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Chokeholds: We found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Chokeholds: We found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have guessed, Trump did not say “MAGA has no room for antisemites.” That’s what the NYT says Trump said after Trump ACTUALLY said “I think we don’t like them.” Which is basically the opposite of a definitive “no room for” them. JFC they just can’t help themselves.
January 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have guessed, Trump did not say “MAGA has no room for antisemites.” That’s what the NYT says Trump said after Trump ACTUALLY said “I think we don’t like them.” Which is basically the opposite of a definitive “no room for” them. JFC they just can’t help themselves.
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Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.
January 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.
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This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
This may be the first George Will piece I’ve ever enjoyed.
"Trump has the terrible strength peculiar to people who are incapable of embarrassment, and cannot fathom that they look ridiculous."
Archive link, gives no money or personal data to Jeff Bezos: archive.is/wFaOC
Archive link, gives no money or personal data to Jeff Bezos: archive.is/wFaOC
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
This may be the first George Will piece I’ve ever enjoyed.
Another beautiful day marred by dog-on-dog violence. When will it stop?
January 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Another beautiful day marred by dog-on-dog violence. When will it stop?
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Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
2026 off to a great start
January 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
2026 off to a great start
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“The report makes clear that Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.“ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Mar-a-Lago Was Key to Jeffrey Epstein’s Criminal Enterprise
New reporting shows that Trump’s split with his pedophile friend was opportunistic.
www.thenation.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“The report makes clear that Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.“ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Oil companies aren’t going to sink tens of billions of dollars in capital expenditures that will take decades to pay off in order to revive Venezuela’s oil sector when they don’t know what the security situation will look like in 6 days, 6 months, or 6 years from now. They are not charities.
Trump wants U.S. oil companies to revive the Venezuelan oil industry,
but major production increases could require “tens of billions of dollars over multiple years,”
and involvement could be messy.
It won’t be worth it for many U.S.
oil companies.
Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
but major production increases could require “tens of billions of dollars over multiple years,”
and involvement could be messy.
It won’t be worth it for many U.S.
oil companies.
Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Oil companies aren’t going to sink tens of billions of dollars in capital expenditures that will take decades to pay off in order to revive Venezuela’s oil sector when they don’t know what the security situation will look like in 6 days, 6 months, or 6 years from now. They are not charities.
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I tend to agree with this, especially when you factor in Rubio’s Castro fixation.
I think 'enrichment of himself and his cronies' theory might be a superficial read. I think this is more of the same 'embattled GOP president desperately gets us embroiled in an interminable war for the coveted 'wartime president bump'.
The courts denied them war at home. They had to go somewhere.
The courts denied them war at home. They had to go somewhere.
January 4, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I tend to agree with this, especially when you factor in Rubio’s Castro fixation.
Oh good. Needed this today.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected several ballistic missile launches from North Korea’s capital region.
South Korea says North Korea has launched ballistic missiles toward the sea
www.stripes.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Oh good. Needed this today.
I wish I lived in a country where I could trust the President’s public statements enough to know if he means it when he says he plans to run the country he just decapitated by kidnapping its president, or if he was just, y’know, spitballing. . .
January 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I wish I lived in a country where I could trust the President’s public statements enough to know if he means it when he says he plans to run the country he just decapitated by kidnapping its president, or if he was just, y’know, spitballing. . .
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FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
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Iraq isn’t a great comparison. A much closer comparison is GHWB’s Panama invasion, which will almost certainly underpin the trumped-up (no pun) legal rationale the administration uses to justify an open violation of fundamental international and US laws.
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Iraq isn’t a great comparison. A much closer comparison is GHWB’s Panama invasion, which will almost certainly underpin the trumped-up (no pun) legal rationale the administration uses to justify an open violation of fundamental international and US laws.
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Good. The Post is covering this. But attention will be lost amidst Trump's war.
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Good. The Post is covering this. But attention will be lost amidst Trump's war.
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally
The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."
nbcnews.to
January 3, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
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Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
December 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
Disastrous. Likud throwing off its hood and reminding us that they’re genocidal monsters just like the rest of their coalition. Will my fellow Jewish Americans sit and watch? Will our great institutions, built on faith that humanism could conquer bigotry, support this repudiation of modern Judaism?
Netanyahu moves forward with plans to annex all of Gaza. “Culture Minister Miki Zohar, of the ruling Likud party, says Gaza belongs to Israel, and that Palestinians in the territory are 'guests' whom Israel is merely allowing to live there for now” but may well expel.
Culture minister says ‘Gaza is ours,’ Palestinians are ‘guests until a certain point’
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www.timesofisrael.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Disastrous. Likud throwing off its hood and reminding us that they’re genocidal monsters just like the rest of their coalition. Will my fellow Jewish Americans sit and watch? Will our great institutions, built on faith that humanism could conquer bigotry, support this repudiation of modern Judaism?
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Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3.
I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
At least 3 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed.
apnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3.
I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
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Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social.
Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible.
That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.
Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible.
That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.
January 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social.
Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible.
That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.
Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible.
That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
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I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to some of the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...