Rand Paul: "I think the boat attacks are a prelude to an invasion of Venezuela. I don't like the idea of an offensive war or regime change."

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

Sean Duffy: "I hear President Trump talk publicly and privately -- he cares about affordability for the American consumer." (Trump literally called affordability a "hoax" just yesterday!)

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

What does a president who believes he can do whatever he wants look like? What does a president who believes he’s above the law look like? What does a president who believes he has total immunity look like? It looks like this president. That’s what it looks like. Well done America.

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments. Seems like a key detail!

easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs

"If we are now at the point where the federal government is deploying agents on legal American citizens w/ a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out." Jacob Frey

This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

"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."

Correct

as the law and order president i will be releasing the criminals and locking up innocent people to create the most lawful, orderly for-profit institutions in the history of america

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.

The good news: 1) Aftyn Behn moved a ruby red district 12 points more blue. 2) She can and should run again in the midterm election. 3) With real investment and good candidates, every R+ 7 or less seat is now in play. The bad news: Rural white voters are still the absolute worst.

Admiral Bradley is set to brief Congress tomorrow on the boat strikes— Which brings Admiral Holsey’s recent resignation to mind, after he informed Hegseth that he had no intention of carrying out an illegal order after 40 years of service in the U.S. Navy— I’d like to hear Holsey’s testimony too

This is unfortunately and sadly who we are now….

Tax the rich like we tax lottery winnings .

If there weren't 834 other scandals, this would be scandal #1. Selling out US security, our European allies and Ukraine for personal financial gain. Witkoff and Kushner must be investigated, or, there must be hearings if Dems take back the House. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...

I would rather live next to a Somali immigrant than a MAGA, and it ain't even close.

“I wanted bad things to happen to other people, not me.” - Every trump voter

In a nutshell:

Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

Poor guy’s been tuckered out. All that starting work at noon will get to ya

Imagine calling someone Sleepy Joe throughout their presidency only to snore your way through meetings during yours.

Dear Pete, Donald, MAGA etc: “What will it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul” We are selling out our nation, our future, our morality, for the ego and wealth of a 79 year old man.

The GOP evangelical base could have & should have ended all of this way back when the Access Hollywood video came out. But they failed the test of character and here we are. In some ways I’m glad it happened. In hindsight a reckoning was coming. Might as well have it now rather than later.

The president is falling asleep durring a White House cabinet meeting with each member praising him for his resilience. What are we doing America? This is so embarrassing.

So am I.

one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

Agree 💯 With Mark Kelly......

This.👇

He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... Good piece.

AOC is 🎯 right here. This isn’t about left versus right, it IS about top versus bottom.TN race reflects the fight, the determination, and the dedication to equity and dignity for working class people across the country. TN, you speak for all of us at crucial junction. We support & believe in you!

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military. They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.

the Sam Bankman-Fried affair was the closest we got to seeing the shape of our ruling class. The man had nothing to offer. Couldn't code, didn't have any coherent ideas, could barely describe his own business in either simple or technical terms. But he was surrounded by old school finance people

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Good morning and happy Tuesday to everyone except shithole presidents who call women 'pigs,' POC 'animals' and opponents 'retarded' then posts over 150 times in one hour on Truth Social last night to show us he is neither stable, nor a genius.

AOC is 🎯 right here. This isn’t about left versus right, it IS about top versus bottom.TN race reflects the fight, the determination, and the dedication to equity and dignity for working class people across the country. TN, you speak for all of us at crucial junction. We support & believe in you!

🔥 WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “Tennessee is ready to elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social. Miracles can happen… to run in an R+22 seat takes a very special kind of person with a very special kind of guts.” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...