Jennifer N. Victor
@jenvictor.bsky.social
Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://shorturl.at/jqJFo Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
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Remember how all the people with cooler heads said comparing them with nazis was being hysterical
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remember how all the people with cooler heads said comparing them with nazis was being hysterical
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“We live during a time where all the institutions and corporations I worked for—or leaders I looked up to—they caved or remained silent, so we are now finding hope in everyday people…”
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Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“We live during a time where all the institutions and corporations I worked for—or leaders I looked up to—they caved or remained silent, so we are now finding hope in everyday people…”
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
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The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
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December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
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BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Rick Steves is a mensch, no question, and I get the feels from acts of generosity and compassion like this. But it would be better to live under a government that provides bare subsistence to those in need. Until then, I'm grateful for the Rick Steves of the world.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Rick Steves is a mensch, no question, and I get the feels from acts of generosity and compassion like this. But it would be better to live under a government that provides bare subsistence to those in need. Until then, I'm grateful for the Rick Steves of the world.
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get in bitch we doin Y2K
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
get in bitch we doin Y2K
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Ladies, do you like
Having a credit card
Going to college
Wearing pants
Voting
Leaving a man who hits you
Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids
Not being called sugar tits in the workplace
THANK FEMINISM
Having a credit card
Going to college
Wearing pants
Voting
Leaving a man who hits you
Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids
Not being called sugar tits in the workplace
THANK FEMINISM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Ladies, do you like
Having a credit card
Going to college
Wearing pants
Voting
Leaving a man who hits you
Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids
Not being called sugar tits in the workplace
THANK FEMINISM
Having a credit card
Going to college
Wearing pants
Voting
Leaving a man who hits you
Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids
Not being called sugar tits in the workplace
THANK FEMINISM
If you prefer your lawbreaking with a flare for an egoistic, personal regime aesthetic, I’ve got good news for you.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you prefer your lawbreaking with a flare for an egoistic, personal regime aesthetic, I’ve got good news for you.
Why do some ZIP codes start with zero? Did they use to be four digits, and then they ran out? It's such a weird thing. Obviously, they did not anticipate the digital age.
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Why do some ZIP codes start with zero? Did they use to be four digits, and then they ran out? It's such a weird thing. Obviously, they did not anticipate the digital age.
Lutnick's explanation here is...actually helpful. He explains that Trump sees a percent price cut the same way he sees a percent price increase. Sure, that's not how percents work, and Trump's framing is deceptive, but his minions trying to make it make sense is useful information. About them.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Lutnick's explanation here is...actually helpful. He explains that Trump sees a percent price cut the same way he sees a percent price increase. Sure, that's not how percents work, and Trump's framing is deceptive, but his minions trying to make it make sense is useful information. About them.
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I think this point is critical: The problem is not that the electorate has treated Trump as special. The problem is they treat him too much as the same as any nominee. His unique attributes have induced some realignment, but those gains and losses have largely evened out.
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I think this point is critical: The problem is not that the electorate has treated Trump as special. The problem is they treat him too much as the same as any nominee. His unique attributes have induced some realignment, but those gains and losses have largely evened out.
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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There isn’t a pretense of a fake justification for a made up war. No washed think tankers making an argument, no wack op-ed commentary, no reason at all, nothing.
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There isn’t a pretense of a fake justification for a made up war. No washed think tankers making an argument, no wack op-ed commentary, no reason at all, nothing.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
(Reposting my critique of this outcome bc my prior post contained unintentional errors.) The House Dems are giving the ranking member gavel for an Appropriations subcommittee back to Henry Cuellar, after Trump pardoned him. Politics has an accountability crisis.
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Henry Cuellar will retake key spending post after Trump pardon
The Texas Democrat faced some opposition inside the House Appropriations Committee.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
(Reposting my critique of this outcome bc my prior post contained unintentional errors.) The House Dems are giving the ranking member gavel for an Appropriations subcommittee back to Henry Cuellar, after Trump pardoned him. Politics has an accountability crisis.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
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December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
Must Read Levitsky, Way, Ziblatt: "[The] United States has descended into competitive authoritarianism...[Like] Chávez’s Venezuela,...Erdogan’s Turkey,...Orban’s Hungary ...[The] United States'... authoritarian turn was faster and farther-reaching than those."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Price of American Authoritarianism
What can reverse democratic decline?
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Must Read Levitsky, Way, Ziblatt: "[The] United States has descended into competitive authoritarianism...[Like] Chávez’s Venezuela,...Erdogan’s Turkey,...Orban’s Hungary ...[The] United States'... authoritarian turn was faster and farther-reaching than those."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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i think the other thing that's going on here that the primary players don't want to talk about for obvious reasons is that shutting your state out of the House Democratic Caucus entirely is a really bad idea if you think Dems are about to take the House.
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i think the other thing that's going on here that the primary players don't want to talk about for obvious reasons is that shutting your state out of the House Democratic Caucus entirely is a really bad idea if you think Dems are about to take the House.
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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
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
“Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the ‘biggest waves of censorship’ on its platforms in years.”
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Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law