NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.

JD Vance says we captured Maduro because of cocaine. Does he seriously think Americans forgot that Trump just pardoned a former Honduran president convicted in the U.S. for flooding the country with over 400 tons of cocaine?

DIFFERENT WARS, SAME PROPAGANDA ...a montage showing the direct parallels between the rhetoric around the Iraq war & the current rhetoric around Venezuela. Jon Stewart 🎥 #IraqNeverAgain

Marco Rubio may have just acquired his most challenging title yet: Viceroy of Venezuela. The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.

The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

REP. GOLDMAN: “Trump promised oil executives if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, he’d do right by them. They gave about $500 million. This is a massive gift in violation of international law, essentially just co-opting an entire country's natural resources for the benefit of 🇺🇸 Companies.”

The first "CBS Evening News" episode anchored by Tony Dokoupil included virtually zero scrutiny of Trump's military intervention in Venezuela or questions about the legal justification. But there was a soft Pete Hegseth interview. Watch it for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Rg...

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George W Bush Celebrates No Longer Having Launched Dumbest War in U.S. History

There’s always a tweet.

A true American leader.

This is the kind of great work that @boltsmag.org does. Follow them. Support them. You can’t fight for power if you don’t understand where it sits. Include Bolts in your citizenship toolkit.

THREAD. @donmoyn.bsky.social’s detailed, multi-thread dismantling of the distorted and deliberately obtuse reporting in the @nytimes.com on the significance of Gov. DeSantis’ takeover of New College is essential reading. And pls don’t waste time commenting that you don’t read the Times.Millions do.

Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

What is Jim Jordan afraid of?

I’ve authorized the National Guard to support emergency winter storm operations as we work to alleviate dangerous conditions on the roads. Grateful to those who are answering the call to help our neighbors and get drivers home safely.

It’s not “patriotic” to bail out Argentina while Americans are struggling, to build a ballroom while cutting SNAP benefits, or to pad your own pockets while claiming “affordability” is a hoax.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?

Who among us hasn’t misplaced a million documents around the office?

also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.

Farewell to CBS News and "60 Minutes." It just went the way of the Washington Post's editorial page Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant. Some thoughts...

Here’s the 60 Minutes video that Bari Weiss & the Trump Admin don’t want you to see: www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...

Hey @democrats.org, why haven’t you released the DNC 2024 autopsy? Does it say something about centrism that would make corporate megadonors mad at ya? Does it show that supporting a genocide was a terrible idea? Sorry bud. You still got to release it. You can’t repeat the mistakes you made in 24

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located

The latest fatalities push the yearly total close to being the deadliest on record for ICE detention centers.

This is why the alt-right pushed PizzaGate & QAnon so hard. They created a grand conspiracy about a pedophilia ring to distract from their own depravity & to mock their own victims. Every accusation isn’t a confession; it’s a self-parody. PedoCon theory is a “theory” the way gravity is a “theory”

Denaturalizing U.S. citizens is abhorrent. There a whole gross history to this that we should not repeat. 👀⚖️

WSJ reports these checks are funded with $2.9 billion Congress already allocated for military housing. A total scam.

Yelling, lying; yelling, lying; yelling, lying. So inspiring.

Feverishly working on this

"Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting

A firm with deep ties to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly secretly received funding from a $220 million taxpayer-funded DHS ad campaign. The public deserves answers on how the firm ended up getting this money. The DHS inspector general must open an investigation.

just the kind of day where you wake up, read about Jews at a Hanukkah celebration being gunned down in a hate crime, take your toddler to their Hanukkah party, and feel grateful you've got another few years before they can clock what's going on around them

Because it’s not getting reported on enough: Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun. He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

New photos show Trump with women at Epstein estate

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.” (Published Oct.)

Truly embarrassing

Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.

“Despite my repeated demands, the tanker refused to deliver its cargo to me,” Hegseth said.

‘What is this, the Soviet Union?’: Senators rip Trump’s call to limit doll purchases

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...

“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

New records about the infamous sex offender are released seemingly every week. Here's a quick rundown of who's releasing the Epstein documents, what they contain—and what they're releasing next. www.wired.com/story/a-comp...