Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job www.ms.now/news/minneap...

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Dear @businessinsider.com - your headlines are so poorly written they make me nauseous.

/10 The Supreme Court and the institutions supporting it being corrupt doesn't mean that you stop defending accused criminals or suing to get your client what they deserve or fighting for justice in lower courts. When Nazis occupied Paris we didn't raze it, we took it back.

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law. Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal “What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.” theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...

In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing. n.pr/3Y7cjxW

Newsom’s comms team still going hard

Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS

Blatant corruption on full display.

In an interview with Reason magazine two weeks ago, Sen. Rand Paul suggested that congressional Republicans were uncomfortable with much of what Trump was doing. But the senator said they were too “afraid” to do something about it.

Sens. Tim Kaine, Rand Paul, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff have filed a War Powers Resolution to block the use of the U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress.

This is the clearest signal yet that Trump intends to withdraw the US from NATO and realign itself with Russia. Rubio is skipping a key NATO meeting & sending a NATO skeptic. "NATO chief dismisses concerns about US commitment to the alliance ahead of Ukraine meeting" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill

It should be a resignation-triggering scandal for the person second in line for the presidency to not know anything about anything & to regularly admit that he doesn't follow the news. It should also be an answer that journalists gathered at his press conferences do not accept.

Netanyahu has been charged with fraud and accepting bribes in three separate cases accusing him of exchanging political favors with wealthy supporters. On Monday, protesters gathered outside the Tel Aviv courthouse where Netanyahu’s trial is being held.

@deadder.bsky.social Ouch 😳😳😳

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude. It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.

So am I.

Maybe someone should tell Petey about this math…. 👇

The conflict of interest here is off the chart: "Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

President Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about those receiving the assistance. https://to.pbs.org/4oAULoT

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera

It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

25th Amendment now.

It’s not a stretch to say that my former political party is now firmly pro-Russia/pro-Putin. Not a stretch at all. It’s traitorous, but it’s true. Look, the leader of my former political party works for Putin. He’s on Putin’s side. Always has been. And the party has followed him.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Inevitable

"The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again" arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Sometimes things need to escalate. "NATO is considering ‘pre-emptive’ action against Russia’s hybrid warfare attacks. The chair of the Nato Military Committee says a more aggressive approach may be needed to deter Putin" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Any Dem running on “we will court martial everyone involved in following illegal orders to commit murder” will be the next president.

Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

The EU Court of Justice ruled that all countries must recognize same-sex marriages granted in other member states, effectively legalizing gay marriage across the EU. www.reuters.com/world/europe...