"Hegseth refused to sit for an interview with the inspector general and submitted his version of events in writing, sources told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women a.co/d/c2C9w3R

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Treasury Sec Scott Bessent falsely claimed inflation is worse in blue states. CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin corrected him: “the highest inflation…has been in red states, especially Florida.” “I don’t think that’s right,” Bessent said. Sorkin replied, “We can go through the math.”

Even Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on CNBC admitted, “as you deport people that’s going to suppress private job numbers,” an extraordinary concession that #Trump’s mass-deportation agenda is harming the economy. -Meidas+

Mandela's Sermon Blessed are the dehumanized for they have nothing to lose but their patience False gods killed the poet in me. Now I dig graves with artistic precision —Keorapetse Kgositsile (2002)

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own." -Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-70

The denial of aid: I believe that it is a dominance display on Trump’s part. Whenever someone comes to him in need, his cruelty is activated. #Trump to disaster victims, wherever they live and whoever they voted for: Drop dead. -Paul Krugman

The Cabinet’s grotesque sycophancy, its invented triumphs, its weaponized language & complete loyalty to the president’s personal grievances reveal a government that has stopped governing. Instead, it has become an echo chamber performing one long, sprawling monologue for an audience of one. -WDTDT

“It is government as performance art, with each secretary assigned a role—warrior, healer, redeemer, destroyer—so long as they repeat the script. Trump’s meeting is a public submission ceremony in which the Cabinet reassures him that delusion is governance and flattery is truth.” -WDTDT

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

whatdiddonaldtrumpdotoday.substack.com/p/trump-doze... “The meeting is a civics nightmare—an executive branch that speaks openly about weaponizing policy, law enforcement, military power & immigration systems while normalizing dehumanizing language.”

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Kelly slammed #Hegseth, saying he “runs around on a stage like he’s a twelve-year-old playing army. And it is ridiculous. It is embarrassing. I can’t imagine what our allies think.”

www.closertotheedge.net/p/abominatio... An unidentified masked man masquerading as an #ICE agent pointed a loaded lethal gun into the crowd of unarmed civilians. No threat. No provocation. The other alphabet agents came over and grabbed him and pulled him away.

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

#Costco has sued the Trump administration to recover all tariffs it paid under Trump’s IEEPA-based “reciprocal” tariff orders, arguing the law does not authorize the president to impose such duties, as similar challenges await a Supreme Court ruling. -Aaron Parnas

FBI’s agents, current & retired, have submitted a 115-page report to Congress condemning FBI Director #KashPatel as “in over his head,” “insecure,” & lacking the necessary experience or “bearing” to lead the Bureau. -Meidas+

We are living paycheck to paycheck, unable to afford rent, groceries, or basic healthcare. Instead of addressing those crises, #Trump is threatening a foreign conflict—invading #Venezuela—for political distraction & corporate enrichment, by seizing their oil fields. -Meidas

Number of people who go bankrupt a year due to medical debt: Germany: 0 France: 0 UK: 0 Japan: 0 Norway: 0 Denmark: 0 Finland: 0 Sweden: 0 Italy: 0 Australia: 0 Canada: 0 Spain: 0 Portugal: 0 Iceland: 0 Netherlands: 0 United States: 530,000 Yes. We need Medicare for All — NOW. -Bernie Sanders

The deal Witkoff has been pitching would trade Ukrainian land in exchange for business opportunities for Trump’s network. Russia would get territory. Trump’s allies would get access to major Russian projects. It is a direct swap. -Adam Mockler

#KristiNoem admitted that she was the one who ordered the flights to El Salvador to take off despite a court order to the contrary. This comes as contempt proceedings have restarted against the Administration. -Aaron Parnas

“I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM DECLARING THE MAR-A-LAGO AIRSPACE PERMANENTLY CLOSED. I'M ALSO CLOSING GOLF GAMES, CANCELLING NAPS, OUTLAWING UGLY GOLD AND UGLY PRESIDENTS, RETURNING FREE JETS TO QATAR, AND DISALLOWING PIGS IN THE OVAL OFFICE, IT'S THE WHITE HOUSE NOT A GODDAMN FARM!”

Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

WSJ: National security officials across Europe were given a report containing “details of the commercial & economic plans the Trump administration has been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

From Mary Geddry, #Trump is a #Russian asset.

“How does [Trump] have the time..to have a conversation with me about IN mapmaking when that’s not his business?” Mid-decade redistricting was “the president trying to save his own skin by holding a majority in Congress. It’s so that he’s not impeached again.“ -Sen. Greg Walker

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

Why aren’t the Epstein files released yet? Still being doctored up with black Sharpies?

In Indiana, multiple GOP legislators have accused the Trump White House of extortion, Hatch Act violations, and attempts to coerce them into rigging redistricting maps ahead of the midterms. -Meidas+

#Trump says he will issue a full pardon to former Honduran President Hernández, who’s serving a 45-yr US sentence for drug-trafficking, tying the promise to his endorsement of Honduran candidate Asfura. Hernández’s conviction involved aiding cartels moving #cocaine to the U.S. -Aaron Parnas

www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p... Army combat vet and congressional candidate Fred Wellman: “This is insanely illegal. The kind of orders that are illegal…this is it. It’s against the law to kill wounded prisoners. Period. This is monstrous.”

It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th. Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”

A Guardian investigation revealed that Trump admin’s legal justification for fatal Caribbean boat strikes relies on a classified OLC opinion citing “collective self-defense” against cartel violence, based on “intelligence” that experts say lack publicly verifiable evidence.

New #ICE data shows a 2,000+ % surge this year in detainees with no U.S. criminal record. They now make up nearly 1/2 of the record-high 65,135 people in immigration custody. Trump & Miller’s mass-deportation push is sweeping up large numbers of innocent immigrants. -A Parnas

As #Ukraine burns, our President, #DonaldTrump, has said nothing. No statement, no leadership, no reassurance to our allies or to the American people. His last public communication as I recorded this video was an image of himself dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” -Meidas+