everything I've seen since his confirmation has only reinforced my impression that Bessent is just a well-groomed nitwit

big if true!

the fact that there are people on the taxpayers dime actively engaged in looking for ways to hurt respected public servants in the most petty humiliating ways they can think of is a sign of how deeply sick and rotten this administration is the people doing this are evil

one thing about getting older is that you get to be reminded of it every day via new words

Remember when playing by the rules was a thing? Now you do everything asked of you and ICE still grabs you.

a pint would be impressive

Who among us hasn't, at some point, received a participation trophy from a soccer league

This...should have been two separate emails.

"It's a very respected peace prize."

at this point a bigger problem for FIFA & venues may be that lots of fans (especially international ones) won't show up at all because they're afraid of being rousted by ICE - and there are going to be players who won't show up for the same reason hard to imagine this will be a normal World Cup

waiting for stories where the proposed solution is for wives to have multiple husbands

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites. Well UH

have been thinking about this for like two hours and I think what stands out the most is that Trump feels genuinely honored. he has no conception whatsoever that it is complete horseshit invented to flatter him. he loves it!

Manhattan Magistrate Judge Henry Ricardo has agreed to let city Comptroller Brad Lander remain released on his own recognizance in his SDNY trespassing case. He told him not to break any laws. “I will drive very much under the speed limit, your honor,” @bradlander.bsky.social said

Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today. It’s the definition of prejudice.

At the nyt, in fact, it helped. This is the lede a star reporter put on an A1 story post-election. “To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism” It was most biased lede I’d read in 40+ years in journalism. It oozed a contempt.

I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda. Days later, they did exactly that. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

The same raid where Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva was pepper-sprayed - after identifying herself

cold-blooded murder

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

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.

Every child that dies as a result of RFK Jr.’s policies is 100% the responsibility of Bill Cassidy

Fired academic Frances Widdowson has been showing up on university campuses to question aspects of the history of residential schools in Canada. This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.

amazon threatens this every year and every year they come to the conclusion that actually attempting this would cost them significantly more than what they currently pay, this is *always* an attempt to renegotiate their costs, but the post has not *always* been owned by AMZ’s largest shareholder

Secretary Hegseth and anyone else who commits war crimes must be held accountable.

great reporting on an office in complete disarray. by Katelyn Polentz and Devan Cole of @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.

Siri acknowledges that he has hundreds of lawsuits pending against HHS and other federal agencies. I thought that RFK Jr. was against conflicts of interest. This is the worst conflict of interest I’ve EVER seen at a putative scientific meeting.

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On this day in 1919, a group of Bolsheviks who had conspired to poison Makhno and other Ukrainian anarchists are executed by firing squad.

this whole year has just been one tale after another of them giving slavishly loyal and completely unqualified people any amount of power they possibly can, to get them to personally sign off on whatever fig leaf of legality they want, for any act of evil under the sun they want to show off as a win

A new Texas law targeting abortion medication could set the stage for a nationwide abortion ban. @hegemommy.bsky.social and @angryblacklady.blacksky.app break it down:

in an ideal world the democrats would have an insta-party reaction to all developing news. flood the zone on everything. everything should have an immediate dem reaction/take/quote. as it is the party slumbers through each media cycle, barely responding to anything and hardly instigating a thing.

Ephraim Heller's photos of birds from Brazil's Pantanel region. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/04/r...

"If you're a star they let you do it"

There are still some good things in this world

I still don't expect the "Trump accidentally pardoned the pipe bomber" theory to prevail, but it's not good that the White House is commenting on it and so far the position they're going with is "the DNC and RNC buildings do not qualify as near the Capitol" www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

They can’t resist going back to the same Nazi playbook.

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Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

their goal is to kill children and every Republican senator who knew better and voted to confirm him anyway has that blood on their hands

remembering one of the all-time greatest twitter posts

we need to hear public testimony from everyone involved because people like Cotton come out of these briefings and flat out lie about what they saw & were told it was murder and it was deliberate

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said. I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Mike Luckovich

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...