This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

this is great analysis of how DHS’s weaponization of Section 111 dovetails with their agents being Powerful Punisher-types who are somehow both ubermensches and victims of every situation

#GildedAge 🥇 @washingtonpost.com $TSLA @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

other98 JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. ALL WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS. But you think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

@senangusking.bsky.social SHAME! You are harming your constituents

This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Mainers have until tomorrow to reject a voter suppression effort pushed by Leonard Leo’s money and the unrelentingly deceitful Yes on 1 campaign. Vote No on 1 and help get out the vote. #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child. Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago: Houston Dallas Lubbock Amarillo San Antonio Corpus Christi

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Americans can't afford a pound of ground beef, but Pete Hegseth blew millions of your taxpayer dollars flying in every General and Admiral around the world so he could yell at them about the Top 100 things he hates about facial hair.

And he's setting the stage to pardon anyone who shoots an American citizen on American soil.

Read my statement on President Trump’s decision to send U.S. troops to Portland.

While records reportedly show Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Epstein's island, maybe he was just trying to see his dad

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This guy’s a problem, too

Bolsonaro’s problem is that John Roberts never hit free agency

I cannot overemphasize how life changing and generational changing this policy decision will be.

RFK JR names herpes as new interim CDC director

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

I cannot recommend this essay highly enough. @donell-harvin.bsky.social is one of the most important voices How to Truly Keep Washington, DC Safe: Trump’s militarized approach undercuts what’s been working Harvin is former Chief of Homeland Security & Intelligence for District of Columbia 🧵

Analysis | Smartmatic should drop its case against Fox News given that many of the people it accuses of fraud were hired away to work for the federal government.

IF YOU SEE AN ENCAMPMENT BEING CLEARED TONIGHT DM us location & what details you have (what police, how many, movements, vehicles) If you see someone being detained get as much info as possible: - legal name - DOB - emergency contact/case worker - where they are being taken (precinct or hospital)

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Breaking News (2030) | The Supreme Court's swing vote Emil Bove broke with the court's left flank, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, and concurred with Justices Aileen Cannon and Dana White that Mecha President Trump could reallocate all remaining Medicaid funds for more torture drones for Alligator Alcatraz.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Signs posted today inside the State Department read: "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM, Remember the oath you vowed to uphold" "Here sat America's experts on democracy, human rights...and more. You've just released them and hundreds of their colleagues into the wild"

KILL THE BILL

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

People in downtown Los Angeles are laying flowers at the feet of the National Guard

Easily 1000 protestors in rainy Freeport ME. Happy Birthday asshole.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN: "We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"