this has become a very important video to me

I mean this is straight up white supremacy:

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

That's the part that sticks with me. This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something. Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!

Prepping for my Comparative Genocide module and...hey, look there, right on the International Red Cross webpage, who does the Geneva Conventions protect? Oh.

Records that are properly classified can STILL be declassified if their release is in the public interest. Federal agencies can declassify records this way, and so can the Senate Intelligence Committee. There is, quite literally, no excuse, for the OLC opinion or the video to be secret.

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Pros at work! “A new survey found that 98 percent of Foreign Service officers felt lower morale. Only 1 percent reported an increased ability to carry out U.S. foreign policy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

If you remember ICQ, it's time to schedule a colonoscopy

No it wouldn't.

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?

“One man, one vote, one time.”

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

Today in great code notes: "approach works only by accidentally breaking something in a successful way."

But I AM FRANKLIN?????

This essay has already generated more hate mail than anything else I've written from the Star Tribune. Which is, I think, telling ... though I'm not sure of what.

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

“Career officials in the office overseeing sanctions at the Treasury Department have at times learned details of Witkoff’s meetings with Moscow from their British counterparts.”

There. Is. No. Plan. But the only way to communicate to voters, parents, students, etc. that there is no plan for cutting 20-25% of every R1 university's budget is for our university leaders to be out, loudly & collectively talking about this. The silence is maddening. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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To see "whether Secy Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt prosecution," Judge Boasberg orders filing of declarations by "all individuals involved" in decision not to turn around the flights to CECOT on 3/15-16/25.

It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.

Trump pardons a nursing home scoundrel who cheated and neglected Arkansans ino.to/3unrFwD

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Obviously, they are already giving illegal orders. Article 23 of the Hague Convention of 1907 states that "it is especially forbidden . . . to declare that no quarter will be given.”

"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.

Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden? TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person

Asked if he’ll attend the funeral of the slain National Guard member from West Virginia, Trump immediately pivots to talking about how popular he is in that state

Ahem. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Friends: do you know a Megan, who recently hurt her ankle in a Trade Joe’s parking lot and had surgery? Because her pissy ginger boyfriend is talking shit about her at Denver airport and thousands of women on Threads from *at least four* continents are gonna hunt him into his last days. Pass it on.

Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

No, *I'm* pushing code to production at 8:22 p.m. on the eve of a major holiday.

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering. snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

Art. I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make rules and regulations for the armed forces — including codes of discipline and strictures against following illegal orders. You can’t punish members of Congress for articulating those rules. Also protected by Speech and Debate Clause.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

Members of Congress cannot be active duty officers so recalling Sen. Kelly is impossible and prosecution for civilian political speech violates the First Amendment. They are just flailing about and it’s all nonsense.

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

"Examples of Unlawful Orders: - Targeting or intentionally harming civilians - Torturing or abusing detainees - Falsifying operational or legal records - Engaging in unauthorized political or domestic law enforcement actions" Read the full article:

I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now

man we are not dealing with a subtle bunch

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

DOT is on an unprecedented deregulatory blitz. The Trump admin calls this cutting red tape. Left unmentioned is just how many of the targeted rules sought to prevent deaths/injuries. "The regulations are written in blood," one former official told me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing: