And remember, kids, Roe v. Wade is settled law.

Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Only a couple days old but worth a reread as Larry Ellison formally guns for Warner-Discovery.

Just following with the P2025 plan, they are.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

I think regardless of this game's outcome or the championship series, tOSU should end the season #1 bevause making a championship game shouldn't be held against you. --Kalen DeBoer (though he doesn't know it)

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

In describing the killing spree at sea, if people want to invoke an international crime, the former prosecutor for the ICC has offered a more accurate term than "war crime" (there is no war). From my recent piece in Foreign Affairs. www.foreignaffairs.com/central-amer...

Because we're better off that way?

The guy killed, like, 453 million Americans

During the shutdown, the Senate approved adding $32B to Trump's already record breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget. The Senate still hasn't voted on extending ACA subsidies — which would cost $35B. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican Party. Where fear and intimidation rules.

Hegseth: Trust me, bro. They’re all guilty. Who needs things like evidence, proof and trials. Those are woke.

NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled. "Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."

Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.

I don't see any stories on our major national publications about Trump's mental health, and glad @vermontgmg.bsky.social laid it out. Of course, if Biden did what Trump did last night, we'd have in-the-weeds coverage. (And journalist book deals) www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

Trump says he lied about taking a cognitive test in his first term.

It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him. So there’s that, too.

A nation that allows criminals to be pardoned by the very person who orders their crimes, is a organized crime syndicate masquerading as a nation.

Important brief thread

Timely

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.

Historians suggest the Nazis might have committed a genocide

But unlike Hunter Biden this is only about trillions of dollars and has White House approval.

Erdoganism

Nope, he should come up to the Hill as SecDef and explain the ultimate source of the orders.

Biden: served others on Thanksgiving. Obama: served others on Thanksgiving. Mamdani: served others on Thanksgiving. Trump: Played golf at his resort and trash-tweeted. Vance: Gave a speech trashing the tradition of turkey dinner. Tell me again about this party of traditional values….I’ll wait.

So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

Many years ago, the late Haitian President René Préval told us this would happen if nothing was done to stop American weapons streaming into Haiti. He was right.

“Past demonstrations have not been big enough. Past calls to action have not been urgent enough. Each of us has to ask, what more can we do—even if we feel we have done a great deal—and then we must do it.” I wish David were wrong. I fear he is right.

Maybe Bondi couldn't, but Roberts will.

Let's hope so

Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation. Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants. The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.

Who forgot to give him his meds?

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

The owner swallowed her pride one month ago.

Exterminate the brutes

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

Looks like the rest of the WH will have to go, too.

RIP to the author of the definitive series of NYC's architectural history. Very thankful for them today and always.

So, we created him. Another GWOT success.