Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

Republicans keep talking about how bad our health care system is and how they have "lots of ideas" to fix it. This has been going on for more than a decade. There are 3 possibilities: 1. They're incompetent. 2. They're lying about wanting to fix health care. 3. Both.

Agreed. And it's not only improper for American elected officials to tell other people around the world what is right and wrong. It goes from improper to humiliating when the American elected official is just doing PR for a company. (1/2)

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans know their unpopular policies are losing policies—so the right-wing Supreme Court is handing them an early Christmas present. We cannot agonize—we must organize to defeat their corrupt agenda at the ballot box.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Barbarity

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

When you ask how Germans became immune to the horrors of Nazism during the 30s, remember that this is now 2025 and this crap is being said in the greatest democracy on the planet.

It would be just awesome if Behn gets elected. Go, Tennessee!

exclusive: Rick Pazdur, the official just tapped by Trump administration to be FDA's top drug regulator has privately warned that some of the agency's new initiatives could be illegal and dangerous. w @rachelroubein.bsky.social

I have eaten the planets that were in the inner solar system and which you were probably saving for living on Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so warm

Let’s go, Pammie!!!

I don’t know what the New York Times thought it would accomplish with this apple-polishing Q&A of Exec Editor Joe Kahn by Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust. I’ve used a gift link in case you want to read the whole thing. But this thread offers a few "highlights." 🧵 1/4

People keep saying that the men clinging to the wreckage were no longer a threat, that they were out of the fight--they were never in a fight. They were sailing along when a drone hit them.

Just finished “True Nature - The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen”, by @lancerichardson.bsky.social A very fine work, an emblem of literary biography. A great gift to any avid reader about American letters.

The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.

My bipartisan bill to release the Epstein Files passed in Congress and became law. Now, it's up to the Department of Justice to actually deliver transparency and justice. I won't give up the fight: release the damn files!

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

So that's a yes.

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

How can he be overwhelmed when he's surrendered every Article 1 power to the Felon? I guess it's exhausting doing nothing but running a protection racket, especially when it includes so many crimes.

Current admin is a cabal of stupid liars.

someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets

Trumpet mushroom tart, with green peas, upon arrival.

Disgusting irrational spew from Vance.

They’re vicious lying eliminationists. Killers. Haters. Xenophobes. And lawless as can be imagined.

Happy Thanksgiving from the ice cream aisle. Thankful for our city.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Bolsonaro to jail for 27 years. Trump completely free 🤡 Other, more serious countries, etc. etc.

To be clear, Skandalakis assigned this case to himself. And I disagree with his assessment. Anyone with this kind of bullshit take of that infamous "find me 11,780 votes" call to Sec. of State Raffensperger was never going to prosecute Trump, Meadows, & the other defendants:

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Senator Kelly is admirable, courageous, and right.

Train Dreams, whew. Loss, emptiness, longing, being, what does it mean to be human. Whew. Miles to go before I sleep.

"Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years."--David Gruber of Project CETI

Old souls.

Of course everyone should be worried about trump and his White House giving illegal orders, they’ve been doing it and plowing forward lawlessly constantly, on things big and small Even on things as (comparatively) small ball as anti DEI language in contracts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Globalists!!

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

really baffled at elon's decision to confirm that most of twitter is just a poorly organized foreign influence operation

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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.