Please let this be true! If Roberts is betting on a gullible public, he may feel the optics of ruling against Trump here will work in the Court's favor. But a rogue SCOTUS intent on affirming Christian nationalism can't be trusted to care about preserving appearances anymore.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

"Now, visitors to the 116 parks that charge entrance fees will no longer get in for free on MLK Day or on Juneteenth, a federal holiday on June 19 that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. They will, however, on Trump’s June 14 birthday." Such a racist administration.

ha it's perfect for the Crypt Keeper president

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

"Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth — as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years — the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus." A dangerous decision. We cannot trust our once-venerated CDC.

Every refugee story is gutting. I've worked with Syrian refugees through resettlement groups and when you've heard these stories in person, you're just so glad they're finally safe here in the US. At least, that's how it used to be. Now they can't come—and would they even be safe from ICE?

I don't think we can reclaim democracy without addressing (1) SCOTUS (2) ICE/CBP And by "addressing," I mean *radical* reform

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

A persuasive thesis: unable to produce tangible economic relief, Trump will accelerate his racist attacks to satiate MAGA's appetite for the suffering of marginalized groups. Cruelty instead of affordability.

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

"As far back as September, defense officials have been quietly pushing back on criticism that killing the two survivors amounted to a war crime by arguing, in part, that they were legitimate targets because they appeared to be radioing for help or backup." But they didn't. This was a war crime.

Hegseth is a monster. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Okay I'm still mad about the SCOTUS ruling but this helps a bit

Great point. Trump and Hegseth done in by their sadism.

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

I think a lot of people still aren't used to the idea of a federal government that lies openly, nakedly and as a matter of course.

Recall that the GOP investigation reluctantly "conceded that they had yet to find evidence of a specific corrupt action Mr. Biden took in office in connection with any of the business deals his son entered into." I'm sure they'll look into Trump Jr. right away... any day now...

It is simply not politically or economically tenable for California and New York to fund the federal government while Trump tries to kneecap the states.

When is the FBI going to investigate Hegseth 🤔

His name better be ripped off this building in 4 years. What they did to the IOP was a disgrace

I'm not Somali, but I'm Black and was mistaken for Ilhan Omar once at an academic conference in Minneapolis. Like many other non-white citizens, I've been carrying my passport everywhere since January. We're afraid, but we won't bow to fascism. This country belongs to all of us.

We don't have to speculate about the identity of at least one of the boat strike victims, who was a fisherman. This was first reported yesterday by The Guardian and now ABC. Hoping this story is picked up by more outlets soon.

It seems that federal law enforcement is operating on the premise (when interrogating protesters) that “antifa” is an actual organization with money and leaders and a headquarters. I guess nobody bothered to tell them that was political propaganda rather than a real topic to investigate? Amazing.

I remember NPR's Mary Louise Kelly defending the decision to say "falsehood" instead of "lie" during Trump 1. They couldn't prove he was intentionally deceptive, she argued. Media complicity is part of how we got here.

There should be a national strike until ICE is abolished. There's no possible way to move forward as a democracy with this kind of shit in place.

This year's special elections will force the GOP to spend tons of extra money, spreading their resources extra thin. And it still won't save them from a wipeout in the midterms.

"If Democrats see the same shift in Congress next year as they saw in TN-07 Tuesday night, they’d win a landslide victory of 258 seats in the U.S. House."

Tonight was a SUCCESS for Dems—and midterms are gonna be a blue wave! 🌊🌊

That the GOP had to spend *this* much and it's *this* close? Coooooked.

This is the correct interpretation of what happened tonight in Tennessee! 💯💯

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

THIS is his cover story? Hegseth says he'd "moved on to my next meeting" before the 2nd strike: "During a Cabinet meeting, Hegseth tells reporters he watched the first boat strike on Sept. 2 live, but had 'moved on to my next meeting' before the boat was hit a second time."

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.

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"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥." -DoD Law of War manual

"Incredibly, Trump posted over 160 times between 7:09 p.m. ET and 11:57 p.m. ET, with most posts shared twice. At one point the president was firing off more than a post a minute." How can anyone let this guy near the nuclear codes?! This is seriously unhinged behavior, even for him.

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totally normal president, not at all deranged

So tired of these terrible people co-opting art (always without attribution or permission!) for their hateful propaganda.

News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me. In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

True, but Trump mostly needs you to believe presidents should never be held liable for any crimes in a court of law *because* they're presidents, and therefore above the law.

"This Thanksgiving, I did not invite anybody into my home who I know supports the grotesque, anti-American Donald Trump, nor did I accept any invitation to be anyplace where I might find people who do." Same. I can't forgive my MAGA family.

We're stuck in a shared nightmare, but we aren't abandoning each other: "On a recent evening, [Oba] was on patrol, part of a group of Japanese Americans who are keeping a watchful eye on the actions of immigration agents in Los Angeles."

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

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