State propaganda media.

I guessed right. The Trump shock troopers got "no true billed," again. Meaning that the grand jury is serving its lawful function of blocking the malicious conduct of unaccountable prosecutors. Now, however, it's time for the prosecutors who did this to be disbarred. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."

Himes: "What worries me is what causes a man of real integrity & w/ a storied professional history like the admiral to order this strike? My guess is it has something to do w/ the secretary of defense who writes a book about how we need a lot less ethics and lawyers involved & a lot more lethality."

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Himes: They posed zero threat to anyone in the region, and we killed them.

The MAGA GOP settles on a "blame Joe Biden" narrative that ignores all the facts surrounding the shooting of two WV guardsmen in Washington, DC, and particularly the fact that the perp was granted asylum by Kristi Noem on the advice of John Ratcliffe, two Trump cabinet officers.

How does a drug lord secure a pardon from Donald Trump? It involves hiring key members of the Trump entourage (Roger Stone, Matt Gaetz, Brad Parscale), paying them lots of money and then purchasing Trump-controlled crypto currency in a suitable 7-figure sum. Pardon guaranteed.

Note how for NYT, RFKJr's introduction of anti vaxxer scams is just another exercise in Beltway politics in which actual health science plays no objective role. It's irresponsible and science-ignorant reporting like this that enables RFKJr's quackery.

What does a Trump presidency look like when he goes into it knowing he has immunity from prosecution for pretty much anything he does? It looks like this one.

Beeple's installation at Art Basel features Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg among other tech bros as dogs laying poop on the floor as they scramble about. youtube.com/shorts/3kCBO...

Roughly twenty senior business executives, all white males, and four GOP politicians, stand around Trump as he delivers a racist rant that lasts a full ten minutes, all chuckling throughout. Their names should be published and this video footage should be shown at their shareholders' meetings.

Osman: "President Trump singling out one group of people & ICE being on our streets & asking people for documentation, it feels like we're in 1930s Germany. I never thought there would be a time where I will tell my community to carry their passport around bc if you look Somali you might be stopped"

AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:

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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

The Blaze, Glenn Beck's right-wing media outlet, is trying to build its own Nick Fuentes. But it's not winning over the Groypers… @willsommer.bsky.social with this concerning yet unsurprising development in his latest False Flag, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/fml-here-c...

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One reason we failed in the past is bc we didn't build up popular opposition to the crimes, whether it's torture or drone-killing or even attacking Congress. Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.

After weeks of escalating tensions, President Donald Trump increased pressure on Venezuela Saturday by declaring that the nation's airspace should be considered closed — even though he does not have the legal authority to close it.

A reminder that I have an index of archived versions of every public-facing page on the FDA’s website from before the Trump Administrative fucked it all up: acasignups.net/fda-website

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Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.

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Hey @weissmann.substack.com I like MSNOW MORE THAN EVER quite a lot.

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A very good and very thorough collection of detailed accounts on Steve Witkoff and his career in service to Russian oligarchs and mobsters. Worth working your way through this is rewarding. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19933...

This is exactly what you do With presidents who coup

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If you would like to understand Benny's principles, here's a story. While at IJR on the day of the 2015 Roanoke shooting, Benny cried in the newsroom. Not because of the shooting itself, but because we told him he wasn't allowed to post the video of the murder on the website.

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Will fit right in with the House GOP

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The Trump admin keeps making things worse as they try to lie their way out of the crisis around the so-called Ukraine “peace plan.” We break it all down, and dissect all the weekend’s news, in today’s bulletin. We’ve made this one 100% paywall free: www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Why did the Kremlin choose @Axios as their vehicle to manipulate US foreign policy by laundering their propaganda, and what are they going to do about it?

Axios has a lot of explaining to do.

She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.

What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

It was TRANSLATED by the US from Russian into English, not authored by the US.