WHY?

ChatGPT hallucinating a well-governed United States.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

2/ Problems for Bradley's credibility. On left: Bradley argued to lawmakers was "still a possibility" drugs could've ultimately made way to US. On right: Trump State Department: "Suriname is a transit country for South American cocaine, the majority of which is likely destined for Europe."

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” The latest from George F. Will:

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

lol: “the real scandal here is the crime against language. We may be facing the biggest plot twist in this entire story: What if Nuzzi isn’t a good writer after all? What if, as a friend texted me this week, the true hero of this 15-act opera is whoever was editing her pieces at New York?”

"challenge scientific orthodoxy" is an absurdly irresponsible way to frame medical misinformation that will kill children

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

PJM thinks 4 hr BESS is 58% ELCC but CA basically gives full credit for RA. Quite the difference! Shocking this hasn’t converged more across markets

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

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Ding ding ding

Tired: mustard gas Wired: mustard

JD Vance lies shamelessly: "We're inheriting a healthcare system that has suffered some real problems under the Biden administration. Because of that, you're seeing health insurance premiums skyrocket."

“Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday.”

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

The Trump administration's two-step hack of the system by which executive branch lawyers are supposed to help keep the presidency within the rule of law.

Behold: the 13th largest military in the world

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

IF YOU’RE NOT A JOURNALIST HOW CAN IT BE OFF THE RECORD

A play in three acts

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

He betrayed his oath as a physician and sold out the country when he voted to confirm RFK Jr, knows damn well he’s a dangerous quack, but keeping Trump neutral in his primary is his highest priority.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

The US President’s attempt to seize control of our statutorily independent central bank—beyond being illegal—turns out to have been based on a fabrication.

The gentleman from Kentucky is right.

Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive

What economic system has the government controlling the central means of production?

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It is known

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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"likely to draw an uproar from pro-vaccine groups" like the opponents are a tiny special interest group and not "literally all doctors and 95% of parents"

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

Tax externalities

By this logic, if we increase local sales taxes to 145%, we will all save money because we won't buy anything. Everybody saves! Seriously though, will there ever come a point at which Republicans are horrified by how stupid this person is

Would love it if more storied institutions in the United States showed this kind of backbone

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

Insanely brazen framing by Stephen Miller

If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.