November 12, 2025

Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.

"Epstein alleges that Trump spent 'hours' with one of his victims at Epstein’s house. I wonder what they were doing. Probably reading." No, maybe he was badgering her about tariff policy! www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...

“Fusarium graminearum”, a toxin smuggled into the US by a Chinese scientist now facing charges, is a fungus that can wipe out wheat and barley crops. A research professor of plant pathology says the case highlights serious vulnerabilities in American agricultural biosecurity: buff.ly/nggAjSd

3/5 Even more disturbing: there is now proof that Epstein was advising Russians on how to handle Trump, basically acting as a Russian asset. This suggests Russia had leverage over Trump and could blackmail him if it wanted to

"Boot Edge Edge was the secretary of transportation" Trump takes air travel question in the Oval Office

"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...

At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will - end the Trump Presidency - implicate many other prominent Republicans - destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.

Growing list of reasons Trump should step down: - Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring - Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment - Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power - Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy

Trump has done enormous harm to the country. He is a deeply corrupt and venal man. He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed. He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation. It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD. Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.

That look..

These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide

The CIA conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds. An extraordinary story from Warren Strobel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If you're looking for the new Epstein/Maxwell emails about Trump released today by House Democrats, they can be found at oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r...

For the umpteenth time: The most obvious answer is most always the correct answer. Donald Trump most likely was a client in Epstein’s pedophilia ring, and Trump most likely sexually abused & victimized young girls. That’s always been the most obvious answer here.

The Atlantic: The President’s Most Annoying Buddy Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remains in his position, despite a series of blunders. By Vivian Salama, Ashley Parker, and Michael Scherer share.google/WkD5P3LjUWYJ...

OMFG

OMG 😱 He is selling cologne in the Oval office to men that killed US Soldiers .Was this yesterday or today?

The latest episode of my podcast Collateral Damage is up today. When we started this project a few years ago, we had no idea how timely this episode would be. It's about Veronica and Charity Bowers, a mother and daughter killed in 2001 when the CIA and Peruvian Air Force shot down their plane.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

When you’ve lost Sorbo.

“Independent voters are rejecting Trump 2.0 governance.” Alyssa Cass joins @samsteindc.bsky.social to unpack new polling on authoritarianism, corruption, and why financial self-dealing may be Trump’s biggest political vulnerability.

McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation

I have dealt with ATC as a Commercial/ Airline pilot since 1980. I flew when Reagan fired all PATCO controllers in 1981 and banned them for life. It was a mess. And very dangerous. ATC did not get back to full capacity until the mid 80’s. Duffy is promising to put us in same mess today #ProudBlue

Oy vey www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Actually Trump's firings disproportionately harm veterans and their families, since the federal government is their single largest employer.

I needed distraction from all the crazy going on in our country, so I rescued two kitties and a puppy. 😬

Economic Professor @justinwolfers.bsky.social breaks down all of Trump's dangerous lies about the economy. It's even wilder than you imagine. Live now. thelefthook.substack.com

“We are sick of politicians promising to look out for veterans when they are on the campaign trail and then abandoning them when they take office." These veterans fought for the US. Now they’re fighting Trump’s VA cuts.

Good. What our country is doing is completely immoral. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Hope that clears things up. Tell Congress to require ICE to unmask and display clear identification here: https://bit.ly/45cy1DS #ResistTrump

I will dunk on her until the end of time. Go to law school, study in the law library like all of us peasants did, and do the damn thing like a real person. This “Instagram-ready study session” annoys the crap out of me.

Veterans & Jon Stewart fought hard for passage of the bipartisan PACT Act in 2022 ensuring cancer care for vets exposed to toxic burn pits Now Trump & his VA Secretary are attempting to repeal & restrict that life-saving care and MAGA republicans refuse to protect the PACT Act

Vance shares a strange immunity with Trump. The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man. This includes: 1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X 2. His championing of Germany's far right 3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP

🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Drennon Davis Jeph Gets Edibles! 😸

Trumps plan Own Your Soul To The Company Store

Frida Kahlo’s “El sueño (La cama)” is causing a stir among art historians as its estimated $40 million to $60 million price tag would make it the most expensive work by any female or Latin American artist when it goes to auction later this month. https://to.pbs.org/4ovvZad

So.... ALL the economic data is fake? Barrons, CNBC, Investopedia, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, etc. All fake. Only he knows..... got it. Score this: Sheer Lunacy

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/u... Story by Vaughn Hillyard and Laura Barron Lopez @msnbc.com

JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.

Did ANYONE read the fucking bill?

Anger among rank & file Democrats is reaching fever pitch tonight as they watch their elected leaders cave to the GOP. The organizers behind No Kings Day rallies say enough is enough & they are tired of watching Dems seize defeat from the jaws of victory & they have an answer. We're coming for you.

President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.