Bahahahahaha www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump...

It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.

Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.” Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.

NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

Like here's another thing, the things are just adding up. Every day there's more things. bsky.app/profile/npr....

NEW: Kristi Noem, Todd Blanche, and Joseph Mazzara identify themselves (and now-judge Emil Bove) as the decision-makers involved in directing deportation flights to El Salvador despite Judge Boasberg's order. Their declarations are otherwise substance-free. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...

NEW ORLEANS OFFICIALS: “We insist (Trump’s ICE goons) clearly ID themselves… there is no precedent for masked law enforcement… they have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY… citizens are being racially profiled, chased, hunted… the chaos and lack of professionalism is ALARMING…”

I am working with Sen. Graham to pass legislation to help bring home thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. Standing with Ukraine means confronting the cruelty of taking kids from their families and making clear why we must stay united against Putin’s aggression.

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

Brickstorm sounds like a late aughts Lego robotics kit. Anyway virtualization is the soft underbelly of cloud infra,

Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/05/t...

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution. Commentary ↓

Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

US follows up on Congo-Rwanda peace deal with plan to secure minerals reut.rs/4iGoOtH

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone. The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote

JUST IN: Judge unseals Epstein grand jury records in south Florida. Judge Rodney Smith (Trump) says law Congress passed & Trump signed overrides background grand jury secrecy. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

It would be all too easy to overlook this case with everything else that's going on, but it's too important to miss, so I wrote a rare midday post. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

#SCOTUS adds 4 cases to its docket, including one (but not both) of the birthright citizenship cases. As for why only one, this is the case that cleanly presents the merits (where Court’s likely to rule against Trump); the other case would’ve required the justices to decide if states had standing.

BREAKING: The December 8-9 evidentiary hearing for vindictive and selective prosecution in the Abrego case has been CANCELLED. Previously, Abrego's attorney filed a motion to dismiss without the evidentiary hearing over the news about Costa Rica. A sealed order was filed yesterday.

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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"It's said that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Well, apparently the Trump people can't do that,". Despite President Donald Trump's Department of Justice promising to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment

SORKIN: The Trump administration has talked about taking a piece of Nvidia chip sales. What do you make of that prospect? SEN. PETE RICKETTS: That sounds like something Nvidia can work out with the govt. I don't want to get in the middle of that.

The Trump administration has filed its 32nd emergency application with #SCOTUS, this one seeking to freeze a Fourth Circuit ruling in a dispute over whether district courts can hear challenges to limits on what immigration judges are allowed to say publicly: georgetown.box.com/s/0ovhpw5pes...

BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw? TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence? COTTON: No, I didn't

lol just a few days there were reports abt how they were fighting because Trump wanted something too huge and too tasteless. And to be clear, IT WAS THE ARCHITECT TRUMP HIRED!!!! so like Trump's own guy came to him with tears in his eyes and said, "Sir, this is tacky and gauche and actually absurd."

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

Reminder that the constitution promises a postal service. Doesn't say a solitary word about "profitability"

In a post on X tonight, the State Department says it “renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.” “Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”

This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...

Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.” The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.

@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...

Who are all these grinning white people laughing at Trump's vile racism? h/t to @helenkennedy.bsky.social for pulling together a list. Shame on each & every one of them.

Over two years ago, I warned that Republicans were laying the groundwork to claim crisis pregnancy centers could replace the real clinics their policies were shuttering. Here's something I wrote in 2023, and a headline from today's National Review.

🧵This will be a child endangering travesty laid at Sen Bill Cassidy's doorstep if RFK Jr's anti-vaxx crew votes against HBV vaccines for kids. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/r...

Mornin. ☕️ ICYMI: I got copies of letters from nearly 20 of Trump's ballroom donors, sent to a senator asking for specifics on how much they gave, who asked them to give, if they made deals, etc. Most ignored the Qs and bragged about their philanthropy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

Meanwhile, Putin is openly threatening to attack Western Europe if it continues to resist his effort to reconstruct the USSR.

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.