the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

What a bunch of shady creepers.

A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—

One issue is the constitution being written by educated men, imagined that future citizens and leaders would be as educated as them or more, and that therefore their future was always going to be one that respected unwritten but agreed upon centuries of English legal tradition

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.

Sadly relevant today.

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"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."

Per the Daily Beast. Sounds as if Bondi talks freely about the Epstein issue at a social function.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire? Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

Happy Thanksgiving fam

As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...

The New Colossus “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

For scholars, even if you don’t want to take sides politically, if you want academic research to continue at any scale remotely like the present, there is only one party that will allow that

Just a reminder: The night Epstein "committed suicide". -He was on suicide watch. -The guards "fell asleep" and failed to complete more than 75 mandatory checks on him. -The cameras monitoring him "stopped working" -Prosecuting the guards was "deferred" www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1...

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...

Trump economics and Republican Party governance.

The United Nations General Assembly just voted to condemn torture. The United States was one of only three countries that voted against it. (The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Via @dropsitenews.com youtube.com/shorts/cbh2V...

This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.

@shawnforcongress.bsky.social is the Democrat running for that district. Show some love please

If #XKCD 2347 was made today … (via social.linux.pizza/@latenightow...)

NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.

If a reasonable person would know the order is illegal, you MUST refuse. Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is. Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order. Not just the right. The DUTY.

Immigration accountability advocates today unveiled a sweeping new online “Wiki” built on the ICE List project, promising a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind U.S. immigration enforcement.

Pence rebukes Trump for his comments on Khashoggi's murder: "I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."

Terrific

This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

👀 New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart. www.earth.com/news/new-str...

Fam, not to worry… You too can decorate your home like the White House, and it’s just a click away.

I love Jasmine for this … 😆 😏

We stand with survivors everywhere. Release the files, and jail the PDFs, including the ones in the White House. #EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement

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Good morning beautiful people and a very happy, peaceful, hopeful weekend to you