When grandma tells me I can only have a handful of cookies

For the residents of one Georgia town, the name “Phoebe” dominates the economic, political and health care landscape. On Dec. 7, see what it’s like to be sick in a hospital town. ✉️ Sign up to receive this story in your inbox: https://propub.li/4pL2IJ2

Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected." Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.

NEW: DoD inspector general report on SignalGate is finished and could become public this week. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"

As New York officials plan for a possible surge of immigration agents and National Guard troops, officials face a stark choice: accommodate or fight back. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-yor...

“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” Carpenter said in a post on X.

Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?

Absolutely disgusting! Racist effing pig! 😡😡🤬

🔥✈️ Ukrainian aviation destroys UAV control point in Vovchansk.

Make Russia Small Again

Me too

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Democrats seek to limit who can serve as immigration judges amid layoffs from the administration. And, Republican Matt Van Epps narrowly wins a special House election in Tennessee. n.pr/4os9SAZ

NEWS: Democrat Mary Robichaux has defeated Republican incumbent Kurt Wilson in a runoff election to become the next Mayor of Roswell, Georgia. A major upset and another sign of shifting suburban politics in the South.

Don't know the final results here but looking like maybe a 15 pt swing toward the Dems from 2024. You absolutely can't extrapolate a special election to a midterm. But that kind of flip in a special is a Defcon 1, we're all going to die type warning for the House GOP.

GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"appears"

So pathetic. Read more here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Fox is obsessed with the show. It’s so weird!

Trump reposted content from 16 accounts last night that turned out to be from foreign-based ‘MAGA’ users. meidasnews.com/news/trump-r...

After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

We got Tofunmi registered to vote on his 18th Birthday. Now, we’re going to stay in touch with him and ensure he turns out in the most voter-suppressed state in the union. This is the work that works—meeting our fellow texans face to face, registering voters, & helping them make their voices heard.

Randy Rainbow absolutely clowning RFK Jr. is both peak comedy and tragedy. A neoclassical American Tragedy? 🇺🇸🎭 Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅

In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force. n.pr/3XwjcZy

He went to Newmax??

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Even in a loss, Dems are still winning. Blue tsunami incoming.

Megyn Kelly is absolutely committed to making everyone regret they ever felt sympathy when Trump went after her.

You know who else was indicted out of the Southern District of New York following an investigation that was primarily conducted during the first Trump administration (and then convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison)?

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Absolutely disgusting

Kash Patel says the DOJ has “numerous options” to go after Comey and Letitia James. Translation: they have no case, no competent prosecutors, and no idea what they’re doing — but they’re “not done.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Baby calves!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

Great news and a win for public health! We need pillars like Planned Parenthood around to continue providing quality accessible sexual and reproductive healthcare. And a friendly reminder that today is Giving Tuesday should you feel so inclined to support any of your favorite worthwhile causes.

I am finding all the cats and dogs on tiktok 🥰

OMG absolutely adorable!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Immigrants are not and never have been garbage, ICE holds that illustrious title. This isn’t policy, it’s thugs terrorizing communities deputized by the epitome of a garbage human. The Somali community and Minneapolis deserves so much better. 💙 www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...

Sez here next you put in the bolts

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published October 2025)

Speed running the advent calendar

Entirely predictable

The food at the bottom of the can is always the best

Colorado Department of Corrections

Trump literally hours ago: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"

Mr. T with a pro-immigration message