Hegseth had clear rules before these strikes began to rescue shipwrecked survivors who were no longer a threat and only re-engage if they took hostile action. Instead, after two men survived the Sept. 2 strike, he let an order stand to kill them anyway. That is not a fog-of-war mistake.

“I’m disgusted, because it wasn’t only myself— it was my elderly mother in her 90’s and my sister too. It makes no sense. Who bought him off?” A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion

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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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.

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

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Knock, Knock. Who's there? Our government is disappearing people! Our government is disappearing people, who? Our government is effin disappearing people! Wake TF up to tyranny & #ICELawlessness & SPEAK TF UP! YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE COULD BE NEXT! FFS, Our government is disappearing people!

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

As many expected, the truth is finally coming out, they were just fishermen. The family of the Colombian man killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea has now filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

It is simply outrageous that an American citizen was detained at all by ICE. And it's adding insult to injury to claim that Tribal IDs are fake. This is racial profiling. Trump's mass deportation agenda is sick and wrong. It helps no one and it's hurting Americans.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The tiny nonprofit I’m on the board of (all volunteer) organizes and runs a free summer music program for rural kids. If you’re looking for a hyper local nonprofit to donate to: plumas-performing-arts.square.site

The rot isn't Pete Hegseth. The rot is the Department of Defense. There was no real accountability for the crimes committed at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and countless other places. Torture and other crimes were excused and those in charge of committing them were promoted.

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.

Trump keeps telling his MAGA supporters that he’s NOT doing this for himself. $Billions in his pockets and tons of parties ($1 million per person to attend) say otherwise. He’s been a corrupt lying bully and businessman his entire life.

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

“Is this shit legal?” How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

Premeditated murder #USpol www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension. She got the joke. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Himes: "This shows Steve Witkoff almost literally sitting side with the Russians on this ... it's unimaginable to consider the fact that you would propose a peace deal that the Ukrainians didn't even know about."

Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

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A member of Congress could literally bet on their own vote and profit 10x. A White House aide could bet on a tariff decision before it’s announced. Theres ZERO oversight. This isn’t innovation, it’s legalized insider trading on democracy itself. Ban Kalshi politics open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

“His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility,” he added... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!

Who remembers those early Palantir trades

We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers! It’s time to get it done. Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

If it made the news at all, that's a win...

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell and activists from a top anti-voting group with close ties to the White House met last week to discuss plans to push for severely limiting early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As we and others have repeatedly reported, credible researchers have said there is no link between vaccines and autism.

Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain. The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

I filed my claim.

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

Infant botulism as of 11/14: 23 cases, 8 newly identified. All consumed ByHeart baby formula, now recalled. Sadly ByHeart’s initial recall was limited to just 2 Lot numbers, this may have contributed to additional illnesses. TLDR: Stop using any ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula immediately!