This is such a ridiculous take. These agencies are accountable to Congress, which exercises oversight power over them, establishes the rules under which they operate, and can cut or withdraw their funding at any time.

ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety. Five were kept for 168 days. Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care. This crosses a moral line. Regardless of your politics, people

Eileen Higgins has won the Miami Mayoral Election by 19 points! Harris won by just 1% last year. Higgins won across the city, only losing in the most heavily Cuban areas on the west end of the city, but even there Gonzalez did not have massive margins A solid win! #flapol

Citizens told congressional investigators that immigration officers had dragged them from cars, detained them for days, fabricated claims of assault, routinely used excessive force and denied medical care. propublica.org/article/immigr…

Turns out you can in fact seize a vessel transporting illegal substances without blowing it up and killing everyone

The Labor Department reports that 64,000 jobs were added in November as the unemployment rate is now at 4.6 percent nationally. That's the highest jobless rate since September 2021.

Sorry this is a first world country and you don't get credit for being part of a prominent clan.

By every metric and in every way, Israel is consolidating apartheid and killed any hope of a 2 state solution. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador. In the email — which was

Jordan medics gave baby's family 12 cans of hypoallergenic Neocate formula for their return to Gaza. Israeli officials confiscated 9 cans and stripped them of their clothes down to one outfit for "security considerations." This is the banality of evil bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Official NYC Congestion Pricing verdict: it's working Through November— • Foot traffic: +3.4% YoY • Sales tax revenue: +6.3% YoY • Storefront vacancy: -0.9% YoY • Pollution: -22% (first 6 months) • Vehicle traffic: -11% YoY (-71.5k per day) • Est. Revenue: $548.3M

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/…

Listen up, peasants, there is no affordability crisis and if you can’t afford healthcare, blame it on the Democrats. Now, congratulate me on the marble armrests I’m installing, at great expense to the taxpayers, in the cultural arts center that I’ve named after myself.

Income Inequality and the Erosion of Democracy In this study, Rau & Stokes conclude that “income inequality is a strong & highly robust predictor of democratic erosion” A reminder that problems of democracy are related to the social context Open Access: pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

By appointing Lillian Bonsignore to run the legendary FDNY—a four-star chief with 30 years on the job—Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani is making clear that experience matters and sending an unmistakable message that there will be no second-class first responders in NYC. Heroes all.

There’s a good point here. Fraud within governmental services is as much a state capacity issue as it is anything else. The government is better placed than most anyone in the NGO-sphere to implement programming due to everything from economies of scale to oversight

MAGA foamed at the mouth calling Brandon Scott a “DEI mayor” and he just oversaw one of the most dramatic reductions in Homicide I have ever seen

The extent to which this administration fantasizes about "deporting" US citizens is genuinely sickening There aren't even close to 100M immigrants total in the US, you can only get this number if you're "deporting" every legal immigrant & ~50M million people born in the US

I'm thrilled Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani chose Julia Kerson as his Deputy Mayor for Operations. She's led trailblazing infrastructure projects, is unfazed by complicated bureaucracy, & her ethos is always how to get to yes. I know she will be laser focused on delivering reliable services for NYC.