So much good work by @willbunch.bsky.social

Free link: share.inquirer.com/wcAMJe How one person stopped a U.S. Army massacre in Vietnam by someone else just "following orders,"

This. USNA 81 grad. We were specifically taught about My Lai as THE example of NOT following illegal orders. Thank you, @willbunch.bsky.social for point this out.

"Democrats buy into that stereotype of because they're college graduates, they must be also white, cosmopolitan, wealthy elites, instead being like, "No. To be part of the working class these days often still requires like some form of college education," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social.

D.A. Fani Willis had the courage, the grit, the experience, the facts, and the law to bring Trump to account. It is so disappointing that an error in her judgment gave Trump’s team the opening they needed to have her removed from the case. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“If you don’t have to go out, don’t go out. If there’s a party, better you don’t go. Take care of yourself until this passes. This is chaos.” — Yolanda, a US citizen from Ecuador, warning friends as ICE steps up what appear to be race-based arrests in NYC www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

TN-7 folks should know billionaires Yass, Bezos etc. dropped millions into the Republican primary to help Matt Van Epps 🤖 get past Rep. Jody Barrett, who is more of a grass roots Republican — whereas Van Epps is a puppet for the billionaires. (H/T @votesaveamerica.crooked.com )

Hugely gratifying!

I enjoyed Ken Burns’ new documentary so much that I have started watching the one he did in 2014 on the Roosevelts. So good. Let me encourage you to get PBS Passport which has all of Burns’ documentaries and other PBS shows. It’s a way to support public broadcasting and get quality content.

BREAKING: European Parliament calls for EU-wide minimum age of 16 to access social media, video sharing platforms and AI companions, and proposes bans on the most harmful addictive practices. #DefendDemocracy #PeopleVsBigTech www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

In we are fortunate enough that the Democrats return to power in 2028, they must commit to removing the Robert’s Six by any means necessary in order to restore the Supreme Court to legitimacy as a fair arbiter of the Constitution and its laws. They are beyond tainted.

New: Professor Detained En Route To Middle East Studies Conference Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody. www.huffpost.com/entry/vahid-...

Biden commuted their death sentences, so Trump retaliated by making their lives living hell, putting them in the country's most brutal prison, where they "spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space." Pure, pointless cruelty.

Another bad indicator for local media (and, frankly, local party communication channels): I live less than two miles from the Florida district referenced here and had no idea there was an election happening.

Emerson's new poll of Tennessee's special election next week is way closer than even Dem internal polls found it: 48/46 for the Republican: emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t... (This is a Trump +22 district.) It's also one of the 25 elections to watch in December: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

@environmentalvoter.bsky.social also has many phone banks for these elections!! www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved

Wow great guide! I only knew about TN 07 and the FL house races. For those that want to help the dem candidates - postcardstovoters.org has many campaigns going on! Write a few postcards, it makes a difference!

More elections are already around the corner, mere days. And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida. And that's just the tip of a busy election month. My new guide, just out:

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Must read this Thanksgiving Thank you Deb & @jfallows.bsky.social

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

What the New York Times is hinting at but is afraid to say directly is that Trump and his reckless oligarch pals are steering us toward a worldwide economic depression.

“To her credit, Greene is a survivor. She took a hard look at her political fortunes & appears to be betting on herself... she may end up being prescient. Or she may have mistimed the market on Trump’s political fortunes. Either way, she took the only choice she really had available to her”

🎁 Brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social analysis: Boebert, Mace, Stefanik, Noem & MTG brought chutzpah to Trump’s brand, “adding their feminine touch to his masculine politics of disruption, grift & sexism so that it looked less like scamminess & more like populism” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

Aspirational goal: have a US SCOTUS equal in standing, reputation, morality and law to that in Brazil 🇧🇷 Well done Brazil PS There are also more than a few things Chancellor #Merz could also learn from Brazilian friends

I now live in a country where reaching a Latin American level of legal integrity has become aspirational.

Interesting exchange between @sulliview.bsky.social and James Risen over the NYT’s inexplicable and indefensible opacity regarding their (now former) reporter who was soliciting $ from Jeffrey Epstein. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...

Every Democrat needs to make the same video the original six did. Here is the script. Don't leave them hanging.

Trump has no right to pose any demands on Ukraine: 1. He instantly stopped ALL financial and arms aid to Ukraine. US republicans continue to lie that the US is financing Ukraine & giving it arms. Stop lying! 2. Trump has repeatedly lied that the US has given $350 bn to Ukraine.

Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History. president.yale.edu/committees-p...

And Hunter Biden had gotten help getting to crypto from that same dude? B/c that’s what this is

Can you imagine if Biden had pardoned a crypto dude for illegal acts who then, in multiple court cases, was alleged to be facilitating Hamas’ financing?

Whenever the anti-vax movement is called out for killing real people, RFK Jr honestly believes that he is the victim. We are living through a period of profound evil, and RFK Jr‘s twisted self-righteousness makes him one of the worst perpetrators.

Nope, still not a town hall. @wsmv.com

Dear Senators vanhollen.senate.gov chrismurphyct.bsky.social sanders.senate.gov warren.senate.gov smith.senate.gov markey.senate.gov heinrich.senate.gov Thank you for giving us something to believe in! We have your back! You have our support! Gift 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

The new editor of CBS News thinks that Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch debating the 2nd Amendment is “news.” So, pour one out tonight for the actual journalists at CBS who have to listen to this drivel in the am news meeting (She also says Dersh is “charismatic,” but that’s the lesser horror) 1/2

Hear me out: TRUMP WAS IN ON BOLSONARO’S ESCAPE PLAN. Bolsonaro spoke with him before getting arrested for tampering with his ankle monitor. Here is Trump saying he expected to meet him “in the near future” and was stunned he ended up back in jail. Maddow 💙😎💙

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

“You’re right, I’ll do some homework now….” from Chotiner is serious horror movie stuff.

RFKJr demonstrates what he thinks of Sean Duffy's dress code for air travel

Lindsey is out, and now: "The Court will pick a qualified successor, and based on what we know about the two prosecutions, there is no reason to believe that a new, reasonably qualified U.S. Attorney would differ from Siebert’s assessment that the cases should not be indicted."

Read this. A real American.

Schumer & Gillibrand facing mutiny from Dems over their outdated “corporate-friendly” playbook, refusal to back Zohran, etc. Long overdue. @schumer.senate.gov www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

1991: < USSR implodes > US & UK: "Yikes. Loose nukes now. Some in 🇺🇦. Hey, 🇺🇦, will you give those up?" Ukraine: "If we do that, 🇷🇺 will invade us." US & UK: "If we get 🇷🇺 on board & sign a deal to protect you?" Ukraine, 12/5/94: "OK." <signs Budapest Memorandum Russia, 2014 & 2023: < invades 🇺🇦 >

Really hard time to be the Onion.

“The TN-7 race is a matter of life and death.” - @aftynbehn.bsky.social to @wkrnnews2.bsky.social

Exactly

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