Wait, so we were just supposed to let Osama bin Laden continue to operate from Afghanistan with impunity, after 9/11? Get a grip. You can argue with the mission-creep, but not with the initial mission.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 🚭

The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021. In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.

There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃

"The gunman who shot and critically injured two National Guard members near the White House is an Afghan who worked with C.I.A.-backed military units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the agency said on Thursday." That's probably going to spur conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

The DC shooter was granted asylum in 2025 under Trump.

CHILD: I’m an American citizen. ICE Nazi: I don’t care. ~ Read this as many times as you need. Let it sink in. Kristi Noem is a liar. ICE Nazis are out of control and are arresting CHILDREN who are American citizens. The insanity must end!

The planned ballroom is already too big!! 👀

"it fell to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council to find a new prosecutor. Skandalakis said last month that he reached out to several prosecutors, but they all declined to take on the case" So they're dismissing it because everyone was too afraid to prosecute? 🧐 apnews.com/article/geor...

They are really doubling down on this insanity? 👀

How many other countries are listening in on Witkoff's calls? 👀 www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/p...

Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy." - U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike. It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests. (video via Republicans Against Trump on X)

Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you? TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.

Former Sen. Doug Jones has launched a Democratic bid for governor of Alabama.

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨 Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2

Unlawful comments? Did they fire everyone in the building who understands the 1st amendment? 🤔 www.reddit.com/r/navy/s/TcQ...

We don’t have to live this way. JFC!

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Hegseth is so damn fragile it's pathetic. Apparently, he's afraid of the Scouts. 🙄 www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

It's funny that the biggest suspension of disbelief required in Season 4 of Stranger Things is to believe that the Russians are operating a secret military research base under a mall in Indiana. Just running around shooting people at the local carnival, broadcasting unencrypted in Russian. 🤷‍♂️

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

The Trump administration is abusing the military justice system to target its political opponents. A despicable new low for a group that strives everyday to find the moral bottom.

"orders are presumed to be lawful" is certainly a take... this whole thing seems like a bad move for DOD.

My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand. When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.

Economic isolation is the least we can do to punish Russia for its continued crimes. Marco Rubio knows this, which makes his actions to the contrary so disappointing www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...

I'd imagine any sort of conflict in Venezuela would only disrupt oil exports...

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie. More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the funniest planned economy ever

Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This Pope guy has some bangers

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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.

Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there. "It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."

The Mamdani-Trump Oval Office press conference is starting now

Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat. It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here: newrepublic.com/article/2034...