Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

I realise that evil men have an annoying tendency to live forever but I do believe that this time the odds are in our favour. Accountability before the inevitable would be a bonus though.

Trump’s human trafficking adjacent adult son, Trump jr, is spreading Russian disinformation now. (🎥 @nextatvofficial.bsky.social )

Schiff: "I think that all of these strikes are unlawful. They are a form of extrajudicial killing. These boats are not invading the US in an armed assault ... the fact the administration may put a group of organizations on a list doesn't confer on a president the ability to kill them at sea."

Electoral Reform Society: “We are seeing an alarming trend of parties receiving larger and larger donations from single super-wealthy donors and the public are rightly asking what these very rich people expect in return for their money." https://bit.ly/4rAErap

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.

Republicans in the Indiana state Senate could give President Donald Trump a major political black eye this week — and the conservative voters who elected them say they don't mind. https://cnn.it/4oGyHJt

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."

I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed. 1. The Aesthetics Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/

4. The Psychology I admit that I find one aspect of Truss fascinating. Does she see what everyone else sees? At times I am convinced that she is genuinely oblivious to her own absurdity. Other times, I think I see, through a vulnerable chink, the pain of someone trapped in their own grift. 10/

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

Himes: "As many times as Tom Cotton may say it doesn't matter what they were doing, it matters essentially what they were doing ... these guys were barely alive much less engaging in hostilities"

JUST IN: Trump lashes out at Rep. Henry Cuellar, whom he recently pardoned after bribery charges, accusing him of a “Lack of loyalty” for running for reelection as a Democrat instead of switching to the GOP

Trump’s Justice Department is hellbent on accessing our private voter info—Social Security numbers, party affiliation, driver's licenses—resulting in what experts warn would be a gold mine for hackers. “It's a hacker's dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere.”

Himes on the difference between Trump's boat strikes and Obama's drone strikes: "The most important distinction is that Congress authorized the war on terror ... the original sin of this whole thing is that there is no congressional authorization."

Once the concern was wealthy individuals influencing policy, now the ultra wealthy are in the position to be the sole funder of a political movement. We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.

The United States new National Security Strategy has declared Europe the enemy, it is now official US policy to weaken and destroy the European Union in order to subjugate the continent under Russia.

US and Russian officials participated in a coordinated attack on Europe which saw thousands of bots spread disinformation and terroristic rhetoric against the European Union.

The United States and Russia have officially formed an alliance against Europe, Ukraine, and Canada.

JUST IN: U.S. ground beef prices just hit their highest level ever. Great job, Donald

This is contemptible. Not only do we now have confirmation Hegseth has been lying from the jump, but it seems neither he nor his team understand that killing everyone on a target list *becomes* an illegal No Quarter Order if targets try to surrender or are neutralized. Their semantic games are vile.

It also has not explained why strikes are happening in the Caribbean, when the drugs Trump says he's trying to prevent coming to the U.S. are coming via the Pacific. It also has not explained why it's targeting *Venezuelan* rather than Mexican and Colombian boats, given the origins of those drugs.

3 more Reform/Brexit Party MEPs have been named as 'following the same script' provided by Russia to the jailed Nathan Gill. Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolf are all named in Crown Prosecution Service Documents, as among 8 Ukip/Brexit party MEPs which Gill targeted to fulfil tasks.

WTF is wrong with NHS admin? One in 7 people in England who need hospital care don't get it because their GP referral gets lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient watchdog admits. 75% of people in this “referrals black hole” suffer physical or mental harm as a result.

We had to kill them, they were trying to survive. Oh yeah, and they were brown.

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ilhan Omar, "It's completely disgusting" "These are Americans that President Trump is calling garbage" "It's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanising can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president"

This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Confesses to Impeachable Offense on Social Media, Revealing That He Pardoned a Democratic Congressman to Try to Illicitly Gain a GOP House Seat, Retain His GOP Majority in Congress, and Stave Off a 2027 House Impeachment

Trump here makes clear that he executed an official act—a pardon—with an expectation of "LOYALTY" from the recipient of the act, with his definition of LOYALTY as he executed the act being that the recipient of it would either never run for Congress again or not run as a Democrat.

🚨 For the last few months we’ve been undercover to see if the TikTok algorithm is disproportionately pushing far-right content... Here's what we found: https://www.bestforbritain.org/far_right_and_tiktok

Farage and his defenders have been trying to absolve him of racist and antisemitic abuse by saying it all happened a long time ago when he was a teenager. What is little known is that in 1999, he was using vile racist language, as can be seen in the screenshots Please share this little known info.

BREAKING: no they aren't.

"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump and the GOP aren’t just giving up on affordability, they’re pretending the crisis isn’t even happening.

'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019." How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"In response to Trump's order, attorneys general in 21 states sued the administration. Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..." www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Hardly a people's revolt 🫠

Former Tory donor. Should fit in well.

Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand (photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)

Cartoon by John Darkow.

“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

New map update

I have never seen Europe this angry at the US; Trump has practically destroyed the alliance and any ounce of trust left. The US is going full pariah state.

"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?' She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.

This story more than any other disgusts me. Yinka was a little 9 year old boy Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17 We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too