Goodnight. Let's not do today again. 🪶

The New York Times and NPR couldn't share a link to the opinion, so I am glad to give you @tennesseelookout.com's report from Cassandra Stephenson and Anita Wadhwani on this big news ...

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...

Apart from being obviously awful you can see from the flash of anger on his face that he is feeling *completely* out of control about this situation. Reminds me of the interview he bailed on in the ESPN 30 for 30, “Who Killed the USFL,” when he was confronted on his failures by a reporter

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

On the minus side Don Jr will be last man standing.

Olivia Nuzzi is basically a New Jersey Becky Sharp, but without the style.

The Kremlin needs money to keep its finances steady — and it’s clear where President Vladimir Putin intends to get it: at the cash register, from ordinary people and small businesses. https://to.pbs.org/48i1rTH

The acting chief of the FEMA left his job Monday after just six months, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the agency. https://to.pbs.org/483ys51

Why this this actually make me so angry LMAO who the fuck do they think women are? This is marketed towards men’s fantasy of women.

Good. www.axios.com/2025/11/17/h...

No you’re very much mistaken. Like a man who notices the second floor of a 10 floor building on fire you can’t simply conclude that you’ve had enough everyone else needs to die.

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

"There is an assault on the idea of cooperation to solve big problems in the world....it doesn’t even work on its own terms. This approach doesn’t make us more prosperous. It doesn’t win us more respect. It ends up costing lives." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...

Jasmine Crockett Says Speaker Johnson Is ‘Full of Sh**’ After Jake Tapper Tells Her, ‘This Is Cable’, You Can Cuss’

@sinatoossi.bsky.social (X): "New footage shows Israeli bombs striking cars in traffic near Tajrish Bazaar—one of Tehran’s busiest civilian areas, packed with homes, schools, and shops. A indiscriminate bombing of civilians to achieve Israel's political aims. That’s the textbook def'n of terrorism."

⭕️ Newly shared footage from Tehran captures the aftermath of Israel’s strike on a packed intersection during the war in June:

For those trying to make sense of what the Comey stuff was today, check out this podcast where @mitchellepner.bsky.social explains it to @klasfeldreports.com. www.allrisenews.com/p/comey-hall...

President Trump’s veneer of political invulnerability has begun to crack as he struggles to find his footing on Americans’ concerns about affordability and fails to extinguish a push by renegade Republicans to release more files from the Jeffrey Epstein case. https://to.pbs.org/4pAmcQH

Nachmanoff has given the govt 2 days to pull something out of their arse.

Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays: "Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."

Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, are being sent home, and those who will remain will continue to stay off the streets amid court battles over their domestic mission by the Trump administration, a defense official said Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4oRSzdE

Trump seems to believe his ability to con the public is infinite. What has he done on affordability? His biggest achievement was cutting tariffs that he imposed.

NEW: 11 reasons why (the Jim Comey indictment could get tossed out). A judge found that Lindsey Halligan appeared to make "fundamental" misstatements of law to the grand jury. DOJ faces skepticism on many fronts. Also: More on Charlotte. This evening at Law Dork:

Host: Thousands of DHS agents have been diverted from their normal duties like investigating human trafficking, child exploitation, and financial terrorism to instead focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, essentially remaking the agency into a 'Department of Deportation'

"...multiple government actors engaged in outrageous conduct to obtain the indictment, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Because this prosecution is patently unconstitutional, this Court should dismiss the indictment with prejudice."

Catholic bishops speak out against the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants: "We are disturbed when we see a climate of fear and anxiety around profiling and immigration enforcement. We are saddened by the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about conditions in detention centers"

Whatever her second statement was, the judge found that it "clearly suggested to the grand jury that they did not have to rely only on the record before them to determine probable cause but could be assured the govt had more evidence–perhaps better evidence–that would be presented at trial." WTAF?!

Shockingly, it seems Halligan suggested to the grand jury that "Mr. Comey does not have a Fifth Amendment right not to testify at trial." How do you get the wrong?! HOW?!

An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old. "Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"

Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.

Folks, I don't think the lawyers can make anymore sense of this. But what APPEARS to have happened is: 1) They no-billed one count. 2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT. 3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those. The whole thing is cooked.

Q: I just want to be super clear on your position. Would you sign the Epstein bill if it gets to your desk? Trump: Here's what I want. We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All I want is for people to recognize the great job that I've done on pricing and affordability

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

My conspiracy theory is she knows exactly what would piss him off

Jeffries: "The reason why Donald Trump is in full panic mode is because he knows the majority in the House is gone, and he's doing everything he can to try to cheat his way to an artificial victory."

Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.

fuck yea

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill. @melbuer.bsky.social reports:

Q: What is your message to the White House on all this? Kansas farmer: Listen to farmers and ranchers. Don't just flippantly comment on beef and soybeans. Take some real thought into what your plans are. Tariffs are tools, not toys, so we need to use them responsibly.

Lindsey Halligan’s law license is in serious jeopardy, looking to join a long list of disbarred and disciplined Trump attorneys.

The court issues a scathing ruling today in the Comey case. Judge William Fitzpatrick notes, among other things, that Lindsey Halligan made two false statements of the law when responding to questions by grand jurors. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"What did Trump think Epstein was 'stealing' these girls for? Epstein did not own a resort hotel. The answer is that he was recruiting them for his sex trafficking operation. The idea that Trump would have had any uncertainty on that point is absurd." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

sounds familiar www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

kind of says everything about the modern editorial direction of the Washington Post that they nearly completely dismantled their coverage of local DC metro issues yet want the Editorial Board to weigh in on other cities’ politics in this sneering tone