Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

My back hurts, and now my throat is sore. Frankly, the world stinks. I think I’ll retreat into my own little world for a couple of days. Stay safe, friends.

When even Newsmax’s legal analyst says your order was a war crime, you’ve got a problem. Pete Hegseth must resign and face a real investigation.

That’s laughable

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Yeah, it’s time to burn it all to the ground 😡

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If you’re not going to take action on MURDER, then leave office and make room for someone who can lead

Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude. It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.

Part of a pattern with Hegseth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The US government is engaged in a policy program of mass exclusion. It is not a ‘crackdown’—which means strict enforcement against lawbreakers. It seeks to exclude refugees, students, and family members immigrating lawfully, and to exclude US citizens smeared as undesirable. Not a ‘crackdown’.

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Sad

Trump has posted to Truth Social at least 75 times and counting in the past hour. It’s weirdo garbage produced by random people on X and TikTok across a number of topics, like conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar and influencers who claim “communists” are attempting a color revolution in the U.S.

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Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Tom Nichols: “There is no scenario under which you can fire and kill, fire at people that are helpless in the water, and make it legal. There just isn’t.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

When this nightmare is over, America will still be stuck with the ~15% who are, and have always been, fascist at heart. They’ve always been there. They’ll always be there. We can work without them, but never forget they’re there. Don’t expect them to deal in good faith. Be kind, but be aware.

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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire? Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

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The White House just launched a “Hall of Shame” webpage to name and shame reporters whose coverage Trump doesn’t like. What an anti–First Amendment stunt. Honestly? Everyone should try to get on it and wear it like a badge of honor.

Remembering Minnie Miñoso on his birthday…

Maybe 5-ish inches this morning on our #ChicagoSuburb. Fluffy stuff. Still coming down, steadily. ❄️ Can’t complain

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Good story. US and #FamilyHistory. (30 minute podcast episode) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

So true 😞

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On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law. The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

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It’ll just be another coverup, which will be eclipsed by ridiculously embarrassing behavior tomorrow 😔

Sage advice. I'm still learning.

He’s an ignorant, petulant, child Every day another embarrassment and nothing but projection I’m so sick of this spoiled fool

Hoping everyone has a great day

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Librarians FTW! 📚

The appellate court’s temporary stay of the order is still in effect, but Judge Ellis released her 233 page full opinion. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...

Apologies for not posting more. There are multiple reasons: for starters, there are far more informed and smarter folks sharing here, so most days the best I can do is repost and amplify their work. I do what I can, though it often feels like very little. Still, we all do what we can.

Announcing the debut of the Chicken Wings in Buffalo Timeline, something I started years ago & wasn't able to finish until I retired. Over 100 events, 1855-present. https://buffaloresearch.com/chicken-wings-in-buffalo/

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Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.

He’s correct, in fact we should break up the current big syndicates. But, of course, there are zero left-wing television stations. Zero.

The greatest tradition in all of sports for the last time this year yesterday. At the end of the 1st at every home Iowa 🏈 game the fans, players, refs, broadcasters, band, EVERYBODY waves to the kids at Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, my favorite charity. It's so great to be a Hawkeye! 🖤🥲💛

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