Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.

every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Veterans from every branch are speaking out against Donald Trump’s threats against Senator Mark Kelly for reminding our troops their oath is to the Constitution, not a president. This is so powerful. substack.com/@demwinsmedi...

How much more evidence do you need that republicans do not care if you live or die? Polluting the air & water; destroying health care; advocating against vaccines, gutting food safety inspections… Now add this to the list:

Americans are paying 11 percent more for electricity than they were in January. Utility prices have risen roughly 3X faster than inflation this year. About 14 million Americans, were so behind on utility debt that it was reported to collections agencies or in arrears as of June #Affordability

🚨🚨🚨 An explosive new House Judiciary Committee report exposes the Trump family’s multi-billion-dollar crypto empire, fueled by self-dealing and corrupt foreign interests, the dismantling of anti-corruption safeguards, and pardons for corporate cronies.

Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

ProPublica: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. “They are using the kids as bait, and then the kids are stuck,they are creating unaccompanied children this way.” apple.news/AhQVhPhuQSDS...

Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family. Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!

“U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood on Monday called conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview “terrible” and warned that staffing is expected to triple by January at ICE facilities in the Chicago area in anticipation of more immigration enforcement.”

Can we just savor the fact that, in these days before Thanksgiving, a federal judge threw out the cases against James Comey and Letitia James and noted that Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed (making clear that Trump's the one who violated the law)?

Looking forward to reading this new research. We need scholarship that continues to expose the disastrous effects of the Roberts’ Court’s assault on the Voting Rights Act. Thanks @kevintmorris.bsky.social and @michaelgmiller.bsky.social.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Without evidence, the Trump administration has launched 21 known boat strikes killing at least 83 people. Now without congressional authorization or any provocation they plan to attack Venezuela for regime change. The “narco-terrorist” label for trafficking fentanyl is a lie. This is madness.

This makes me physically ill. It also makes me glad I’ve been able to keep my client, a man from Venezuela, from being sent out of the country.

This article is from @markhertling.bsky.social - a retired three-star Army general - and everyone should read it.

“The Noose and the Swastika: MAGA’s Big Tent Racism” Important from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on how the Right is normalizing these deadly threats to Black & Jewish Americans. Targeting Blacks and Jews is the core of white supremacy. Stop the RW on both fronts. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

🔗 The court under Roberts has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way. In a matter of months, the #SCOTUS 6–3 GOP-aligned majority has permitted a long list of lawless actions.

Classic Trump trying to profit from Ukraine’s reconstruction and investment. “The United States will receive 50% of the profit from this activity.

The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.

He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.

The GOP deserve everything that karma can give them. Gift link www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If and when Trump or Hegseth gives the order to fire upon U.S. citizens, the military must remember their oaths are to our Constitution, not to these madmen.

Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

🎯 Totally a desperate move by Trump to ride Mamdani’s affordability coattails.

🚨 Wow! On Friday and Saturday, artists across the country are participating in Fall of Freedom — an undertaking which they say represents creative resistance to authoritarianism. More than 600 events of all sizes have been announced across more than 40 states, from Alaska to Florida.

🎁🔗 Actually, Trump’s narcissism, disregard for America’s allies and our role in building the world order for the last 249 years is setting a trap for America. China is ascending, filling the void with rising nations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

In another betrayal of an ally, “Trump’s latest plan for ending the war in Ukraine appears to repeat Moscow’s maximalist demands. Russia readmitted to the G8 and Ukraine banned from joining Nato, according to drafts of the proposal seen by Axios, AFP and the Associated Press”

🎁🔗 Goldman Sachs estimates that the share of #Trumptariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22 percent in April to 55 percent in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.

Today, after the Coast Guard lifted a ban on swastikas and nooses as symbols of hate, and after President Trump called for the execution of members of Congress, it is time for every American to decide. Who will you be? Here is Burt Lancaster as Nazi era judge Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Six veterans posted a video reminding our troops that they swore allegiance to the Constitution-not to Donald Trump-and that they must not obey illegal orders Because of this, Donald Trump now thinks they should be executed FOR TELLING OUR TROOPS TO FOLLOW THE LAW bsky.app/profile/slot...

A president who speaks of death for dissent isn’t defending a nation, he’s claiming a throne. He names enemies so others will swing the sword. Power that fears questions always reaches for blood. Don’t give him the submission he’s seeking. Stand when he demands you kneel. #AuthoritarianAlert

A sitting president inciting violence against lawmakers shouldn't be seen as a joke or something to brush off. Just because we have a president who routinely insults, attacks, and threatens people on the national stage, doesn't mean we should accept this kind of dangerous rhetoric as our new normal.

This is the American crisis too many still refuse to acknowledge: A major political party is hostage to a man who believes political opponents are enemies to be crushed, silenced, or threatened into submission.

This ⬇️ I give thanks every day and say a prayer that the nightmare of this regime comes to a peaceful end.

This should end any doubts that the Trump administration threats to universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism was BS. Many of us said so at the time. Swastikas, nooses are no longer classified as hate symbols by the Coast Guard they’re just “divisive”.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress. But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right? (1/2)

There is no bottom. Trump inciting his MAGA followers to violence against Congressional Democrats. They had to contact the House Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police to ensure their safety.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

This was so damn good!

I posted Trump’s unhinged screed announcing he’s signed the Epstein files but it contains so many lies that I deleted my post and will just tell you that Trump announced on social media he has signed the Epstein files

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📣The review also found "Harvard had accepted $9.1 million in gifts from Mr. Epstein between 1998 and 2007, according to the 2020 findings of the investigation. Mr. Epstein was convicted and jailed in 2008 for sex charges involving a minor."

🎯 Don’t trust Republicans with your health care. Ever. You can only trust Republicans to give tax cuts to the rich.

This isn’t getting enough attention! We told you Texas gerrymandering was race based, and a Trump-appointed judge just agreed. 🚨 In a massive blow to Trump and Republicans, a federal court in Texas blocked the state’s new congressional map because it’s unconstitutional.