It was his teachers’ fault. He was the internet’s fault. It was the libs. They’re sounding like the guy’s public defender at his sentencing hearing.

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

Warfighters gotta look lethal.

Bessent on today's stock market drop: "Up two, down one is not a bad ratio." (The stock market has been down 5 out of the last 6 days.)

A second country blocks deportation flights via military aircraft (Mexico did it first, but US sources say it was just an admin issue). Colombia has until now routinely accepted regular US deportation flights. Petro now demands “a protocol for dignified treatments” before flights can resume.

Since the Trump Admin is acting like we are suddenly deporting people for the first time, here are the facts.

This is just a small handful of the hundreds of pardons Trump gave to drug traffickers, violent felons, fraudsters, donors, friends, cronies, wealthy businessmen, campaign aides, and Republican politicians.

As much as MAGA wants to make it so, Hunter wasn’t pardoned for anything related to their fantasy that Joe got money from Ukraine. Comer held years of hearings on it and wouldn’t even hold a vote on it because he knew it would fail. Don’t let them rewrite the history of this too.

this has gotta be it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

Casio turns back time with the G-Shock that started it all

The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Trump

"The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression."

As expected. Welcome to higher prices and higher costs of doing business. Brought to you by the people who claimed to care about inflation.

When “mean tweets” hit your 401k.

Rep. Eric Burlison on Fox Business admits that Trump's tariffs with create "winners and losers" and spark inflation (but claims it will be worth it)

Here are the top goods that we import from Canada that we all will be paying more for thanks to MAGA. Bravo, mouth breathers. 🙄

Here are the top goods that we import from Mexico that we all will be paying more for thanks to MAGA. Bravo, mouth breathers. 🙄

Trump announces blanket tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China

Trump Hosts Puppy Auction with Puppy Mill-Linked Group at Mar-a-Lago A "rescue" puppy went for $6,000 to raise fund for Moms for America

As this has come up as a frequent proposal on the right, a reminder again that NPR only gets 1% of its funding from federal grants. It’s true that this is a bit deceptive as local stations get more funding and often use that funding to purchase NPR show licenses, but since we’re talking defund NPR…

lol

How it started How it’s going @usatoday.com “fact check” edition

DOGE = Dept Of Getting Every dollar out of the federal government for the richest man in the world while slashing programs and funding for everyone else.

Sort of. The process on paper is people who ask for asylum get a screening and then get sent to court if they pass. Buuuut in practice there’s often not enough resources to do those screenings *or even ask people if they want asylum,* and in those cases people get sent to immigration court anyway.

I report on the Republican Party, right-wing media, and elected officials. I have tried to do that over the years in a way that I think most Dems appreciate. However, if your plan is to wall yourself off from ever hearing or seeing a single word from a Repub ever again, I’m not the guy to follow.

Why are we “striking deals?” We have the fucking majority. I’m so tired of Schumer. If you have to work through the holidays and stay up nights, DO YOUR JOB and confirm judges for every vacancy. I don’t care if it takes longer. DO YOUR JOB.

10 million was the number of encounters, not people, and not people released to go through the removal process, who are not "let in" either; they entered, and then the US gov has to figure out how to remove them or whether they can stay. As for deportations, this chart isn't technically correct...

NEW: there was a second sexual encounter between Matt Gaetz and a minor. www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...

Gaetz is out

Mediaite obtained the police report of the Pete Hegseth alleged sexual assault incident. The details are horrific and should be disqualifying.

Same person

Wow — Nancy Mace’s former comms director not holding back👇🏽 www.mediaite.com/news/ex-nanc...

What’s so hateful about what’s happening in Congress with Sarah McBride is that she’s just one woman. It’s not an unknown trans woman they’re trying to ban with these policies, it’s a specific person. So they’re effectively accusing HER of being a predator, but don’t have the guts to say it openly.

People who voted for Trump because they want lower prices are in for sticker shock.

What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today

Dr Oz, Trump's new CMS boss, during height of covid: "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 3% in terms of total mortality. Any life lost is a life lost, but that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider"

Elon has 100% spent more time with Trump in the past two weeks than Melania has in the past two years.

Walmart is sounding the alarm that higher prices are on the way as a result of Trump’s proposed tariffs.

The U.S. economy is currently the envy of the world. The new Trump administration wants to change that.

A state court judge struck down Wyoming’s ban on abortion, the first explicit prohibition on medication abortion. Good news for now but it's headed to the 5 member Wyoming Supreme Court, where every Justice was appointed by a GOP Governor. www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/p...

JUST IN: A judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

Republicans want to cut $30 billion from SNAP, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

NEW: In order to offset the enormous cost for their tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump's advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal safety net programs. wapo.st/40SuTMR

Accurate.