the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem told me when I asked.

But the makers of Relaxium changed their tune when @notus.com came calling.

www.notus.org/money/mike-h...

Judge tosses cases against Comey and James, rules prosecutor appointment unlawful The decision disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney sets back President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Justice Department to target perceived rivals.

President Trump has clearly abused interim appointments of US Attorneys to put loyalists in place who will, among other things, follow his instructions to investigate and prosecute perceived enemies. So today's decision to dismiss the Comey and James cases on those grounds is welcome. 🧵

That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

"This is X in 2025: potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.

Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

what my loofah is doing when i'm not there is none of my business