Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

A lot of people on Twitter and Bluesky alike love to go "what about Sudan?" in response to pro Palestinian sentiment but in general if you're pro Palestine you're also far likelier to be anti UAE. See for example the senator below, who was the harshest critic in the Senate of both Biden and Trump.

A group of U.S. senators who have tried repeatedly to rein in President Donald Trump's aggression against Venezuela said on Tuesday they would file a new resolution to force a congressional vote on the issue if the administration carries out a strike within the country.

"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump." On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

Tomorrow is our last chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025. We can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits, but only if we turn enough voters out — please make some calls to help us send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Daily Dems Doing the Work, Making Noise and Fighting Back Day 307 I’m really happy with these fighters. I mean, of course I am, I chose them. But some days the fights I find in my nightly search are better than others, and I think today qualifies, especially the last one. 1/

Pete Hegseth strikes again. (Literally) He should've been fired by Signalgate, but as we see with his art of the deal negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, his foreign policy is disastrous for our national security. Trump demonstrates again he is no judge of character.

China’s health aid is carefully targeted at countries where it seeks commercial or strategic rewards. One is Zambia, where China has poured billions into copper and cobalt mines

Trump knows his project is currently failing, he knows public opinion sentiment is against him — all of the polls have him underwater. He's seeing net negatives from Rasmussen He's going to try to boost his numbers by 'hate the out-group' — attacking immigrants even more than he already has

“And also you’re going to tell your family about this new novel you’re working on and when they ask if you wrote it you’re going to break down and start sobbing into the green bean casserole”

"Those two troops shot on Wednesday should have been home, getting ready for Thanksgiving — not helping create an image for an autocrat. "I hope for swift and complete recoveries for them — and for a swift and complete end to [Tangerine Twitler]’s occupation of American cities w/American troops."

The Trump administration is targeting women — stripping their status so students can’t get the loans needed to earn them. What’s the endgame? Push women out of healthcare, counseling, and public service… and back into the kitchen, barefoot, baby-making, with no control over their own futures.

NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office. President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

If you have not read it, please do - this will allow you to understand any future plans

North Dakota's top court revives state's abortion ban reut.rs/4rgGobF

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Raids Long Beach Taking Gardeners, Old Men, and A 12-Pack of Beers @eltragon.bsky.social

Ukraine is not, and never has been, a model of clean governance. That is not why the West has spent some $400bn—and counting—to help defend it. Were Western support to falter, the only winner would be Vladimir Putin econ.st/4ieKcGo Photo: Getty Images

We need the UN-redacted and complete Epstein files.

“We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told NBC News.

Every child deserves medicines that are safe, effective, and easy to take. On #WorldChildrensDay, WHO and partners in the Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations Network (GAP-f) are working to close the gap in access to child-friendly medicines worldwide.

“Si no hubiesen ahorcado a mi padre, él habría destruido mi cerebro con su ideología". El hijo de Hans Frank, criminal nazi ahorcado en Núremberg social.elpais.com/7kphj14

Demócratas piden a militares y agentes “rechacen órdenes ilegales” de Trump

The air attack in the Bani Suheila area, east of Khan Younis, comes a day after Israel killed 30 people across Gaza.

Since the death of the dictator, Spain has become the modern European country that many of his people yearned for. But its democratic institutions are showing signs of decay econ.st/4oPXqvQ Photo: Alamy

damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview

Back in March, Bloomington police swept up a GOP state senator in a sex-trafficking sting. Now one of Trump's ICE thugs.

Se extienden los tentáculos del reino de terror de Trump

U.S. consumers who have had their fill of protein-enhanced cereal and ice cream are about to meet the next big food fad.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

It says a lot about the state of discourse in the United States that in a liberal newspaper, the “Paper of Record,” a columnist does not feel the need to provide any legal justification for waging war against another country. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...

Courtney. Jenna. Marina. Anouska. Haley. They were young girls when Jeffrey Epstein abused them. And they deserve justice. Women and girls deserve so much better. Release the files.

We need your help! But let me explain why:

Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Kash Patel is at being FBI director.

A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors. This law is more extreme. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A must-read profile of RFK Jr., perhaps the most powerful force in American health care in decades: www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...

Trump's DOJ confirmed 97.4% of people ICE has been arresting in Chicago have no criminal record whatsoever. The state is using its power to terrorize a community. Worst of all, Chicago is not an isolated example and these abuses are not stopping at U.S. borders. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ice...

One of the best writing procrastinations ever.

In 2024, Tesla reported a profit of $7.1B but paid no corporate income tax—and it's legal. Corporations are forever telling the IRS their profits are low, even as they tell Wall Street that their profits are high Both Trump terms have been one business tax cut after another. trib.al/qRro3dA

I had an exchange (in my terrible Spanish) with Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent, without due process, to an El Salvadoran prison by the US. I told him that I posted a photo of him on here each day he was in captivity & he responded. He said I could share. ❤️

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

MTG voted for this: proudly, loudly, and without a single thought for the families it would hurt. Now that it’s blowing up in her face, she’s trying to sprint away from her own record. Don’t fall for the Big Beautiful Lie. She did this. She meant it. And she doesn’t get to rewrite history.

The ignorance is breathtaking. Many of my friends in high school were Palestinian & Muslim; some were Palestinian and Christian.They are all Semitic people, incidentally, if you understand the origins of that word. One of my dearest friends is Palestinian, atheist, and vegan. E pluribus unum 1/

Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

If you agree that Congress shouldn’t be covering for Jeffrey Epstein, here’s a chance to tell them how you feel: