Republican Rep.Michael McCaul of Texas: The Russia has abducted at least 20,000 [Ukrainian]children.That is the number we can verify.But every expert I’ve spoken with believes the true figure is far,far higher… As a father of five,I can’t imagine any of my children being kidnapped

I'm so happy people are waking up to the horror of Trump's boat strikes. I think we're finally coming down from the 9/11 paranoia where people would believe any claim the government made about terrorism and support any amount of violence against anyone labelled a terrorist.

Republican's failure on healthcare, Pete Hegseth’s mounting incompetencies + more. Take a watch on Coffee with the Contrarians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSj7...

A baby seal made its way into a bar in New Zealand, apparently lost, curious, and well below the country's legal drinking age.

this is pretty remarkably sharp-elbowed and contemptuous for a politico piece

"The president - aided by his business cronies with no diplomatic or foreign policy experience - has systematically put this country in the precarious position of being less safe than it was on Inauguration Day." - Dan Rather #ResistTrump

Stage 2 dementia,which would explain fatigue etc . Not sleeping at night. But then the bruising is weird. If you had dementia they would want to do an MRI on the front level of his brain to see what's going on. My second opinion would be he might have leukemia that causes fatigue the bruising.

"Napping" is an art form. Falling unconscious at all times of the day is not.

"We have two expert nappers here, so I think that we bring some expertise to kind of assessing Trump's style yesterday." Tim Miller and Jonathan Lemire discuss Trump appearing to fade in and out during this week's Cabinet meeting. lnk.thebulwark.com/44snqW3?utm_...

When truth is inconvenient, this administration buries it; along with the innocent people its recklessness kills. Their lies crumble the moment real bodies wash up against their fake storyline. Subscribe. Read. Comment and Restack! Let’s go viral. therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/dead-fishe...

Suggestion: do less describing and more prescribing. The country needs the antidote to this toxic man and his regime not more analysis. What can be done?

Recklessness is an understatement here.

Great thread. I'll add: Bidenomics often emphasized dignity of work/importance of being able to remain in communities of birth. It's no accident this was paired w/major investments in areas Trump said were abandoned by elites. Complicates Douthat's story about liberalism.

Consumers also expressed much less of an appetite for holiday gift spending compared with what they said earlier in the season. Consumers often trim their holiday spending plans as the season progresses, to be fair -- but this year’s midseason decline is the largest Gallup has recorded.

Americans' views of the job market are the most negative Gallup has recorded since the closing days of Trump’s first term, in January 2021 during the pandemic.

Economic confidence just dropped to a 17-month low, per Gallup. And that's not the only bad news... (short 🧵) news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...

I know he just says shit, but wasn't he boasting about being "the affordability President" like a week ago? did I imagine that?

The ads write themselves.

Once again, Trump 2.0 is like the COVID economy without the COVID (though we're due for some kind of black swan).

She was hired for her ability to lie in front of cameras. Like most of this administration.

They speak only lies.

Another day another Tricia McLaughlin lie debunked.

“Republicans are still well on their way to losing the healthcare issue, and in turn setting themselves up for a sweeping defeat in the midterms,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.

And he should be fired. Now. Today. Not protected by the demented old man sitting in our oval office.

He basically violated human regulations. His crimes are pretty clear at this point and no amount of GOP whitewashing is going to cover them up. But they are trying...

And republicans won’t do a fucking thing to stand up for the law, for America, or just for common sense & morals. The FELON & the DRUNK are killing people without ANY law to support their MURDERS & WAR CRIMES.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... When a drunk gets power to blow up boats. And The Felon squatting in our WH still says he knows nothing about This is a regime of war crimes. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #wtpBLUE

happy bday to one of my faves Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, b.1875. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves". "Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer"

happy bday Irish suffragist/trade union leader Winifred Carney, b.1887.

RIP poet Claudia Emerson, died this day 2014, won 2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. "The forecast had not predicted it, and its beginning, a calming, rumbled dusk and pleasant lightning, she welcomed as harbinger of rain. Then as night came she heard the world...

...relapse, slide backward into winter’s insistent tick and hiss. In the morning, she woke to a powerless house, the baseboards cold, the sky blank, mercury hardfallen as the ice and fixed..."

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FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...

This is so disgusting and NOT what America is! This is domestic terrorism right out of Putin’s rule book via Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. Americans are much better than this excrement. We are BETTER than this and need to vote that way! The good news is that this student is safely with family.

New @ms.now: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social spoke to the Babson College student who Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported to Honduras after she tried to fly to visit her parents for Thanksgiving. “It felt like if I was a criminal when I’m not,” she said of being shackled, arrested and deported.

This horrific incident only further lays bare the absurdity of the Admin’s claims undergirding the entire boat strikes campaign — that transporting drugs itself somehow amounts to direct participation in hostilities (or even, under the prior claims to Congress, an armed attack on the U.S.)

ICYMI: Ilhan Omar claps back at Trump; Dr. Gartner of Duty to Warn offers a fresh warning on Trump’s cognitive decline, Stephen A Smith is loud and wrong, a Florida congresswoman debates who is a war criminal, and we meet a military veteran candidate to replace MTG. www.youtube.com/live/NVTgKI-...

Totally disgusted': Victim of private equity CEO David Gentile reacts to Trump commuting his sentence Watch the full video: tinyurl.com/yc73w4bf

Sending all my love to NOLA.

Rep. Omar responds to Trump's attacks: He's trying to 'deflect' from his 'failures' Watch the full video: tinyurl.com/3ct7u4vs

Psaki: Pete Hegseth is "having the worst week of his career."

NARCOLEPTIC FART FACTORY DONALD TRUMP (A FAILING LOSER WHO NO ONE LIKES!) FELL ASLEEP AGAIN DURING YESTERDAY'S CABINET MEETING — AND PISS-DRUNK PETE KEGSTAND WAS ALL "WAR CRIMES? WHO, ME?" THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY BIG BEAUTIFUL POST IN WHICH I LAY IT ALL OUT. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4rPcV9g

No, he wasn't, but that fool dubbed Biden that. What comes around, goes around.

He is not listening. He believes he needs none of these people. Just a show and an easy day for him.

I think it is very rude Trump sleeps while these gallant Cabinet members speak... A waste of time.

here's today's post: "shh! don’t wake Preznit Fuckwit, cabinet meetings make him sleepy" — Don Snoreleone snoozes again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

"FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members" DC Field Office career leaders pushed back citing "a lack of legal and factual basis to initiate a criminal case."

Turns out Representative tradwife is not so fun

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This is fucking insanity.