Rep. Don Bacon: "We saw that WSJ article yesterday that many people around the president are hoping to make billions of dollars—these are all billionaires in their own right—from an agreement from Russia, if they get a favorable agreement with Ukraine. That alarms me tremendously."

Rep. Mike Turner on the double strike to comply with Hegseth's orders: "If that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that would be an illegal act…This is completely outside of anything that has been discussed with Congress and there is an ongoing investigation."

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience

The Trump administration believes that the rich and powerful should be pardoned for their crimes, even after judges and juries determined their guilt. But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.

We must never believe what we are being told.  We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.

Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.

Trump: “They gave him 45 years because he was the President of the Country — you could do this to any President.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Mark Kelly: "This administration, they're gonna blame Joe Biden on everything. I mean, it is almost getting comical at this point."

"There is no way that [Trump] should have time to have a conversation with me about Indiana mapmaking when that’s not his business, for starters. But secondly, doesn’t he have anything better to do? I can make a big list of things that are more important for him to focus on."

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned: newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Good front-paging.

“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.” Now Trump set him free. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Tuesday’s #TN07 contest “was never supposed to be competitive. It's the creation of Tennessee's Republican-controlled legislature, which drew its boundaries in 2022 by splitting Democrat-stronghold Nashville ..” @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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."

Mark Kelly says Pete Hegseth's reported double tap strike on a boat "seems to" be a war crime, and adds, "if what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We are not Iraq"

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme 7: Years of his sentence 10,000: Victims of his fraud 1,000: Letters from victims to the court 13: Days he served 1: Pardon from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story. The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth. And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis “The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

BREAKING: Republican-led House and Senate committees say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a WaPo report revealing that Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several weeks ago.

The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

“.. At the center of President Trump’s contentious plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t peace: it’s profit.” @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...

Probably fine

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies." www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Senate Armed Services Committee responds to news stories about the alleged double tap strike:

Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.

A Dishonorable Strike Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC): "I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported." "There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."

He keeps calling it a ballroom but a ballroom is a place for dancing. What he wants is a gilded Holiday Inn banquet room where businessmen can shmooze, grope the waitresses, see and be seen, and cut crooked deals.

I mean

A rare moment of a Republican genuinely giving a damn.

For those who don’t know, Jack served in the Bush administration but resigned in protest of the extra constitutional claims made by the administration. He’s no left wing radical, but he care about the Constitution. He has forgotten more about executive power than I could ever hope to learn.

So the war on drugs is to kill the fishermen and release the kingpins. Makes perfect sense. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” @bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process clause in the constitution.”

I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

GALLUP: “.. his all-time low was 34% in 2021, at the end of his first term after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.” @gallup.com news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.

There’s gotta be some grift here. Massacring unknown people in boats to supposedly stop drugs, while pardoning drug traffickers. www.bbc.com/news/article...