According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

It's been over two weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

I was told everyone was leaving. @fortune.com #NYC @wutangforchildren.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...

“What have I done!” 🤡

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

"Bombastic idiot." Thank you! That is the most concise and accurate description of him I have heard. It should be used as an informal title whenever his name is mentioned. Bombastic idiot Pete Hegseth today said... Pete Hegseth, bombastic idiot, said today...

Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s latest violation of the ceasefire that was declared nearly two months ago.

I’m ngl, it feels ok having our reporting vindicated publicly this way, so fwiw; if you want to stay ahead of the curve about trump administration horrors please subscribe to @zeteo.com and follow @premthakker.bsky.social and the rest of our gang here at this independent media company

Important @motherjones.com piece here:

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

You either grow out of being a Libertarian when you're 15 or you spend your whole life as an intellectual clown arguing things like *checks notes* "Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries." Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism

Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.” Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds. Give me a break.

Just FYI, Kushner's actions are pretty clearly unconstitutional: popular.info/p/kushners-m...

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments. Seems like a key detail!

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

In between Dozzie Donnie’s Cabinet meeting nap sessions along with his and Hegseth’s duel gaslighting of America and the busing of an Admiral in the murder of two defenseless souls in the ocean, how many reporters asked the obvious question- what justifies pardoning a convicted drug lord?

Let's say ... 88%

BuT oThEr CoUnTrIeS pAy ThE tArIfFs

New in PN: This is what a white supremacist administration looks like "The Republican Party of today, embodied as it is in Donald Trump and the administration he leads, is no longer so worried about being called racist, because it has unashamedly taken white supremacy as its cause."

@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”

“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Some Democrats, though not nearly enough, are starting to sound like this. Push them to where they ought to be.

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.

The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.

"...OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot." I couldn't finish the article. OpenAI should be ashamed. And shut down. ...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

“After Mr. Paul learned from his wife that the authorities were threatening to deport her without a hearing, he said, their lawyer filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Diego to halt her removal &secure her release. In response, the government approved Ms. Paul’s green card on Tuesday & freed her”

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Can't make this up. A Trump tell that he's connected to the scheme: "that's too bad" or "I wish them well."

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

David Brooks demonstrating what white male privilege is.

David Brooks really sucks.

Narrator: After Nebraska voted for trump 59.5% vs Harris 38.8%, they are in the "find out" phase of fucking around. #MAGAMorons

Let’s talk about being a traitor. The administration is following orders from Russia! When will the Republican leadership stand up for freedom?

“Detainees who express thoughts of suicide are frequently put in solitary confinement, where the isolation, darkness and dirty conditions tend to worsen their mental states…” This isn’t “detention” — it’s state-sanctioned torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

The most fundamental question raised by this video is this: Is it reasonable to fear Trump actually is giving illegal orders, or is it not reasonable? I see almost *no* discussion of this question in coverage of the video, which is treating this largely as a dispute over optics. Why?

This is the way to do it. Keep up the pressure. Keep recording. Keep chipping away. They are banking on everyone backing down. Every cog in this terror group. Tiny police stations 'don't have the resources'. These assholes have more money than our military. They don't have the competence.

What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is. On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...