70 yrs ago today, Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person and go to the back of the bus. Four days later, 5000+ people showed up in Montgomery, Alabama to boycott the bus system. It lasted 382 days, over a year. Public bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional.

Good! Costco sues Trump over tariffs www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Maurene Comey's push for discovery in her lawsuit (initially, to figure out whether Trump personally fired her or delegated his Article II authority to someone else to do so), describes a bunch of shenanigans at MSPB I had missed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social FYI

So, I had my 92 yo Dad here for Thanksgiving and he looked at Sen. #MarkKelly’s insigias and recognized a ton of them matching his own. They should meet. Bonus points that they’re both Tucsonians. LMK, Mark!

Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.

Is it just me, or is this an admission of his role and intent? Seriously; I'm flabbergasted that he would post this.

Links: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...

NYT: Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago): “This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,” and “It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”

I love Costco and will continue to shop there more than ever.

Hegseth announced his new rules restricting reporters’ access to the Pentagon two weeks after the double strike.

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: After report of Hegseth's 'kill everybody' order, Trump's first instinct was to lie youtu.be/-8GbYvdyFmA?...

Maybe even a slew, up and down the chain of command. #ImpeachDJT

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

Here's a link to the memo that identifies the cases in which the flowchart is to be followed: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... It isn't applicable to *every* syllabus, but it's still the beginning of the end.

The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.

I wonder what a $1.6B defrauding scheme pardon goes for today?

Same here!

"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"The 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic. Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..." www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

It's here! "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" Episodes 1 and 2 are up today... Eps 3-6 coming from here on out on Mondays. Free to listen on any podcast app. (For no ads and early access to all episodes, it's $2.99/month for an MS NOW premium subscription...) podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

I have a few thoughts on how to stop our current descent into madness. Add your own in the comments. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Found a better use of Franklin's time and helicopter.

"Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is not the response of a patriot who must answer to the public about the security of the United States and its people in uniform. It is not the response of a secretary of defense who values the advice of the officers who report to him."

The Gallup poll is a disaster for Trump. Nixon is the only president with a worse net approval at this point in a second term than he has. No second-term presidency’s net approval has risen more than 5 points from this point through the midterms.

Just like #Epstein files, this is a topic that shouldn’t be let go.

When Trump calls female reporters “piggy,” “ugly” and “stupid,” it doesn't reflect badly on the women. It's just more evidence that the males of MAGA are manspreading their own insecurity. My weekly Stop the Presses newsletter. Read and subscribe for free.

Senate Armed Services chair:

Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable. The survivors deserve justice. The public deserves answers. The predators deserve consequences. Stand with survivors, not predators & accomplices.

Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/12/1/2356309/-Why-can-t-Trump-remember-why-he-had-an-MRI?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

To be fair, Trump and Hegseth are more Klink than Rommel

"Nemer alleges that despite top performance reviews, she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon, and... that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat." Violations of the Civil Rights Act and the First Amendment #Pinks #CivilRights

FBI Deputy Director Bongino is suddenly in defense mode after an email surfaced showing he was looped in on the Trump-era mass redactions of Epstein files on Day 2 of the job. The question isn’t why he knew it’s why the public wasn’t supposed to. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A0bLUpHFVQQy...

So, what would it look like if Kamala Harris had won the election? My heart hurts just thinking about how different things would be. One thing’s for sure, we sure as hell wouldn’t be living like this. Every single day is a giant shitshow thanks to Donald Trump and his freak administration. SMDH

Sadly relevant today.

Thanks to Trump's pardons, the GOP is the party of terrorists, drug dealers and child rapists.

Democratic Sen. Jacky @rosen.senate.gov is calling on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign, saying he quote "committed war crimes" as new reports allege he gave an unlawful order on boat strikes in the Caribbean. She joins The Weeknight to discuss.

WATCH: Sen. Warner says instead of conducting strikes, the Trump administration should “interdict the darn boats” and prove that the individuals on the suspected vessels are indeed narco-terrorists.   My full interview on @MeetThePress Now: www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

The number of confirmed measles cases in Utah have surpassed 100, with state health officials reporting 102 as of Nov. 25, the last update available from the Thanksgiving holiday week. Of those, 24 were recorded in the last three weeks.

May 2025 Mexico’s security chief confirmed that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel & Trump — the family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023.

Gil Durán‬: Killing boatloads of poor people for *alleged* drug offenses while pardoning an elite trafficker...is the Drug War in a nutshell. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

It’s her specialty www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

…and yes, I was part of the Epstein crowd.🔻

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars."