Meet two heroes of our times.

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

"Unitary executive" is really "24 year olds in the West Wing tell everyone in the federal government with experience and knowledge what to do at their jobs."

Admiral Bradley is about to be court martialed and convicted of murder and his only way out is a Presidential pardon; I would not count on him doing the latter

This is a *paradigmatic* example of what conservatives mean by “self defense” aka I have a weapon and i felt like killing someone

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

Today On Tap from me: Marco Rubio is selling a war of choice in Venezuela on falsehoods about narco-trafficking so he can get right-wing south Florida exiles who've been his political allies back into power. It's an incredibly parochial pretext for an imperial adventure. prospect.org/2025/12/01/m...

I guess it's unsurprising that mediocre men find each other extraordinary, especially when they're behaving selfishly and pretending it's for the good of society.

You shouldn’t be able to deny doing something after declaring your intention to do it and bragging about doing it, and still get a “he says” headline like this.

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

Lies easier than she breathes.

Self defense against… victims clinging to flaming wreckage in the sea

We need to make a bigger issue of what Elon and Trump did when they destroyed USAID. The latest for my newsletter:

Pardoning of these criminals should be front page news everywhere.

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

Sacks was the third player in the Ackman-Rufo disgusting takedown of Claudine Gay w/cherry-picked, ancient allegations, mock outrage, racist tropes about Black competence, and vibes. But he’s crashing out over a legit story abt his conflicts. Like Ackman melting down about his wife’s plagiarism.

Kelly is and has been a hawk on immigration for a long time. The fact he's saying this shows that Democrats see the earth shifting where they feel permission to go on the offensive on immigration. Compare that to earlier this year when the Laken Riley Act passed.

The people I hear say this the most are usually attacking what they call "book smarts" as a reason to dismiss what is being said.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B

the linked article about a rural community's medical clinic closing ends with a coffee shop owner proposing that the solution is to find a doctor to make house calls. this is where the stuff about "engaging Trump voters" runs into the reality that a ton of these people are completely delusional.

This is less like appeasement and more like two mob families deciding how to divide up a rival's territory.

This observation is really sticking with me. bsky.app/profile/luke...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Also they're just sick. They're killing people and whether you think it's justified or not (obviously it's not) that should mean something. Instead they're running around laughing like an axe murderer in some terrible horror movie. Completely broken people

Kushner’s literal defense of managing $2 billion of Saudi dollars was that he would no longer again participate in government

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

When people sigh about “these communities are dying” what they fail to consider is that they are dying for very good reasons, including that the people who live there are doing their level best to kill their own community (and also other communities) every day.

there’s no amount of good faith that beats bad faith. you beat bad faith with fire*, not argument. *definitions are situational

The type of students that set up their professors to be disciplined, or worse fired, for BS like this need to be named and shamed. They are adults.

Thread, on why we need specific (and realistic) goals for the Second Reconstruction. And I think it doesn’t just motivate those who want to resist, but it silences the preemptive self-surrendering doomers, whose entire stock-in-trade is to equate their lack of vision w actual helplessness.

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work. “Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

This. The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?). But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.

Odd that I know 2 ppl(!) with that degree and it would horrify both, LOL. One is an ex, the other was a roommate way back when.

If any of these victims voted for Trump, I’d love to hear how they feel about it!

I know most of us here are not the target demographic of this, but who is? Especially if you need to describe what it means. This doesn't fit the Keep It Simple, Stupid method that R's seem to instinctively get with their messaging.

I said this in a comment. Her (no doubt wealthy) husband still works, she's choosing to be a stay at home wife, something that is great if that's what she wants, but she doesn't want that label since it's not uncommon. She seems to feel above that description.

“Tom was super excited to become a U.S. resident, so much so that he had insisted on a cowboy-themed wedding.” But then the German robotic engineer was arrested for a visa overstay based on a policy he had no way of knowing existed. Completely Kafkaesque. "We feel like we were tricked.”

the pardon power as it currently exists has to go, man, there just isn’t any way that the way which trump has used it can be consistent with small-d democratic governance, it just can’t.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Actual elected Republicans are abandoning Trump and treating him like a lame duck before the political media is.

hassett isn’t one of the most harmful or dangerous members of the admin, but his smug, shit-eating permagrin makes him one of the most irritating. also, just to be clear, he’s baldly lying and both he and the reporter know it, which is why they shouldn’t put him on the air.

And I really truly mean that. If this was fucking easy it would have happened last time. And whatever this site wants to believe about how it was all Merrick Garland’s fault, or Pelosi’s for not sending articles of impeachment sooner, the political will dissipated quickly.

Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder. This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer! This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!

Bankrupting these people should be an unstated goal of the next administration.

One thing Republicans grasp much better than Democrats is that public opinion is often much more elite driven than grassroots driven. If Democratic opinion leaders beat the drums on GOP accountability, voters will come along.