Unlike past political scandals, where the drip, drip, drip of previously hidden facts eventually becomes an overwhelming torrent, Trump era scandals are right out in the open, not just admitted to but bragged about, the smoking gun bandied about like a trophy. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

On today’s #DogShirtTV, someone in the #USmilitary ordered a strike on shipwreck survivors adrift at sea, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org has @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social on the show to discuss. #VenezuelanBoatStrike #WarCrime www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EB...

Over on x, David sacks is melting down about The New York Times reporting on his many conflicts of interest

Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.

This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended. I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

Merkel admits that Germany would not have reached the 2% goal for defence in 2024 given the policy choices during her time. Admits at being too slow (but also blames SPD).* (which I would argue is justified).

Senator Rand Paul remains principled and clear eyed on this set of issues.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it. tinyurl.com/2fyah23c

"There is no way that [Trump] should have time to have a conversation with me about Indiana mapmaking when that’s not his business, for starters. But secondly, doesn’t he have anything better to do? I can make a big list of things that are more important for him to focus on."

The other day a gas station tv tried to sell me cappuccino and mango flavored dip and I’ve never been more convinced that we’ve lost the mandate of heaven.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

Factcheck: Absolutely False! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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“ICE is about to have a bigger budget than the entire military of Israel. It’s an insane way for us to be spending our resources as a country.” - @timmiller.bsky.social

This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA. It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.

Genome study reveals milestone in history of cat domestication reut.rs/3XlVnU4

A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.

Regardless of what the facts may be, the CIA really shouldn’t be issuing finger-pointing partisan statements like this.

Exactly.

The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want. In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

This is like demanding that someone jump out of a plane before they’re given a parachute. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Probably not ideal to publish a long piece on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving… Would you help me spread the word? I wrote about some persistent myths regarding what’s happening in American society and politics we desperately need to discard:

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3264):

Kyiv is under missile attack. It’s very loud. Nothing new, really. Just thought the world should know.

A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...

CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors." www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

Congress Rebuked Trump On His Epstein Cover Up. Now It Must Rebuke Him On His Surrendering Of Ukraine To Putin open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

“And so “distrust and verify” should be the motto going forward. Congress, the media, the survivors—everyone committed to the truth come out—needs to be prepared to keep the pressure on, and to scream from the rooftops if there seems to be evasion or stonewalling. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-epstei...

Lemons, my brother in Christ, you need to get out of this case if you want to save your license. Todd will throw you under the boss and then back up over your carcass to save his own manhood in a second.

hey it's a new cartoon. I felt like letting my geek flag fly. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

ICE *and* soliciting sex from a minor? This guy just went from a Trump pardon to a Congressional medal of honor

Your move, Harvard.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

“Things happen.” Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and Washington Post columnist who was literally murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi government inside a Saudi consulate. Shameful. So shameful.

An outrageous offense to human rights around the world.

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.