VATNIK DOWN! Being identified as Russian propagandists makes them a liability to Russia. In spite of all the cover they get from their fellow travelers and all their attacks on fact-checkers, journalists, and activists, once Tim Pool's cover was blown he was toast. #NAFO is working.

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“In effect, Trump has chosen white supremacy over actual national greatness.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Wins 2025 hands down

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

“The picture is not of a “fortress Russia” serenely weathering Western pressure, but of a state cannibalizing its future to sustain a grinding, costly war.” open.substack.com/pub/keithbum...

Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.

Anne Applebaum wrote: “The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"

What’s at stake when Trump tries to seize more power from Congress: [ gift link ] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...

Boudoir, 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16564

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Federal trial courts and district appellate courts are pushing back against Trump’s illegal use of Justice Dept to exact revenge on his enemies, while SCOTUS’s GOP supermajority continues to rubber stamp Trump’s white nationalist project to remake election law. [ gift article for its author ]

Trump keeps picking unqualified lawyers to act as top prosecutors in his revenge campaign. Increasingly, judges are ruling this scheme illegal.

From the Department of Cringe. Naming buildings to glorify a sitting president is a sign of impending autocrocy. The length to which officials in this country are willing to go to kiss the ring of the Orange King is a disgrace and an embarrassment.

Trump — a NYC landlord — has sent Kushner and Witkoff — two NYC landlords with no other qualifications — to represent Ukraine in negotiations with Putin. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

yeah we’re gonna have to think bigger than “wealth tax” when it comes to Elon. My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID

A federal judge has ruled that ICE's "systemic failure to apply the probable cause standard, including the failure to consider escape risk" when making arrests in DC directly violates immigration law and DHS's own regulations. DC: 1 ICE: 0 👏👏👏

While we were sleeping, a huge ruling: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.” She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A “newly filed civil action in the District Court for the District of Columbia could complicate that plan — and potentially derail the Comey case altogether.” open.substack.com/pub/annabowe...

So, any pardons a president issues can be reversed by his successor? Noted.

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Former Fox Entertainment personalities committing international war crimes in the name of all Americans was the logical next step for Murdoch after decades of brainwashing his US viewers.

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.

Village behind Trees, 1879 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12169

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The buck stops here. No, not right here. There. Not there, way over there. Yeah, keep going. Going. There.

Orchard in Blossom with Two Figures Spring - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14341

At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood

Water Lilies - 1914/1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11144

Time to shut this clown car down and start forcing Crazie Eddie Lutnick, Bessent and crypto tool Atkins out of the door. 🚪 Then we can prosecute World Liberty Financial (and its co-founder Russian asset Witkoff) who is co-splaying as a diplomat, to the fullest extent of the law.

It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…” Wanting to address this isn’t radical. NOT wanting to is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

This is a funny example of the core premise of US foreign policy. Ie, the US & Israel are allowed to go anywhere on earth & kill anyone we want, and any response from the people we're killing — including just throwing rocks — is a monstrous Act of Terror.

Regurgitating obvious bullshit isn’t journalism, Reuters, its propaganda

Trump: “South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere,” Instead, I presume that most of us reckon that Trump has demonstrated that he in not worthy of presence anywhere but in jail. www.ft.com/content/4d4b...

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Finland's been doing this for years now. They've virtually eliminated the shelterless homeless & homeless of all sorts are very low.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

Wow. Are they seriously using ICE to steal a child and get the brother out of a custody battle, divorce process, alimony and child support? Just ship the Mom off to some country to never be found? Are we going to let that happen and not arrest the 20 or 50 ppl in on that?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1