Great talk on Indiana politics. We need 6 R state senators to vote with Ds to defeat it. They just might. @davidpepperoh.bsky.social explains.

you'd think with the amazing healing powers he demonstrated after the "assassination" he wouldn't be showing a damn thing...

Millions of Americans watch @cbsnews.com—I do, too. That’s why I’m investigating whether the network’s content is now controlled by journalists or by Trump censors. His tactics are straight out of Putin’s Russia or Xi’s China.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

The Court does exactly what we knew it would do. And here’s how broken it is: in the very same term—just months apart—it’s highly likely that the same Court majority will rule in the following, entirely inconsistent ways: 1/

It is shameful-and expected-that the Supreme Court has chosen to side with those who seek to undermine our democracy and disenfranchise voters of color.

Presidential Walk of Fatigue

This cruel seesaw that never provides for the people’s rights and the rule of law has become unbearable.

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.

SCOTUS is a protection racket! Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered U.S. House map www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Ham sandwiches couldn’t be reached for comment.

(1) Dan Bongino, the sort-of #2 at the FBI spouted on his pod about how the bombing was an inside job; and (2) that Trump pardoned/commuted/dismissed all the J6 cases, saying they “perpetuate” ad “grave national injustice.” cont. 2/3

Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there. This is a big win to keep fishermen and the Newport community safe.

President Trump's signature law of his second term provides vastly more benefits to the rich Ohioans than to any other group. It also takes more away from Ohio's most vulnerable families than most people might realize, a new analysis says. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/04/r...

And lap belts that fit very loosely around your waist, so you can goof off as much as you want bsky.app/profile/smot...

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors." 1/🧵

Charles Manson’s ghost: “I should have become president.”

Bradley to testify “the 2 survivors were attempting to continue their drug run, making them legitimate targets.” BUT the “boat turned around before the [first] strike, which calls into question the claim that the traffickers posed an imminent threat to the U.S.” 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Man overboard? Republican women could hand Hakeem the gavel. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Fred Wellman and I’m running for Congress to win next. Join us and let’s take back Missouri.

The Admiral is not exempt just because he works for an insane President. He should have been the adult in the room.

It's decided. Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all. Energy independence starts now. → link.europa.eu/tykVJf

We’re so grateful to @aftynbehn.bsky.social for running an incredible grassroots campaign that made Republicans sweat in a deep-red district. Thank you to everybody in #TN07, across Tennessee, and nationwide for making this special election closer than anyone imagined it could be.

Pete Hegseth should resign.

Let’s do this TN! 💙 It’s getting interesting! www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

It’s one thing to fall asleep at a meeting. It’s another when you keep falling asleep at meetings you are hosting that are carried being live!

Wake up, asshole. If I don't get to sleep through your presidency, you don't.

IMO Hegseth should just say he can't remember exactly what happened because he had one too many. Totally understandable. Happens to the best of us.

Ron DeSantis will announce he’s focused on being FL Governor any minute now. (from Dec 2024)

What if—bear with me now—both those strikes and all those that followed were illegal?

Hegseth writes: “… aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?! Who cares what other countries think.” In his confirmation hearings, Hegseth refused to commit to the Geneva Convention rules when Dems repeatedly pressed him. Republicans are accomplices for confirming him

Military folks are not happy tonight.

Ron DeSantis will announce he’s focused on being FL Governor any minute now. (from Dec 2024)

It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him. So there’s that, too.

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

This is a must read. The most in depth understanding of how corrupt our foreign policy has become. Trump and Witkoff (Rubio totally sidelined) are proposing to sell out Ukraine in exchange for Russian deals for their billionaire crowd. Not about peace. Just about profit.

there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Senator Warner calls bullshit on Republicans. Demands answers for the sake of US sailors. youtube.com/shorts/mt_iH...

Another mathematician who lives in a perfect state. Trump is a tragedy for us all. Bad things unrelated to the way you live your life can befall you. I wouldn’t thumb my nose at you if you were my neighbor.

I spend most of my time on Substack bc every single time I log on here there are people wishing the worst for whole states Trump won. Michigan is a blue wall state that has close elections. Stop the cruelty. Save it for the privileged who sit on their hands.

Calvin unfortunate not to have Turning Point to do his bidding bsky.app/profile/jake...

A lot of you probably don’t know this, but it’s a HIPAA violation for a doctor to tell the patient which part of the body is being examined in an MRI.

With the @ajc.com print edition ending, the newsroom looked at some of the breakthrough moments in the paper’s pages that shaped its staff. Here’s mine:

McCartney & Wings release “Band on the Run” today in 1973 — after some nightmare recording sessions in Lagos. “The studio wasn’t finished, half the gear didn’t work,” he said. “We got jumped by guys with knives .. it really did feel like we were a band on the run — trying to make this thing work.”