1) Trump pardons a corrupt Dem 2) Jeffries makes excuses for the "thin" indictment 3) Cuellar files to run as a Dem 4) Trump squeals that his quid pro quo isn't being honored

Question for the botanists, plant breeders and amateur gardeners. Is it possible to get a hybrid of a zucchini and a butternut squash/pumpkin? This thing seems to be one. Much tougher skin & bigger seeds than an overgrown zucchini, inner pulp looks different, flesh has an orange tint, skin orange…

at a certain point we will move beyond the "war crimes" debate, since there is no war, and into a "murder" debate that asks not just whether these are individual murders but whether they are widespread & systematic attacks on civilians and thus constitute crimes against humanity.

"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said." They were civilians.

Bradley may have had a stellar career. But he showed terrible judgment here. And it will be what he is remembered for.

Hey Japan, Trust me, the only thing worse than his silence is when he opens his mouth.

Plus keep in mind, Alabama has hired a team of executioners who have allegations of violence against them that would startle you even if you think you can guess: boltsmag.org/alabama-exec...

This is a brilliant explanation about the transphobic student who got their TA fired and how fucking wrong that was beige.party/@Lana/115673...

HAHAHA! Well, now the case is EXTRA dead. Even if they won an appeal on the Halligan thing, their core evidence is now off limits lulzzzz

if you also have ancestors who left Austria due to prosecution by the Nazis, the application process is here it wasn’t that bad for us but my cousin had already done a ton of the legwork on getting documents related to my grandmother and having them apostilled

The EU needs to open an Epstein commission to route out malignant influence networks and tackle the European end of the criminal network.

Note how the Kennedy Center ribbons are blue, instead of the traditional rainbow colors. Because the Trump administration never gets too preoccupied with its racism to overlook its homophobia.

For the first time, the Kennedy Center Awards were presented in the tiny Oval Office instead of the Kennedy Center For Performing Arts. Donald used his now-vulgar Oval Office for the ceremony to avoid the embarrassment of TV audiences seeing an almost empty theater.

Ha!

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

As @whitehouse.senate.gov posted on this platform, "The real action is in the DOJ files." The rest of it may be a just a distraction by the Trump administration.

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The whole government is run by idiots. Every single department.

My team signs players who can oxygenate their own blood for free

Maybe she was taken out of context! Let’s read the whole thing and oh no no no www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...

The final opportunity for Democrats to flip a legislative seat this year, on Tuesday:

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

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Lambert: It’s a way troll the left. Mockler: I'm glad he's trolling the left while his peace deals are falling through with Israel and Gaza, while Putin is rolling him every single day…

The global pedophile prize

Severed hands and a globe made out of a meatball, the Mafia got really creative.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

i strangely find myself admiring Rand Paul on this

Knowing how tRump and his MAGA supporters go after anyone tRump doesn't like (up to and including violence), Rand Paul is showing courage that most GOP politicians lack. I don't have to agree with everything Paul says to recognise this. Kudos to Paul.

MS NOW Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.

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/

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Bingo

There won’t be a defamation suit. There are several reasons why, the most basic of which is that you can’t sue the federal government or its employees for defamation. But some of the other reasons also protect the Onion, so it’s not all bad news.

No defamation. And no injunction in copyright against fed, so that's useless. But I wonder if right of publicity would work. It's probably a tort. Probably not an intentional tort. Probably not a property right, so probably not subject to eminent domain....hmmm.

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

All true re the contempt proceedings for Judge Boasberg. Noem also doesn’t say whether she was ordered to do continue the transfers by anyone at the White House.

That was notoriously something Julius Caesar did just few weeks before they killed him.

Tacky ass un-American anti-republican pre-1776 royalist trash. We don't do the f----- King's Birthday here. He's about half a step away from putting his face on all the coins and stamps.

Friday night Tequila Tweet: Fuck all my former colleagues who turned my former political party into a cult. Into a proudly stupid, authoritarian-embracing cult. Fuck their fear. Fuck their selfishness. Fuck their cowardice. They’ve done real damage to their country.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Though the start of 2025 feels like a distant lifetime, experts have informed us that it was only 11 months ago. So in honour of this horrifying fact we're looking back at some of our top headlines from the year. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/01/31/d...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

UPDATE: Indiana’s House just passed their 9-0 map www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Randomization should be the same norm at the appellate level, and district level Scrap the regional circuits, and have a national pool to draw panels, making it impossible to concentrate power like at the Filth Circuit