"My grandfather’s ship was attacked by the Japanese during World War II. I’m grateful there was no follow-up strike on the defenseless survivors." Read @membrich.bsky.social's commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen. Help us move the needle!

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

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The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two new pesticides containing PFAS (“forever chemicals”)—raising serious concerns about their long-term impact on food, water and public health. 🌿🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

And this:

I look at this all the time and it blows my mind that this P.O.S is our leader

The same week the Donald Trump and his regime scrambled to justify deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean, he accepted the so-called “FIFA Peace Prize.” You cannot make this up.

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit

WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe. Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”

The Trump administration has ordered more than 260 federal workers it has been trying to fire since March to return to work on Dec. 15 while a court case over their final status drags on

Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia

From the Editorial Board: The impulse to help families is worthy. But a program that delivers money 18 years from now while adding to today’s debt burden isn’t a solution to the affordability crisis parents face today.

More women in Ukraine are joining the military in combat roles thanks to advances in technology. Military officials say units are now tailoring recruitment efforts to attract more women to strengthen the army.

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro called FIFA President Gianni Infantino giving President Donald Trump a "peace prize" an attempt at "sucking up" to Trump and compared it to a parent giving a child a toy phone. Read more about the Fifa Peace Prize here: https://cnn.it/4rGBgOd

Former Ohio State University students trying to get billionaire Les Wexner to testify about Richard Strauss — a former campus doctor who allegedly abused dozens of men — staged a protest at a board of trustees meeting, where they brought up Wexner’s past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport. ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance. (Published October 2025)

Before it's over he will want to change the name of the United States of America to the United States of Trump.

📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia. Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L

Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?

NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has loudly defended President Donald Trump’s withholding billions of dollars in congressionally approved federal funding. But as a House member, Duffy took a drastically different position on presidential power.

I'm an American, Veteran who supports Ukraine 100% and all democracies. Today I contacted both my Senators again and my Rep to push for new Ukraine aid legislation. Trumps stranglehold on congress has weakened. It's time to push for veto proof legislation to support Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!💙💛

Childhood vaccination rates were falling before Trump took office. But RFK Jr.'s latest attacks on vaccines will make new outbreaks of old diseases even more deadly. I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We do not want to go back to that era.

And with that decision, millions of Texans were gerrymandered out of existence. Their vote is officially diluted.

Hoeg just made the ludicrous statement that kids are spending too much time in doctor’s offices when they could be doing other stuff.

The 🇺🇸 American crime drama film "SERPICO" directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in his Academy Award nominated title role received a dual premiere #OnThisDay in 1973 at both the Baronet and Forum Theatres in New York City 🎬 Paramount Pictures 🚨 🚔

Putin doesn't want peace. Trump et al are too stupid to understand that.

Look how easy it was for everyone to quit talking about the Epstein files

wow -- John Berman demolished Tom Cotton in this interview

Tom Cotton is going to have a long shitty life after felon 47 is in a box. The internet is the eternal lockbox for stupidity. It never forgets.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

Bradley saying Hegseth didn’t give a “kill them all” order... should’ve helped him. Instead...it blew the door open. Lawmakers saw the footage...heard the details...and came out more alarmed. The phrase was never the problem. The operation was...and today...that became...undeniable.

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

“[Let’s] stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” That’s from the guy who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine to the US who Trump pardoned. Trump pretends he wants to stop the drug trade, but frees from jail a former Honduran president & drug kingpin. www.americaamerica.news/p/president-...

NEW: In a big loss for the DOJ's efforts to prosecute Trump's foes, a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges.

⚡️Pope Francis left funds in his will to buy ambulances for Ukraine, nun says. "He did tell me, in our meetings, that he would help me in some way, but I didn't imagine he would do it like this," Dominican nun Lucia Caram said.

⚡️Ukraine hits Russian seaport, oil refinery in reported drone strikes. A fire caused damage to facilities at the Temryuk port in Krasnodar Krai, a major Russian hub and oil export terminal. Locals also reported explosions at the Syzran Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast.

DT the meanest President of our known history, of course he would let ppl go hungry at Christmas!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What if Trump behaved like a stately American president, acting on American interests and values?” our columnist Thomas Friedman asks. “He wouldn’t be telling the brave Ukrainians that they have no cards; he’d be dealing them cards to maximize their leverage.”

American Oversight v. Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Rubio, and NARA – Military Actions Planned on Signal Messaging App