The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.

Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.

Every time you think you’ve seen everything….

part of my pitch for future democratic military policy is "we should crush the special forces and double crush the seals specifically" they contribute little-to-nothing valuable to american defense and are riddled with war crimes and also just regular crimes

Regardless of what the facts may be, the CIA really shouldn’t be issuing finger-pointing partisan statements like this.

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history

You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up. Your 70% number is just a fabrication. And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.

The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want. In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?

Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

We are, in fact, coming for your way of life. It sucks! For you, among other things! We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness) Etc.

extending good faith as far out as i'm capable of it, the reason people get fucking weird about this at Will is that between COVID and Trump and the everbeating doomdrum of the media, the last five years have *been wretched for mental health* for basically every user of this website

This dude was vetted six ways from Sunday. Can’t say he wasn’t vetted enough. Vetted by multiple administrations.

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal. Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

He is keeping poorer families out of these professions. It’s modern day red-lining.

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Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.

This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

Although he was from Khost, the DC shooter was a veteran of the CIA’s Kandahar CTPT surrogate unit, known in the early years as the QSF or KSF and later as NSU-03. Here is a 2021 WaPo story I wrote about 03’s escape from Kandahar into collapsing Kabul, where they helped secure the HKIA evacuation.

I'll never forget reaching out to my dipshit brigade HHC commander - the terp manager on our deployment - to see if he could sign an affidavit on behalf of a terp who had worked at the BCT FOB. "Yeah, all these guys are emailing me asking for something" was the response I got two weeks later

This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA. It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.

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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.

yeah Thanksgiving should be understood as a Civil War holiday more than anything about colonial America

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

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

shattered glass is an unrealistic story because a journalist gets punished for being a shameless moron

And it's been clear for a long time that the elite media has been caring more about the gossip and would rather live in exciting times than times where people were boring but safe.

the objective of the TikTok game is to go viral and get 10 million views. what performs better: an accurate description of the low unemployment rate and rising real wages, or sitting in my car in front of my kids crying about how I can’t afford anything? okay now repeat that dilemma a million times

I'm sorry, but there is no reason to believe that the scales have fallen from the public's eyes, and they suddenly see the contradictions inherent in the system, etc., at the same time the public has also, for instance, embraced far-right and far-left populism worldwide. This is wishful thinking.

It’s very, very important that your political model and epistemological framework account for the possibility that SOMETIMES MOST PEOPLE ARE WRONG, and have explanations for why that can happen. Otherwise you’re going to end up somewhere very dark eventually.

If you’re a president with a Supreme Court that makes you a king, you can murder anyone you like without a hint of due process or congressional approval, using the overwhelming force of the US military. Trump’s been doing it. Nobody stops him, or even questions him seriously about it.

Collective, racist punishment.

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

Fuck these arrogant millionaires who have the gall to tell ordinary Americans upset about high food prices that they should just substitute lower-quality generic food and quit complaining.

‘I kind of feel betrayed': ICE arrests military spouses at San Diego green card interviews www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

It’s not unimaginable. This is the same peace deal the kremlin peddled to Trump in 2016 via Kilimnik. And don’t forget Jared’s multiple Middle East “peace deals” that never included Palestine. There’s been like three of those.

Well, well, well.

Trump points a finger at Biden, once again, stating he is the worst president ever for allowing Afghan persons who fought alongside our military in Afghanistan to be allowed to come to the US. But Trump gave this NG shooter asylum this year. But, somehow it is still Biden's fault. Yeah...right.

The individual identified as the suspect in the National Guard shooting applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted asylum in April 2025. The Trump administration was in office when the asylum was approved. via CNN/ABC NEWS

Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.

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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies: If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.

Among other things, imposing hard limits on the wealth of the ultra-wealthy is a /politically/ good idea, in that it makes broad based tax increases more palatable to everyone else.