On the left: Hegseth says didn't stick around for hours. Didn't personally see survivors of first strike On the right: Washing Post: "For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck."

NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.

NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

Dan Bongino just posted a list of shitty things (like shifting FBI away fr public and corruption to hunting migrants, releasing details of criminal investigations and lying about what they show, and eliminating diversity) that he's proud of. One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec. Alarming!

As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.

America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.

“In bowling they call it a spare” hell isn’t hot enough

Louder please. I can’t hear you over the gargle of whale head juice, bear guts and heroin.

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Feucht out this giving Tuesday with the official launch of the “Roots of Revival Tour” . New year-same old Sean. This time hitting up some historical sites of previous revivals. In the full video he dabbles in the black robe regiment myth- one of his favorites.

Every time he brags about that cognitive test, I’m reminded it’s the one where you have to identify a picture of a lion. The fact that he thinks it’s an achievement might actually be the test.

The fact that partisan gerrymandering is allowed is anti-democracy.

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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Our government pardoned this guy after he was tried, convicted and sentenced. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n... But we are summarily executing fishermen with no due process based solely on supposed intelligence the adminstration won't release.

Barbarity

“Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers *** The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists traced tens of thousands of transactions and found major crypto trading platforms awash with dirty money.”

How is it legal to program cars to break traffic laws

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

We're at the point that the world's richest hype man physically invaded government buildings to throw the levers of regulation to his advantage. We all discovered that the government did a bunch of regulatory things so important and boring we never heard of them until they were destroyed.

New: "Nasdaq Tells Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma It ‘No Longer Meets’ Listing Requirements After Missed Report" me, for @forbes.com 1/

This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.

No surprise! Putin’s foreign policy aide Ushakov, following Witkoff/Kushner visit, says sides are no closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. The Dim-Witt “Peace” plan is a train wreck. Rubio was too crafty to go to the Kremlin and have this silly meeting.

This is also what Trump's plan for "Freedom Cities" is about. A plot to give federal land to billionaires so they can create democracy-free zones without laws, regulations, or taxes. A blueprint for a post-democracy world. Expect a big push toward creating these new Fascist Cities...soon.

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm loses half its value in half an hour

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours. She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump. Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.

"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...

It really isn’t said enough how much these people straight up hate America. People should say this a lot more frequently. They simply don’t like the good parts of modern American life.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—pardoned by Trump while the counting in Honduras’ current presidential election is still in progress—-was accused not only of drug trafficking, but also of election fraud during the 2013 and 2017 Honduran presidential elections. 1/

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The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

my god this is hilarious. "Yes, thank you for taking my question. What do you think is currently the best way to show our loyalty to Maximum Leader Donald Trump?"

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

Hypocrisy Klaxon working overtime here. Musk says AI needs to focus on “Truth” rather than learning from the internet. And we see from Musk’s Grok that the definition of “Truth” is a pack of lies that doesn’t damage his fragile psychology. He remains a threat in this field.

"Emerging research indicates that content poking at two main emotions — anger and anxiety — gets more customer engagement than other approaches, according to Wendy Moe, a professor at University of Maryland who studies social media marketing."

Ukraine detains British army veteran on suspicion of spying for Russia on.ft.com/4paHc0d

Trump-style regime change in Venezuela on.ft.com/3K7LRRH

The Hernández pardon appears to be the work of Roger Stone, who seems to have conviced the president that he was falsely prosecuted by the Biden administration. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Medical humanities saves lives.

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Counterpoint: Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.