Mike G.
@mestizoqueso.bsky.social
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Historian, Prof, Dovahkiin, Sci-fi novel and strategy gaming enthusiast. My wife said I can join your gang as long as I am back home by dinner.
FFS it was an executive order.
U.S. SUPREME COURT AGREES TO DECIDE LEGALITY OF TRUMP'S ORDER TO RESTRICT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP .
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
FFS it was an executive order.
I vividly remember Mark Levin, during the Obama years, screaming in that shrill voice of his over a planned rule to allow for looser restrictions on mini cars, saying that they’re a danger to themselves and drivers around them.
I get a feeling Mark won’t be as apoplectic this time around.
I get a feeling Mark won’t be as apoplectic this time around.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I vividly remember Mark Levin, during the Obama years, screaming in that shrill voice of his over a planned rule to allow for looser restrictions on mini cars, saying that they’re a danger to themselves and drivers around them.
I get a feeling Mark won’t be as apoplectic this time around.
I get a feeling Mark won’t be as apoplectic this time around.
The speed in which this leaked tells me that Patel and the other political guys in the fbi tried to cover this up the second the guy started talking.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The speed in which this leaked tells me that Patel and the other political guys in the fbi tried to cover this up the second the guy started talking.
Looks like someone is getting a pardon
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Looks like someone is getting a pardon
Trump picked Patel because he thought he was getting a loyal attack dog who would peruse his enemies with relentless and precise aggression.
Instead he got an incompetent douchebag going through a midlife crisis.
Instead he got an incompetent douchebag going through a midlife crisis.
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Trump picked Patel because he thought he was getting a loyal attack dog who would peruse his enemies with relentless and precise aggression.
Instead he got an incompetent douchebag going through a midlife crisis.
Instead he got an incompetent douchebag going through a midlife crisis.
The administration has been warning the EU for months to lay off of social media companies. Let’s see what they actually do about it.
The European Commission has found Elon Musk's X to be in violation of the Digital Services Act. They're charging fines of ~$140 million US (EU 120 million) and giving X 90 days to show how they'll resolve the violations... otherwise more penalties would follow. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/e...
Elon Musk’s X fined $140 million by European Commission over 'deceptive' blue checkmark and lack of transparency
The social-media platform has been fined by the bloc after breaching transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
www.cnbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The administration has been warning the EU for months to lay off of social media companies. Let’s see what they actually do about it.
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Unpopular opinion but I’d much rather see Reed Hastings in charge of DC Comics, Looney Tunes, and the greatest and best-maintained film library on earth than Larry Ellison’s worst kid. Hope everybody at the cable networks finds a safe berth somewhere
Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros studio and streaming business in $83bn deal on.ft.com/4pQip1C
Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros studio and streaming business in $83bn deal
Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Unpopular opinion but I’d much rather see Reed Hastings in charge of DC Comics, Looney Tunes, and the greatest and best-maintained film library on earth than Larry Ellison’s worst kid. Hope everybody at the cable networks finds a safe berth somewhere
You mean the “affordability is a democrat hoax” line isn’t working?!
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You mean the “affordability is a democrat hoax” line isn’t working?!
Tonight has been a downer.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: ‘Mortal Kombat, ‘Last Emperor’ & ‘Man In The High Castle’ Actor Was 75
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor best known for his roles in the Mortal Kombat films, The Last Emperor and The Man in the High Castle, has died.
deadline.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Tonight has been a downer.
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Oh man so this thing was just a slush fund too lmao. Shit never gonna be built he's gonna leave with a suitcase full of dollars flying out like a cartoon character
Breaking news: President Trump replaced the architect he handpicked to design his $300 million White House ballroom.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Oh man so this thing was just a slush fund too lmao. Shit never gonna be built he's gonna leave with a suitcase full of dollars flying out like a cartoon character
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Roberts and the other justices going on speaking engagements and crying that everyone hates them while pulling shit like this is enraging.
Roberts and the other justices going on speaking engagements and crying that everyone hates them while pulling shit like this is enraging.
The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery.
John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.
John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.
Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF
ALT: Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF
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December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Roberts and the other justices going on speaking engagements and crying that everyone hates them while pulling shit like this is enraging.
Roberts and the other justices going on speaking engagements and crying that everyone hates them while pulling shit like this is enraging.
So shitty that I’m being forced to root for this specific merger
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
So shitty that I’m being forced to root for this specific merger
Before we start convincing ourselves about Texas’s possible dummymander, it’s worth noting that the authors of this atrocious map took tx Latino’s traditional voting apathy into consideration.
Yes and no. Trump won in south Texas not because he was able to term long time Ds into Rs, it was because he was able to get apolitical non voters to turn out.
Texas GOP are crazy but not stupid. They gerrymandered hoping that their gains with latinos in south Texas continue or…
Texas GOP are crazy but not stupid. They gerrymandered hoping that their gains with latinos in south Texas continue or…
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Before we start convincing ourselves about Texas’s possible dummymander, it’s worth noting that the authors of this atrocious map took tx Latino’s traditional voting apathy into consideration.
If the same court strikes down California’s map, you can reasonably assume that the six conservative justices want another civil war.
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026 elections.
Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, dissents.
Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, dissents.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A608
GREG ABBOTT, ET AL. U. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[December 4, 2025]
With an eye on the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, several States have in recent months redrawn their congressional districts in ways that are predicted to favor the State's dominant political party. Texas adopted the first new map, then California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done.
North Carolina followed suit, and other States are also considering new maps.
Respondents in this case challenged the new Texas map, contending that the legislature's motive was predominantly racial. A divided three-judge District Court agreed and enjoined the use of the new map in the 2026 elections. With the 2026 campaign underway, the State of Texas and several of its officials applied to this Court for a stay.
Based on our preliminary evaluation of this case, Texas satisfies the traditional criteria for interim relief.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibpud5vzmybiy4rh3a4imhlzri7czu36rhhfykmrisvcij4iwd5yu@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If the same court strikes down California’s map, you can reasonably assume that the six conservative justices want another civil war.
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United States Supreme Court revives redrawn pro-Republican Texas voting map designed to help Trump's party maintain control of Congress
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
It was only a few months ago that he was telling people to rat on their friends and coworkers and try to get them fired for not being sufficiently sad about Charlie Kirk.
And once again the power of the US government will be used to represent a private company owned by the single largest donor to Trump campaign to leverage foreign governments.
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It was only a few months ago that he was telling people to rat on their friends and coworkers and try to get them fired for not being sufficiently sad about Charlie Kirk.
Absolutely shocked that the guy constantly wanting to turn the military on American civilians would have no problem with a war crime.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Absolutely shocked that the guy constantly wanting to turn the military on American civilians would have no problem with a war crime.
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At this point there isn't evenan argument to refute the conclusion that this Trump presidency is about looting the US Treasury. When he's gone, we better prioritize clawing all that money back from *all* the thieves. It's OURS.
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At this point there isn't evenan argument to refute the conclusion that this Trump presidency is about looting the US Treasury. When he's gone, we better prioritize clawing all that money back from *all* the thieves. It's OURS.
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The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
Dios mio Rubio really really wants to be president.
In a post on X tonight, the State Department says it “renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Dios mio Rubio really really wants to be president.