these documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve

💬 HUR has the ability to intercept conversations of high-ranking Russian officials, says HUR Chief Budanov.

The right-wing authoritarians, to paraphrase @timothysnyder.bsky.social, want you comfortable in your chair watching screens filled with nihilism & voyeurism Liberalism needs to tap into the yearning for a moral order & a renewal of liberal democratic institutions & social policies that uplift all

Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike, UN nuclear watchdog says - www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/e...

There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really. Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

Okay but WHY are the Kennedy Center Honors not being given out at the Kennedy Center? Did they cancel and move it to the Oval because ticket sales were non-existent?

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

#peaceprize #tacos

Next year, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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.

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

Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Bradley did not attend NWC, as far as I know

'If I Did It'

I think of today’s purveyors of a whiny, entitled “masculinity” in light of the scene in The Godfather where Johnny Fontane is crying that he didn’t get a part in a movie, going “what do I do, what do I do?,” and Vito slaps him, saying “you could act like a man!” My how times have changed.

Donald Trump winning the ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ is like when I didn’t win at school sports day so my mum made me a medal out of a yoghurt lid.

A leaked early draft of a U.S. peace plan under President Donald Trump sought broad amnesty for Russians accused of war crimes, in a way that legal experts say could also cover indicted officials such as Vladimir Putin. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Lo you, my lord, The net has fall’n upon me! I shall perish Under device and practice.

Cinema will find a way. 💕

No "birthright citizenship" means nobody can prove they are a citizen. If you have any immigrant ancestor and you cannot prove lawful status at that time, even if it was 1830, you citizenship is in doubt.

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.

Imagine thinking that people come to America to "access unlimited welfare for life"

Again: Steering public dollars to private religious schools has always been the #1 goal of @GovBillLee and his fellow privatizers. (His pal Betsy Devos, who has funded much of the war on public schools, called it “Advancing God’s Kingdom”) www.wfae.org/education/20...

Melania Reads to Children in the Hospital The First Lady visited the Children's National Hospital in Washington and read the book "How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?" to the brave young patients. It would be better if the children read to her, so they could understand.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Here’s a great article describing how, before the vaccine, Alaska Natives had some of the highest rates of liver cancer in the world, and the hepatitis B vaccine virtually eliminated the cancer. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Honestly, if I was married to Stephen Miller I would also want to die.

Exactly. And they will have no idea until we face a true test, and are surprised that we are utterly alone.

The values of the United States of America as articulated in this latest National Security Strategy are the same as those of Russia and China. The only difference is blood (race) and soil (geography). Otherwise there's little for anyone to prefer one to the other.

All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.

Russki mir = Russian world Mir = Peace or world

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Putin continues to lie on Indian television, this time claiming that Russia did not occupy Crimea.

“…It has now removed the “United States”… and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.” What a perfect metaphor for his godforsaken presidency.

The White House as recently as Sunday was calling it the United States Institute of Peace. It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

The only reason the Minsk agreements were needed was cos Russia wouldn't follow UN Charter 45 Nuclear NPT 70 Helsinki Accords 75 Paris Charter 90 Belovezha Accords 92 Budapest Memo 94 Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97 Friendship Treaty 98 Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03 Karkiv pact 10 And others.

"America's diplomatic capacity is being decimated from within": Survey finds that 98% of America's professional diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. @michaelcrowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

CBS News next weekend is broadcasting a Bari Weiss-Erika Kirk "town hall." Why not just start simulcasting Hannity?

Going thru customs in India today: - Name? - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - Occupation? - No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved

Enterprise Rent-A-Car license plate revoked after immigration agents illegally swapped it out. This follows our reporting on an encounter where a federal agent told a woman, “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/i...

Cotton failing the old 'Don't ever post something you don't want read back to you on the stand in front of a jury' test

It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.

For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia “must have” authorized the nerve agent poisoning attack that accidentally killed a British woman in 2018, and he bears “moral responsibility” for her death, the chair of a British inquiry said on Thursday.