"The flood zone has always been a two-part machine. The blueprint comes from Viktor Orban. The delivery system comes from Steve Bannon. Understanding both parts, and how they interact, is how we understand what we are actually up against."

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Watch: Senator asks Pentagon official about Netanyahu's influence on US striking Iran www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

"During his presidential campaigns, Trump reassured his supporters there would be no more “forever wars,” and that the U.S. wouldn’t be bogged down in the Middle East. But with the launch of air strikes this morning, the U.S. is once again on the front lines of conflict there ..."

"Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up." (Gift article from The New York Times)

"...he started this war without explaining to the American people and the world why he was doing so. Nor has he involved Congress, which the Constitution grants the sole power to declare war." (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. )

"Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise. In fact, this new world will look a lot like the world prior to 1945".

Americans speak out about DHS & ICE’s violent use of force. As they testify at my spotlight forum with Rep. Garcia, we must heed their voices & take courage from their bravery. It is an urgent call to action.

"state and local power are important as a counterweight when the president uses the national government to act like an authoritarian. Madison was right about that." (Gift article of the NYTimes)

"Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis"

"You can’t bring 'transparency and accountability' to an organization whose agents defiantly wear masks while openly threatening citizens with deadly violence. More training won't help. The problem is the organization itself. Ending ICE is what will make Americans safer." — @playtyperguy.com

“Donald Trump isn’t ‘on the ropes.’ He is a spreading cancer. He is a living rot that is metastasizing. It is spreading around the world.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

What the DOJ is doing should frighten every American who cares about the future of this country. The regime is moving rapidly to dismantle fair elections.

Will courts stop this madness and corruption?!

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. "Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground."

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"The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” Anne Applebaum argues.

"the danger posed by Russia is so great that Trump needs to control Greenland, but not so great that it precludes participation in Trump’s peace board."

Americans across the U.S. are celebrating King's legacy this weekend. One way to reflect on his life and message is by revisiting his celebrated 1963 speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.

The Editorial Board: "The Trump administration says their goal in Minnesota is to enforce immigration laws in cities that refuse to cooperate. But it seems reasonable to believe that the real mission is only partly about rounding up deportable immigrants — it's also about political spectacle."

"Much has been said, including by me, about Trump’s narcissism, his autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from reality, but not nearly enough has been said about his fundamental indecency, the characteristic that undergirds everything he says and does."

Donald Trump’s reclassification of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction is a public-relations tactic, one expert tells @willgottsegen.com in The Atlantic Daily:

Donald Trump lives in a completely different reality than the rest of America. He's totally lost it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...

"Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of 'climate alarmism.'” But, "scientists, meteorologists and lawmakers said the move was an attack on critical scientific research and would harm the United States."

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.” trib.al/M3oQtcJ

"An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance." www.statnews.com/american-sci...

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Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sen. Mark Kelly told NPR "it just doesn't make any sense" for him to face a military court-martial after he and other Democratic lawmakers released a video reminding active-duty troops that they don't have to follow illegal orders.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” By @natlash.bsky.social

Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period. www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...

"A serial scofflaw and a 34-count convicted felon, he was clearly running for office to escape trials and jail time for dozens of additional alleged crimes. Trump ran on a platform of personal retribution rather than public service."

"Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: 'Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.' Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave."---by Mark L. Wolf

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question,” writes the Times editorial board.

"This is documentation of policies implemented between January 20 and October 29, 2025 that caused measurable harm to Americans’ health, safety, economic security, or civil rights." ---- By Christopher Armitage

"This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in the way of nonwhite citizens voting. "

"Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried." (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. )

The U.S. armed forces may soon face the choice of whether to refuse illegal and unconstitutional orders, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. What will they do?

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

Targeting blue states and cities isn’t very “America First” of the Trump administration. But it has become increasingly obvious that it never really cared about that, especially when revenge is on the table. trib.al/slw4a7q

"The United States, in other words, may now be entering a prolonged period of extraordinary dysfunction. And the Republican justices bear as much blame for that dysfunction as anyone."

Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances. (Gift article from The New York Times.)

Few things are important enough to justify the security risk that Pete Hegseth’s planned military gathering poses, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands. What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.