The cruelty is the point

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The blithering liars continue to spin their tales, eh. 🙄

ICYMI:

The Internet is not impressed with Trump's new prize. Trump, beaming, declared it “one of the great honors of my life” and repeated that the U.S. was “the hottest country anywhere in the world.” Online, however, his delight was met with unrelenting mockery. www.mediaite.com/online/inter...

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For a guy who was blinded by “the fog of war,” he had a pretty clear recollection of what went down when he was bragging to Fox News shortly after it went down. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is Nazi behavior.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

The cruelty coming from the Trump regime keeps getting darker, and his MAGA movement cheers it on. Tomorrow, we look at how he’s hardened the hearts of millions and why it may be backfiring. Yesterday, we broke down the push to rewrite the truth about the double-tap strike and the lies around it.

"Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is not the response of a patriot who must answer to the public about the security of the United States and its people in uniform. It is not the response of a secretary of defense who values the advice of the officers who report to him."

50 million people in the US don't have enough to eat while as much as 40% of food rots before being eaten. That's equivalent to 120 billion meals a year, which is more than TWICE as much food that'd be needed to feed 50 million Americans 3 times a day for an entire year.

A nation that allows criminals to be pardoned by the very person who orders their crimes, is a organized crime syndicate masquerading as a nation.

Pete Hegseth committed murder. But what must not be lost in this is that Trump also violated international law. The question is how can we effectively press for them to both be held accountable. My new article. deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

The proposal included provisions requiring Ukraine to accept “full amnesty for Russians accused of war crimes” as part of a wider settlement framework. This encompasses people already under ICC investigation or indictment because the clause did not exclude senior officials or specific offenses.

Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out! Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrUdbkvC/ This is the kind of HORROR shit Nazis do. EVERY person involved in this action should go to prison.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans in Indiana’s State House released a draft congressional map that could eliminate two districts that are currently held by Democrats. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.

Donald Trump is setting the stage to abandon Pete Hegseth. Trump’s DOJ throws Kristi Noem under the bus as she faces possible contempt. Trump pledges to release his MRI results that are as perfect as the “perfect phone call” that got him impeached. Subscribe to support:

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JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Free (gift) article from Sen Ron Wyden. It really is a bombshell, though we all probably knew this all along.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration would send hundreds of additional National Guard soldiers to the nation’s capital after two soldiers were shot in the city Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why did he not come forward sooner? Aside from that, the point is that there ARE (or were) pictures, according to Michael Wolff.

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Read this thread. Incompetence on steroids. Shit. 😖😖😖😖😖😖

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If the plan was to deliberately destroy both education and healthcare in this country, I can't imagine what they'd be doing differently.

Democrats scored big in school board races across Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio — flipping dozens of seats. The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.

On brand for a kakistocracy.

This young man has it exactly right.

It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

So by every objective measure that we rate the economy on, Trump has made things worse, not better.

No coincidence that today’s outburst about hanging Democrats in Congress from Trump comes right after he’s been schmoozing with his big pal, Mr Bone Saw. WWMBS DO??? www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/m...

This is where we're at now. Officially.

In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The way to do this.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

The Pentagon has decided that Swastikas and nooses are cool now, and no longer considered symbols of hate. So if you're Jewish or black, and bunking with Nazis, well you'll just have to be OK with that because Nazis aren't bad anymore and bigotry is acceptable. www.rawstory.com/trump-swasti...

We’re awfully lucky that Trump attracts not just crooks, but really dumb crooks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There's "new information"? But only about Democrats who interacted with Epstein? And this only prompted a new investigation after Trump publicly said these people should be investigated? Looks like she is lying, lying, lying.

🚨BREAKING: After a federal court delivered a stinging rebuke of Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting scheme — ruling it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — GOP leaders wasted no time appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

Last night, Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, called a female reporter “piggy” for asking a question about the Epstein files. Party of family values, amirite.

BREAKING: Donald Trump reverses course and tells Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files. I am very skeptical, however. He’s the President. He can release the files. I break it down: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...