The abstract of the article, setting out the general findings.
The strongest arguments against qualified immunity reform are that lawsuit costs would skyrocket and officer retention would plummet. Alex Reinert, Jim Pfander, and I studied qualified immunity reforms in Colorado and New Mexico and can report: the sky is not falling. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
6 accounts made $1.2M on online prediction markets on the Iran strike
Most were created days before it happened
Were they tipped by insiders or insiders THEMSELVES profiting off regular folks?
State AGs should investigate
They told us to shut up and buy the cheap cuts at the grocery store while taking our tax money to start a war in the Middle East. #GoldenEra
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Not gonna live blog this horrorshow, but it must be reiterated until there's no life in my lungs: Trump does not know nor has ever known ball.
TBF, Signature Policy Achievement Doctrine at least as serious as Major Questions
Update: In our latest analysis, the @progressivereform.bsky.social and Governing for Impact Project 2025 tracker finds that the Trump administration has put in action 53% of the Project 2025's recommended domestic policy actions during the first year: progressivereform.org/publications...
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.
The baddest of bunnies
The Fuck ICE chants at a Seattle/Boston Super Bowl, in San Francisco with a Bad Bunny halftime, will be heard on Mars. And Minneapolis.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism
Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.
If you weaponize the DOJ to intimidate elected officials, that’s not “politics.” It’s a federal crime. Retaliatory investigations violate civil‑rights and obstruction laws. Anyone turning law enforcement into a threat is advertising their own liability.
Remember criminal justice reform? Woulda been nice right about now, huh?
Every city they have terrorized has fought back in its own way. LA had protests and cell videos. DC had annoyed feds and grand-jury no-bills. Chicago had priests. Charlotte had angry grandma scaring feds off her lawn. The Twin Cities are showing sheer, dedicated, relentless presence.
Personally I think it’s saying a lot. It’s admitting that the truth isn’t the goal. We’ll say stuff, might be factually wrong, might be straight up propaganda. On you to decide, can’t blame us.
Never forget. 🇺🇸
Bama gets smoked and Zo gets sworn in, pace yourself, 26
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
At least initially, most Americans won’t see changes to their out-of-pocket costs resulting from the deals. In some cases, they could end up paying more if they use their own money to go through TrumpRx when they could have paid less by relying on insurance. “The bottom line is that the agreements will not decrease prices for most Americans,” said Ameet Sarpatwari, who studies pharmaceutical policy at Harvard Medical School.
You have to read to the 23d and 24th grafs of the Times story on Trump's big drug-price "deals" to see that they're basically hype. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h....
In related news, ACLU FL is about to get and win a SCOTUS case under Ramos. Right? Right?!
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
The central dynamic of our economy—the reason big tech & banks can create & burst bubbles on a whim, why they’ll cave to Trump even if he’s bad for business, etc.—is that CEOs stay rich and untouchable no matter what. Personal accountability for rigging the game is key to getting off the wheel.
Did women ruin the Epstein sex trafficking ring?
