Chris Berez
@chrisberez.bsky.social
Liverpool, Freiburg, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, Lynx, tennis. I love comics and cats. Slava Ukraini. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
are you fucking kidding me
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
are you fucking kidding me
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It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
One of my favorite moments is when Farage was on Russia Today and they brought on a little girl dressed as Queen Elizabeth to “knight” him and in the time honored tradition of children having no filter she just goes, “My mummy says you don’t like foreigners!”
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One of my favorite moments is when Farage was on Russia Today and they brought on a little girl dressed as Queen Elizabeth to “knight” him and in the time honored tradition of children having no filter she just goes, “My mummy says you don’t like foreigners!”
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Immigrants build housing, build roads, build cars, harvest crops, and provide health care.
Imagine thinking we needed fewer of them.
Imagine thinking we needed fewer of them.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Immigrants build housing, build roads, build cars, harvest crops, and provide health care.
Imagine thinking we needed fewer of them.
Imagine thinking we needed fewer of them.
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this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
My hot take is that calling for Congressional members of the opposition party to be arrested and executed should be impeachable. Instead Republicans will circle the wagons like always while talking about the softball shooting from 2017 to deflect.
Trump has posted about this subject NINETEEN times so far this morning:
Three posts of his own and 16 reposted replies, including calls for violence.
Three posts of his own and 16 reposted replies, including calls for violence.
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My hot take is that calling for Congressional members of the opposition party to be arrested and executed should be impeachable. Instead Republicans will circle the wagons like always while talking about the softball shooting from 2017 to deflect.
Republicans constantly attack everything Democrats say as “violent rhetoric” but here’s the leader of the party and POTUS explicitly calling for Democrats to be executed.
Mike Johnson busy sticking his fingers in his ears while shouting “LALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALA!”
Mike Johnson busy sticking his fingers in his ears while shouting “LALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALA!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Republicans constantly attack everything Democrats say as “violent rhetoric” but here’s the leader of the party and POTUS explicitly calling for Democrats to be executed.
Mike Johnson busy sticking his fingers in his ears while shouting “LALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALA!”
Mike Johnson busy sticking his fingers in his ears while shouting “LALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALA!”
- Cites Stormfront 42 times
- Cites Infowars 34 times
- Cites Vdare 107 times
And all this after AI Grok declared itself to be Mécha Hitler and started spouting blood libels against Jews.
One time can be an accident maybe. What Elon is doing is now a long running repetitious pattern.
- Cites Infowars 34 times
- Cites Vdare 107 times
And all this after AI Grok declared itself to be Mécha Hitler and started spouting blood libels against Jews.
One time can be an accident maybe. What Elon is doing is now a long running repetitious pattern.
NEW: Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
- Cites Stormfront 42 times
- Cites Infowars 34 times
- Cites Vdare 107 times
And all this after AI Grok declared itself to be Mécha Hitler and started spouting blood libels against Jews.
One time can be an accident maybe. What Elon is doing is now a long running repetitious pattern.
- Cites Infowars 34 times
- Cites Vdare 107 times
And all this after AI Grok declared itself to be Mécha Hitler and started spouting blood libels against Jews.
One time can be an accident maybe. What Elon is doing is now a long running repetitious pattern.
There is no issue in existence for which Tom Cotton will not embrace and defend the most violent and immoral option available. He’s very consistent like that.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There is no issue in existence for which Tom Cotton will not embrace and defend the most violent and immoral option available. He’s very consistent like that.
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AP and others *have* been on the ground and interviewing families and telling their stories, and the people on the boats appear to the mostly working class low-level people smuggling cocaine, not hardened cartel operatives bringing in fentanyl as the admin repeatedly has suggested.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
AP and others *have* been on the ground and interviewing families and telling their stories, and the people on the boats appear to the mostly working class low-level people smuggling cocaine, not hardened cartel operatives bringing in fentanyl as the admin repeatedly has suggested.
A lot of fans are kinda “Meh” on the post Roger Waters stuff, I realize (I like it); but Dave Gilmore’s songwriting is still as strong as it ever was.
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A lot of fans are kinda “Meh” on the post Roger Waters stuff, I realize (I like it); but Dave Gilmore’s songwriting is still as strong as it ever was.
CNN has already been gradually transforming into another Fox News but at least it’s still been quasi tolerable. NewsNation is ok but you can definitely tell it’s owned by Nexstar. MSNBC is going to be the only option now, I guess. The media landscape continues to crumble. That’s very bad.
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
CNN has already been gradually transforming into another Fox News but at least it’s still been quasi tolerable. NewsNation is ok but you can definitely tell it’s owned by Nexstar. MSNBC is going to be the only option now, I guess. The media landscape continues to crumble. That’s very bad.
Public corruption will not be tolerated
unless my boss needs the jet to impress his YouTube star girlfriend, in which case corruption will be tolerated
Oh, also if you’re Tom Homan
Or the President, family of the President, friends with the President, pay for a pardon, run a crypto exchange…
unless my boss needs the jet to impress his YouTube star girlfriend, in which case corruption will be tolerated
Oh, also if you’re Tom Homan
Or the President, family of the President, friends with the President, pay for a pardon, run a crypto exchange…
"Which is why we dismantled the public corruption investigative unit." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Public corruption will not be tolerated
unless my boss needs the jet to impress his YouTube star girlfriend, in which case corruption will be tolerated
Oh, also if you’re Tom Homan
Or the President, family of the President, friends with the President, pay for a pardon, run a crypto exchange…
unless my boss needs the jet to impress his YouTube star girlfriend, in which case corruption will be tolerated
Oh, also if you’re Tom Homan
Or the President, family of the President, friends with the President, pay for a pardon, run a crypto exchange…
Farmers never faced any true consequences the first time because Trump gave them a bailout; so they voted for those same terrible economic policies a second time expecting the same result as Trump’s first term and it isn’t happening so they’re flipping out. But this is what they voted for.
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Farmers never faced any true consequences the first time because Trump gave them a bailout; so they voted for those same terrible economic policies a second time expecting the same result as Trump’s first term and it isn’t happening so they’re flipping out. But this is what they voted for.
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Would genuinely love to see all of the commitments Trump nominees made that turned out to be lies. It would be vastly longer than Republican Senators who have denounced them for those lies.
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Would genuinely love to see all of the commitments Trump nominees made that turned out to be lies. It would be vastly longer than Republican Senators who have denounced them for those lies.
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A banger day in courts for the DOJ.
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
www.lawdork.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A banger day in courts for the DOJ.
Just an aside, but starting the third episode of Ken Burns’ new documentary miniseries on The American Revolution and it’s really excellent. I didn’t realize how much I needed something like this right now.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just an aside, but starting the third episode of Ken Burns’ new documentary miniseries on The American Revolution and it’s really excellent. I didn’t realize how much I needed something like this right now.
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Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
You see the thing about Republicans is they’re really passionate about states rights
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You see the thing about Republicans is they’re really passionate about states rights
Imagine watching the whole Jussie Smollett fiasco and being like, “Well I’m sure it will work for *me.*”
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Imagine watching the whole Jussie Smollett fiasco and being like, “Well I’m sure it will work for *me.*”
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He used "Democrat Party" early on in his opinion, a well-known right-wing partisan "insult" meant to put down Dems.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
But worry not, he has a footnote explaining why his fixation on Soros "is not political."
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
He used "Democrat Party" early on in his opinion, a well-known right-wing partisan "insult" meant to put down Dems.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
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I am launching a probe into federal restrictions on the press. I think there's a law or something about it.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I am launching a probe into federal restrictions on the press. I think there's a law or something about it.
No one buries good news. Especially not Donald Trump.
BREAKING: The US BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) says it won't publish the October jobs report
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
No one buries good news. Especially not Donald Trump.