Don't let anyone — not even the US Secretary of State — tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

Such hateful, petty, bigoted trash bags. Their hate will never erase the history she made.

Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max. This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

Trump has reportedly drafted an executive order banning states from regulating AI. Meanwhile, the AI industry has amassed over $100M for next year's midterms to defeat proponents of federal regulation. We must stop this Big Tech takeover before it's too late.

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

By Ivan Ehlers

🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Trump has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a boon for big corporations. His Big Ugly Bill, which slashed Medicaid and SNAP, also gave corporations $16B in new depreciation tax breaks this year. A windfall for the wealthy at your expense.

Putin's war in Ukraine shows where authoritarianism can lead: ~1.4 million casualties. An entire generation sacrificed for one man's imperialist delusions. We must not let any president drag us into war without congressional approval.

Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.

During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, people briefed on the matter said. https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW

This is the third newsroom (at least) with an FBI leak about the suspect being a Trump supporter. Seems some FBI folks — presumably not the political hires —are very eager to get this out there.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said. I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The bar in Germany is subterranean. The heightened police surveillance and violent crack down in different German cities feels a lot like 1960s and the Nazi period.

It looks like Tom Cotton was being deceptive by saying video shows the men trying to flip boat "loaded with drugs." As I reported, Ds who saw video say no drugs were visible/boat was crippled. Q for Rs is simple: Did you see drugs and was boat incapacitated, or no? newrepublic.com/article/2039...

With its greenlighting of Texas's racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court is further normalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering.

RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B

This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

I mean this is straight up white supremacy:

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

This is why the student loan bubble is about to burst. I feel bad for this woman—but she freaking nails it. 🔥

We thought they tore that place down?????

CNN is now reporting the two men killed in the second strike didn't actually have a radio or communication device, contradicting another defense that's been floated. That supports what I found: Rep Adam Smith told me the briefing revealed that no recording of any radio transmission exists:

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

The racism is just cartoonish. I can’t stand it. Honestly

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

This happened 13 blocks from where I grew up, videos show neighbors with whistles coming out in force. No mistake they’re targeting the most diverse neighborhood in the entire country epicenter-nyc.com/an-assault-o...

All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

From THEY KNEW:

The more facts that come out about the "double tap" boat strike, the more reprehensible Trump's fake "war" appears. Based on a raft of legal fictions, the Navy apparently deemed two guys floating on the wreck of a capsized speedboat to be in active combat with the US, and killed them in cold blood.

Important: Now that Republicans are claiming they're "satisfied" by the video, note that Rep Adam Smith says here that Democrats asked for public release of it, and were told by officials that it isn't their call. Will Republicans join Dems in calling for the video's release? All in here:

Trump just pardoned ANOTHER alleged white collar crook — live entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke — who was indicted by Trump's own DOJ this past July for conspiring to rig a bidding process. A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.

Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five

The New York Attorney General's Office will not be bringing criminal charges against the cops who killed Win Rozario, according to a report released today. hellgatenyc.com/tish-james-w...

Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS. This is real! It happened! www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This decision follows the organizers' choice to allow Israel to compete, despite concerns over its conduct in the Gaza war.