I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo. 85%

Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude. It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.

Tax avoidance scam, simple as that. There are lots of very good deserving non-profits that are starved for donations because a lax IRS allows rich assholes to abuse the tax code.

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

Rich Lowry is a bigoted piece of shit whose existence makes America a worse place. He's vapid patrician gentility used to mask gutter racism. He's a Brooks Brothers pocket square used to wipe Nick Fuentes' ass.

I guess it's unsurprising that mediocre men find each other extraordinary, especially when they're behaving selfishly and pretending it's for the good of society.

We know the answer: He and the other Federalist Society justices will stand up to Trump on tariffs and firing people at the Fed, because those are the only aspects of Trumpism that inconvenience their Koch network masters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here are just two of the victim impact statements in the David Gentile sentencing memo. We need to find a way to start talking about the victim impact of Trump's crime endorsement wave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reminder

There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.

Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.

Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again

(a big reason that Tesla "full self drive" is so much worse than Waymo is that they just use cameras not LIDAR because cameras are way cheaper, but it's the LIDAR that makes Waymo a public health breakthrough, and also means the unit economics on the cars are negative as hell)

The Trump admin is systematically firing immigration judges across the country for no reason other their above average grant rates. The goal is to transform an imperfect system which aimed for fairness into a rubber stamp mill, leaving only the “deportation judges” they want.

On Eve of Illegal Venezuelan Invasion, Pete Hegsesth Utterly Destroys His Ability to Lead It www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/02/o...

not just morally but it seems obvious politically that underbusing the admiral is a mistake.

Nick Fuentes says that a Right Wing Watch "smear campaign" is to blame for giving people the impression that he is a racist, antisemitic, Christian nationalist extremist nut job. We'd argue that it's his own words that are giving people that impression. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit. And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it. It's vice signaling as a way of life.

Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

PSA: Andrew Solender pays Axios' bills by ragebaiting all of you. And it works every fucking time, too.

omg amazing

Let me also just note that the linked Axios piece is by Andrew Solender, a blatant hack who specializes in turning banal statements from Dems into ragebait.

The Benign Explanation for Trump's MRI Remarks Isn't Great for Him Either (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

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.

Higher Ed had a lot of long-term problems before Covid, then Covid turned those into immediate problems, and then the Claudine Gay witch-hunt, then the Gaza stuff…the trump admin is just finishing off something that was already moribund. It’ll take a generation to start rebuilding academia.

This whole ball room thing smells to high heaven …. Watch it all fall down at some point

Mike Johnson looking like a 5-year-old getting a call from his hero while taking a call from Trump during a campaign stop for the Republican candidate in TN's 7th congressional district. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

"Stuckey’s ability to package her work as fluffy girl stuff worked well on Ross Douthat, who presented her to his well-meaning but gullible liberal audience as a harmless church girl whose podcast is the equivalent of a Sunday afternoon ladies brunch." www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...

The hard fact is that hoisting Trump on his own petard by using his sobriquet of piggie is insufficient. The diminutive makes it too cute, too playful. Donald Trump is, always has been, and always will be a pig.

He’s building an army of orks. Morally weak and flawed men who will kill Americans to keep 💩n office. That’s why all the money. Not protection for country just a mass of losers and malcontents to beat us down. Paid for by our tax dollars.

Oh nooooo! Alina really is nothing more than a Parking Garage Lawyer.

It is true that no one has grasped this scope. But there are ways to deal with it. First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign. Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.

One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board. “Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.” With @veritenews.org

I’d rather question why is Kushner there and why is he laying out a vision? We did not vote him into any gov position nor the senate we voted for has approved his candidacy. This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.

I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Ok but what if the president was part of a conspiracy to traffic 400 tons of cocaine from that country into our country?

This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller. It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago. If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

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I’m a moron for not knowing it was this lucrative. Explains everything about why lefties bash Bluesky on Twitter. He’s paying them to do it. I’ll shut up about trying to understand these folks. They work for Elon. Got it.

"We've invented a revolutionary* new technology, buy gold" *don't @ me

I'm sure he still wants that.

Before you ask, yes apparently this is real. He must be taking comedy lessons and substances from Elon.

The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.

He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.

This. The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?). But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.