⚡️Pope Francis left funds in his will to buy ambulances for Ukraine, nun says. "He did tell me, in our meetings, that he would help me in some way, but I didn't imagine he would do it like this," Dominican nun Lucia Caram said.

Newsom’s comms team still going hard

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.

Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner on the Signalgate report: "Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets." He is calling for Hegseth to resign.

Don't know how many different ways I can say these are actual Nazis, minus the bureaucratic skill and esthetics

In attempting to call off his corruption trial, Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t incriminate himself, but he did something just as damning, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues:

"And if not, definitely, 2027. And we expect 2028 to be a killer year. 2029, perhaps a little dip. 2030—gangbusters, and just you wait until 2031. You can take that to the bank."

He needs to resign and if he doesn’t resign, Congress must impeach him.

"It’s difficult to conceive of a cohesive and robust Republican Party emerging out of the ruins being wrought by Trump. And considering the untold damage the party has done to the nation over the past 25 years, perhaps that's for the better."

❗️Russian Overestimation and NATO’s Potential 👀 ISW published forecast: the Russian army could hypothetically capture the entire Donetsk region by August 2027, but only if it maintains its current pace of gradual advancement. Read more ⤵️ theukrainianreview.info/russian-over...

A bad week has gotten even worse for Pete Hegseth. trib.al/re02r4i A new watchdog report from the Pentagon inspector general’s office has formally concluded that the secretary directly endangered U.S. troops when he used the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive plans in March.

Electricity prices are soaring while utilities rake in billions in profit. Here's three ideas to bring bills down: 1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day 2) Stop utility profiteering 3) Keep climate impacts off bills My latest in @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

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

Watch: Fun chat about the legality of the presidential seal on beer pong balls with Brittany Lewis, for @forbes.com

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.

If Europe gives back the Russian frozen assets, it'll be pretty ironic when Russia uses that money to rebuild its military and attack Europe. Can't get stupider than this. SEIZE THE ASSETS NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

How Trump’s Miami–Moscow backchannel has put democracy at risk, eroded our national security, betrayed Ukraine, and endangers all US allies. #EndImpunity #3E spookyconnections.com/2025/12/02/f...

One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.

A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA). Wall Street Journal: "A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike." www.wsj.com/politics/whi...

There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.

(📢) BREAKING NEWS: After Publishing Historic Racist Screed Against Minnesotan Somali-Americans, Trump Orders His Personal Army to Invade Minnesota and Ruthlessly Terrorize As Many Nonwhites As Possible

"But it isn’t just Trump. His second term has made clear that there was no shortage of people waiting to put his ugliest impulses into action not despite what they themselves believe, but because of it." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

1. This is not what fog of war means. 2. There is no war 3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over 4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.

oh come ON

"Sources in the Trump administration have previously told Zeteo that officials will at times intentionally use popular music from vocally anti-Trump performing artists, in order to trigger a negative response from a famous liberal and provide further amplification of their pervasive culture war,"

Kremlin: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Shoigu discussed cooperation between Russian and Chinese security services, as well as "current issues of international and regional security."

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in U.S. federal prison for playing a central role in what the Biden administration deemed to be “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.” On Tuesday, he walked free. trib.al/Sq4MSiL

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.

Imma need everyone who threw a fit over Hunter Biden to keep that same energy about Jared Kushner - who has no government role or oversight - sitting in on this meeting www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Did someone say something www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

A bit context: Ukraine is a free country with a functioning democracy, the anti-corruption agency targeting Zelenskyy and those around him is called NABU which at times acts as the unofficial spearhead for the FBI, recently their leadership got caught working for Russia and it was restructured.

The “corruption scandal” Ukraine story is being pushed by the United States to help Russia, the objective is to pressure Zelenskyy into surrendering; ultimately Trump and his criminals have negotiated lucrative land deals with Russia and want to grab Ukrainian territory too.

While women and women's groups are targeted & banned on Meta products almost immediately for disrespecting men and posting pictures of breast feeding, rape advertising & trafficking gets at least 17 strikes before Meta takes any action. #opdeatheaters www.theverge.com/news/827658/...

The man with the nuclear codes

Oh and I don't suppose the fact that Hernandez employed MS-13 to move drugs, and the fact that Trump dropped charges against MS-13 leaders to send them back to Bukele in El Salvador who had secretly worked with them is also a total coincidence. I'm sure it's nothing.

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

Her poor kids.

I wonder if knowledge of the double tap prompted the six members of congress to make that ad, and that's what made Trump and Hegseth so angry about it.

What sort of parallel universe are we living in in which extremely powerful people are worried about a wholly transparent ploy? If the Trump administration tries to scapegoat an innocent man, how about we just fucking ignore what they say and go after the real perpetrator? What's this vacillation?

Shopify is maybe the most obnoxious interface I've ever used. Good thing it's everywhere!...

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

This is a must read. The most in depth understanding of how corrupt our foreign policy has become. Trump and Witkoff (Rubio totally sidelined) are proposing to sell out Ukraine in exchange for Russian deals for their billionaire crowd. Not about peace. Just about profit.

Jeffries on the WH's explanation of Hegseth's reported double tap strike: "The White House is lying, but that's no surprise, because they lie for a living and the American people know it."

Putin wants peace, huh?

FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...