A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

⭕️ UPDATE — Marwan Barghouti’s family issues clarification following alarming phone call After a family member and Prisoners’ Affairs Commission reported that Marwan Barghouti’s family received a terrifying call from an Israeli number claiming he had been brutally assaulted in prison, a family...

🚨NEW: Israel publicly and relentlessly blamed Hamas for the deaths of Shiri Bibas & her children, but all along, the IDF knew Hamas had not abducted the family—& even told Hamas who had, so the group could try to locate them for Israel, Ynet reports. Nitzan Alon, the outgoing head of... Photo: GPO

🟢“Free Press” is once again spreading misinformation about the Palestinian resistance. They say Hamas claimed responsibility for killing the Israeli-backed aid thief Yasser Abu Shabab. Hamas did not. The group’s statement condemned him as a collaborator & said he met the “inevitable fate of...

⭕️ Sudanese attorney & human-rights advocate Sahar Atif urged the world to treat Sudan’s looted gold like blood diamonds from west Africa, noting that it's being smuggled out & used to fund...forces killing Sudanese civilians. “People are starving and our gold is coming back as weapons to kill our...

⭕ NEW: UN condemns attack on WFP food convoy in North Darfur The UN says a World Food Programme truck was attacked last night near Hamra El Sheikh in North Darfur, part of a 39-truck convoy carrying food to families fleeing to Tawilah. WFP supports roughly 700,000 people there. ➤ The convoy was...

NEW: Indiana's GOP redistricting plan has shown us just how far the party will go to appease Trump at the expense of voters. In our latest, Democracy Docket spoke with election scholar Prof. Luis Fuentes-Rohwer to discuss the ins and outs of the measure👇

REMINDER: A president’s ability to kill without a judge or jury didn’t come from Trump. It was built by Cheney and normalized by Obama.

220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful. They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.

Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda. Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up. This will hurt American kids and families.

🔴 In the past 48 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an add'l 6 killed (5 of whom were recovered from the rubble) & 15 injured arriving at hospitals. ▪️Since the ceasefire on Oct 11, 2025: - Total killed 367 - Total injured 953 - Total previously killed bodies recovered 624 This brings the...

The Supreme Court greenlit Texas Trump-approved congressional gerrymander, determining that the measure was a partisan — as opposed to an illegal racial — gerrymander. The map will now be used in next year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/4pmuueY

🚨Israeli forces have killed 5 Palestinians overnight in 3 separate attacks: a 70-y.o. woman & her son shot by drones near al-Ahli Hospital, 2 civilians killed in an airstrike near the N/W edge of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, & a man gunned down in Jabalia. A civil defense officer also died from...

🇸🇩🇺🇸 Sen. Van Hollen blasts the Trump administration for selling arms to the UAE while its Sudan allies continue to massacre children, pointing to the RSF attack on a kindergarten yesterday that killed at least 80 people, including 46 children (latest update from AJE).

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job www.ms.now/news/minneap...

BREAKING: A Utah judge refused to halt her landmark ruling that struck down the GOP’s gerrymander — meaning a fairer map remains on track for 2026. Republicans claimed they had “no opportunity to appeal.” The judge flatly rejected that.

NEW: The DOJ sued six more states this week in its ongoing effort to obtain unredacted private voter information, such as names, addresses, birth dates and ID numbers. But state election officials are pushing back, and are determined to uphold the law.

Abdallah Hamad, the son of senior Hamas negotiator Ghazi Hamad, was killed in southern Rafah earlier this week. According to Israeli military statements, he was among a group of fighters isolated in the tunnels east of the yellow line, & Israeli forces opened fire, killing several, despite the...

Federal judges in Virginia are striking Lindsey Halligan's name from legal filings, calling the inclusion "unacceptable," according to CNN. This follows Democracy Docket's reporting that the DOJ still claims Halligan is a U.S. attorney despite a court disqualifying her last month. Background:

The fringe 6 on SCOTUS are actively aiding the destruction of the rule of law in pursuit of their Christian Nationalist goals. Do you see the long game these guys have played? They were patient. Tr*mp getting elected the first time paved this road we're on. Democracy needs a long game plan now.

NEW: A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel “paves the way to autocracy,” upholding Trump’s firings of two officials at independent agencies: Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.

NEW: A Republican lawyer playing a leading role in DOJ's push to seize state voter records was put on leave in a previous job after bringing a flawed prosecution spurred by a tip from a far-right election conspiracy group.

The right in the US and the UK are all demanding a pastor in Canada be released for refusing to apologize over his religious beliefs. What they're not telling you is that he is a dog torturer with a lifetime of assault charges who broke into a library to yell slurs at six year olds

Silencing decent

NEW: While the Supreme Court’s decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for next year’s midterms comes as a devastating blow for minority voters in Texas, it could also make it harder for the GOP and the DOJ to block California’s voter-approved Prop 50 map.

BREAKING: The Indiana House votes 57-41 to advance a Trump-approved congressional map that could eliminate both of the state’s Democratic districts. The map now heads to the state Senate, which is expected to take it up when it convenes Monday.

NEW: Far-right lawyer and anti-voting activist Cleta Mitchell said she is "praying" DOJ Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon will seize ballots cast in the 2020 election in Georgia to probe for evidence of already debunked voter fraud claims.

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually all American-born children, despite several lower courts already ruling it violates the 14th Amendment.

NEW: Civil rights groups may ask SCOTUS to take up their challenge to Texas’s sweeping voter-suppression law. If the justices agree to hear it, the conservative majority could use the case to make future challenges to restrictive voting laws even more difficult.

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...

NEW: The RNC and Maryland Republican Party sued state election officials, alleging failure to maintain accurate voter rolls. The groups seek a court order requiring the state to implement adequate list-maintenance procedures and remove ineligible voters.

Trump Tries AGAIN to Indict Letitia James AND FAILS! youtu.be/nzb5kk-VtJc?...

ICYMI - Halle Berry is all out of f*cks "Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row, But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever, and the way he has overlooked women… by devaluing us, he probably should not be our next president either."

An annual report from the Gates Foundation found deaths in children under 5 could rise by more than 200,000 from last year.

BREAKING: A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel, which included two Trump appointees, temporarily pauses a lower court order that blocked Trump's National Guard deployment to the District until December 11th. Background: https://bit.ly/43JFQRz

Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS. This is real! It happened! www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted a stay, allowing Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026, delivering a major win for President Donald Trump and his unprecedented national effort to rig the upcoming midterm elections.

NEW: In a big loss for the DOJ's efforts to prosecute Trump's foes, a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges.

“‘I’m a US citizen, please help me,’ she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’” Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Recently passed bill in Maine is now in court and may lead to getting big money out of politics. youtube.com/shorts/Eda1j...

This is extremely dangerous

Latest vid for @meidastouch.com digging into the economics behind Trump Accounts, how Michael and Susan Dell are pissing away $6 billion and the real reason they created these accounts.

U.S. job cuts have reach 1.17 million this year, the most since 2020.

There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion. The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.

BREAKING: Our reporting forced a policy reversal. After our investigation exposed that Black Bear’s leagues threatened to expel kids if parents recorded their games, the company is now rewriting its contracts and rulebooks.

LOSS: Michigan court sides with the RNC, ruling absentee ballots missing the perforated stub or not matching the return envelope number cannot be counted. The court did, however, ask parties to suggest ways for voters to "cure" their ballots.

Giant corporations are lobbying Donald Trump for yet another tax handout — this time for research they've ALREADY DONE. Give me a break. The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

Jessica Burbank joined The Majority Report to break down her Drop Site investigation into how Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion surveillance giant, quietly secured a $2.1 million contract in Scarsdale with zero public input. She explains how local officials coordinated with Flock behind closed doors...

Alex Karp, whose Palantir built the AI kill chain powering Israel’s collective punishment and genocide campaign in Gaza, spent his DealBook appearance lecturing other CEOs about “accountability.” Shifting increasingly uneasily in his chair, he noted “the only people who pay the price for being...

US voters have ranked economic insecurity as their top concern for 40 consecutive months. www.stephensemler.com/p/why-afford...