multiple congressional investigations have already been announced. do they expect Bradley to throw himself on his sword for Hegseth? generally before hearings you don't want to encourage everyone to knife one another in the back.

Yeah, that's not how it works ever since the Hague Convention of 1899. That is some John Yoo-level horrifying shit from the White House.

Another reason not to follow illegal orders is that an administration willing to give illegal orders will also happily throw you under the bus for following them.

This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison!

Oh, so a war crime

Just had my annual Preventative MRI, a thing where they just MRI you every year, no specific body part, lol, what do you every new mean, they just MRI you, big time, thanks to scientists for coming up with the MRI, bless you, patriots

Soooo, there's a "Whites Only" back up

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal:

It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

They don’t have to do this. Doing this celebrates Trump and we’re sitting do that, if you live in this state or care about it, please let people know that building up the ego of a narcissistic sociopath is well known as being bad for everyone around them

There is plenty of uncertainty in the upper chamber, as several Republican senators have indicated they oppose the idea of redrawing the state’s congressional map, with some pointing to threats and insults they have received.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...

the male loneliness epidemic is coming from inside the gender

Marissa is running circles around establishment outlets with a fraction of a fraction of the resources--the least they could do is put some respect on her name!

(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026. Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.

Three notes: (1) this NPR piece is bad and dumb. They should be embarrassed. (2) Everything is "AI" now. The Independent Center doesn't have some fresh new technology that is going to make centrist third-party candidacies suddenly viable. This is just the latest rebrand of a tired playbook. (...)

“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.

This summary isn’t accurate, tbc. Trump clearly does know that he pardoned this guy, and his claim is that it was all a Biden setup, blah blah blah

They changed the title. The title now reads, "Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?" with the dek:"How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science" But there was a lot of backlash because the original hed read

POTUS and SecDef deny they’re responsible for the kill order described by the WaPo. Assuming the WaPo story to be accurate, the implication is that service members on the ground exceeded their orders or otherwise failed to follow the rules of engagement. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.

"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

He’s a clown and his jet setting is humiliating but the reason they want him gone is he’s failed to really run in enemies

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.

A bunch of nice looking rich guys in suits got an audience with the king at the rest home and flattered him and gave him gifts and promised to support him and convinced him to sign a pardon for the guy that flooded the US with cocaine, and there’s probably not much more to it than that, right?

Dear Senator Cassidy, “We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name. Best, Your Former Congressional Colleague

this is at least the second time he’s claimed he doesn’t know anything about a pardon he has ostensibly signed, and i feel like that’s two times too many without a follow up question from the press corpse

This really is a baby paper. It’s not a question of her arguments or beliefs, any religious person with decent skills could have made her points in a way that would be on the intellectual level the course was looking for. She didn’t have the skills. It’s good that colleges tell you this!

I am as skeptical of DC political pundits as the next man, but no: Trump did this

One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before. It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it. Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.

No longer bothering to hide the vast corruption; "Mr. Sacks has stakes in defense tech start-ups such as Anduril, Firestorm Labs and Swarm Aero that make drones and other products, according to his filings." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

I didn’t feel like doing my work, and if you don’t like it, well: have you heard of, The Bible

Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.

NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n... Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many CEOs were pitched this by people much richer & more powerful than they are, and because CEOs are just basic guys with imposter syndrome, they latched onto it, mostly because there was SO much money behind it. But most of that money came from leveraged loans, all bet on that PR campaign working

Trump take video game

Possibly because I was growing up Jewish only ~30 years after the Holocaust, but the evil of “scapegoating” was hammered into me repeatedly. I rarely see the term used, but it’s exactly what Trump, Miller, Noem and the right wing at large do, explicitly, and it should be forcefully condemned.

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

I totally interpret this as "the terms that set up Trump and his personal cronies to grab the country's assets at bargain basement prices".

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words." Ursula K. Le Guin

"Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing." But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

People are making fun of this response but I think all of us have had the experience of sitting in an incredibly loud machine for 20 minutes for a serious procedure and then forgotten about it soon afterward. bsky.app/profile/carl...

INSPIRING: do you have a gambling problem and read the news? this man figured out a way to take advantage of you, and he doesn't even have a college degree

Today's Trade Secrets newsletter. One of Donald Trump's (multiple, contradictory) aims in imposing tariffs was to close the trade deficit. Is it happening? No. But is it likely to happen? Also no.