What? You expect a sitting US Senator to know what the law she wants to amend already says? How could she get any self-righteous posturing out of that?

These people are becoming massively rich off destroying society with algorithms that isolate and radicalize everyone against each other. Literally everyone is worse off because of it it is only getting worse and they do not care because they all have bunkers.

Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.

"Official documents and expert conversations reference the growing belief that the fossil fuel economy has run its course, and that it can and should be replaced by a new, better system centred on manufactured goods that generate and run on renewable electricity." Core truth of the 21st century.

Pete Hegseth responded to all this with the smirking, adolescent sadism of a schoolyard bully pulling the legs off of a spider. Now juxtapose this with the horror experienced by a source who saw the imagery of the men being blown apart in the water: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.

There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help. n.pr/3MdlYQQ

Probably time to loudly repeat that members of the military must not follow illegal orders. The US is not at war with Venezuela and has no right to threaten aircraft in its airspace, let alone shoot anything down.

This is why those who ordered and executed the second boat strike committed murder.

the oval office now looks like a clearance table at hobby lobby

I spent a lot of my life around speculative "what's better than the rule of law" but now we're in actual "what's worse than the rule of law."

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

Send the National Guard home. Stop bombing civilians. Quit breaking up families in America while giving sweetheart deals to sex traffickers and Apartheid deadenders. Stop ripping us off and selling out our allies just so you and your kids can get richer. For a start.

Straight-up sociopath. Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.

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

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?

I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Note also that Comey's lawyers have argued that DOJ is wrong as to 18 U.S.C. 3288's applicability here. From their reply: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:

DOGE did not exist to save taxpayers money. It existed to take a wrecking ball to programs that had drifted into the crosshairs of the insane conspiracy right as hiding the secret switch that would turn off liberalism. They found nothing, destroyed entire agencies and gave the data to who knows who.

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

One last point. In the Trump Murder Memo (the memo supposedly explaining legal rationale for Trump boat bombings), DOJ's *own lawyers* go out of their way to pre-exonerate lower-level people carrying out those killings. Experts tell me this signals fear *on the inside* that these orders are illegal!

One other point I didn't make here: Allies like Britain believe the US is carrying out illegal bombings. Who are we effing kidding? Of course its reasonable to think Trump is issuing illegal orders! Why is this being treated as such a controversial suggestion?

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

TIL Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who 🤦🏾‍♀️

I find it eternally frustrating: Trump’s behavior is just the product of some very transparent, very disordered inner psychology. But for some reason that psychology is mostly taboo in the realm of political commentary; we have to pretend he has “beliefs” and “policy goals.” I assure you he does not

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

One thing I think about a lot is that the reason gay rights had such a monumental victory in the last decades is because once people started coming out, just about everybody found out they knew a gay/lesbian person. It's a lot harder to hate/fear someone you know.

The Art of the Deal. [Cartoon by Dennis Goris]

NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in. Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.

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/

Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said."

Trump's rants against Democrats have inspired everything from death threats and pipe bombs to the January 6th assault on the Capitol. This is a time to take him literally and seriously.

Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.

… and who are just reminding people of their constitutional rights and responsibilities

Quite the statement.

I'm no economist, but is Nvidia making huge profits really evidence that there isn't an AI bubble, when so much of the insane spending on AI goes right to Nvidia? It's like saying "How can there be a bubble when this tulip farmer is making so much money?" www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

i talk a lot of shit about george washington but i will say the greatest thing he ever did was give up his military commission after the war was won. the military is subservient to the elected leadership and elected leadership answers to us - THE PEOPLE. this is the bedrock of american democracy.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

There doesn’t seem to be much question but that the Comey indictment is invalid, and the real question is whether it is dismissed with prejudice or without prejudice.

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.

The cynics all saw this coming. Which shows that it pays to be cynical.

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Nothing to worry about, just a sitting federal judge having been revealed as openly endorsing extrajudicial killings

This jackass thinks people want to "negotiate" for health care. We don't want to fucking negotiate a goddamn thing with goddamn corporations - we just want health care! This is all a fucking game to him. He has zero concept of how any normal human being lives. Never vote for any Republican ever.

"The court is finding that the government’s actions in this case — whether purposeful, reckless or negligent — raise genuine issues of misconduct, are inextricably linked to the government’s grand jury presentation and deserve to be fully explored by the defense." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

It’s pretty telling that nobody is taking Trump’s call to release the files at face value other than the press who still believes things he says for some reason.