Karoline Leavitt calls the entire primarily billionaire run media fake and the worst in history, and not one of them says a single thing in return, because they don't want to lose their seats in the Press Briefing Room.

The kind of politics Karoline Leavitt daily spews and defends while wearing an ostentatious cross around her neck is the same politics that put Jesus on it. Breaking one’s own laws. Lying about the innocent . Clinging fearfully to power. Placating those with even more power. Scapegoating.

Isn’t this merely spinning the original report in Hegseth’s favor? The first story didn’t say he ordered a strike on the survivors, it alleged he said “Kill them all” - an illegal order for no quarter, which was obeyed. The Times calls this an “ordered a lethal strike,” but it’s the same thing.

I’m convinced this nightmarish episode is happening because Hegseth is essentially cosplaying the TV version of a national security official. In that vein wanted his very own Situation Room scenario, like the Bin Laden strike, and so they cast dozens of poor dudes in unarmed boats as the terrorists.

New in PN: This is what a white supremacist administration looks like "The Republican Party of today, embodied as it is in Donald Trump and the administration he leads, is no longer so worried about being called racist, because it has unashamedly taken white supremacy as its cause."

He knew exactly what was coming, and how they’d be throwing military leaders like Admiral Bradley under the bus, and wisely decided to retire before it happened. news.usni.org/2025/10/16/a...

Awful for Admiral Bradley. But reassuring to know that the Trump regime is moving from the "we can do whatever we want and just say it's the law" phase to "Oh shit, we need a scapegoat, fast!"

Shame, all those years of SEALs & DEVGRU but Bradley couldn't spot an obvious trap set up by the world's least trustworthy people. Of course the illegal order they gave Bradley which he followed has now become his "combat decision" for which he is responsible. It was always going to be that way.

It was always going to end like this! Pete Hegseth gave Admiral Bradley a direct ILLEGAL ORDER, and ADMIRAL BRADLEY FOLLOWED THAT ILLEGAL ORDER! NOW HEGSETH THROWS HIM UNDER THE BUS AND DRIVES OVER HIM, BACKED UP AND RAN OVER HIM AGAIN!!! Bradley should have known This was coming

Make no mistake about it, Pete Hegseth is throwing Admiral Bradley under the bus, all the while pretending to support him. When things go south, and they will, Hegseth is going to make sure that Bradley is holding the gun.

Feeling more dread than usual today. It just seems like the war with Venezuela will begin soon. He needs a war so he can try to suspend elections, it's his only play.

yeah maybe think twice before posting a "dang Cheeto" joke- the president isn't gonna see it, but Chester Cheeto might

Just say “we will ensure justice is done” and then note that Trump has no authority to issue pardons for various non-American tribunals

dems should start saying that presidential pardons dont apply to international war crimes and in fact implicate the president, no idea if thats true but they should start saying it

Now tell me again WHY we can couldn’t bring him to justice when we had the chance? 🤷🏽‍♂️ We definitely fumbled the opportunity! 🤦🏽‍♂️ #Brazil #JairBolsonaro #Trump #J6 #Maga #ReeseWaters

I just don't understand how someone could be like "Oh, we have an iconic brand with full saturation, everyone knows who we are when they see it? People will love us even MORE if we change the name, logo, AND website address! Branding genius!"

"bereft of any actual medical data that could justify their conclusion linking deaths with Covid vaccines" abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

It’s weird that when Elon said he was going to solve Twitter’s bot problem, he meant the problem where Twitter wasn’t paying bots to post

Everyone saw this coming. Trump stiffed his contractors, then fell out w/his architect because he refused to back his demand for a ballroom bigger than the WH. And those corporate donations he keeps bragging about are pledges, not real money. Taxpayers will end up on the hook one way or another.

Amazing headline. h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social

There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.

Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

I hate having to type a country's name into search periodically to see if our regime has attacked it yet.

None of your anti-tyranny provisions were enforced. Starting with Nixon. It's like we executed Charles I for nothing!💂

I don’t even really think this is the problem. The Constitution prohibits basically every terrible thing Trump has done. The problem is that our institutions have decided to ignore the Constitution. Can’t fix that by changing what it says.

Democratic organisations are only as good as the rank and file make them. Unlike vanguards, which just suck.

trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

The Regime is using the Patriot Act as legal justification to blow up boats/murder people by labeling them "terrorists." That's one step away from using the military to murder US citizens they deem "antifa terrorists." If you think "Republicans/military wouldn't!" You aren't paying attention.

Things Trump supporters say…..

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

NOV 28 The 50501 Movement Maggie Rowe tinyurl.com/ywwnbzut A very cold Friday rush hour protest #Newark DE tonight—36°F/2°C, w/ a wind, making our fingers numb. Jumping jacks needed for circulation! #Inflatables #NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist #31

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

"Saying He Won't Invade Czechoslovakia, Then Invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler Displays Contradictions: Reichskanzler Hitler's statements on radio less than 24 hours apart shows dissonance in his Munich promises."

This is what I've been on about, the whole Trump Era. People keep saying our system wasn't designed for someone like him, and that's not true. The system, our Constitution, was designed to stop tyrants. That is its function. The PEOPLE tasked with operating the system are what failed.

We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources. Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.

Trump for all intents and purposes was Osama Bin Laden after 9/11, but worse in that, Trump was also a traitor. If Bin Laden had been in the USA after 9/11 and just allowed to walk around free for years, there would be non-stop demands for firings of anyone involved and right fully so.

Right. Just getting people to realize Biden and Garland gave Trump hugely preferential treatment that greatly damaged and endangered national security is an uphill battle. Or that it was a huge scandal that they allowed a violent traitor who attacked the US Capitol to walk around free for years.

It's like Americans haven't considered #Trump would burn their world down if it allowed him to rule over its ashes. #DuckTrumpthebanker #Ashestoashes #ETTD

What do you think about claims that the MAGA movement has virtually collapsed outside of social media? Note: The location feature on X has shown 2/3 of MAGA accounts are located outside the US. There were virtually no counter protestors to the NoKings rallies since troll bots can't attend rallies.

The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike. Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions. This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important

Oh, so this is why the Department of Labor decided to deploy the term bizarre term "Americanism" in its winking neo-Nazi post today

A peek into the mind of a sociopathic malignant narcissist. It eats HIS heart out, to give charity to anyone, despite all his wealth. So he assumes it's the same for all of us, we just don't like saying it out loud. That's what such people think about all their selfish thoughts: Everyone agrees.

This is so incredibly un-American. It's disgusting.

🇺🇸 The “blacklist” of media has appeared on the official website of the White House. The most interesting thing is that almost all the most reputable US media have fallen under Trump’s disfavor.

Ahh, another great day driving the groceries taxi! Feels good, man.

People also always gloss over the environmental impact of working from home. we worked really hard to get work from home into our new contract (go teamsters!) and people who bitch about it don’t think about: that’s less cars on the road. That’s good for everybody especially emergency vehicles!

AND! All the people who insist that everyone should go get their own groceries are not considering the environmental impact. I deliver using an electric car, so every trip I'm preventing the emissions that would have been caused by the customers using their gas cars. Fewer cars on the road is good.