Lisi Misera

Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.

Nobody came to them, before they attacked Ukraine.

Until Trump became President the USA had never legally supported reducing the size of a democracy in favor of a dictatorship. That era is now over--and what it means for the future is ominous.

One thing that is not getting enough attention is that Trump has normalized the idea of the United States supporting the transfer of territory and millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship.
The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.

Europe offers G8 return to Russia for Ukraine peace deal Ukraine did not react positively to the peace deal brokered through the U.S., prompting European leaders to craft a counter-offer.

If this is true, European states are inviting their own failures and embracing the end of what brought peace to Europe for 80 years. Welcoming Putin back into the G8, where he can team up with Trump to humiliate Europe invites disaster. www.newsweek.com/europe-russi...

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon Following criticism, the president accused Ukraine of ingratitude but also added the plan was ‘not my final offer’. Which parts of it will survive?, says Rajan Menon of the City College of New York

Here Rajan Menon calls the Trump plan what it is, an abomination.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The sound you are hearing from the Trump administration is political panic. Because of all the corruption they cannot afford to lose the 2026 midterms, but they know in a free vote they are looking at defeat.
The implication of this is that they will try to thwart a free vote.

Trump wasn’t involved, couldn’t have known, isn’t at fault for the awful Ukraine plan negotiated by his envoy, VP, and son in law?

He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!

I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.

Ukraine should accept no limits on its sovereignty that have not been accepted by other European countries. If it’s forced to do that, it will be accepting second class citizenship in Europe and the principle that Russia can treat it as a state with inferior rights

Trump’s latest tweet. He is taking full responsibility for the “peace” plan. It’s not Witkoff’s, Vance’s or Kushner’s.
It’s Trump’s and it has always been Trump’s.

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What’s in my bag?

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors
from @cwarzel.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Ukraine is still hitting military targets and oil infrastructure, every day

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

the price of populism

Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot

At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

Thank you, @radiofreetom.bsky.social. It can be a bit confusing and complex for those note in the military, but there is a reason for the two different oaths.

Tom Friedman’s piece in the NYT today again brings up the specter of Neville Chamberlain in ‘39. I disagree.

A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) talks about the DOD threats against Senator Kelly.

@markhertling.bsky.social
@nicollewallace.bsky.social

A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.

My latest in rhe @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...

If your intent was accumulating wealth&power, your presidency within an oligarchy system guarantees you 100% success. You do whatever you please without any disturbing control.

@crow.house.gov says Trump is threatening him with arrest & even execution-for the "crime" of honoring his oath & standing with our troops. Crow warns that these threats expose exactly who this president is: a man who fears our democracy.

This set a precedent for all international criminal law that followed.

Also, the trials, the "just following orders" claims were rejected and personal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity was established.

I watched the movie Nuremberg recently.

The topic of responsibility for war crimes and aggression has been on our minds a lot, so the movie came right on time.

The Nuremberg trials were groundbreaking at the time: an international team judging citizens of another country⤵️

By unconfirmed reports, a Russian A-60 aircraft could have been hit last night.

An A-60 aircraft is a laser complex, created on the basis of the Il-76MD military transport aircraft and designed for experiments with aviation laser systems. There are only two of this kind.

Last night's Russian attack damaged residential buildings in #Kyiv, killing 6 people and injuring 12 more.

During the Russian attack this morning, more buildings damaged, there might be people under the debris - Kyiv mayor.

People of Kyiv improvised "ropes" out of blankets and sheets as they tried to escape from a burning apartment building hit by a Russian attack last night.