Jesus Christ, public opinion is not some static thing that has to be “respected” by politicians. Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.

Such a difficult decision for Trump’s Pentagon: kill those on the boats, or send them off to be tortured. What to do, what to do???

Disbar the lawyers.

There's a lot of shitty shit Trump can do to fuck with elections, but seeing as how Dems keep winning, he seems to be doing a crap job of it.

If you think Trump's bad polling doesn't matter, I hope you reconsider after tonight's elections. Maybe his unpopularity doesn't affect *his* behavior, but it definitely impacts tons of other people—including many GOP voters who are either switching sides or staying home.

Trump admits he took another cognitive test. They don’t just give those out for funsies. He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason. Whatever news he got must be awful.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

More than any president before him, Trump has embraced an expanded meaning of the “commander in chief” that extends far beyond its narrow military meaning to cover all kinds of authoritarian nonsense, but as soon as there’s an actual military scandal, he’s running away from it as fast as he can.

Incredibly galling to hear Sauer talk about how the president is accountable to the public through elections, when the president he's referring to is one who attempted to illegally overturn an election he lost

Youre worth waiting for! So which Cabinet member gets kicked to the cub first?

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

One key battleground we should all keep our eyes very peeled on is Hungary's election in April 2026. PM Viktor Orban is in the balance. If the US's National Security Strategy is now USG policy, we should surely expect some MAGA involvement to help tilt the race in Orban's favour

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

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.

John Roberts has been a GOP operative, in "institutionalist" clothing, through all of his career. Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem... He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles. Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.

ICYMI: @mayaonstage.bsky.social and @michaelfanone.bsky.social sat down for Protect & Serve to discuss the 6 year-old who was separated from his father after being detained by ICE - and cannot be found by his father… www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-child-... Subscribe for free today to watch!

A ship on fire, capsized, that was just hit by missiles … pretty sure those two people were just trying not to drown.

Funny what a close call in TN on top of some significant losses in NJ & VA can do to wake people up to reality. 🍿 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors." 1/🧵

⚡️Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate.

“Mother Mary wearing a respirator mask to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands, wrapped in a thin blanket that looks like aluminum foil. Masked centurions with sunglasses and green vests labeled “ICE.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...

very key. Trump doesn't care abt signalgate and he likes blowing up civilian boats. but this IG report provides a convenient trap door under Pete Hegseth. If GOPs want to be done, theyve now got a way to be done. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Narrator: No one on earth thought Democrats led by 20 points in 2024.

Good point from @swin24.bsky.social and team here: Trump and Hegseth suddenly refusing to take credit for the second strike, after they've spent weeks sadistically yukking it up over their killings, is a key tell: zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Needs to be discussed much more

Last I knew, we still had not found and reunited all the children removed during DT's first term. How are we repeating this grievous error?

WhiskeyLeaks seems confused. Wet brain? Pete Hegseth Already Bragged About That Second Strike newrepublic.com/post/203839/... via @newrepublic.com

It's like clapping for Tinkerbell to live. His cabinet is showering him with praise to try to keep his little clogged heart beating.

I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Here’s my #TN07 ‘margin take’ for tonight in this Trump+22 district as it relates to 2026. I broke it down into 6 categories: GOP+20 or ⬆️: Great for GOP GOP+15-20: Decent for GOP GOP+10-15: GOP will get very nervous GOP+5-10: 🚨 🚨 🚨 GOP+0-5: EARTHQUAKE! Dem win: ELE (Extinction-level event)

Trump could die in his chair here and I honestly don't know how anyone would react. Would they shoo the cameras out? Would they pretend he was fine? Would Rubio crawl under the table and wiggle the chair around to make it look like he was still moving?

When you see Congressional Cons "concerned" about the alleged Trump/Hegseth/Bradley murders, remember this: Their "concern" is about 90% a result of Spanberger, Sherrill, and perhaps the Georgia Public Utilities Commission elections. Minus fear of democratic accountability, they're still lapdogs.

"Great job on your cholesterol, Matthew! You made the dean's list!"

Trump: "I took my physical. I got all As. Everything. But they said to me, 'would you like to take a cognitive test?' I said, 'Is it hard?' They said, 'yes.' I said, 'Well, I'm a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one?' 'No president has ever agreed to take one' ... I aced it."

“When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors we mean it may include stabbing them in the back.”

Of course Hegseth kept Target Engagement Authority, that way he could brag about personally calling the strike to his Signal chat friends.

not just morally but it seems obvious politically that underbusing the admiral is a mistake.

Anyway. DHS’s comms apparatus is now fundamentally indistinguishable from Stormfront, so that’s great.

TIL that the guy who allegedly shot the two National Guard troops was a child soldier for the CIA. I feel like that should shock more people.

Worth reiterating as the regime appears to have selected Admiral Bradley as Official Sacrificial Lamb.

You know, we often have this argument when people are like “they’ll just cancel elections” that elections are distributed and therefore not quite so easy to fuck with, and man, I don’t like inching along to the same conclusion about how a bunch more stuff should work.

Lurking behind these conciliatory and cautiously optimistic words, there is a great deal of anger. The French, like other Europeans, were disgusted, by the original 28-point US and Russian peace plan. They are not, however, ready to say so publicly. 4/

But the word “mediation” (which Macron used several times, carefully praising US efforts) is a loaded one . It implies that the Europeans no longer regard the US as an ally but expect Washington to be at least balanced in its efforts to end the Ukraine-Russia confict. 2/

I'm more curious about Trinidad & Tobago, origin of at least one of Hegseth's victims. Venezuela was the first large country to abolish the death penalty. In contrast, the death penalty is mandatory for murder in TT, although not recently carried out.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

All these institutions think Dems aren’t going to do anything btw

"My career in politics is going to last longer than theirs" is a gamble, but it's a gamble more people are starting to make.