#TRUMP #corruption Some More News: All The Ways Trump Is Using The Presidency To Enrich Himself littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5507...

Host: A White House official intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. Paul Ingrassia is a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, where he was working as its DHS liaison.

Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts. The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

This is unprecedented in my memory. Slotkin and Kelly are both on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Deluzio, Goodlander, Houlahan are all on the House Armed Services Committee, and Crow is on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They would not be doing this without cause.

For folks catching up, the reason the second indictment weirdly wasn't in the grand jury transcript, which confused the magistrate judge, is THEY NEVER PRESENTED IT TO THE GRAND JURY.

Rep. Crow: Trump has put our service members in very difficult positions, and has alluded to putting them in even more difficult positions in the months ahead. We are reminding folks about what the Uniform Code of Military Justice says, what the Constitution says, what the law of war says

#Texas religious radicals should mind their own business and follow their own rules before trying to force them on the general public. #That'llBeTheDay

Democrats see a plan to undermine elections in Trump's surge of federal agents in cities Potential 2028 Democratic contenders are escalating speculation of Republican attempts to undermine upcoming elections. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Fun fact: the US sells more higher ed to China than soybeans

Of course the White House is leaning into this. Because apparently they don't realize we exported more higher ed last year than natural gas & coal *combined*

if you're a single-issue "affordability" voter, this should be concerning

They might even imply that Walker herself is to blame: they’ll say she had existing health problems. I’ve even seen anti-abortion groups victim-blame Black women for maternal deaths by saying they’re more likely to be “obese." There is no overstating how far they're willing to go to shirk blame

This legacy EO from 9/11 is much to broad and sweeping for the Trump presidency, and the idiocracy controlling our government now. Congress must act to revoke it ASAP.

This legacy EO from 9/11 is much to broad and sweeping for the Trump presidency, and the idiocracy controlling our government now. Congress must act to revoke it ASAP.

E.O. 13224, Authorizes the Secretary of State to “designate foreign individuals or entities that he determines have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the U.S.”

The Chilling Steps The Trump Administration is taking to quell free speech and potentially extra-judicially murder demonstrators: State Dept’s Foreign Terrorist Designations Undermine Claims of “Antifa” Threat www.justsecurity.org/125072/fto-s...

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

MonoNeon Brings His Freaky Avant-Funk Stank to Jam in the Van littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5507...

A nickle for your thoughts... Farewell, fair penny. You are finished, but never forgotten www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.

Colbert: Jeffrey Epstein: Trump’s A Bad Guy | “Bubba” Was Neither A Clinton Nor A Horse | Trump: I Don’t Care littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5506...

A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy: Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal: Canada Colombia EU France Mexico Netherlands? UK We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.

Fascist.

Mohammed bin Salman should be in a courthouse facing justice for ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Instead, he's at the White House.

Moderation as a strategy, "It's tapped out. There are no gains left to be had. ....I see anti-corruption as this very open lane for realignment," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...

NEW: Lindsey Halligan apparently told the grand jury in the Comey case that they should indict on promised future evidence, and that Comey is guilty until proven innocent. Check out my chat with @klasfeldreports.com about this incredible ruling today: www.muellershewrote.com/p/halligan-i...

With far right in this country the exception almost always becomes the gotcha rule because the press knows that the far- right's outrage, whether faux, or whether real, = clicks, clicks, and more clicks.

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

The TikTok video shows Parks accelerating his patrol car directly toward the man, striking him with the vehicle at least once. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-of...

Parasocial - that one-sided feeling you really know a celebrity - is Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year

I had some breakfast and now Deck.blue is back.

Donald Trump's "Very fine people..."

Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights  talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...

A group of House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a measure that would bar President Trump from continuing his military offensive against drug cartels without express approval from Congress. It comes after two failed efforts by Senate Democrats to force similar action in that chamber.

While you can reach & use bluesky you can't get to Deck Blue right now due to Cloudflare.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

The #enshittification continues: This morning I had to click through an energy company advertisement to use my thermostat.

Seth Meyers: Trump Attacks Greene and Massie Amid MAGA Civil War Over Epstein Scandal littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5506...

The math is clear: rural Americans save an average of $890/year from enhanced ACA subsidies—28% more than urban counterparts. Democrats pushed for them, but even victory might have gone unrecognized by the beneficiaries.

The competition, held in Panama this year, brings together teams from all over the world. It is the first time a team from the U.S. reached the semifinals at the competition.

“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to limit the amount of wetlands it covers.

John Oliver reacts to Megyn Kelly seemingly downplaying Epstein's sex crimes by arguing that “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old.”: “Look, I am clearly no stranger to sharing upsetting numbers with my audience, but please do kill me if I ever start doing pedophile math”

Are we great enough yet?