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Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

U.S.-based contractors are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. A new investigation found that the company behind “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace.

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

Frankly, a group that wants to erase a critical section of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) and strike down the Voting Rights Act, really has no grounds to claim Lincoln as its founding father. Likewise, the current crowd is about as supportive of free markets as Karl Marx

Anarcho-punk Vince Guaraldi cover band called RUDIMENTARY PEANUTS

"The East Wing had sat atop a emergency operations bunker for the president. "

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

VERY POPULIST apnews.com/article/trum...

Every time I see them say "assimilation", it's obvious. Gor Christ's sake, the nazis im aghast

US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter.

people thought they were voting for the anti-war guy who opposed the iraq war (he wasn't and he didn't) and they got a guy who is now designating fentanyl as a WMD before launching a preemptive regime-change war against venezuela. nice job, podcast bros. really did your audience a service in 2024.

Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case. www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/

" If you’re worried about declining “social cohesion,” let’s talk about soaring economic inequality, weakening civic virtue, declining worker power, and social tensions cynically stoked and manipulated by right-wing elites—all of which Trump is exacerbating."

Given that this is today's name on Angus MacLise's New Universal Solar Calendar, it's appropriate that I'll be doing an #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream tonight. 8-9:30 PM EST (UTC-5). Tonight might be #microtonal, or perhaps #MoogGuitar. Let's find out: twitch.tv/onezeromusic

📢 Open enrollment ends today, Dec. 15th, for health coverage starting Jan. 1. For coverage beginning Feb. 1, individuals have until Jan. 15th. After the Jan. 15th deadline, people will have to wait until November, unless they qualify for a special enrollment period.

This is big for me, if I ever reach that point, "TERMINAL" I want the right to decide, without jeopardizing my loved ones

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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real Both are true

a “concerning uptick in the radicalization of our nation’s young people,” specifically “those who may be motivated to commit violence and other criminal acts to further social or political objectives stemming from domestic influences.” theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...

The problem is that Donald Trump sincerely believes that net export outflows are literal wealth leaving the United States which is why he says things in the WSJ like we just need to give it time, it's not some insincere, cynical position covering for some other thing

It's almost like it's a plan

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

Fact-check: true

A new law allows judges to refuse to perform same-sex weddings. An Austin judge responded by doing eight weddings and two vow renewals at a flower-filled event. Published in partnership with @thebarbedwire.com:

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Health savings accounts provide a fig leaf for high deductible insurance plans that leave patients on the hook.

it's funny that between 2001 and 2006 we got like five different versions of gang of four

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

My kids have measles, there are no toys on the shelves, and I can't afford a steak. But at least there's no sign language interpreter at White House press briefings now.

Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.

Let’s Go For Three #bloomcounty #billthecat #opus #goodmorning #comics #oliver #outland #SteveDallas #Trump #Hegsworth

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The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway

My sense is most people vastly underestimate the barriers to both citizenship and legal status.

Clear your calendar for next Friday if you are into seeing my pals covering Beastie Boys instrumental tracks off Check Your Head and Ill Communication and so forth as well as myself singing Dead Milkmen songs from Big Lizard In My Backyard. It’ll be a swell time!

How is it less tragic to be killed by a native-born DUI as opposed to an undocumented DUI?

stop applauding local police and politicians for calling a press conference about how they are also appalled that authoritarians violated you while they stood by and told you there was nothing they could do to protect you even tho they are paid to protect you.