MASSIVE attack on Ukraine right now

The US military says it killed four people in an air strike on a suspected drug boat in in the Eastern Pacific. The attack was ordered by US War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is under scrutiny over a previous attack in which survivors were killed in a follow-up strike.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Donald Trump appeared to struggle to stay awake for the second time in a month on Tuesday. Trump's eyes were cumulatively closed for ~6 minutes over roughly 75 minutes, per a Post analysis of multiple video feeds. w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social & Natalie Allison www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Trump putting the Washington Post and CBS News in his “Offender Hall of Shame,” even as they bend over backwards to curry favor tells us that nothing short of full propaganda mode will ever be acceptable to him. There's no way for a news organization to maintain credibility and be "fair" to Trump.

Pete Hegseth claims that killing two men-clutching the debris of a boat the US had destroyed-was a lawful act No indictment. No arrest. No trial. No conviction. Not even any proof they were drug runners Just straight to execution of two people who were-at that point-absolutely no threat to the US

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Russia has launched a massive combined missile and drone attack on Kyiv, striking multiple residential buildings.

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

In short: Even though the court ordered discovery based on the likelihood of vindictive and selective prosecution, we don't even need to get into it and you should dismiss the charges now given we just learned the DOJ lied to a judge about Costa Rica not accepting Mr. Abrego.

Abortion ban is back on in North Dakota, after a state Supreme Court ruling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

I did not see this one coming at all.

Early voting begins TODAY in the #TN07 Special Election! It is absolutely CRUCIAL that Democrats get out and vote as early as possible for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. An early ballot is a banked ballot, and banked ballots will decide any margin of victory here. www.newschannel5.com/news/early-v...

Q: The president has accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that exactly what the president is doing when he says members of Congress should be killed? LEAVITT: Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing to encourage and incite violence?

Insanity

After weeks of keeping us in the dark, Trump finally released the September jobs report. The data shows unemployment is up and wage growth has slowed. Now, Trump is refusing to release the October jobs report—making it harder for the Fed to decide on interest rate cuts that will impact you.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A current sex trafficker scandal on top of, you know, the other one

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Rep. Thomas Massie calls out Trump: "He can release these files without the Senate acting."

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

This memo justifying Trump's boat murders is ugly stuff. DOJ lawyers take the White House's version of reality as gospel and use that as the basis for their case. But note what the memo says about future prosecutions of people carrying out these orders. It's a tell: newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Throughout the Epstein debacle and the shutdown mess; the destruction of the East Wing and the skyrocketing of healthcare costs; the threats of war with Venezuela and the implementation of the Big Ugly Bill ICE has been brutally and needlessly destroying people's lives

Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."

John Fetterman is in the hospital following a fall caused by ventricular fibrillation, according to his staff. He is “receiving routine observation” and “doing well."

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

No paywall

Because Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans failed to extend ACA premium tax credits, 500,000 Pennsylvanians are going to see a dramatic increase in what they pay for healthcare each month.

Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow. —control of state supreme court —lower state court races —Philly DA: Krasner's reelect —important, heated school boards —partisan battles for county execs in swing counties —Bucks County at a crossroads

This sums it up: “I said, ‘So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them,’” Smith says. “They did not really address my point.”

Whether or not Pennsylvania Republicans are successful in defeating 3 Democratic State Supreme Court judges in their retention elections tomorrow, PA Dems need to contend with the fact that PA billionaire Jeffrey Yass is all-in on influencing state/local PA elections. www.notus.org/pennsylvania...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

You can’t even buy a warm rotisserie chicken with an EBT card, fuck these racist assholes

I'm encouraged by these rulings affirming what we've long said: The Trump Administration must follow the law. On behalf of the 680,000 Marylanders who rely on SNAP to put food on the table, I’d like to thank @oagmaryland.bsky.social and all of our partners in this process for their leadership.

URGENT: Trump is about to attack Venezuela. Most Americans oppose overthrowing Venezuela’s leaders by force—and an even larger majority oppose invading. Call your Senators and tell them to vote for S.J.Res.90 to block Trump’s unauthorized use of military force. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

NEW: National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC, will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026. Hegseth extended their orders on Monday. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

These are not serious people

Trump asks Pentagon to immediately start testing US nuclear weapons reut.rs/49yrtmG

Trump directs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons

We are in a timeline in which People Magazine is publishing legit hard-hitting news headlines while CBS and CNN publicly humiliate themselves. I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.