Huh.... one would think this might complicate prosecution just a smidge.

Tom Cotton, pictured here dressed to go aggressively Christmas Caroling at a local synagogue, articulates his enthusiasm for the Trump administration‘s secret unreviewable power to kill anyone they want.

Elise Stefanik just humiliated Mike Johnson so hard his son’s phone got an alert

Van Epps had to wait 48 fewer days for his swearing in than Adelina Grijalva.

If anyone needs a chuckle this morning... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u... Picture is chef's kiss dot gif

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Women cannot remove a few unwanted cells from their uterus even if their life is at risk but Trump republicans can blatantly murder men in small fishing boats. Because "prolife" has always been a giant crock of crap.

"Underestimating how shitty Republicans are and will be" is the signal analytical mistake in US politics, by journos, pundits, normies, everyone. Again and again and again. And again. There's something deeper going on that prevents us -- the collective us -- from internalizing the reality.

*Nothing* that I read about this woman is at all likeable. Its remarkable really. I feel my face doing the "ew, gross" thing everytime.

"Widespread job losses, with declines in employment among manufacturers, construction companies and professional services firms. Losses were concentrated among small businesses..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

Man... I really fell for Jeffries. I thought he was gonna be the fresh ideas & youth to lead Dems. I went down. Hook, line & sinker.

Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/steve...

It was so quiet and peaceful today; the sunlight shimmered on the water and there were dolphins. #islandlife

It might be a good idea for some reporter to ask the Trump administration why they apparently think all American adults are using cocaine. Are they just extrapolating from their own circle or

NARRATOR: It's not war. Not declared, not undeclared. And even if it was, there are rules. Not murdering survivors is one of those rules.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

#Colorado proud of my state & Jena

I had Ghirardelli peppermint bark & string cheese for dinner bc im a fucking ADULT!

Real words from Trump just now in the Oval: "It's a con job. I think affordability is the greatest con job."

I want off this ride.

Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..." He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."

The woman who wrote the definitive obituary on Biden's campaign while having an affair w/ the brain worm infested Sec. Health is doing a rehab tour while Trump falls asleep at his North Koreanesque Cabinet meeting. Its so far removed from "normal" its hard to process.

A friend of mine was one of the longtime pentagon reporters who walked out of the building rather than sign Hegseth’s loyalty oath. He’s a combat vet who had been reporting from inside that building daily for 40 years. He’s a man of absolute integrity. It sickens me to see who has replaced him.

Hegseth’s name card says “SSECRETARY OF WAR.” (sic) Either more of that egregious White House incompetence or just openly flaunting the whole SS thing now. Or both maybe.

Any normal human would be so mortified by this but Trump is like a dog who just got table scraps for the first time.

What looks likely to happen tonight is the beginning of what's been coming since Trump won. This regime wants us to switch sides from Europe and Ukraine to form a criminal oligarch syndicate with Putin.

Of all the things destructive to the constitutional order of the United States, one of the worst is wealthy sociopaths feeling entitled to be free of criticism, and the willingness of sleazy lawyers to take their money to enforce that feeling of entitlement.

There's no authoritarianism and no Trump without misogyny.

He may be wasting away in Mar-a-Lagoville, but he has found the lost shaker of salt.

There’s no accessible research that proves these deaths and Kennedy refuses to release his data so this is all a “take my word for it” situation, which means they’re lying.

Trump is now about to commit war crimes in Venezuela to justify the war crimes they've already committed against Venezuelans. And it's all a pretense for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to turn the government loose on "alien enemies."

AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...

With the cast and crew from Idiocracy.

How it started / How it’s going

This announced on same day WSJ reports her crypto meme coin is down 99% in value since Inauguration Day.

I've laughed irrationally at this. Those beans & carrots are so void of any seasoning its painful. Zapped in a microwave & pulled seconds before shriveling.

This is a fucking nightmare.

When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors. But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.

Personally, if I were writing this up, I wouldn’t wait until the 4th graf.

Probably time to loudly repeat that members of the military must not follow illegal orders. The US is not at war with Venezuela and has no right to threaten aircraft in its airspace, let alone shoot anything down.

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.

Just two different stories in today's paper.

Couple additional thing I'd add about these attacks: - They were done in a manner that would have had the least environmental impact... attacking steering, doing so when filled with ballast water rather than full tanks - Done far enough offshore to reduce washing up on beaches

Explain to me why the Honduran president gets pardoned but random Venezuelans in boats get a death sentence?

Thing to remember abt Melania's exciting new venture into movie production is Amazon, Apple are now heavy into movie/tv production. As r the networks and their parents who are ALL tightly bounded into the regulatory framework that Trump has used to extract settlements. Melania's beak will get v wet.

Oh no

$937,989.39: That's the amount of the penalty owed by Trump and Alina Habba, according to a new appeals court decision, which upheld a 2023 ruling that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey.

I hate it when this happens 😭

Gotta love how Ryan Lizza is farming engagement and hustling for subscribers to his Substack by drip-drip-dripping his Olivia Nuzzi story, complete with cliffhangers. I think we can all concur that there are no heroes in this entire saga, right?

The last few years have been an endless series of “somebody could have done something heroic yet did the exact opposite instead.”