Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

Putin wants peace, huh?

So incompetent, they can't even get their murderous lies straight.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Sadly relevant today.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

"For most, this tragedy will be a headline that soon fades. But for those in her unit, it will divide their service, and likely their lives, into 'before' and 'after.' Soldiers know that feeling. I certainly do." @markhertling.bsky.social on Spc. Sarah Beckstrom: lnk.thebulwark.com/3M8Bb5O

#WATCH | I'm scared, I want my mother to come back, why is everything ruined & falling apart, where’s our home.. childhood; Gaza (Credit: Parwiz Hamidi)

It is important for all of us to support this group and other similar groups like the ACLU, Democratic Attorneys General Assoc. (dems.ag/)- not just financially, if we can, but in every way. Warmest congratulations to Democracy Defenders.

Today is World Aids Day, but this US Government has ordered that it not be commemorated. Not only that, but a new Aids drug that performed excellently in trials, will not be made available by the US to South Africa. The new drug requires only two injections per year. The US under Trump & crew sick

A sad bonus: Here’s CDC’s World AIDS Day page from last year www.cdc.gov/world-aids-d... — back before the site was hijacked by Trump’s stooges who don’t care about public health or people. It’s a reminder of what we’re fighting to get back.

Pope Leo reaffirms the position of the Holy See: a two-state solution.

#BREAKING: Ideologically diverse Third Circuit panel unanimously *affirms* district court ruling that Alina Habba was *not* lawfully appointed to serve as Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey *or* to otherwise exercise the functions of that office: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, and that's the point. The "shipwrecked" can't retreat...they are floating helplessly in the water. They are no longer posing a risk to the other side. They must be saved & treated humanely unless there is a real risk of harm to the saving side in doing to. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

Terrific opinion piece by Ben Rhodes on how Democrats have failed to embrace a lawful, moral, principled, common-sense policy in relation to Israel. @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com @pallone.house.gov www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n... In case you missed it. He wants to invade Venezuela yet he pardons the former dictator, drug king pin of Honduras, convicted by a US jury.

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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

The dementia process does speed up at some point.

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

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.

"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."

Don’t count on it. Trump and Vance are just the facade. The people behind the curtain know what they’re doing.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Criminals get out of jail free card: Donald Trump! Next in line for freedom is a drug trafficker. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

The reason Pete Hegseth issued illegal orders to “kill them all” is because they don’t want anyone finding out they killed innocent fishermen instead of drug traffickers. They don’t care who they kill.

Congress has the power to fire him.

Creepy: Two Americans & a Russian—meet in Miami,ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long & deadly war with Ukraine. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with US businesses first in line to beat EU competitors. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Just rampant, incredible criminality in the White House. He feels a real kinship with these people.

Let him crash out after that but press him to stop doing this. It's fucking undignified for the office AND for journalism. Trump is a damned disgrace. I am humiliated daily to know that this beclowned madman is our president. In just the last week he's called women journalists piggy, stupid & ugly.

🛳️🛳️🔥 Update: Two Russian shadow fleet tankers KAIROS and VIRAT caught fire in the Black Sea near Turkiye, crew evacuated.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

This is horrible.

Read and weep: ICYMI Leaked phone calls throw scrutiny on Witkoff’s pro-Kremlin positions (updated) open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

ICYMI Leaked tapes of Witkoff coaching Russians on how to deal with Trump about Ukraine. Even GOP aghast: US Rep. Nebraska, Don Bacon on Witkoff “He cannot be trusted to lead these negotiations. Would a Russian paid agent do less than he? He should be fired” Fiasco! apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump is up with an early morning screed flailing at a New York Times article. His comment about the reporter is in the image below. That’s your kids’ role model, MAGA. Happy Thanksgiving. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Borel ran back upstairs. “Stop them!” he shouted. “They’re stealing the Romanée-Contis!” And the chase was on. How a $38,000 wine heist ended with a chase through Virginia’s wine countryhttps://wapo.st/4846reS

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

1. EXCLUSIVE Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage The use of Chinese components was previously unreported Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military

Maintaining decorum while he flouts it, granting deference while he bullies, and using honorifics when he insults others will only smooth the way for further effort to intimidate and dominate ordinary Americans as well as political adversaries.

But, of course! foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...

Trump work for Russia

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Republicans don't want my vote to count, the shitholes.

🏥🚨🏥 Healthcare workers: Patient’s rights are being violated. A lot of people are adverse to standing up to “authority,” but we have codes of ethics - each of our professions do. Rise up! 1/2

One thing that is not getting enough attention is that Trump has normalized the idea of the United States supporting the transfer of territory and millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship. The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.

@pallone.house.gov @corybooker.com This OK with you?

"I am in utter disbelief at the 28-point American peace plan for Ukraine that has been circulating in the news media. Unless it turns out to be an elaborate hoax or a sinister Russian disinformation plot, it marks the lowest point yet in US diplomacy on Ukraine." www.virgin.com/branson-fami...