BREAKING on MS NOW:   Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.

For those that don't know, the answer is emphatically nope. And for at least the last decade the most infamous & egregious murders in Minnesota were committed by cops.

NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.” @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I'm satisfied that the have PC against Brian Cole, though I think IF THIS IS ALL it is a lower standard of certainty than on most Jan6 cases. But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

Fox & Friends and Pam Bondi are now sensationalizing specific instances of Somalis being charged with crimes in Minnesota to demonize the whole population

It really hasn't gotten enough attention that FBI Director Kash Patel is paid by Shein.

Look, people, there is no evidence that Senator Tom Cotton was caught pleasuring himself while watching the video of those survivors clinging to a portion of a wrecked boat until they were murdered by a second missile. There's just no truth to that at all. Stop saying it.

They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

REP. HIMES: “The video was enormously disturbing… the example given in the DOD manual is of shipwrecked sailors. You do not kill them.”

It would be really spectacular if everyone would flood report OAN, FOX, Bari Weiss, then any of the current " White House press corps" for bias. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

#GVerse Anti-ICE protesters SHUT DOWN Nola City Counsil Meeting, after demanding to speak about #FuckICE in New Orleans and city collaboration. City Counsil shut down the public comment and left!

Profound admiration Teen brothers patrol the Chicago suburbs to track ICE agents and film raids

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

3 Questions: 1) What are we doing? 2) How is this pro-life? 3) What are we doing? www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

This is what every district should be doing, starting with NJ, not least bc by stripping the makebelieve US Attorney, you increase Todd Blanche's legal exposure for the bullshit still going on, most notably in the LaMonica McIver case.

Good morning.

Mornin. ☕️ ICYMI: I got copies of letters from nearly 20 of Trump's ballroom donors, sent to a senator asking for specifics on how much they gave, who asked them to give, if they made deals, etc. Most ignored the Qs and bragged about their philanthropy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

You love to see it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026 elections. Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, dissents.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

“This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.

This is an INCREDIBLE investigative story, told in the form of a graphic novel. Arrested by phone - a true story. A must read www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

That motherfucker's going to rename the Kennedy center it isn't he Oh that motherfucker no no no no no no no no

In the King’s own hand.

So the complaint against the alleged pipe bomber is based entirely on: 1) His height (5'6") 2) His purchases of components 3) His phone pinging the cell towers 4) A meal at a restaurant by scene of the crime No sneakers mentioned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New: Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on Pete Hegseth to resign.

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

What's missing from this arrest affidavit, something that appears in ALL other January 6 affidavits, are data points showing that Brian Cole did ANYTHING between December 19, 2020, when Trump announced the rally and when he appears on Capitol Hill on January 5.

Is the Dan Richman case the end of the line on US v Comey? with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social lawandchaospod.substack.com/p/one-more-f...

Trump/Hegseth instruction manual: 1. Invent a war where none exists. 2. Kill people by blowing up boats that aren’t attacking you. 3. Violate your own rules of war. 4. Call in the lawyers to explain why the clear violations are not really violations. 5. Blame it on “the fog of war.”

President Trump continues to *talk* about freeing Tina Peters from prison in Colorado, suggesting he's unable or unwilling to take *action* to free her.

This is what I thought too. If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too. Of course, neither are legit targets.

I might hold off on assuming the FBI really HAS solved the pipe bomber. THey've upped rewards and suggest an open source reviewer was involved. Could be more gait analysis.

MS NOW: Federal prosecutors are expected to seek to reindict New York AG Letitia James TODAY in Norfolk, VA. Lindsey Halligan will NOT present the information. Now Roger Keller, a federal assistant U.S. attorney normally based in Missouri, is expected to present information before a grand jury.

This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.

Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner on the Signalgate report: "Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets." He is calling for Hegseth to resign.

Also tomorrow: A federal judge will consider whether to quash a SECOND grand jury investigation into James tomorrow because another Trump-installed prosecutor was allegedly illegally appointed.

NEW: President Trump has asserted executive privilege as he attempts to thwart a long-running lawsuit against him for his role in stoking the violence on Jan. 6. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

We are not at war www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

CNN with a useful timeline of all the bullshit Trump and his minions have said abt the September 2 strike. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.

This story demonstrates why I so fiercely believe in neutral rules in the First Amendment space, especially on college campuses. In Rosenberger v. UVA, the Supreme Court held that UVA could not deny student activities funds to a student-run Christian magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Ossoff says Trump administration blocked visit to ICE detention center www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...