NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

Scoop: 5 lawmakers are asking AG Pam Bondi for a status update on releasing the Epstein files Merkley, Murkowski, Lujan, Massie & Khanna want to know if Trump adm is on track to comply with the law's 30-day deadline. They want a briefing by THIS FRIDAY. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

This is, what, the third or fourth "explanation" of what happened? Pete, you confirmed the story, which said it was a double strike! How is it "fake news" when you confirmed it was true?

It's really interesting that Trump & co keep talking about Walz, who until now has had little to no talk about a 2028 presidential run. The fact that they keep bringing him up seems to indicate they think of him as a threat.

And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Would love to have this in my state. My house gets so much sun.

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment ‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’ sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit... #ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon

this man has blood on his hands and everyone who supported him and excused him has blood on their hands and I do not want to hear a single fucking Democrat with any position other than "impeach and remove him immediately" he and his MAHA movement are child killers

Sweet Jeebus: German tech news reports that personal details of the entire WhatsApp userbase (3.5b accounts) were available online, unencrypted. Austrian researchers tried unsuccessfully to alert Meta to this, and Meta only reacted after they’d scraped the entire dataset.

I had never seen this and I love it so much, I love how it’s beautifully dorky and sweet it is, I love that they put royalty free piano music under it, I love the high five, local newspeople are the most adorable members of society

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Perhaps someone should make it clear that "taking jobs from Americans" is not an actual crime.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Amendment which strikes section which “allows senators who were legally subpoenaed during the January 6 criminal conspiracy investigation to get millions of dollars deposited into their bank accounts at taxpayer expense” voted down by Republicans

I wrote a piece a few weeks ago claiming antisemitism was on the verge of going mainstream. It was clear to me that most people had trouble buying it. That's understandable. But it's happening. Example: Conservatives themselves are now saying that 30 to 40% of Zoomers in Washington are Groypers.

Any Dem senator who wants to keep their seat needs to push for Schumer's removal as leader. Any Dem senator who is willing to put policy and principle over presidential ambitions should step up to take Schumer's place.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social please tell your colleagues to stand firm. I left a VM for my senator, Jon Ossoff, telling him not to cave.

If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

WTF?

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Millions of people losing SNAP benefits and seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket will be thrilled to see the Trump administration is laser-focused on…bombing Venezuela.

A bald-faced lie from a senior Cabinet member.

👀 NEW: Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, per new @washingtonpost.com poll. Independents blame Trump and Republicans more than Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin, 46% to 23%. More: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

So... Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) asked the 4 nominees in this hearing a simple question -- if Trump directed you to break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's directive? -- and not one could just say they'd follow the law. 😬

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

The next question needs to be: "Senator, didn't you take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution?"

I think people need to understand that the US is in the middle of a coup d'etat, a monarchical restoration. Trump has engineered a de facto moratorium of representative government. He intends to govern via dictat, effectively as a king. He is raiding the coffers and constructing a royal palace.

Performative defiance of the judge's order. I hope she sees this photo.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

That's Trump's wet dream.

The entitlement is off the charts.

Now THIS is a mission the National Guard can be proud of. 🙌 Via @voteinorout.bsky.social

Oh FFS

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

I've been a poll watcher (for the Democratic Party) in GA several times. The training is well put together, and it's not hard to do. They'll ask you how far you're willing to travel and assign you to a precinct accordingly.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

If you see Federal officials interfering in your ability to freely vote in a private manner, document the issue and raise the problem to relevant legal authorities and public officials in your respective state and county.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience