The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group

Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.

Where is the outrage in Congress? Why do we have a Congress? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

ICE will provide huge financial incentives to bounty hunters who help Trump hunt down immigrants. My latest on how private contractors could earn up to $281 MILLION dollars serving as de facto law enforcement. No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters. youtu.be/7AT-dwgAKms?...

New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable "The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"

Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.

Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”

Skip the corporations run by oligarch billionaires destroying democracy and the planet. #WeAintBuyingIt #3E

Trump betrayed Ukraine, secretly colluded with Russians against Europe, and has a secret line with the Kremlin outside of official overview, hidden from everyone including US spy / national security agencies. These are the reddest of flags. A spy sits at the White House.

Pete Hegseth committed a war crime and then doubled down. He instructed the military to murder civilians at sea and when there were injured victims he gave the order to kill them all. Surviving victims were brutally dismembered at sea by US missiles.

They want to shift your attention with the DC shooting, from these topics: - Epstein files coverup - White House secretly colluding with Russians - Kushner and Witkoff likely committed espionage - failing economy - failed soy trade deal with China - Trump health down hill - Hegseth murders

SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

Nearly a dozen warships and 12,000 troops are deployed in Caribbean at this very moment. But Trump's judicial nominees can't even bring themselves to acknowledge Congress’ role in declaring or authorizing war, or refusing to do so.

A report reveals the DOJ—after frantically realizing the files would be released—has been paying FBI agents nearly $1M in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project." Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N

Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.

National Guard shooter was granted asylum under Trump admin. www.reuters.com/world/us/off...

You and me both. And now folks are treating Bush Jr. like a nice old paintin' grandpa who everybody misses; forgetting the whole "lies to take us into an unnecessary war," literal torture at our Cuba concentration camp, letting the Ninth Ward in NOLA drown, mass surveillance and more.

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion. Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.

President Donald Trump called a journalist “stupid” for attempting to fact-check his claim that the Biden administration didn’t vet Afghan nationals who came to the United States, related to the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/4is4aO4

“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”

Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.

Donald Trump incited an insurrection on J6. He should never have been able to run for public office again. What a failure of justice to not hold this man accountable.

“Once the claws are in you through social media—it starts dragging down the whole democracy with it.” The journalist Eliot Higgins speaks with Charlie Warzel about how algorithmic incentives can affect how people make political decisions. Listen to the episode: theatln.tc/y9MnNOkb

It never stops…

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Americans have one person to thank for the higher price of their Thanksgiving dinner this year.

Refuse Fascism said: "The Trump administration constitutes an illegitimate fascist regime and must be removed from power."

With job losses, food benefit reductions and higher prices, many in the U.S. are having to scrimp this holiday season. n.pr/4pzuEzh

The Afghan man alleged to have shot two National Guardsmen near the White House had his asylum approved by the Trump administration earlier this year, according to reports.

"I grabbed the twins and tried to run to the door to open it," Maryioth Pascanales told Newsweek.

The public health expert called BS on the White House’s claims that Trump is in excellent shape.

Speaker Mike Johnson mimicked the accent of a Black man in his district giving him advice on the secret to a happy marriage: “Lean in real close… There’s two things… Uh, let her think she’s the boss, and buy her a new car every three years.”

Unemployment hit a four-year high in September, with data for October and November data show ongoing weakness in the labor market.

Trump’s tariffs are making your Thanksgiving more expensive.

AI gives coal plants a lifeline as Trump makes them dirtier

FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

*Such* a pit in my stomach about the Georgia case. Such a wasted possibility. It's hard to avoid simultaneously crediting Willis for a strong, convincing, aggressive, and important set of indictments, and blaming her for the catastrophic misjudgment that made it impossible to have a trial in 2024.

This holiday season, families face a trifecta of economic pressures: Record-high grocery bills. The weakest seasonal job market in over a decade. Rising electricity costs. Working people are struggling in Trump's economy, but he's too busy building himself a ballroom to notice.

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In 2022, Donald Trump sued me and others associated with the Clinton campaign for RICO. We did not cave. We fought. First, we won in a Florida trial court. Today, we won in the 11th Circuit. To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.