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"It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak."
Hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree.
Hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree.
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Good to see.
More political leaders—including at the state level—need to vow accountability for the current lawlessness.
More political leaders—including at the state level—need to vow accountability for the current lawlessness.
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Good to see.
More political leaders—including at the state level—need to vow accountability for the current lawlessness.
More political leaders—including at the state level—need to vow accountability for the current lawlessness.
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The people in this pool were generally charged with assaulting, impeding or threatening federal officers/agents during Midway Blitz.
So it excludes immigration-related offenses, like unlawful re-entry, which were creeping up even before Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
So it excludes immigration-related offenses, like unlawful re-entry, which were creeping up even before Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Before ‘Midway Blitz,’ a quiet creep of immigration cases in Chicago
Unlawful re-entry cases are on the rise at the federal courthouse. They open a rare window into immigration enforcement that's otherwise difficult for the public to observe.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The people in this pool were generally charged with assaulting, impeding or threatening federal officers/agents during Midway Blitz.
So it excludes immigration-related offenses, like unlawful re-entry, which were creeping up even before Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
So it excludes immigration-related offenses, like unlawful re-entry, which were creeping up even before Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz. This time it's USA v. Cristal Caballero, which had been set for a preliminary hearing Monday.
Motion below, followed by excerpts from the criminal complaint.
Motion below, followed by excerpts from the criminal complaint.
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.
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the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics
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you really have to wonder how many extremely high profile investigations patel is going to fuck up before it’s too much even for the admin to deal with
As investigators rushed to prepare a search warrant for a hotel room in Coventry, Rhode Island, FBI Director Kash Patel broke the news on social media celebrating that a person of interest had been detained in the Brown University shooting. It turned out to be the wrong man.
Stumbles in the search for a Brown University shooter led to the wrong man | CNN Politics
On Sunday morning, as investigators rushed to prepare a search warrant for a hotel room in Coventry, Rhode Island, FBI Director Kash Patel broke the news on social media celebrating that a person of i...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
you really have to wonder how many extremely high profile investigations patel is going to fuck up before it’s too much even for the admin to deal with
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You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.
Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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insane
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
insane
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Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.
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Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
giftarticle.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
The Oilman Who Pushed Trump to Go All In on Fossil Fuels
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
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Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
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I think there's a lot of hiding the ball in politics, but no, sadly, Donald Trump thinks that international trade is bad, its actually making America poorer, and that whatever is happening bad in the economy now, its certainly not his massive economically distortive tax hike on international trade
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think there's a lot of hiding the ball in politics, but no, sadly, Donald Trump thinks that international trade is bad, its actually making America poorer, and that whatever is happening bad in the economy now, its certainly not his massive economically distortive tax hike on international trade
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The problem is that Donald Trump sincerely believes that net export outflows are literal wealth leaving the United States which is why he says things in the WSJ like we just need to give it time, it's not some insincere, cynical position covering for some other thing
December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The problem is that Donald Trump sincerely believes that net export outflows are literal wealth leaving the United States which is why he says things in the WSJ like we just need to give it time, it's not some insincere, cynical position covering for some other thing
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That the legislature rather than the executive controls when and if the nation goes to war was one of the most specific, deliberate, and extensively explained changes the Constitution made from the British model. "This is a power the crown had but the president won't" was absolutely unambiguous.
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
That the legislature rather than the executive controls when and if the nation goes to war was one of the most specific, deliberate, and extensively explained changes the Constitution made from the British model. "This is a power the crown had but the president won't" was absolutely unambiguous.
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The atrophy of congressional war powers to an effective nullity is just as much part of how we got to such an insanely aggrandized imperial presidency as all the other cases of executive power run amok. There would be no question of war with Venezuela right now without it.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The atrophy of congressional war powers to an effective nullity is just as much part of how we got to such an insanely aggrandized imperial presidency as all the other cases of executive power run amok. There would be no question of war with Venezuela right now without it.
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Exact same thing with cops, though they don’t have an explicit budget. You gotta make slop. Buckets and buckets of slop. High-calorie shit that people will actually watch.
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Exact same thing with cops, though they don’t have an explicit budget. You gotta make slop. Buckets and buckets of slop. High-calorie shit that people will actually watch.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
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Did you know: Omaha, Nebraska, has the largest residential lead cleanup site in the U.S. BUT... this year, the Trump admin tripled the amount of lead that had to be in the soil to warrant a potential cleanup, meaning many families may be out of luck. @chrisbowling.bsky.social
The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.
The Trump administration says it will speed cleanups, but residents of the largest residential lead Superfund site worry fewer properties will be remediated.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Did you know: Omaha, Nebraska, has the largest residential lead cleanup site in the U.S. BUT... this year, the Trump admin tripled the amount of lead that had to be in the soil to warrant a potential cleanup, meaning many families may be out of luck. @chrisbowling.bsky.social
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but equally, you can't ignore the power of mass mobilization (which is of course often also driven by--ideas!). a genuinely successful political movement manages to blend both of these together
www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...
www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...
Why Movements Fail
Horizontalism and its discontents
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
but equally, you can't ignore the power of mass mobilization (which is of course often also driven by--ideas!). a genuinely successful political movement manages to blend both of these together
www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...
www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...
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this is why i tend to emphasize the importance of elite persuasion in successful political movements--
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...
How Movements Win
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
this is why i tend to emphasize the importance of elite persuasion in successful political movements--
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...
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i think he's basically right to emphasize the importance of choices made by elites--and this brings us to the importance of ideas. it's common to say that elites are only driven by power. yes, elites are often driven by power--and by their *conception* of their own power, which is to say--ideas.
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
i think he's basically right to emphasize the importance of choices made by elites--and this brings us to the importance of ideas. it's common to say that elites are only driven by power. yes, elites are often driven by power--and by their *conception* of their own power, which is to say--ideas.