The smile on Putin’s face is telling.

The focus is on “drug boat” strikes, but there are competing justifications for escalating military action against Venezuela — “cartels”, oil, bravado, liberation But the war on Venezuela isn’t about those things It’s about redefining—diminishing—American power www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

Part 2: (It’s long, but each of these narratives warrants a bit of discussion) www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

Sen. Mark Kelly: “As I said in that video… Members of the military have a responsibility not to follow illegal orders. And this is the kind of thing we were talking about.”

Why haven’t Republicans done a damn thing to make your life more affordable? The extremists are focused on all the wrong things, like trying to start a war in Venezuela. These people have been a complete disaster.

President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."

The White House is threatening to kill survivors of its strikes on boats in the Caribbean, even though "the entire operation is illegal from the outset," says @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social

So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

I was trying in vain to figure out what Trump's game was in Venezuela, and now @mollymckew.bsky.social has written a brilliant two-part piece explaining it all...and, spoiler alert, it's not good for America, but very good for Russia, and is absolutely terrifying. www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

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WAKE UP!!! Trump doesn't care about drugs -- he's trying to rob a sovereign country of its oil ‼️ Greedy Trump is threatening to attack a country with more oil than Iraq www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/b...

Who would benefit most from U.S. military action in Venezuela?

#RepublicanTreachery #RepublicanTreachery #RepublicanTreachery

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

If @aftynbehn.bsky.social wins tomorrow’s special election in Tennessee’s #TN07, it will send SHOCK WAVES throughout the Republican Party from coast to coast. It’s a heavily gerrymandered district, but Aftyn has a real shot at winning!! Please share and follow — and donate if you can! 💙 #VoteBlue

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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

✅⚖️👇These bogus USAs are having a hard time in court. Who knew? #habba #appointmentsclause for the win.

Habba good day

Federal court upholds Alina Habba disqualification in New Jersey https://twp.ai/9PXfKm

In the wake of the longest government shutdown in US history, an ongoing self-inflicted tariff war, and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, President Trump’s approval rating has cratered to 36 percent. Also tanking? His meme coins.

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This is exactly right. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself.

Kidnapping operations are expected to ramp up in New York City, as part of President Donald Trump's nationwide enforcement crackdown in major cities.

A woman silenced an ICE GOON who attempted to call her racist.

In Lower Manhattan, anti-ICE protesters threw trash and garbage cans at ICE GOONS’ cars, resulting in arrests and the use of pepper spray.

Every weekday, individuals visit 26 Federal Plaza in New York to meet with judges who are handling their immigration cases. However, federal goons are now also patrolling the hallways, kidnapping some men and women without any explanation as they exit routine court hearings.

Thanks to Trump's pardons, the GOP is the party of terrorists, drug dealers and child rapists.

Q: "If you received an order to strike suspected drug boats overseas and kill everyone on board, would you refuse that order?" Sen. Mark Kelly: "If I was ever given an unlawful order, I would refuse."

That's the idea! Wrecking the biggest threat to autocratic domination.

You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

In case you missed it. Now, ask yourself why you think that is.

We have so much to be thankful for if we just take the time to consider how much worse everything could actually be. 🙏 #HappyThanksgiving2025_Everyone 💖

Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is.  And we know what causes it, too."

As a former law professor, I am outraged by the brazen lawlessness of ICE and DHS. Whether it’s the assaults on our streets, the systematic pattern of people dying in ICE custody, or the complete lack of transparency, we need answers, and House Democrats will continue to fight to try to get them.

12 federal agencies—including the Defense Department, DOJ, Homeland Security Department and FBI—failed to produce records about President Trump’s federal takeover of DC. So you bet we sued.

The president’s defamation lawsuit against The Guardian fell apart Monday when a Florida judge granted motions to dismiss, crushing his latest attempt to peel money out of a media institution. The case was brought in 2023 by the corporate owner of Trump’s platform, Truth Social. trib.al/VF4fcKE

Republican extremists are determined to rip healthcare away from the American people. They don’t give a damn about making your life more affordable. You deserve better.

Trump is turning the DHS into his own failed money pit with a personal agenda — pulling agents off child exploitation, human trafficking, and terrorism cases just to chase headlines. This is not law and order. It's a national security failure. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

This is wild! If the ruling tossing out Texas racially gerrymandered maps holds, and since Indiana failed to redraw theirs, plus Democrats gaining a seat in Utah, and with California voters’ new maps — Democrats will actually win the redistricting fight. And remember, Trump started this mess.

This is my kind of good trouble.

What matters isn’t who we give thanks *to*, but rather *that* we give thanks. Thanksgiving is an act of humility. It forces us to change, albeit briefly, our perspective.

The House voted for a chance for justice and truth for the thousands of women and girls trapped in Epstein’s global sex trafficking ring. President Trump, it’s time to do what you should have done months ago: release the file now.

If I were a betting woman, I’d put money down that Trump's going to use his “investigation” into Epstein to justify not releasing everything. He’s just trying to save his ass.

This picture tells it all.

This is one of the clearest instances where Trump’s business entanglements may be impacting his decisions as president. And that could come with a substantial cost to national security. Trump’s corruption is a very real threat.