Stay in what fight? Also the boat was flipped over but it was still loaded? This is patently absurd.

Takes a lot of chutzpah for the jerk who fomented an insurrection in an attempt to override democracy, and who is currently shredding our Constitution and eviscerating our national security, to suggest someone else wants to “kiss our country goodnight.”

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

The weirdest thing about this is that it won't be the number one topic on every morning news show.

Like subprime, but dumber

RT=Endorsement "A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."

Trump cares about white collar criminals way more than he cares about the MAGA base.

This whole thread is worth reading. One thing that becomes very clear is that neither Witkoff nor anybody else in Trump’s inner circle fears God or any kind of judgment in the afterlife.

Somebody in Japan chose Monday morning violence and I am here for it.

Spotted: Pete Hegseth coming at Senator Mark Kelly:

This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media. These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”. It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.

Great thread which clearly and concisely explains quantitatively why Trump’s ideas are idiotic.

Happy (Slightly Early) Thanksgiving from the Bahamas.

I just don’t understand how you would want to take Russias side on anything. They are poor alcoholics who bring nothing to the table. In what world would you want to be on their side? Russia is cold, miserable, and poor. Witkoff is taking advice from losers. I just wouldn’t do that. He’s an idiot

Anybody even modestly familiar with America’s legal system will instantly recognize this as an obvious, ridiculous lie. For everybody else: you don’t get to say “no thanks” to the FBI when they demand documents about your sex-trafficking enterprise.

Perhaps the real singularity was Thiel’s IQ converging with Ralph Wiggum’s.

It brings me no pleasure to report this, but the taxi we took from the airport in MIA is mostly playing Newsmax “news” clips. When did that start happening? 😵‍💫

I assume one of Trump’s handlers was supposed to warn him that, as pre-tariff inventory stocks run low, inflation is going to increase over the next few months as tariff costs are passed on to consumers…but Trump internalized the warning as an exciting promise of new tariff revenue gushing in soon.

Sticking it to ConEd might be the one thing that can bring all New Yorkers (and ex-New Yorkers) together.

chat is it a good sign for the stability of our federal government that the president is having a multi-day crashout demanding the arrest of his opposition over a video he didn’t like and the entire thing is being studiously ignored by everyone with the power to execute it

“A crime of serious proportion”— Trump’s illiteracy is almost as bad as the derangement and desire to execute patriotic Americans who oppose him.

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

I know there is lot going on but Witkoff got rolled by the Russians again. A bunch of R Senators said hold up today (including Graham) and Rubio just threw the clown car in reverse. Total shit show.

It sure looks like Axios got played here. Ukraine held the line, but it was Axios who put them under terrible pressure. The only clear things about this shitshow are that Axios owes us an explanation, and that media must stop printing 'scoops' from motivated sources while granting them anonymity. 5/

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TFW you accidentally learn the definition of the sex act Lizza casually referenced while exposing the nasty details of the depraved relationship between Kennedy and Nuzzi.

I’d like to take a moment to say an emphatic F-U to both Nuzzi and Lizza, who sat on this (disgusting but revealing) information while Quackkedy got confirmed by the slimmest of margins and then proceeded to take a sledgehammer to medical research, vaccine uptake, and public health generally.

If you haven’t yet read the excerpt @sky.skymarchini.net posted from the latest volume of Quackeddy-Nuzzi ick, there’s still time to avoid it…on a scale of 1-“posts from the GOP Nazi who posted fetish stuff on the NudeAfrica site” I give it a 6, maybe an 8 if your brain tries to picture it. 🤢

Full MTG statement👇—the takeaway is that she seems to be anticipating a primary challenger backed by the Trump-Epstein loyalists and is resigning rather than fighting it. If I was a QAnon type, I’d be skeptical why she’s bowing out instead of fighting the corrupt insiders who want to primary her.

“this can’t be a bubble because ORCL is down over 40%, META is down over 25%” my guy, do you hear yourself

Is it possible that shining light on the Epstein files (and financial transactions) is part of what’s putting pressure on crypto garbage assets lately?

Mamdani: “Did I stutter?” Trump: “I don’t even know what that word means so whatever.”

Panic! at the Shitco* *Shitcos and Shitco[in]s.

Good morning, it’s shaping up to be another beautiful day.

New holiday shopping guide from Bloomberg just dropped—should I get my 9 year old a watch or a boat? 🤔

Stay safe, friends.

Shot / Chaser (Epstein Files Edition)

Wow Donny, excellent points— really makes us wonder why you told Pam Bondi to give a press conference swearing that there was absolutely no evidence in the Epstein files and nobody at all who deserved to be prosecuted.

Taibbi spent the better part of the 1990s in Moscow writing newspaper columns and then a book about how awesome it was bedding economically desperate Russian teen girls and harassing his paper's female staff.

And that’s a wrap. Now we wait to see what Trump’s incompetent scrub crew missed.

Bitcoin <$90 k

I think it's great that they invited this f-ing clown to keep Ronald McDonald company.

Have any of the smart economists here done a summary of what exactly this is and how bad the damage could be?

My god does anyone at the NYT have a memory that goes back more than 5 years? 2019 is a bygone era? *Twilight* of the NY elite of bankers and real estate moguls? WHO'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE JFC I'm going to have a stroke www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...

Panic! at the Shitco* *Shitcos and Shitco[in]s.

In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas. Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

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