I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Hegseth should be in rehab for alcohol & sex abuse. He does not have coping skills to hold down a stressful job. What we see is a dry drunk, or a wet one, who acts out his strong man fetishes being impaired, incompetent when he can’t cope. Embarrassing af.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Hegseth is unwell, and in need of clinical intervention.

WASHPOST: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Vital reporting here by Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima from WashPost) Free link wapo.st/49KbUJ1

a young woman who signed up to serve her community and our narcissistic, despotic president decided to use her as a prop for his ego

Governor Tim Walz fired back perfectly after Trump's vile slur. He demanded Trump release his recent MRI results, turning the spotlight onto the former president's alarming mental state and lack of transparency. A brilliant move.

Member of the German Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen: “The 28-point plan shows a fundamental change of course for the USA. Without their support over the past 80 years, Germany would not be the third-largest economy, a democracy, and united. All the more bitter, then, that the USA have sold out Europe.”

Kash Patel’s girlfriend suggests that Sen. Mark Kelly’s video is responsible for the shooting of National Guard troops in DC.

I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.

Except that’s what everyone on the right was doing before we learned it was the Trump admin that granted him asylum - and most are still doing it. If only Republicans would blame the shooters more often instead of trying to use deranged acts by individuals for political gain.

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

Politico reports that Marco Rubio has informed European allies that the United States wants a peace deal before offering any security guarantee to Ukraine, a plan experts describe as “giving someone a parachute after they hit the ground.”

Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"

I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.

We now know that the man who shot the National Guard troops worked with the CIA for years in Afghanistan in a covert unit that was accused of the widespread killing of civilians. This raises so many questions about why this guy travelled from Washington State all the way to DC to shoot soldiers

Nothing to see here: Just a CIA trained killer from an elite unit travels from Washington State to DC to shoot random National Guard troops at a random train station on Thanksgiving Eve. Even MAGA has to know this smells rotten.

Collective, racist punishment.

Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies: If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.

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.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here

Joining MSNOW at 3 to discuss this, among other things

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Not only is expertise dead, grave robbers are mauling its corpse

Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Does anyone else wonder if Trump is behind the shooting of the two National Guard troops? The shooting does offer him some level of pretext to flood DC with more troops.

The shooting of two National Guard soldiers. Trump: “Monstrous” The murder of American journalist Jamāl Khāshqujī. Trump: “Things happen”

It’s true! The National Guard shooter was granted asylum by the Trump administration in April 2025.

"Trump Approved National Guard Shooting Suspect’s Asylum' This attack was all Trump- from granting asylum to the shooter to putting West Virginia National Guard troops on streets of DC in harms way. Trump should RESIGN! www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

A J6er pardoned by Trump just got arrested for crimes against two kids. One victim, only 11, says 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson abused him 3 times. Kids pay the price for Trump's soft-on-crime policies. #Jan6 #TrumpPardons

Didn’t the FBi pull a lot of personnel from anti terrorism to put them on deportations? Actually the whole security establishment pivoted

The “I have more medals” and “I’ve seen more combat than you” MAGA bro responses to Mark Kelly’s post most are the most pathetically hilarious things on social media today, aside from Candace Owens claiming that Macron ordered a hit on her by French legionnaires.

Trump, Eric & Junior promised their patriotic ‘Made in the USA’ cell phones would be delivered in Aug to the MAGA rubes. Still no phones, and the ‘Made in USA’ claim had been scrubbed from their website. Scam #1,284. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t working for the US, or for humanity. He’s working for Vladimir Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.

You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.

The only Republican speaking with clarity on this issue. Sad that he’s the only one.

Solid analysis.

The president and his special envoy are primarily concerned with finding a way to make Putin happy by providing a sufficient reward for his brutal and sadistic war of aggression. We have become a country that sells out our friends and embraces the worst people on the planet.

neutral arbiter while siding w/Putin at every turn. But we should not even be a neutral arbiter. We should be clearly & squarely on the side of Ukraine, while negotiating from a position of strength & resolve. But we are a small, petty nation under Trump, devoid of moral compass.

There has never been a single time, as president or candidate, that Trump has singled out Putin for condemnation for his brutal invasion of Ukraine that murders civilians daily. It is always “both sides” that are to blame according to Trump, Vance and Witkoff. He masquerades as a

There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.

Is there an amount of wealth you can acquire that helps you sleep better at night when, as a specially appointed official representing the US, you side with and embrace a murderous dictator like Putin? Does material wealth make Witkoff feel good about that? How much does it take?

The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.

Trump sending America’s top diplomats.

Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.

"Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian cities is relentless as Vladimir Putin tries to plunge civilians into a winter of cold and darkness. cbsn.ws/48BMIST