An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.

The Fed is gutting its ability to monitor warning signs of bank failures and slashing rules put in place after 2008 to prevent another financial crisis. Now, big banks are ramping up the same risky behaviors that led to the last economic crash–setting the stage for another one.

LEAVITT: They are encouraging service members not to follow lawful orders! REPORTER: They're talking about illegal orders LEAVITT: They're suggesting the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order given is lawful.

That the richest man in the world is determined to jam fascist misinformation into mainstream discourse is an emergency. I don't know how else we can talk about it. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Chief of the French Armed Forces: "We must accept that we may lose our children." General Mandon is preparing French society for potential high-stakes conflict, possibly with Russia in the coming years, where military engagement could mean casualties among the young.

Epstein described the billionaire hotel magnate as being “like family.”

Lindsey Halligan retracts and changes her testimony from yesterday in another effort to avoid dismissal of the case. Time to poll the grand jurors—did you see this indictment or not?

Surprise to who? Democracy Docket readers knew this was a likely outcome. Subscribe now for free to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power. This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.

The way to do this.

The fact that it needed to be asked shows how low Trump has brought the nation.

Bill Pulte committed several crimes in order to help fuel a case against a series of Democrats for mortgage fraud and is now the subject of a grand jury investigation. Pulte is a long standing Trump crony. He was awarded a "Bill Pulte fucks only the young" trophy at a 2023 event he helped to

Trump will rule by executive fiat in order to make Congress into even more of a pointless ornament, says his commerce secretary. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Democrats are responsible for every intemperate comment from every random anonymous internet communist. But the Republican president who is at the center of a cult of personality that has consumed the entire GOP can call for mass executions, and somehow this isn’t laid at the feet of Republicans.

Maybe another Biden is old piece is about to drop

Interesting to see numerous reporters now running to Dem lawmakers to get them to talk more about Trump's lawlessness. It's almost like when Dems respond forcefully to Trump, the media wakes up and takes notice. Something to learn in this!

There's a very real possibility the choice facing Western democracies is, in political if not economic terms, socialism or barbarism

SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social

✅⚖️ #nationalguard #dc

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

White women's legality is far from morality 🧭

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

The bunker midget in cosplay, under immense pressure after inviting journalists to Pokrovsk to witness Ukraine’s ‘total surrender’ and encirclement. Two weeks later, Russia is still struggling to take Ukraine’s 76th-largest city, despite telling the world it was a done deal and ‘mopping up’.

Trump is building a dictatorship with Christian support. This is a stain on the religion and an insult to the many Christians who believe in good works and live their lives that way. Time for Christians who follow Jesus' teachings to push back and save their religion and their country. 🧵 3/

It’s encouraging that Pope Leo has denounced Trump’s campaign of terror against immigrants. But 55% of Catholics voted for Trump in 2024, and 81% of white evangelicals did. Voters who attend religious services at least once a month backed Trump nearly 2-to-1. 🧵 2/

The response of American Christians to the rise of MAGA fascism bears similarities to German Christians’ response to the rise of the Nazis. Some courageous German Christians confronted evil, but most went along. They attended church on Sunday while supporting the operators of the death camps. 🧵 1/

Federal lawyers said "we dont have the resources" to retain all surveillance footage, and suggested that perhaps the plaintiffs—who are undocumented immigrants being detained in horrific conditions—could provide "endless hard drives where we could save the information, that might be one solution."

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost. Unreal hearing on this earlier: www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...

All five living former Vice Presidents attended Dick Cheney's funeral today. (Joe Biden isn't in this photo, but he was there.) And yes, the Obi-Wan Kenobi "now that's a name I haven't heard..." GIF was created for things like "Dan Quayle was there, and he's younger than Trump and Biden."

GOP Congressmen: “Cheap solar energy for me—but not for thee.” This is shameful. Attacks on clean energy projects by Trump and his cronies in Congress—like Rep. Ken Calvert—are raising electricity costs for working families. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

This is fucking horrifying. Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?

European and Ukrainian officials have rejected Donald Trump’s latest proposal for a lopsided peace deal that favors Moscow, warning that caving in to Russia will only encourage Vladimir Putin to attack NATO next.

A federal immigration crackdown based in North Carolina’s largest city that authorities said led to hundreds of arrests is now over, a local law enforcement agency said Thursday.

On to the next American city to terrorize and kidnap its citizens with anonymous American Gestapo agents...

Weird. Nothing on the @nytimes.com homepage about the President of the United States calling for the execution of members of the opposition in response to their political speech.

You read that right.The President of the United States just called for six Democratic Members of Congress — all who served our country — to be hanged. These calls for political violence are absolutely unacceptable, yet "President Bone Spurs" continues to stoop to unimaginable lows.

Yes, he does

As climate change melts ice, stored mercury pollution may be released, contaminating fish + shellfish. Mercury pollution is a feature throughout the life cycle of fossil fuels - a risk during extraction, from abandoned pipelines + from burning oil, gas + coal. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.

A cornered NYC sewer rat is most dangerous, violent and pathetic when he's most desperate and in trouble. That's Trump right now. He's cracking and MAGA knows it. He cant fix the economy or the Epstein Scandal, his two Achilles Cankles.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Here’s a gift link to the story:

This is the bad place.

Les Européens opposés à une « capitulation » de l’Ukraine