Meta/Facebook is an easy boycott. More difficult is the American Beverage Association, which includes most all major soda/refreshment producers and bottlers (Coke, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Red Bull, etc.). Basically, the entire US beverage industry is lining up behind hate and racism.
December 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Meta/Facebook is an easy boycott. More difficult is the American Beverage Association, which includes most all major soda/refreshment producers and bottlers (Coke, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Red Bull, etc.). Basically, the entire US beverage industry is lining up behind hate and racism.
This was the right outcome.
New: Activist Shot While Open Carrying at ‘No Kings’ Protest Will Not Face Charges, but Security Volunteer Will
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December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This was the right outcome.
To the extent this is true, it's just because these countries have more developed economies, not because of central bank independence per se. Problematic inflation is almost always a supply side issue that central banks have no control over, and interest rate policy is a weak policy tool.
"Countries with more independent central banks tend to have much better (i.e., lower) inflation outcomes." Gee, that's interesting. lnk.thebulwark.com/4iTaf6l
The Sleeper Issue That Could Destroy the Economy
Trump may have stopped threatening Jerome Powell—but he’s still got designs to control the Fed.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
To the extent this is true, it's just because these countries have more developed economies, not because of central bank independence per se. Problematic inflation is almost always a supply side issue that central banks have no control over, and interest rate policy is a weak policy tool.
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In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
Since the start of the year, Chicago taxpayers spent $204.6 million to resolve lawsuits brought by 22 people wrongfully convicted based on evidence gathered by the Chicago Police Department, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
Wrongful Convictions Cost Chicago Taxpayers $204.6M in 2025: Analysis
In the latest case to be settled, the Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $15.4 million to Robert Smith Jr., who spent 33 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1987 double m...
to.wttw.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
Since when is saying "unforgivable things" to customers not a fireable offense? Probably also worth pointing out that anti-racism *is* working class solidarity. Racism arbitrarily divides working people.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Since when is saying "unforgivable things" to customers not a fireable offense? Probably also worth pointing out that anti-racism *is* working class solidarity. Racism arbitrarily divides working people.
It is important to identify bad actors by name. The immigration judge here is Philip P. Taylor. He was an immigration "judge" in Atlanta before becoming Acting Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge in April 2025 (so Trump-aligned). He had a very high denial rate as an immigration "judge."
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It is important to identify bad actors by name. The immigration judge here is Philip P. Taylor. He was an immigration "judge" in Atlanta before becoming Acting Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge in April 2025 (so Trump-aligned). He had a very high denial rate as an immigration "judge."
Smuggling (what Garcia was charged with) is not trafficking and this is actionable defamation.
Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Smuggling (what Garcia was charged with) is not trafficking and this is actionable defamation.
The WAPO no longer clearly ID's its editorial board. For now, we know that Adam O’Neal, James Hohmann, and Mark Lasswell are presently in charge of promoting white supremacy at WAPO. Keith B. Richburg, Robert Gebelhoff, and Carine Hajjar are also identified by external sources as board members.
Is it worth pointing out the foundational legal errors in this editorial or should I simply disregard the rage-bait? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Pam Bondi’s welcome woke rollback
The Justice Department rescinds regulations encouraging racial preferences.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The WAPO no longer clearly ID's its editorial board. For now, we know that Adam O’Neal, James Hohmann, and Mark Lasswell are presently in charge of promoting white supremacy at WAPO. Keith B. Richburg, Robert Gebelhoff, and Carine Hajjar are also identified by external sources as board members.
The real problem is that state-created legal entities (corps) pretty obviously have no 1A speech rights at all. But that counterrevolutionary ship sailed long ago. Justice Powell called corporate speech "indispensable" to democracy in 1978. Having shit SCOTUS Justices is the norm, not the exception.
December 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The real problem is that state-created legal entities (corps) pretty obviously have no 1A speech rights at all. But that counterrevolutionary ship sailed long ago. Justice Powell called corporate speech "indispensable" to democracy in 1978. Having shit SCOTUS Justices is the norm, not the exception.
Bazelon literally works for the Murdoch and Walton families, among other billionaires. His objective is not for Democrats to win elections but for the party to be controlled by his billionaire clients so it poses no political threat to them. That's all this is.
Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
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And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Bazelon literally works for the Murdoch and Walton families, among other billionaires. His objective is not for Democrats to win elections but for the party to be controlled by his billionaire clients so it poses no political threat to them. That's all this is.
But on their third think they'll remember they already know that Democrats will not impose repurcussions on the ruling class for anything. You'd have to reform the Democratic Party *before* giving this kind of "forward guidance." Indeed, the reform of the party might speak for itself.
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
But on their third think they'll remember they already know that Democrats will not impose repurcussions on the ruling class for anything. You'd have to reform the Democratic Party *before* giving this kind of "forward guidance." Indeed, the reform of the party might speak for itself.
They gave him two days' worth of drinks in a single day!
A woman filed a wrongful-death complaint against the Royal Caribbean cruise line, which said that her fiancée was served 33 drinks and became agitated before he was forcibly restrained by crew members, whose use of excessive force, the federal lawsuit said, led to his death.
Cruise Passenger Was Served 33 Drinks Before Deadly Encounter With Crew, Suit Says
Michael Virgil, 35, became agitated on a Royal Caribbean ship and was restrained by at least five crew members, including some who stood on his back, before he died, the medical examiner said.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They gave him two days' worth of drinks in a single day!
Russia did not plot anything like this and that's not even what this says (although it does try to mislead people to believe that because that's how Western journalists do propaganda).
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Russia did not plot anything like this and that's not even what this says (although it does try to mislead people to believe that because that's how Western journalists do propaganda).
SCOTUS put Humphrey's Executor into place to protect the ruling class from popular presidents (FDR) making pro-labor reforms. Trump is an unpopular president doing the ruling class's bidding. SCOTUS is betting everything on a presumption that the working class will never regain political power.
First take out of court: The Court is almost certain to overturn Humphrey’s Executor, over the objections of an invigorated liberal bench.
The main question is how the conservatives get to five votes for their reasoning — and how expansive the scope will be.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The main question is how the conservatives get to five votes for their reasoning — and how expansive the scope will be.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
Off to the Supreme Court for today’s big arguments over Humphrey’s Executor and the president’s firing powers. A full report at Law Dork to come later. Sign up here: www.lawdork.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
SCOTUS put Humphrey's Executor into place to protect the ruling class from popular presidents (FDR) making pro-labor reforms. Trump is an unpopular president doing the ruling class's bidding. SCOTUS is betting everything on a presumption that the working class will never regain political power.
Many Americans agree there is a deep structural problem requiring radical correction (hence why Trump got elected). Pointing out a SCOTUS majority's desire for radical change will only bolster their credibility, not undermine it. The real problem is the substance of the radical change they want.
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Many Americans agree there is a deep structural problem requiring radical correction (hence why Trump got elected). Pointing out a SCOTUS majority's desire for radical change will only bolster their credibility, not undermine it. The real problem is the substance of the radical change they want.
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Paramount launches $108.4bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Paramount launches $108.4bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Offer for $30 a share for entire company comes after Netflix agreed to buy studio and streaming operation
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is not giving up in its aggressive campaign to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), launching a hostile bid despite the announcement on Friday that Netflix had agreed to buy the company’s studio and streaming operation.
Netflix’s accepted bid valued the company at $27.75 a share, though the entertainment company did not agree to acquire WBD’s traditional television assets, including the news network CNN. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Paramount launches $108.4bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Almost two months later, still not a peep from Democratic Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to suggest she is doing anything at all about this violent crime perpetrated against Chicagoan Dayanne Figueroa.
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Almost two months later, still not a peep from Democratic Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to suggest she is doing anything at all about this violent crime perpetrated against Chicagoan Dayanne Figueroa.
Fuentes is dumber than I thought if he thinks the (real) left will ally with him. Class solidarity ("wokeness") is essential to the left. He'd have better luck appealing to establishment Democrats, who are far closer to him ideologically (almost already allied, even).
Breaking Points’ Krystal Ball responds to overtures from Nick Fuentes urging the progressive left to ally w/ him against establishment elites.
“I feel like my bar for allyship is very low. My bar is you have to view all human beings as fundamentally equal and deserving of rights. That’s my bar...
“I feel like my bar for allyship is very low. My bar is you have to view all human beings as fundamentally equal and deserving of rights. That’s my bar...
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fuentes is dumber than I thought if he thinks the (real) left will ally with him. Class solidarity ("wokeness") is essential to the left. He'd have better luck appealing to establishment Democrats, who are far closer to him ideologically (almost already allied, even).
I've said this many times about various people, but I'll say it again: if you consider yourself part of the Democratic Party base, you will know your ideological side is finally beginning to win when Hillary Clinton formally switches parties to Republican. Until then, you are losing.
Hillary Clinton doubled down at the Doha Forum on remarks she made last week at the Israel Hayom Summit, where she claimed young people who are pro-Palestinian have been propagandized & misinformed by social media. Moments ago, she said young people are getting an “incomplete” picture of the...
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I've said this many times about various people, but I'll say it again: if you consider yourself part of the Democratic Party base, you will know your ideological side is finally beginning to win when Hillary Clinton formally switches parties to Republican. Until then, you are losing.
Refreshing to see somebody learn a lesson. Not because I think Sanders is a savior, but because in retrospect it should now be obvious that voting in the 2016 Dem primary for Clinton over Sanders has contributed to the empowerment of Trump and the revanchist white supremacist movement in the US.
December 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Refreshing to see somebody learn a lesson. Not because I think Sanders is a savior, but because in retrospect it should now be obvious that voting in the 2016 Dem primary for Clinton over Sanders has contributed to the empowerment of Trump and the revanchist white supremacist movement in the US.
Pretending there's a war isn't helping anything. Senators implicitly endorsing a war the president is waging without Congress's having declared it isn't helping anything.
It's making things worse. Just be silent if you can't or won't defend your branch of government.
It's making things worse. Just be silent if you can't or won't defend your branch of government.
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pretending there's a war isn't helping anything. Senators implicitly endorsing a war the president is waging without Congress's having declared it isn't helping anything.
It's making things worse. Just be silent if you can't or won't defend your branch of government.
It's making things worse. Just be silent if you can't or won't defend your branch of government.
A man talking about masculinity is the most effeminate thing ever. Men don't talk about this shit.
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A man talking about masculinity is the most effeminate thing ever. Men don't talk about this shit.
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National parks visitors will receive free admission on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year, but will have to pay a regular fee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, after the National Parks Service overhauled its free admission calendar.
https://cnn.it/48Fb664
https://cnn.it/48Fb664
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
National parks visitors will receive free admission on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year, but will have to pay a regular fee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, after the National Parks Service overhauled its free admission calendar.
https://cnn.it/48Fb664
https://cnn.it/48Fb664
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We are actively monitoring federal conduct and will investigate any case where a federal officer appears to be acting outside the reasonable scope of their duties.
Our job is to keep Oregon communities safe, and we are working every day to do just that.
Read more: https://ow.ly/FWGq50XC3Lq
Our job is to keep Oregon communities safe, and we are working every day to do just that.
Read more: https://ow.ly/FWGq50XC3Lq
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We are actively monitoring federal conduct and will investigate any case where a federal officer appears to be acting outside the reasonable scope of their duties.
Our job is to keep Oregon communities safe, and we are working every day to do just that.
Read more: https://ow.ly/FWGq50XC3Lq
Our job is to keep Oregon communities safe, and we are working every day to do just that.
Read more: https://ow.ly/FWGq50XC3Lq
He will be celebrated for this but it's literally just his job. Admittedly, a job that Democratic Party-run police and prosecutor offices in cities around the country are refusing to perform.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
He will be celebrated for this but it's literally just his job. Admittedly, a job that Democratic Party-run police and prosecutor offices in cities around the country are refusing to perform.