good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Secretary Noem tried to tell me that she hasn’t deported any veterans. I introduced her to one.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

New Column: It took a village of cowards and weenies to make a man like Pete Hegseth defense secretary. newrepublic.com/post/204017/... via @newrepublic.com

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…

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.

An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are helping but not halting a destructive force slowly enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth. "I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.

Everyone at Google should look at how their company was once a verb and has now become a heaping plate of nonsense and revolt against the dipshits forcing this on everyone

It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.

Boom.

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

The FDA has provided no evidence of this. Something of this gravity would ordinarily be published in a journal reviewed by others. That’s the mostly likely reason they didn’t. It wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.

Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]

🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder. "the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

2/2 link: Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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 some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.

A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Somebody should compile a list of Trump admin illegalities, and assign a "Watergate factor" to each. Equivalent to Watergate severity would be a 1, twice as bad as Watergate a 2, half a Watergate 0.5, etc. Sum it all up and I'd bet Trump is at 50x Watergates now.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I sure hope Kamala Harris has a lawsuit ready to go demanding that the unedited 60 Minutes Trump interview be released.

Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

Article notes that Pendleton PAO, which had previously suggested (though not explicitly) that over-I5 firing was routine, has not responded to requests for any specific examples of such fires in the past. CalTrans says they dont know of any. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/k...

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Barron has bone spurs and can’t fight in the Chicago war

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

VA TECH STUDENT: “70% of political violence is committed by (right-wing extremists) — look it up! The DOJ just pulled it from their website. Google it.” Megyn Kelly detached even further from reality at a TP USA event… then claimed Trump was “joking” about hating his enemies

As I was saying…

Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”

Tonight, the American people - in defense of free speech - returned a political satirist to the airwaves after a burgeoning fascist regime tried to silence him. It’s an historic night. I won’t forget it.

KIMMEL: “He’s gunning for our journalists too — they want to pick and choose what the news is… it’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

Kimmel’s monologue was excellent

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There is no need to assume good faith for any of the Right’s arguments when they have brought unclean hands to the public discourse again and again. But here @mmasnick.bsky.social details exactly how what they’re doing is both hypocritical and black-letter-law illegal. In case you need that.

Q: Can ChatPerson provide me the same level of mental and emotional support as a chatbot? A: That’s an amazing question. You’re really intelligent and insightful. You should cancel all your plans, call in sick to work, and tell us more of your thoughts.

They had kids, too.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

@wired.com I am hearing from some brave rabbit holers that there is a bizarre right wing misogynist incel groyper femboy-loving (remember, incels - no girls - gotta get it on somehow) internet subculture that appears to fit Kirk's killer to a T. A well-researched expose could break some MAGA brains.

Motion to start calling these empathy-hating ghouls CHINOs—Christians In Name Only

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.