JD can't wait to become President so he can trash talk Europe with a vengeance.

Can he pay my heating bill? Health insurance? Grocery costs? How about tightening up gun (safety) laws so I don't have to worry about losing my grandkids before they grow up? Does he have a plan to save the planet from overheating, or from running out of water? Those would be nice things to do.

Sycophant audition No. 57: Go!

Do I want to see wealth transfers in the trillions in support of AI? Do I want to back these juiced, super-entitled tech bros? Is this cushion hopper fit to run a data center the size of Manhattan? I mean, if this dude is the future of superintelligence, I got questions!

Why make a judicial decision when a political one will do?

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight fires its biggest blank yet.

We are all Jews now with our annual Day of Atonement.

A gentle man and a fabulous musician. When the Stax sound erupted in the mid-60s, soul music felt as raw and black as a midnight ramble on the Chitlin' Circuit. But Memphis soul was a creation of an integrated band. A night to play Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. www.npr.org/2025/12/03/g...

BESSENT: I know I come across as a bot, but I'm a prototype, okay?

Every 4-5 minutes, a new story breaks. The pace is dizzying. And nearly every story is rooted in a lie, or a lie in development. But, we are earnest and try to keep up, no matter how debilitating the exercise.

Pithy www.youtube.com/shorts/UhYxJ...

In 1968, in Budapest, young Hungarian men told me how grateful they were for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. Their wish list was simple. They wanted more American jeans and more rock 'n roll.

Brings this song to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qycl...

Megyn Kelly--net worth: approximately $60 million--believes our purported Venezuelan enemies should suffer slow, agonizing deaths at sea.

Reality check: Van Epps margin of victory was 9%. The swing in favor of Democrats--Trump won the district by 22 points in 2024--was 13 points, not 15. Van Epps won 13 of 14 counties. Credit Aftyn Behn with a hard-fought Pyrrhric victory. Democrats still must learn how to win rural voters.

22 states, all led by Democratic governors, face USDA cuts. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/02/r...

Mama raccoon pitched a subscription to The Atlantic, but junior boy just watched MSNBC incessantly until he snapped. apnews.com/article/drun...

Indiana contributed approximately 210,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines to the Union during the Civil War. Indiana's war-related deaths reached 25,028 (7,243 from battle and 17,785 from disease). It would be a shame if their sacrifices were sullied by this plot against democracy.

"NPR's Tom Bowman spoke yesterday with a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This official disputed the White House's account, stating that Hegseth issued the command for 'two strikes to kill' and two additional strikes to 'sink the boat.'" www.npr.org/2025/12/02/g...

AI datacenters require massive amounts of electricity and water. A small AI datacenter can consume more electricity than 80,000 homes. A large one, like the one Meta is building in Louisiana, is the size of Manhattan and will use as much electricity as 1.2m homes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fighting the good fights.

He makes us accessories to the crimes of his lieutenants and his minions.

Some added context.

Michael Dell's $73M resort property at Kukio, Kohala Coat, Hawaii. He had separate hallways erected at his property so he does not have to see the Filipino house servants who cater to his every need. He's a monster.

A useful backgrounder for our times. The Law of Armed Conflict | Cambridge University Press assets.cambridge.org/97805218/708...

It's as if these bozos skipped their Søren Kierkegaard reading assignment.

Mafia

Donald Trump has screwed the F-35 pooch bigly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Tv...

Pete Hegseth lets his adolescent freak flag fly. God help us.

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I say bad journalism is having the same liars on TV over and over and expecting to learn the truth.

Life is so much easier when you posit and act unilaterally. And then the bilateral reality of life slaps you around.

Noem: "While we haven't ascertained the shooter's motive, we are certain that all responsibility for this tragedy belongs to Joe Biden, along with all the problems under the sun, which, as you know, were ignored and kicked on down the road by Joe Biden." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_j...

The opening psyops salvo of regime change.

Just Security experts analyze the legality of the strikes against purported narcotics traffickers under domestic and international law, the ways in which suspected trafficking at sea is normally addressed, and how these strikes deviate from past practice. www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

We've arrived at the "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" stage of administration gaslighting.

In the winter of 1848-49, American sailors aboard the frigate SS Independence introduced measles to the Hawaiian Islands. A grisly pandemic of measles, whooping cough and dysentery ensued, claiming 10,000-15,000 lives. I compiled this history a few years ago. It remains germane. (A THREAD, 1/6.)

Kristi Nolem and Senator Mark Kelly on Meet the Press tomorrow morning. That is all.

Get it together, people. This is the kind of thing that drives people to read The Free Press and watch Bari Weiss interviews with Megyn Kelly.

There are hideaways and there are hideaways. www.youtube.com/shorts/T0_rJ...

Siri, is there some visual way of understanding why Americans cannot afford health care? www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9NR...

Find the Republican

"... orders to 'kill everybody,' which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give 'no quarter,' and to 'double-tap' a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes."

Some real highlights here. Can't wait!

Because there's just not enough cognitive dissonance in this world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Point of information.

Exactly when did the U.S. obtain the right to exercise eminent domain over foreign countries?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom, the enforcer has arrived.

Connecting the dots.

Stevo, me boy! We hardly knew ye.

There must be some way to turn around these dismal polls. Oh, I know!