“You’ll get the hole from a bagel, not Ukraine,” said Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, addressing Russia at a Security Council meeting. “Our land and sovereignty are not for sale. This isn’t a Christmas market or some shady bazaar.”

Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of a former Ohio State University doctor protested outside the school’s Board of Trustees meeting this past Thursday ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/s...

Leadership matters (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

It’s all just so gross. So stupid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Naturally, but the GOP and their MAGA fluffers on social media will have nothing to say about this, and Mike Johnson will pretend not to see this story until 2029. Trump Jr-backed startup gets $600 million dollar government deal.

U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

Everything fits into two buckets: incompetence or corruption.

Private Employers Cut Jobs in November, the Latest Sign of a Slowdown www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

This is brilliant.

NEWS: US private employers shed 32,000 jobs in November, according to the latest ADP report. That’s 4 months of job losses in the past 6 months. Small businesses are being hit hardest in the Trump economy. Most industries are seeing layoffs.

The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people. He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*. The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us. We, the people.

It’s now official: Trump has pardoned one of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking last year in the U.S. and sentenced to 45 years in prison. 1/

“There were no agreements with the Muscovites in the 19th, 20th, or 21st century, only lies, a desire to take lives, and to destroy,” said Polish President Nawrocki. He added that history offers a lesson for modern Poland: deals with Russia have never been real, and it’s a truth everyone must learn.

#BREAKING: Ideologically diverse Third Circuit panel unanimously *affirms* district court ruling that Alina Habba was *not* lawfully appointed to serve as Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey *or* to otherwise exercise the functions of that office: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Number of states where average gas prices are below $2: Zero. Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2: Zero.

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Even “in the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude & severity, Lincoln described “blessings of fruitful fields & healthful skies” and hoped for “full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility & Union.” In that spirit, I am hopeful for better days ahead. www.americaamerica.news/p/abraham-li...

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Excellent thread

Wisdom from the 🚽…if ya got’em…flush ‘em. 🤡👎

Ohio regulators order $250 million penalty against FirstEnergy for role in bribery scandal ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/21/o...

Republicans lawmakers approved a sweeping anti-voting law Wednesday that sponsors framed as a direct response to a September letter sent by the DOJ demanding the state change its election laws or face federal litigation. https://bit.ly/4r8K1jT

The full 28-point U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, reportedly backed by Trump, has been published by MP Honcharenko. This thread outlines the key points. What’s clear is that the so-called Witkoff plan heavily favors Russia while offering little to nothing for Ukraine. 1/9

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

I applaud my veteran colleagues for standing by the Constitution and the rule of law. Trump’s call for the arrest and execution of elected officials who are simply upholding the law is a disgrace and should be condemned by every American.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Americans deciding the fate of Gaza without Palestinian input, and deciding the fate of Ukraine without Ukrainian or European input. I’m certain it will work out great! 😑 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...

Thank you Dr. DiMaggio for sharing your frontline experiences as a pediatrician treating children dying from diseases that we seldom see now because of vaccines

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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

If you don’t find this sickening and disgusting, you are in a dark place. Listen to what he says. It’s right there. It’s who he is. It’s who he’s always been. And therefore it’s who we all will be if we keep down this path.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

Moskowitz: The puppy had a name. Say its name! Cricket! I would now like to do a spirited reading from the book by our Secretary of Homeland Security: I hated that dog…

The journalist who asked is Mary Bruce. Kudos to her for asking.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to give former FBI Director James Comey all materials it presented to a grand jury to secure a two-count indictment against him in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wisdom from the 🚽…if ya got’em…flush ‘em. 🤡👎

A service puppy? Oh, hell no!!

Americans are finally starting to receive their SNAP benefits. Trump is rushing to the Supreme Court to try to ensure those people starve.

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

That's 391 pounds for every American. Dr. Oz can't math.