If only Donald Trump could read: “OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed

The former astronaut fires back.

This is who she was. Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best. Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...

Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

So a bunch of people who want enormous financial bribes from Russia bypassed the man who REMAINS both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to capitulate to Russia. Then he got the backing of key Senators, and with it, tried, once again, to prevent the total capitulation by the US.

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side) #watercolour #fineart #cambridge

Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer. “Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.” #ScienceSunday

New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

The worm IS his brain.

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A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...

“The average eighth grader’s math skills are now a full school year behind where they were in 2013. The premise that foundational ideas don’t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.

DOGE failed. And DOGE is dead. So I guess government can be responsive after all.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.

An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition. #art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour

Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

Green tech: long-term infrastructure, more energy independence, and controlling the future industrial base. AI: a hope.

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Trump: “Tariffs protect you!” Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!” Economists: “So… you admit it?” Trump: nervous coughing noises

"Ghislaine Maxwell said in a sworn deposition to Trump's friend that Trump always acted like a gentleman. And—a little thing about me—I believe women." — SNL

The Roberts Court deciding that law doesn’t apply to the president, at least this one, even when he’s out of office, was a bad idea. They should not have done that. It has had foreseeable negative consequences. They should have gone with the Constitution and over two centuries of precedent instead.

If Trump is encouraging a primary against Marjorie Taylor Greene over whatever is in those files, why isn’t the first thought— something might well be very damaging in those files? And the second thought that follows: who cares if it is a dud because they’re going after their own base over it?

NEW: California now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage – reaching one-third of the way to our 2045 goal. We're deploying more battery storage than any state in America, building a stronger grid, cutting pollution, and securing a safer future for our nation.

We can say until we're blue in the face that we fully understand how fucking ridiculous our country is going to look, in retrospect, fifty years from now, but I'm here to tell you that the degree to which America in the first third of this century is an embarrassment to all of humanity is *shocking*

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon. 77 million people voted for this.

Yes, sadly it is real.

I am really excited that this week we are reading The Hamlet Fire by Bryant Simon, a tour de force if ever there was one. I love the feeling that words and thinking can transform us, and I hope, transform the world. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Basically, war crimes are very bad, but more and bigger war crimes are worse. Hegseth/Trump's open goal is to get the US military honoring the laws of armed combat less, which is a change for the worse. They're already acting on that in the Caribbean and potentially with Venezuela.

If you'd prefer "smarter democratic backsliders," fine. But there are multiple examples of aspiring authoritarians moving slower, more methodically, and consolidated power better, such as Orban in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, Modi in India.

It’s Gun Buyback Day in Rockville until 1:00 PM. Thanks to Mayor Monique Ashton, State’s Attorney John McCarthy, Councilman Adam Van Grack and all Team Rockville for this excellent public service.

Was it your brain? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣