Focus on trade with China, drugs, immigration in Latin America, defending "European culture" from immigration, mediating between Russia and Europe. Rubio, Vance, Bessent & Trump Priorities? Where's actual national security? Gift Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

An explicitly racist, partisan US national strategy? National Security Strategy document says US should support far right, white Christian nationalist parties in Western Europe. Thought we settled this in WWII. wapo.st/49W7ejg

The idea, dating to the Eisenhower years, was simple: a nonpartisan “national cultural center.” In early 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had signed legislation designating the center a “living memorial” for his assassinated predecessor. wapo.st/44fkewK

Think the World Cup draw was cringe? Trump propaganda machine just warming up www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...

Trump and Netanyahu's governments have so much in common."The tenure of National Security Minister Ben-Gvir has been marked by a spike in crime and an increase in arbitrary arrests of non-violent protesters by police officers angling for a promotion." www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Supreme Court Just Okayed One Neat Trick to Illegally Gerrymander Your State: Just delay your redistricting, ignoring the previous, reasonable map that had been in effect for 2 elections, then claim dropping the new map would "confuse the voters." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Almost 13,000 FOIA cases have piled up after multiple firings of FOIA staff at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and National Institutes of Health. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/cent...

Wow! Netflix only wants Warner Studios and HBO. So doesn't merge another Hollywood Studio. But what happens to CNN? Does it stay with Discovery? Or is it still for sale? Assume Paramount not buying that and the other cable assets? deadline.com/2025/12/netf...

Forbes estimates Donald made $3 billion since becoming President. Eric Trump now worth $400 million, 10 times his worth a year ago, from Trump family crypto grifting. Is using his "official responsibilities" to get payoffs covered by SCOTUS immunity? www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

You can't make this nonsense up. Trump makes his birthday at National Park holiday. National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Any day now they will bring back Dred Scott.

Reading this full PDF will make you angry beyond words We do not have a Supreme Court anymore, not in the sense that concept was intended by the Founders 🔗: electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...

ICE waiting outside courtroom to detain. "Immigrants, many of them families, continued to arrive at Federal Plaza on Wednesday for their legally mandated hearings on their pending immigration cases, only to find the clerk in the ousted judge’s place, adjourning cases." www.amny.com/news/ice-det...

Interesting. "CBS is broadcasting a Town Hall with Erika Kirk moderated by a veteran TV journalist Bari Weiss on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. It’ll be a pre-taped/edited special" open.substack.com/pub/theankle...

41% decline in funding in areas such as aging, diabetes, strokes, cancer and mental health. Sharper decline in number of grants? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Can you imagine having a major financial crisis with these guys in charge? "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as "top White House economic adviser — in addition to his current job ' and Kevin Hassett "as the next chair of the Federal Reserve." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Making driving more expensive for consumers...and car makers have to retool to accommodate this? Just bizarre.

Remember how they went after Hunter Biden for maybe making money in Ukraine because his Dad was VP? Prison terms wouldn't be enough to satisfy them. Such peanuts compared with Donald's family. Waiting for Dem outrage. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

What are the odds of this Inspector General getting fired? www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

Seriously? wapo.st/49OGDEF

Flam: James Watson had a brilliant mind and a broken moral compass www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/26/f...

Trump continues to block any crypto regulation, although it's a haven for money laundering. "Hunt for missing millions unmasks one crypto exchange hidden inside another" www.icij.org/investigatio...

"Louisiana had the highest rate of killings of pregnant women in which a firearm was used, at 111 per one million live births, followed by Missouri, Alaska, West Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina." www.ocregister.com/2025/11/25/g...

Sacrificing European and Ukrainian national security, and probably US strategic interests, so Trump & Putin cronies can make billions off Russian oil and minerals? A win-win, according to Witkoff and Jared. What could go wrong?

Where Putin and Trump cronies make billions off seized assets in Russia? "By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies." www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Then he pardons the narco-trafficking former President? “If [conservative Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money,” Trump said. “Tito and I can work together to fight the narco-communists and provide the necessary aid to the Honduran people.”

New tech also used in immigration enforcement...

“The counternarcotics mission has already opened new, unanticipated revenue lines,” said [official] at Vannevar Labs..The company said it uses AI to help uncover and disrupt drug-supply chains by mapping transnational criminal organizations and China-based suppliers" www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

So much for US war on drug trafficking. Guess only drug traffickers Trump doesn't like -- or whose oil & minerals he covets, like Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n.... GIFT ARTICLE

Cancelations and suspensions of studies funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health are already choking off the flow of the innovations Bay Area biotech companies rely on to spin federally funded researchers’ work into drugs, treatments and medical devices. www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/30/t...

"A presidential pardon is usually given only after all legal proceedings have been concluded and the defendant is found guilty of their crimes."

PM Netanyahu, who stands charged of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate criminal cases, has formally submitted a request for a pardon in his ongoing corruption trial to President Isaac Herzog. us18.campaign-archive.com?e=d9855bd6e6...

After a speeding semitruck killed his son, Gary Wilburn and his wife spent decades advocating for mandated speed limiters in trucks. DOT proposed a rule to do just that. Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.

Shooter scarred by the brutality and corruption of what he saw with the CIA "zero unit" in Afghanistan. Don't blame immigration but the CIA, war and chaos - including in Trump 1.0

So very much hope they are not surrendering the Ukrainian people Putin.

This Bulwark essay is about what marriage is. And living imperfect but perfect lives. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Richard Hofstadter’s conclusion of his essay Reflections on Violence in the United States, courtesy of John Ganz: “When one considers American history as a whole, it is hard to think of any very long period in which it could be said that the country has been consistently well governed. 1/3

Kurtenbach: The Warriors’ joy is gone, and Steph Curry might be, too www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/27/k...

DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/d...

Crypto exchanges & money laundering, while admin blocks all crypto regulation. "Hunt for missing millions unmasks one crypto exchange hidden inside another" www.icij.org/investigatio...

Was a Biden deal. www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/11/26/m...

The Board of Immigration Appeals, a body at the Department of Justice empowered to set precedent for immigration courts across the country, had just decided that immigration judges could no longer grant bonds. A policy shift that went against decades of precedent. sfstandard.com/2025/11/22/i...

More of the obsession with oil. "Trump has consistently urged his advisers to ensure future U.S. access to the extractive riches of Venezuela, home to immense mineral supplies and the world’s largest proven oil reserves."