Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner on the Signalgate report: "Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets." He is calling for Hegseth to resign.

Reform in Scotland will make the % of children in Glasgow whose mother tongue was not English a big issue for 2026 campaign So what are they saying Scottish government can/should do about that stat & those children now?! The level/quality of English is a policy question. Doesn't change this stat

Nancy Mace has told people she is so frustrated with [Johnson] & sick of the way he has run the House—particularly how women are treated there—that she is planning to huddle with MTG next week to discuss following her lead & retiring early from Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.

Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

Nearly six months later.

Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts! democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

So it turns out the content-stealing Politics UK Twitter account is actually 50% owned by a former Tory MP turned lobbyist and charged thousands of pounds for posting pro-China posts on its own feed democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Your perception has been distorted by the unreality of the internet. You think all of this is just performance, a mirage that doesn’t matter, and underneath it all things are basically normal. It’s the opposite: normality is the mirage and actual events are almost incomprehensibly abnormal.

Trump: ‘Putin wants the war to end — that’s the impression Whitkof and Kushner got after their meeting. I think he wants to return to a more normal life; he wants to return to trading with the U.S.instead of losing thousands of soldiers every week…He very much wants to reach a peace agreement.’

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

Big story from investigative journalists just breaking. Also on ITV News at 10: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Maria Komarova runs a celebrity-loved fashion brand in London while her father helps lead Russia’s war against Ukraine. 🧵 1/8 ⬇️

I see kicking out the pentagon press corps stopped the leaks

he's gotta go

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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

The New Yorker has confirmed my reporting, per @pgourevitch.bsky.social

Single Woman Tired Of Looking For Mr. Bean http://theonion.com/single-woman-tired-of-looking-for-mr-bean/

A federal judge has denied a woman's lawsuit claiming that when she was 11, she wrote letter to Starburst's parent company inventing the concept of the two-flavor "Duo" ... only for the company to steal it decades later. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

Electricity prices are soaring while utilities rake in billions in profit. Here's three ideas to bring bills down: 1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day 2) Stop utility profiteering 3) Keep climate impacts off bills My latest in @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

🔴There's been a lot of coverage about David Lammy’s cuts to jury trials but relatively little - nothing! - on his plans to scrap the automatic right to appeal so I took a look for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Hegseth's recklessness put our troops at risk. His orders led to what were likely war crimes. He was never qualified. He set an atrocious example for the world's most powerful military. Most people who failed this badly at their jobs would be fired. He should be fired too.

Elon Musk sharing Tommy Robinson calling for violence in Minnesota

If you move off of "Men must pay for everything because natural selection sculpted lady brains to test male attractiveness based on their accumulation of resources" to "women appear less inclined to date shiftless hobos" it doesn't land quite the same way.

And this isn't even the first time: newspapers are filled with decades of journalists "rediscovering" accommodations and "just asking questions, because has it gone too far" Im so fed up with this ahistorical dangerous ignorant bullshit.

wrote about the problem of the pardon power (gift link)

Pentagon's top watchdog concluded that information Defense Secretary Hegseth shared in a Signal chat could have endangered troops and national security. www.theatlantic.com/national-...

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Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan

Hey, quick question about this photo from Epstein's island: What the fuck

Reform UK aiming for reverse takeover of Tories, Farage says

it gives me no pleasure to inform you that I have embraced Hakeem Jeffries Is Part of the Fucking Problem Thought

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⚡️ Pope Francis has left a “significant sum of money” in his will to buy ambulances for Ukraine. The revelation came from Sister María Lucía Caram Padilla, head of the Santa Clara Monastery Foundation, who was recently honored by President Zelenskyy with the Order of Princess Olga III class. 1/2

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted? JFC what are you doing?

News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure, says The Telegraph. Brexit Effect: UK GDP down 8% Investment down 18% Productivity down 4% Employment down 4% Immigration not cut No trade benefits No regulatory freedom Why do some still vote for Farage? archive.ph/L2Gqp

Why are Republicans afraid to let Jack Smith testify in public?

"Fractures have emerged in the Maga coalition," writes Guardian columnist Moira Donegan. "Republicans are beginning to imagine what the country – and more importantly, their own careers – will look like without him."

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image: