Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump envoy scared Ukraine and Europe by worsening peace plan terms, - FT Driscoll at a meeting with European ambassadors evaded answering the question of whether Trump considers Moscow's responsibility for war crimes as part of the plan.

I second the motion to adopt this term.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

According to Trump and MAGA: Steve Witkoff - hero and patriot. Mark Kelly - traitor who should be executed.

Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.

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.

The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.

Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.

Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄

Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Black women are down 297,000, but men’s gains have surged to +621,000. That’s a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months—a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women’s losses and men’s gains approaches 1 million jobs.

392,000 followers on X.

The EU sanctioned Arctic LNG-2. Then kept buying from—and owning stakes in—two larger Russian facilities. $9.5 billion later, Yamal LNG funded 271,000 Shahed drones. @razomwestand calls for coordinated G7 sanctions on ALL Russian Arctic LNG:

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

Disgraceful. Should never, ever have happened in this country.👇

"Pete, you strike the second the Epstein Files are released and you keep killing and blowing things up until Americans stop talking about those files. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Have a hot teen bring me a Diet Coke."

Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety. apnews.com/article/fann...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

New research explores why openness/intellect stands apart from other personality traits. It turns out this trait may be less universal across cultures and rarely targeted for change. Read more in #PSPR: ow.ly/UGlJ50XqLqS

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Republicans "discussing concepts" of a health care plan as millions face price hikes and losing coverage.

The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.

A flight carrying four members of Congress made an emergency diversion to Kansas City because of an unruly passenger.

"Epstein offered to send reporters pictures of Trump with 'girls in bikinis in my kitchen'" is a news story all on its own and required nothing more than access to the NYT's own email servers

NEW: as expected, the SNAP showdown at SCOTUS ends in a fizzle: Trump withdraws his application to avoid fully funding SNAP because the government shutdown has ended and those benefits will be funded through the end of the year

Unbelievable. "A guy" Shamelessness is definitely on the rise

The NYT knew without a doubt that Trump had a long relationship with Epstein and decided to splash "But her emails" across the front page for months instead. Complicit.

“DEDICATED OURSELVES TO EXPOSING EPSTEIN” Well obviously the dedication was far smaller than the passion put into covering Clinton’s emails. Christ do you hear yourself?

We had our first BIG snow of the season here! ❄️

Larry Summers commiserating with Epstein about the unfairness of holding men accountable for sexual misconduct. In 2017.

Wow: "Ethiopia last year took the extraordinary step of banning the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines." This is what it looks like to be serious about clean energy. We are a dinosaur.

The key here is @they’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs.” Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.

It’s as old as time. Trump supporters NEVER blame Trump for anything. It’s always someone else’s fault. His staff, his advisors, the media…when Trump does something stupid and/or wrong, it’s never his fault. Trump supporters treat him like a poor, helpless idiot.

So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.

🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Oh, so he totally stole the money

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.

See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!

While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.

Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools