youtu.be/61I4hlig78w First time I’ve heard him. Has me grinning.

The president is unwell. I think the DSM-5 classifies his condition as "batshit crazy". www.alternet.org/trump-truth-...

"51% of Likely U.S. Voters ages 18 to 39 would like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election. "A new ... survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center of the Heartland Institute finds..." www.rasmussenreports.com/public_conte...

"The success of the latest firings has prompted Whitehall to sign a $415 million contract with defense firm MBDA UK to continue developing the weapon – and install it on a Type 45 destroyer within two years." maritime-executive.com/editorials/s...

"first vessel, an empty tanker named Kairos en route to Russia’s Novorossiysk port, reported an external impact causing a fire approximately 28 nautical miles offshore." "second tanker, the Virat, reported being hit approximately 35 nautical miles offshore" gcaptain.com/flagless-tan...

"The Russian vessel, the Seahorse, was en route to Venezuela to deliver [naptha] on Nov. 13 when a US destroyer, the USS Stockdale, positioned itself in its path." The Seahorse is under UK & EU sanctions- not the motive. Trump halted Chevron's of naptha to Venezuela. gcaptain.com/russian-tank...

New video: "Trump Doesn't Realize What He Did" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfQQLgcsazE

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Lord, take me before my brain withers, and I become a static, blithering idiot. Amen. Voigt: “... as this mayor, Mamdani, will try to destroy New York’s wealth and turn it into a socialist crap city,” deadline.com/2025/11/jon-...

I don't think any rational person would drive a fastboat in the southern Caribbean right now. We're now at 20 strikes killing 80 people. Driving a fastboat with drugs is suicide right now. Perhaps the captains are too confident that only drug boats are targeted? news.usni.org/2025/11/14/u...

"Novorossiysk temporarily suspended oil exports – equivalent to 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of global supply – on Friday... "the Ukrainian attack hit two oil berths at Sheskharis... "sources said the Sierra Leone-flagged Arlan oil tanker was also hit... gcaptain.com/ukraine-hits...

Move the minute hand on the WW3 Countdown clock! The world continues to stumble ahead towards global conflict. news.usni.org/2025/11/07/c...

US is finding a strategy to counter Chinese efforts to supplant American influence in the Pacific. For years, Chinese disinformation has not been directly addressed, and China has been able to buy certain governments in the Pacific. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

Tragedy in SE Asia! From Reuters via gCaptain: 300 missing. "A boat carrying members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar has sunk near the Thai-Malaysian border, with hundreds missing, seven dead and 13 rescued, the Malaysian maritime agency said on Sunday." gcaptain.com/boat-with-mi...

This year, under the Trump tariffs, China makes a "pity purchase" of 120,000 metric tons of American wheat. Last year, 2024, China purchased 1.9 million tons from the United States. So much "winning". gcaptain.com/china-resume...

Double-breasted suits are officially creepy now. I imaginine that he likely wears this while entertaining his Proud Boys ... without pants. I don't see any pants. Shirt tail, bony knee caps, sock garters, black socks. I will die having worn exactly one double-breasted suit. It was tan.

Dick Cheney is dead. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

Happy Sunday 🌞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🚨 Your occasional pre-budget reminder that if a govt chooses not to tax the super-rich, it is (by definition) choosing to tax those with far less wealth and income instead. If there is no #WealthTax in the budget, Labour will prove that it really is only the little people who pay taxes. #TaxTheRich

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard. There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people" portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.

And then, white Jesus said, "If your neighbor is hungry, starve him to death to accrue political power." - The MAGA Bible

Democracy in the US is being destroyed - and it's not even subtle. New column on how Donald Trump is put the Hungarian playbook into practise 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before. What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.

The casting of... Kasia Smutniak as Mary... is sparking controversy from far-right Catholic groups in her native country, where Smutniak is known as a pro-abortion activist." Anti-abortion Christians should read Numbers 5. God says when to administer an abortafacient. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

The administration is starting a war. "The official narrative is a fabrication. The existence of a Venezuelan government-run “Cartel de los Soles”, let alone its control of the transnational cocaine trade from Venezuela, has been largely debunked." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Donald Trump arrives to a red carpet in Malaysia, and he appears to have a flashback to his "good times" with Jeffrey Epstein. At 16m 32s, he locks onto a young woman, and he starts dancing (wtf?!). www.youtube.com/live/bWZWiw7...

"The agency pointed to persistently high federal deficits and rising interest payments as key drivers behind the growing public debt-to-GDP ratio ... 'The extension of previous tax cuts and the high share of mandatory spending constrain budgetary flexibility ...'" www.reuters.com/business/sco...

The pain to your wallet is an American thing, not a global thing. "While U.S. container volume declines, worldwide container volume set records for two consecutive months through August.Container exports from the Far East in August were up 4.6% year-over-year..." gcaptain.com/u-s-containe...

gcaptain.com/pentagon-sen... "The strike group deployment includes the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), USS Mahan (DDG 72), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), and USS Bainbridge (DDG 96)..." "The strikes have expanded beyond the Caribbean, two lethal strikes in the Eastern Pacific, ..."

When the wealthy purchase the government, the government becomes a wealth extraction device. Why is this not called “class warfare”?

OR THIS 👇

"When [Texas] sends their people, ..." "The Texas National Guard sent home some of the 200 troops who were sent with 24 hours’ notice to a federal mission in Illinois after they were found to be out of compliance with certain standards..." www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Great piece from @owenjones.bsky.social . "The price paid by Palestinians is beyond our imagination. But what price will we pay? The west has dehumanised itself, just as a far-right movement that sees Muslims and the left as enemies within is on the rise." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

"'To hold different opinions and to be aware that other people think differently on the same issue shields us from that Godlike certainty which stops all discussion and reduces social relationships to those of an ant heap.'" (Arendt) Excellent read. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe the Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

Still tied to Amazon? This excellent article explains how Amazon uses its monopoly power to exploit its customers and vendors. Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s odd Vance is trolling on gratitude because I’ve noted before his complete lack of gratitude to anyone who helps him. Extended family takes him in… he writes book about what losers they are. Mentored at Yale? Take it down. Ohio makes him senator? Suckers

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Vessel believed to be acting as the drone carrier for recent incursions into Denmark has been seized by France. "The tanker has had nine ISM managers, four registered owners, and three commercial controllers in 16 months." maritime-executive.com/article/fran...