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“You mentioned ‘the President’s agenda’. Who could know what that is? The agenda seems to be: line your pockets, please Donald Trump, don’t get fired, and take the government jet to go see your girlfriend.” — Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social @velshi.com

-Bust up monopolies -Boost unions -$20/hr fed minimum wage -Ban Wall Street from buying homes -Pass M4A -Universal childcare -Get rid of Trump’s tariffs -Enact UBI -Tax the rich These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.

So, the way they're going to parse this is that Hegseth didn't say "kill them all," he said "destroy the boat and everyone in it." This is like his Signalgate argument that he didn't release classified info... ...because he declassified it

The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

BREAKING: A Utah judge refused to halt her landmark ruling that struck down the GOP’s gerrymander — meaning a fairer map remains on track for 2026. Republicans claimed they had “no opportunity to appeal.” The judge flatly rejected that.

"You might’ve noticed that the verb tenses in this review are all over the place. That’s because it’s tricky to describe the architecture of a film that runs in the opposite direction from most." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/merr...

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “did not comply” with the Pentagon’s policies when he used a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes by U.S. forces in Yemen earlier this year, the department’s inspector general said in a report released on Thursday. Here’s what else we learned from the report.

Hegseth is a liar with a lot of people trying to cover for him.

What's that Kegsbreath? Soldiers shouldn't follow unlawful orders? Agreed.

Does any one believe America is safe and secure with dimwitted Hegseth and sleepy Donald running the show?

Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.

Why are Republicans afraid to let Jack Smith testify in public?

This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it? Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean. He served for 37 years.

Pete Hegseth is a fraud who lacks even the strength of conviction about his known beliefs about the Rules of Engagement. If he truly believed he was in the right, then he would do anything to protect Admiral Bradley, not throw him under the bus trying hide from his own bluster.

Maybe Trump COULD shoot a guy on 5th Avenue and no one would care, but it sure looks like people DO care when Pete Hegseth murders a couple of guys clinging to their destroyed boat in the Caribbean.

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

Gift link! George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war.

Pete Hegseth must be investigated, removed and criminally charged.

It’s kind of a buzzkill when “ICE Propaganda” squeezes intro your top genres because Spotify keeps runnings ads for Trump’s brutal secret police force. Maybe this year let’s skip sharing our Wrapped and urge our followers to Cancel Spotify instead. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

According to the US Coast Guard, the year prior to Trump changing our policy to summary execution, only 21% of the vessels interdicted by them off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs had drugs on board. The other 79% had nothing. But now we just kill them all.

What sort of parallel universe are we living in in which extremely powerful people are worried about a wholly transparent ploy? If the Trump administration tries to scapegoat an innocent man, how about we just fucking ignore what they say and go after the real perpetrator? What's this vacillation?

Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sen. Mark Kelly: “I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I’ve been nearly shot down multiple times. I’ve flown a rocket ship into space four times, built by the lowest bidder. I’m not going to be silenced by Donald Trump.”

12. That’s what this country needs to hear. That’s what this country needs to hear from men like *United States Senator Mark Kelly*. America needs *more contempt* for impunity for the law, morality and decency, and for one more thing – untouchable elites, like Trump, *who never grew up*.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

This is going to end badly for them.

Weird that during the cutaways to commercials in the Broncos-Commanders game in DC they’re not showing beautiful nighttime scenes of the 2/3 of the White House that hasn’t been bulldozed.

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Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics. My latest 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...

Or the laws of armed conflict. Or the Geneva conventions. You cannot kill people who have been rendered hors de combat in a military action.

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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Straight up war crime

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

Whether it’s stating the basic truth on the President’s health, correcting RFK’s immoral nonsense on childhood vaccines, and holding their cast of “experts” to account, the time is now to stand up for the medical profession. I will continue to do across platforms without fear.

Have some Salami. And some Coolidge. And some Thorpe. In this week’s installment of Autopilot we look back to the start of The White Shadow, as self-aware as white savior stories come. This show was 10-year-old Vognar’s jam. It also turned out to be a future directors factory.

Sarah Beckstrom, 20, one of two National Guardsmen shot yesterday, has succumbed to her injuries. She has died. Sarah Beckstrom, RIP...and thank you for your service to this country.

The Senate rebuked Trump on his tariffs. The nation rebuked Trump in the November elections. The entire Congress rebuked Trump for his ongoing cover up of the Epstein crimes. Next week Congress is likely to rebuke Trump again, this time over his selling out of Ukraine and our European allies.

Writer @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social has described Witkoff as Trump's "best friend."

While this NYT article pulls punches on Trump's madness, impulsivity, and delusions, it's useful in that it creates space for other articles about Trump's age and clear cognitive and physical decline to follow. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

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Reminder - a Judge has ordered the National Guard out of DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

1. The Dems wanted renewed Obamacare subsidies. 2. Trump said no. 3. Then he said actually yes, I want them. I *need* them. 4. *His* party said no. 5. Trump said he never wanted them in the first place. Some 24M Americans are in a jam because of this fool. www.editorialboard.com/trump-now-wa...

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