US raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official apnews.com/article/syri...

The US lobbied several countries in the European Union to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a loan to Ukraine, arguing the assets are needed to help secure a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.- Bloomberg 🤬🤬🤬

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

1/ The new US National Security Strategy blames 'undemocratic' European governments for failing to make peace with Russia, takes a pro-Russian position on NATO, reflects white nationalist views on European demographics, and pledges overt support for far-right parties. ⬇️

OTD in 2021 my parody embassy in DC informed us that US claims on Russia's plans to invade Ukraine proved to be false. Which is why you can believe we want peace now

The new US National Security Strategy says explicitly, that the US should intervene in European domestic policy. It is difficult to interpret "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations." otherwise in the context of everything else this government says and does.

Given that partial segments have already been released, there is no national security risk to releasing the entire boat strike video. We should all see it with our own eyes. It is now absolutely in the national interest.

Russian soldier died clutching his vodka bottle, Magyar shared.

Accurate…

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.

this manages to legitimately be way worse than all the leaks that were being fed to the papers last night

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

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Our SchoolCast for Friday morning is up! The chance of accumulating snow, and thus the chance of delays and closings, increases from north to south across the region. (1/2)

The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere. Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

Yep. Murder.

The U.S. government continues to kill people for the amusement of the President and other members of his administration.

Not gonna lie. It’s very weird Penn State has an insanely long accolade page for their athletic director. North Korean vibes

MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military. Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?

So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?

The kind of thing that the news media would relentlessly chase a Dem President on but instead its gonna be "exciting! who will DOJ indict next?!"

NEW: DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole allegedly kept buying bomb parts after planting two pipe bombs in DC ahead of January 6. @dell.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/fbi-sa...

The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Barnea is the last of the defense chiefs who was in office on October 7 and remains in his role: former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and ex-Shin Bet head Ronen Bar were fired by Netanyahu, while Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi, as well as other IDF generals, resigned. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Everything fits into two buckets: incompetence or corruption.

Suspect arrested in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case

BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian troops from the Rubizh Brigade and the 93rd Mechanized Brigade repelled a 🇷🇺Russian mechanized assault near Myrnohrad.

🇷🇺🇺🇲🇺🇦 The Times: Putin expects Trump to tire and blame Ukraine. He still demands full control of Donetsk and Luhansk. No deals on NATO, security guarantees, or direct talks. Zelensky plans to personally urge Trump to pressure Russia

EVERCORE: Despite questions about how long RFK Jr. might last, “he has learned how to operate in this Admin and is now well-entrenched .. Additionally, he brings an independent base of political support that Trump is keen to retain. When it comes to .. vaccines, he’s just getting started ..”

Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

Bellingcat has pieced together a detailed view of a crisis that has left much of Mali in the dark. Learn how the attacks behind the fuel shortages brought daily life to a halt here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Amazing that the most insecure person in the world happens to be the most powerful person in the world.

Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."

Russian general: “We thought 70% of Ukrainians were on our side. But it turned out to be the opposite.”

I am going to take it as a very very auspicious sign that I found a copy of “The Mitrokhin Archives” at a random used bookstore that almost certainly appears to have been dedicated and signed by Mitrokhin himself. IYKYK

A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the culmination of months of discord between Hegseth and the officer .. and intensified months later when Holsey had initial concerns about the legality of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Incredible: "Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Donald Trump wants to be recognized as a peacemaker. His deputies obliged today by putting his name on the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an agency that DOGE tried to kill. The new name — the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace — "adds insult to injury," said a lawyer for USIP staff.

that isn't just racial profiling -- this sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing.

lol “any difference in opinion.” 🤡

SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

🤯 The Russians was almost killed by their own drone: an unsuccessful launch from the window of a house of a Molniya-2 UAV with an anti-tank mine as a warhead.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Why is Donald Trump’s name now on the @usip.org building? Who put there? And when?