First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

Republicans in disarray! www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.

So, the guy with the bottle is gonna court marshal the guy with the medals?

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

"But the really harsh lesson of Ukraine isn’t just that America is an unreliable defender. It’s that America may take the side of the aggressor." www.thebulwark.com/p/america-he...

The Trump economy is being propped up by a giant speculative bubble of AI and crypto, with a small group of people getting insanely wealthy and everyone else getting screwed while the Mad King tells us everything is great and everyone is thriving.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.

Or you could stay, impeach him, and then leave.

It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war

This is an official statement from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is the top civilian at the Pentagon, and thus the link in the chain of command between the President and the SOUTHCOM commander, and thus the key civilian who would be giving orders in what may soon be a war with Venezuela.

PAMELA BROWN: Are Democrats having discussions about how to handle it if more members are embroiled in anything having to do with Epstein? RASKIN: I literally have not had one Democrat in the House or Senate come to us and say, 'Hey, you better slow down, that might embarrass one of our people'

historic levels of leopards eating faces

Finally, the media worm is turning on Trump: *NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump *Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP *Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing *Trump clearly declining in many polls On the pod we parse through all this evidence: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

I hadn't seen this Jack Posobiec tweet before. Who are "white people" in this analogy? Who, precisely, felt victimized by the Treaty of Versailles in the years after WWI? Kind of telling to look back at history and see yourself as them instead of, say, the Americans. 🤔

The Mad King

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Dealing w/all this fascist crap is NOT how I wanted to spend my golden years.. Just saying.. #politics

Crow: "It's so telling that when members of Congress simply remind service members of the Constitution and their duty to obey the law that he cannot handle that and resorts to threats of violence and execution. That tells you everything you need to know about Trump's respect for the Constitution"

Is he posting his DMs to Bondi again?

Not a no 🤔

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.

🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

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This is right and the other thing here, especially because Lizza doesn’t present evidence, is that “catch and kill” means something specific—putting a source into a contractual obligation so that they don’t have the option of taking a story elsewhere and then not running it.

“I’ve got the best poll numbers I’ve ever had! Red hot!!!”

You should be paying attention to Tennessee. The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Trump’s base are starting to show.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

I think it's possible I may love the commentary on this photograph more than life itself

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.

Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.

Can't believe he didn't use the old "straight from central casting, this guy! The ratings are hot!"

Sums it up nicely.

How mad is Stephen Miller right now 😂

Interesting. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers says she will plead the fifth if forced to testify to Congress. But she willingly sat down with Todd Blanche? What a load of horseshit. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump: anything else pal? Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor? Trump: no problem!

Next week sneaking up like...

this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane