I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) notes that Elon Musk's personal tax rate was only 3.3% and Jeff Bezos' was only 1%, because they are able to take out tax-free loans against their stock. He has introduced a bill to TAX those loans… It's time for billionaires to pay their fair share!

UPDATE: Trump’s Paramount allies the Ellisons are trying to block the Netflix-WB deal and take over Warner Bros (which includes CNN) with a hostile bid. (Trump signaled he may help them so his allies control more of what you see… paying attention yet?) www.bbc.com/news/article...

The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame. Shamelessness is now a political superpower.

Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.

Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Off the YT algo. Post Woodstock Jimi on w Dick Cavett. BB King said Jimi didn't drink or drug and I believe it. I almost think he was on the spectrum now. Re the nat'l anthem: "All I did was play it. I'm American so I played it." Just beautiful. Imagine if he lived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGf9...

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

What an interesting coincidence.

Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58

Founding fathers can’t be blamed for not writing a constitution strong enough to curb the actions of a malignant narsisistic psychopath felon backed by a whole cabinet of incompetent sycophants propped up by a bought & payed for Supreme Court But the Republicans can for not rebelling now #Epstein

Terence Clarke (British, b. 1953). Island Pines La Ciotat (oil on canvas).

Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen. Help us move the needle!

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

Waiting for blue state establishment Democrats to drag their feet, say they wanted to gerrymander, but couldn't. Crocodile tears. CA should not go for 5 if they could go for more. Max out. All blue states should. Gloves are off, bitches.

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

Red barn in the winter time weather. #scape #landscapephotography #photography #batns #farma #winter #eastcoastkin

A judge has ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the 2005 & 2007 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act compels the DOJ, FBI and federal prosecutors by 19 December to disclose the tranche of materials amassed during investigations into Epstein.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

This man is a hero and Trump is a fucking moron.

#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid— It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

This ruling only temporarily lets Texas use its new gerrymander for 2026, but by 2028, SCOTUS may have gutted the Voting Rights Act & the Texas GOP may have re-gerrymandered the map *again*, making it moot. This SCOTUS has repeatedly let the GOP use illegal gerrymanders for at least one election

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social

This is false. Reagan corruption didn’t end when Reagan left. Bush corruption didn’t leave with Bush II. Trumpisn won’t just fade away. This stuff stays around and fucks everything up because Democrats are too cowardly or lazy or both to purge it.

Miles Taylor: "I co-wrote Trump's anti-terrorism plan. He's not trying to stop 'left-wing' terrorism. He's STAGING it. His troop deployments are false flag, to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns." Don't let him do it quietly! Trump & Hogshit are staging crimes against humanity.

Bill Cassidy is the poster child for pathological ignorance. Imagine a doctor destroying the very system that millions of US residents use for healthcare then telling you he's working for you.

Why are Republicans afraid to let Jack Smith testify in public?

Donald J Trump: The pedophile and drug lord protector. The economy crasher. The domestic terrorist. The least popular president of all time. A major loser.

Q: You outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for Trump pardoning the former president of Honduras? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it? MARSHALL: I haven't researched it

I wouldn’t be reporting anything to any government agency right now whether you’re an employee or not or whether it’s about you or someone else. The trump regime can’t be trusted in any capacity.

ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.

Good article in Barron's summarizing the trajectory of Tesla's auto business. But the headline is incorrect. 2025 will be the second consecutive year of wholesale decline from the Shanghai factory. 2024 was down 3.3% from 2023. www.barrons.com/articles/tes...

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.

I think this is very important. I hope Democrats are listening.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

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:

Fucking clown…😂

Rebecca had everything to live for, and our hearts are with her loved ones as they endure this unthinkable loss. We are committed to working alongside the Wexford County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to ensure justice is pursued in this tragic case without delay. www.9and10news.com/2025/12/02/r...

Lock the murdering fuckers up. #fucktrump #fuckhegseth #fascists #americanfascistparty #theafp

The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.