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I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
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 4:33 PM
I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence - emptywheel
I have no doubt that Todd Blanche's actions will one day amount primarily to a cover-up -- such as when he is eventually cornered about his actions to silence Ghislaine Maxwell. But thus far, the chao...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
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Fascists “are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.”
-Sartre
-Sartre
This is a real tweet...the Representative both heralds Trump's deadly strikes and also him for being the "Peace President" in the same tweet
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Fascists “are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.”
-Sartre
-Sartre
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Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.
December 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.
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Nothing will ever be as funny as "At seven it's marginal" or him putting candy on the head of the Minion trick-or-treating.
Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
December 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Nothing will ever be as funny as "At seven it's marginal" or him putting candy on the head of the Minion trick-or-treating.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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As far as I can tell the Trump admin currently has a 0% success rate in lawsuits seeking to overturn immigrant-friendly policies.
Federal court throws out Trump admin’s challenge to NY’s Green Light Law permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain state-issued standard drivers licenses
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Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim AND Order on Motion to File Amicus Brief – #32 in United States v...
MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER. The Court hereby ORDERS that the unopposed Motions for Leave to File Amicus Briefs, Dkt. Nos. 17 , 29 , are GRANTED. The Court further ORDERS that Defendants' Motion...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
As far as I can tell the Trump admin currently has a 0% success rate in lawsuits seeking to overturn immigrant-friendly policies.
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The FBI was supposed to deliver all the Epstein files to @AGPamBondi's desk by 8 AM on Feb. 28, 2025. That's almost ten months ago. This seems like something @JusticeOIG would need to dig into www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The FBI was supposed to deliver all the Epstein files to @AGPamBondi's desk by 8 AM on Feb. 28, 2025. That's almost ten months ago. This seems like something @JusticeOIG would need to dig into www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
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"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
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The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts
‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
www.independent.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
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Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
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From USA Today - DOJ was pursuing 10 Epstein "co-conspirators" in 2019. WTF happened?
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
From USA Today - DOJ was pursuing 10 Epstein "co-conspirators" in 2019. WTF happened?
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.
these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
woof
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
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3/
On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because:
"The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'"
On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states:
"An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."
On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because:
"The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'"
On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states:
"An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."
December 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
3/
On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because:
"The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'"
On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states:
"An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."
On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because:
"The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'"
On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states:
"An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."
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okay, *unbelievably* funny that bari was like 'does the administration regret sending people to CECOT? I know, let's ask stephen miller'
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
okay, *unbelievably* funny that bari was like 'does the administration regret sending people to CECOT? I know, let's ask stephen miller'