Gupta: These are the most credentialed radiologists in the country. No one is aware of any type of screening guideline that says as you age you should get an MRI of the heart and abdomen.

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

Gupta: Nobody takes a Montreal Cognitive Assessment with this type of frequency. Doing it as frequently as he’s doing makes no sense. I don’t know any neurologist who would recommend doing a MoCA with that type of frequency. It’s not the flex that I think he believes it is.

I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.

They. Just. Lie.

"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

This is what the so-called "Secretary of War" is tweeting amid reports that his department ordered a second strike to make sure they killed survivors of a boat they attacked that they allege with no proof carries drugs (which doesn't justify bombing them even it were true)

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Obscene, the word for this type of gouging is obscene

My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Zohran Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist: NBC: "[D]o you think that President Trump is a fascist?" Mamdani: "[T]hat's something that I've said in the past. I say it today."

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

2022 vs. 2025. 🤡

All this shows is that the US has no idea what it’s doing and it’s being played by Moscow. Complete humiliation.

How embarrassing. Administration sources were all-in on this Russian wishlist until it was revealed that it was an *actual* Russian wishlist and not just the worst possible peace plan for Ukraine.

I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...

detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

#CNBC is running little pieces from small business owners who are getting slammed by the #Tariffs. I think this is the most damning anti-Tariff programming I've seen. Yet no one is talking about it. It is brilliant and should be made share-able @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Adding to @gregsargent.bsky.social's spot-on post: SefDef Pete Hegseth laid the groundwork for this back in February by firing the top JAGs for the Army and USAF (the Navy JAG post was already vacant). He wanted pliant JAGs who wouldn't get in the way of illegal orders. apnews.com/article/pent...

Reminder: SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway. My newsletter.

Tiny men can’t survive in Chicago

"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

This is one of the most important articles I have read. As a librarian who has spent a lot of time helping students find trustworthy data, this is a devastating read. @thebulwark.com @crampell.bsky.social Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Hakeem Jeffries says Mike Johnson is a "nice guy" but has "zero control" over House Republicans. He brings up that Trump once said he has two titles, president and speaker of the House. "Man, you lettin the president punk you like that? Publicly?"

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.

"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse" "Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

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Newsletter: While slumping prices have some fearing it’s crypto winter again, Trump looks to Saudia Arabia and American retail crypto investors to fund the development of his next hotel www.citationneeded.news/issue-97/

Here we go, coverup time

Remember, the FBI reportedly created a spreadsheet of the all the references to Trump in the Epstein files. It's imperative for Democrats to demand that the Trump List be released along with the files. Otherwise you can rest assured that they will redact every reference to him.

Losing it at women reporters is definitely the way to tamp down accusations of abusing girls.

“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡 - Bilello

Cool, seems part of why we're going to war with Venezuela is to provide yet another mechanism for funneling money to Wall Street. (gift link)

They’re not sending their best. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

important writing here to suggest just how far the trump regime has taken us into the jungle of rich white men's greed. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-corru...

“The combination of Trump’s lawlessness and the pardon power complicate the psychology of deterrence in a perverse way. His power and poor character create an artificial penumbra of impunity covering everyone who chooses to believe he’ll protect them.”