Biden Slams Republicans for Using L.G.B.T.Q. Identity as ‘Political Football’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Its international bodies and NGOs generate billions of euros every year and thousands of jobs. Yet The Hague’s reputation as a hub for international law is under strain

Sounds like a great use of $9B

A step in the right direction "The Senate Armed Services Committee ... has asked Adm. Alvin Holsey ... to testify before the committee next week, according to Blumenthal and another person familiar with the matter." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

This has always been the logic behind it, yeah. Hell, a lot of the *un*constitutional stuff, e.g. term limits, would not actually address the problem

Every “AI girlfriend” and “nudify” app is just another pipeline for mass-producing abuse. Now, a company has leaked a million explicit images, including stolen photos & deepfakes of women and girls. Foreseeable image based sexual abuse. No accountability. www.wired.com/story/huge-t...

no one should have any internet access until adulthood. that's the only real solution.

Hundreds of 911 calls from the deadly Texas floods in July have been released by authorities.

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

Every federal court has ruled that President Trump's attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. We look forward to defeating him at the Supreme Court.

If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines? This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

This ought to show you how bad this policy change is. Way to go MO. Sheesh *** St. Louis area bars look to cash in on sports betting. 'We are very excited.' www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

This case is not cert-worthy. This is a bad sign.

It was an eye-opening moment for me in Trump 1.0 when I discovered that senior political appointees at the State Department had Fox News playing constantly in their offices.

The thing is, entirely apart from gender identity, people have the right to change their names, right? If I got my name changed to Scooby C. Freakinbopper, that’s what it would say on my passport and any official portrait, right? So why not just follow that rule?

They genuinely don't have anything better to do. These are not people capable of great things. That she was so capable, that trans people can attain successes they must win with lies & slander, gnaws at them. Even when they win, for them it has no savor

The people carrying out these orders are the worst kinds of cowards. Despicable.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.

The details are gross both aesthetically and morally, but Nuzzi played a consequential role in the ending of a sitting president’s re-election bid. Even if you don’t include her role in RFK then getting DHHS, that alone is worth discussing

If Trump thinks Maduro is a terrorist, why did he send 400,000 people back into his arms? Trump's Venezuela policy is inside out, and only serves his own interests.

This morning, CNN ran a story on the then-upcoming FIFA draw event, and they included the Kalshi "chances" of... Trump winning the "FIFA Peace Prize." 91%! What a scoop!

I agree. This is "actually" important. Can't at the moment think of any episode in my (long) journalistic experience of comparable interference with results. (George Will sharing debate notes with Bush campaign microscopic, by comparison.)

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

New: Alleged traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were not heading toward the US, Adm Bradley told lawmakers yesterday, per people briefed. Instead they were heading to link up with another vessel that was bound for Suriname. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

It is kinda wild how the president is evidently receiving some kind of regular medical care that requires IVs and we don't know what's up

Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.

Voting has consequences and the voters are ultimately the ones responsible for them. There are no excuses or explanations.

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

NEW: Supreme Court will decide whether to allow Trump to limit birthright citizenship www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

It's honestly insane how many people fail to understand that the new Cold War is an authoritarian internationale that freely and openly aligns itself across national borders so the retreating from the international stage is just never going to be an option

The other side of this is that liberalism will never survive unless it is muscular and willing to defend itself kinetically

Stuff like this is why I have zero faith in the supposed legal constraints on the president’s ability to launch a nuclear first strike. We have to assume the president has de facto unilateral power and that lawyers aren’t going to stand in the way.

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social:The Pete Hegseth scandal actually reveals the entire GOP's "total abdication of constitutional responsibilities." This piece reminds us that "responsible" Rs like Roger Wicker sanctioned his nomination. This was all predictable: newrepublic.com/post/204017/...

The NSS and NDS shouldn’t lie. America will never be back as long as the Confederacy has access to power. Say that. Ask for help.

BTW we are going to need litigation guardrails now more than ever. I mean this is where laws like Section 230 and anti-SLAPP really do work here.

NEW: Accountability! DoD IG fired over Hegseth Signal-gate report www.duffelblog.com/accountabili...

"I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way." Again, worth noting that this was exactly the defense that U-852's captain used in his post-WW2 war crimes trial for the Peleus Incident. He was found guilty and shot.

Seeing a missile launch:

And that’s something people forget about Vance. He is a smarmy elite. He went to Yale for goodness sake and had a best selling memoir boosted by the elite class. I don’t think they’d show any more spine against him as they do right now.

lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.

i am going to be equally honest, the USPS accounts for less than a single percentage point of federal spending despite being one of the most complex and sophisticated logistical agencies in the world, this is a crank hobby horse

This is why I feel the “Vance is juiceless & him being in charge is a win position for liberal democracy” is a bad take. His ideological allies are the most extreme and he’s actually a functional person. He can stand in front of a camera and give a boring normal sounding address filled with bile

Historians, friends, community at large, just spoke with a man and his father fought in SWW as a tank commander in the Philippines 🇵🇭 . Any good books about tank battalions / units that fought there? #skystorians #milsky #histbookchat