"If the President orders soldiers to do it, it's not illegal." From the Nixon Chapter of the TrumpLaw Code of Military Justice.

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Hearing Hal Steinbrenner on a Zoom that the Yankees didn't make a profit this year. He's hard to hear, because he's conducting the Zoom on a 200-foot megayacht in the Seychelles smoking what appears to be a new Trump $200 bill.

Elon’s end-of-year performance review

Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit. You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.

Of all the people to attack, a sitting US Senator, husband of a congresswoman who survived being shot in the head, a former Naval aviator who flew 39 combat missions and a freaking actual honest to god astronaut who’s been to space four times! These are not bright guys.

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020. Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures. Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

Raskin is very good at this.

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

These are two grown men. But you want us to wonder about the crisis of men and boys. What examples are you putting before them? Is this manhood?

One of the coolest days in NPR-land is here! Books We Love, the gigantic compendium of bite-size book reviews publishes today. Under staff picks, you'll see my take on books about Desi Arnaz and Lorne Michaels. But there's much more to love here. READ: https://loom.ly/DqKKH90

Because women who weren't Princess Leia spoke a total of 63 seconds in the first three Star Wars films. Because women couldn't serve on juries in all 50 states until 1968. Because the president is a rapist.

Because my grandmother was an adult before she got the right to vote, and because I was an adult before the first female supreme court justice got appointed, and because some of the older women I know don't think they'll ever see a female president, and some MAGA dicks think women shouldn't vote.

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines. Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.” But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.” What happened to DOGE after Musk left. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

for those of you buying a thanksgiving turkey today, remember to take it out to defrost in time for the big meal! generally a frozen turkey needs to defrost for ten minutes per pound of weight

CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way BRENNAN: Specifically what? CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...

Right. As Swin says the lawlessness runs deep. How is it possible that media is covering battle over this video while largely pretending the elephant in the room isn't there?

CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

“The president is doing this to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, which he already left stained with blood at the end of his first term in office, because he wanted to steal an election he had so clearly lost. Now, though, Trump…

After Trump’s disturbing defense of MBS in the Oval Office this week, I demanded the transcript of that call be released alongside the widow of Jamal Khashoggi.

While serving on Trump’s White House NSC, I reviewed a problematic call between the president and the Saudi Crown Prince following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC win the #USL Championship Final on penalties

All hail the USL champions Pittsburgh Riverhounds! BDE from their goalkeeper Eric Dick!

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This is today!!!

detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The CDC now cites a ‘67% increased risk of Asperger’s’ from the Danish aluminum study to justify ‘further investigation.’ The actual study of 1.2 million children found NO increased autism risk. My deep dive into the study and these claims: vaccinateyourfamily.org/explaining-t...

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

"To put that in simple terms so that Larry Summers is able to understand: Summers is a tax society places on women, their extra cost of doing business. Most men are willing to let them pay it. After all, most men know the tax means that they too can benefit."

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

America 2025.

Y’all, the opinion and order of the Hon. Sara Ellis in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem granting the preliminary injunction is worth a read in its entirety. It’s 233 pages long, because that’s how many pages it took her to fully detail the Defendants’ misconduct.

There’s a reason why the right hates Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.) so much. We think it’s because he won’t just look the other way & pretend this administration didn’t lie to his face. We talk sanctions & so much more. with @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism.

Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear: VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.

Trump’s briefing today

Over 700,000 TPS recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. TPS recipients contribute over $36B in annual GDP. Withdrawing their work authorization could add to labor shortages in construction, cleaning, and hospitality, especially in FL, TX, NY

reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

TLDR: Berks County-based Tower Health is laying off more than 100 nurses and health care workers and cutting services at Pottstown Hospital in Pennsylvania. Full story here: ​​https://loom.ly/7HLkSzU

John Oliver and Co did a great explanation of what public media does, and who exactly the funding recission actually hurts (Hint: it's not liberal elites.) Also very proud to see my old friend and former WBEZ reporter Lauren Chooljian featured for her amazing work. youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...

You have to follow the link to Twitter to see Vindman's actual statement. He calls on Trump to release the transcript of his call with MBS after Khashoggi murder. But he makes pretty clear that Trump gave MBS a big high five after he ordered JK sawed into parts. x.com/RepVindman/s...