Prominent American economists once insisted the Soviet economy would surpass ours. It never happened. Worth remembering: predictions of authoritarian economic dominance don’t always hold up over time

Shocking to ...well, no one, who actually understands tariffs and trade wars and predicted this avoidable disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

I just don't understand this world anymore.

How horribly is Trump's prosecution of James Comey going? Trump's former lawyer Ty Cobb said on TV today that both Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan should be disbarred. My thoughts exactly! www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...

This is important…..

When Europeans find out you are an American journalist they have a lot of questions…not about how this happened, they are familiar, but essentially along the lines of: when will America have a general strike?

We don't need AI, Deep Fakes, or Doctored anything. Republicans' reality is a tragedy, and their truth brings them pain, which is why they hide behind their lies and fantasies.

In a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg signaled that he wants to begin taking testimony from Trump administration officials involved in the mid-March 2025 Alien Enemies Act deportations as soon as the Monday after Thanksgiving. My report: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contemp...

Beneath the facade of federation lies a patchwork of subjugated peoples whose cultures have been, or are being, erased. Conquest serves a dual purpose: it intimidates neighbours and sustains the Kremlin's power by concentrating wealth and authority in Moscow. kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...

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After Trump met w/ MBS, Saudi officials & Trump insiders headed to Trump Jr.’s “Executive Branch” club The Trump family has taken approx. $2B from Saudi entities while giving them VIP access & influence This is a clear conflict of interest 👇 - TN www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump can release the Epstein Files today. He can order the DOJ to do it. He doesn't need a vote.

RACIAL PROFILING ALLEGED IN DC IMMIGRATION SWEEP: Immigration officers targeting Latinos causing unlawful arrests, group says -- @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...

As Ukraine mourns innocent people murdered in their sleep by a russian terrorist missile, the media reports that the US Administration has shared with Ukraine a new, updated Capitulation Plan. No pressure on russia, just Ukraine cutting its own hands and legs. What a disgrace.

If you feel the same anger we do, channel it into action. Donate, share, support fundraisers for anti-Shahed interceptors and FPV drones. Save our lives. www.sternenkofund.org/en

”Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” • Elie Wiesel • I Stand With Ukraine!!! #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #TheHague

Trump not only dismissed MBS’ culpability in Khashoggi's brutal murder & blamed the victim for not being more likable. He also rebranded bin Salman, not long ago condemned in civilized countries as a pariah, as “one of the most respected people in the world.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...

As of now, 25 murdered. 80 injured, including 14 children. People were sleeping at home — in what they believed was a safe place, somewhere in the middle of a residential district in the western city of Ternopil. My heart bleeds in agony. Everyone who supports russia has our blood on their hands.

🧵I want to prepare you for my interview with the great E. Jean Carroll, because she says some things that we may not want to hear -- but need to. Her insights are invaluable: she's one of the few people who managed to actually hold Trump accountable. gaslitnation.libsyn.com/i-never-had-...

Why russia cannot help but invade? Been pondering this question for a decade now... 🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left. Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...

Remembering the love Jamal Khashoggi shared with his children and grandchildren. ❤️💔

Furthermore, War Monitor UA analysis of recorded footage shows that immediately before impact, the Kh-101 released dipole counter-radar decoys used to complicate air-defence targeting. This further confirms that the strike was a deliberate and pre-planned terrorist attack on civilians.

Donald Trump doesn't want to release the Epstein files because he's in the files. Trump is in the files because he was "best friends" with Epstein for years. He was "best friends" with Epstein for years because they were abusing women and girls together. His attacks won't change any of that.

Neuroscience gives us one more warning. Losing power can feel like withdrawal. We're seeing this now as Donald Trump thrashes about, losing his grip on his party and his followers... hartmannreport.com/p/is-america...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago

Pam Bondi keep promising to "provide maximum transparency" instead of providing maximum transparency.

This is a pig of a man who abuses women — “Quiet Piggy” rolled off his tongue effortlessly, and other female reporters not having the backs of others can fuck right off

Democrats need to add new House seats wherever they can, @thedlcc.bsky.social's @heather4dems.bsky.social tells @gregsargent.bsky.social. "That remains important. Whether the GOP strategy is falling apart or not does not matter. They started this. We cannot let up." newrepublic.com/article/2033...

Presidential quotes about women. One hates women while the other reveres them. Donald Trump: Quiet Piggy. Barack Obama: 👇🏼

🚨 Have employers of women reporters who have been berated and abused in the past few days by Trump spoken up to defend their journalists? He called a Bloomberg report "piggy," and berated a women reporter from ABC News/Disney. Bloomberg or ABC News statements? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

I wrote this piece too soon, but it remains true! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The losses are piling up, the polls are getting worse, he's been covering for a sex trafficker, his health is declining - just ain't no way to put lipstick on this Trumpian pig. New, from me 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/congress-d...

As with a lot of things in this administration, helpful to understand a bit of psychology in evaluating party dynamics. The term "narcissist discard" refers to when a narcissist abruptly ends a relationship when a person is no longer useful. Not 3d chess, friends. It’s just a personality disorder.

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "There is no guarantee that Donald Trump’s attorney general will carry out these legislative instructions in good faith. Pam Bondi could try to turn tight and reasonable exceptions into wide open loopholes." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-epstei...

Predictable 'playbook': Trump’s next move in the Epstein scandal is clear www.alternet.org/news-politic...

The Witkoff–Dmitriev 3-day talks in Miami last month reportedly led to a 28-point "peace plan" for Ukraine that will be presented to Zelensky as a "fait accompli," reports Politico. "The mood inside the White House is bullish." Washington isn't consulting Europe. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Seeing all the Epstein conspirators brought to justice is a big disappointment for Mike Johnson. Imagine if we all had someone who loved and fought for us as much as Mike Johnson loves and fights for pedophiles. The GOP = God's Own Pedos

This important: DHS has been lying about who federal agents arrested in Chicago & why and now hundreds of people are being released from custody. The worst of the worst? Hello no. This is a shameful, reckless & dangerous operation from top to bottom. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...

Last night, the russians erased an ordinary residential house in the ordinary residential area of Ternopil, a city of 225k ppl in the west of the country. Another high-rise building was set on fire. And the free world simply observes this f*cking 9/11 russian roulette. I feel so exhausted.

At #MontclairSundays I met #NJ11 Candidate Justin Strickland who sounds a lot like me. "Americans are not happy with their politicians, both Democrats & Republicans, and they’re tired of the same old talk, tired of the same old politicians." More on Justin www.justinstrickland.com #DemVoice1

It's going to be okay.

“According to the education department, the latest steps ‘move closer to fulfilling the president’s promise to return education to the states’”. 11/18/25

seems pretty clear that a number of Important People are hoping they can just wait for the whole Larry Summers-Epstein thing to blow over prospect.org/2025/11/19/c...

Breaking: In DOJ Paperwork Snafu, James Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted Just out of court, where judge established that second operative two-count indictment of Comey was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury. Judge wanted immediate additional briefing on that issue.

Lindsey Halligan says full grand jury never saw final indictment it handed up against Comey 👀 #Pinks www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar defended Trump after he told Bloomberg reporterCatherine Lucey to be “quiet, piggy.” Women in Florida's 27th Congressional District, including Miami, are cool with sex abuser Trump calling women "piggy"? #Women #Florida www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials the empire that attacked Poland in alliance with Nazi Germany—but was not tried alongside them—continues to act like unpunished criminals: the Russians bombed apartment buildings,killing at least 20 civilians, including children

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) referred a top aide to former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over obstruction of a congressional investigation. www.politico.com/live-updates...