President Trump speaks of making America great again, but my column argues that instead he is systematically undermining the three key ingredients to the formula that over the last 150 years made the US the world's leading economy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

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Ambassador Mike Huckabee, President Trump’s envoy to Israel, met at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in July with Jonathan Pollard, an American who spent 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, Pollard said. The unusual meeting appeared to be a sharp break with years of precedent for U.S. diplomats.

At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

A trillion dollar 2026 military budget would likely privatize well over $500 billion in public funds, writes @stephensemler.bsky.social. popular.info/p/how-trumps...

Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer. He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Are you one of the people who is under the faulty impression that Pam Bondi can withhold all of the Epstein files pursuant to a sham investigation? If so, you’re not going to want to miss today’s ResistanceLive. youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ...

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

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

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

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Btw, in case you have not noticed it--the last few hours have confirmed one thing. The alliance of dictators and autocrats is no longer notional--it is now up and running. The remaining democratic states in the world have to react now.

IMPORTANT: Make sure that every video you have on ICE is saved. If you have seen or if you see behavior from ICE. Video it and keep it. Everything is being documented. And people will be held responsible. Because their behavior is unlawful. Regardless of what Trump says.

OPINION by Lyz Lenz: “Claiming to be the victim of the very violence she espoused doesn’t make her a hero.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

everlasting shame on all these people

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

#ResistanceUnited #OneV1 #ProudBlue #Pinks Hey Texas! It’s time to shift away from Ted abandons his constituents leaving them to freeze to death while he’s in Cancun Cruz & elect a truly talented, dedicated, honest, real Christian James Talarico to the senate! James Talarico has the experience ⬇️

If you know what striving for proximity to whiteness does to people, you already know what this is about. I don’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene for even a split second. And before you hand her grace she has not earned, hear this gentleman first.

"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."

Remember this when DJT starts attacking the WSJ for their headline: The WSJ is not a rogue outlet. It’s one of the GOP’s preferred barometers. When Murdoch-aligned media floats “Trump’s grip is slipping,” it’s not journalism, it’s permission-setting for Republicans who have been waiting for cover.

Ain't he won't even be allowed in Valhalla after he spent his life selling his soul. So sad. Poor Kashyap. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Happy Cloudflare Outage-mas! It’s one of our favorite holidays over here on Bluesky. On this day, we should remind you that almost 20% of the internet uses Cloudflare, despite years of reporting covering their platforming of white supremacists. Maybe it shouldn’t have such a large market share?

In the last 48 hours as you’ve watched the way that Donald Trump has spoken to women on camera for the world to see publicly, you can only imagine the way that he spoke to the victims behind closed doors

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

"Everyone tempted to participate in Trump's schemes and conspiracies should be on notice that bygones won’t be bygones on the other side of this constitutional interregnum." Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social theorizing deeply on how to dissuade Trump accomplices: www.offmessage.net/p/maga-corru...

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump declares loyalty to Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on every issue—standing with him even after Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder. Outrageous complicity in his own words: "We've always been on the same side of every issue."

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

want to tell your Obamacare premium story? contact Whitney! bsky.app/profile/whit...

If anyone has time to talk with me about their ACA increases and how they're coping, please shoot an email to [email protected] or text on Signal at wwimbish.07. It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!

Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right. There is a war on Christmas in America. The only thing they neglected to tell me in their bombastic, sanctimonious, sky-is-falling sermonizing was the source of the offense. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Epstein files gonna be like, "Barack HUSSEIN Obama promised victim #4 a role on his television show the Apprentice in exchange for..."

Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total Tesla reported three more crashes involving its Robotaxis in Austin, Texas – now bringing the total to 7 incidents despite low mileage and in-car supervisors preventing more accidents. Comment: "Rookie numbers" /1

Retired Navy captain: No law of armed conflict permits execution without combat. No one in those boats justifiably can be labeled a combatant. There is no moral universe in which vaporizing human beings in the middle of the ocean is an act of justice. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

AI-generated evidence is already showing up in court, with parties trying to pass off deepfakes as authentic. We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

This story from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, captures how the impunity Jan6ers believe they had LED DIRECTLY to Andrew Paul Johnson sexually abusing young children. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

50501 is firmly anti-fascism, which requires us to be anti-genocide in all cases. Whether it’s the Kherson human safari (Russian genocide of Ukrainians), the Genocide in Gaza, the Darfur Genocide, Trump’s plan for immigrants, or the Holocaust, we must oppose oppression in all its forms.

Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."

There IS NO MORE doubt.

When your president tells McDonald franchise owners to fight minimum wage increases to ensure their employees are paid as little as possible means he does not have your back. These are his own words. #cdnpoli

The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable

Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy' Trump had several tense exchanges with the press over the weekend, including pointing in the face of a female reporter.