U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

🚨Dec. 17 marks 50 days until the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia expires. We're mobilizing with partners to urge Congress to act stop a disastrous new arms race. Join us + spread the word!

Ok A.I. nailed this one, credit where it’s due www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Totally feasible, see these ideas www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Sena...

The next Democratic administration should expand the court. There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.

I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there. Things are changing. Especially in red states.

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

🔥 WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “Tennessee is ready to elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social. Miracles can happen… to run in an R+22 seat takes a very special kind of person with a very special kind of guts.” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Tennesseans of District 7! GO VOTE! Flip this seat blue!

@veteransforpeace.bsky.social - "No War on #Venezuela!" unac.notowar.net/2025/11/07/v...

If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Seeing new reports that @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2-4 points of flipping a Trump +22 district, just WILD! If yall know ANYONE in the TN 7th, PLEASE GET THEM TO VOTE!

If you live in or you know anyone in Tennessee’s 7th district, TODAY is the LAST day to vote early. And tell everyone you know who hasn’t voted that it is all about turnout next Tuesday. We need as many people showing up to the polls. We can do this.

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

Well done and well deserved!

Didn’t expect this, but definitely appreciate it — got added to both the Top Trending Bluesky Profiles (last 24 hours) and Top 100 Users with the Fastest Follower Growth lists this week. 1/2

An ICE arrest of a mother in Fitchburg highlights the delicate balance local police say they’ve had to strike when responding to immigration enforcement actions. Often, that leaves officers open to criticism from both federal agents and city residents.

Lost in all the other zone-flooding by this administration:

This is my kind of good trouble.

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

🎶This is how you do it🎶 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Know this about me, President Trump: I love our Constitution and I will never give up the ship. 🇺🇸

November 20, 2025

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

Mark my words, teaching will be next. The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Rev. Bates-Chamberlain: Once ICE came in on their rampage, you literally had mass agents kidnapping people off the streets. It felt like you were in a horror movie, but this was a real occurrence happening in the United States in 2025.

We are amazed by the resistance in Charlotte, NC. The Trump administration named the operation there “Charlotte’s Web,” and people have been mobilizing fast. Students, especially, have become the heart of the resistance. This was

The newsletters from Missouri Congressman Jason Smith are usually filled with partisan drivel and little truth. Biden this and Kamala that. Socialism and Marxism. Burn the books and ban the history. Republicans good. Democrats evil. Epstein? Never heard of him. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery apnews.com/article/ahma...

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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