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David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved.

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.

Corruption on display.

Guess who was awake until 2:45am shitposting again?

Q: "The Pentagon's Law of War manual…says 'Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.' Given that, how was that follow up strike on the two survivors legal?"

Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."

Tom Cotton is moments away from saying, “I watched the video I won’t let any of you ever see, and the guy with no shirt on—YUM!—was clearly using ESP to signal to passing birds to fly to the lair of the narco-terrorist warlords to tell them how to kill more Americans. That's just a fact.”

Cartoon by John Darkow.

Turning public companies into private companies: the SEC’s retreat from transparency and accountability | Fortune If we want public markets worthy of the 21st century, we need more sunlight, not less.

Trump's SEC is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, targeting ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) at publicly traded corporations.

"De-politicization is a euphemism for de-democratization."

fortune.com/2025/12/05/a...

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

Consumer Sentiment Improves Slightly in December Monthly index of consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan rose slightly versus November, but remained much lower than where it began the year.

(WSJ) Consumer Sentiment improved slightly in the last month, but it is still substantially low.

www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

PLEASE read this one. Kinda required reading. If you agree, which I hope you do, print in color and magnetically attach to your refrigerator. It is marvelous and very clear to all who visit: this is what we stand for. PERIOD.

Costco Sues Trump, MAGA Chuds Cancel Memberships They Forgot To Cancel Over DEI Well ... Bye.

Sure I shop there, but mostly Costco makes me think of that FX situation tragicomedy, "Baskets."

Costco Sues Trump, MAGA Chuds Cancel Memberships They Forgot To Cancel Over DEI
www.wonkette.com/p/costco-sue...

📌So MAGA is protesting against Costco, because Costco is standing against Trump's absurd, costly tariffs, so they can hold prices down that would benefit MAGA.

It's a cult.

New York Times sues the Pentagon over press access restrictions The US publication has filed a lawsuit over a new policy requiring journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information not authorised for release by the Pentagon.

Spines

Costco started a trend …

Now New York Times sues the Pentagon over press access restrictions

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

MAGA folks are boycotting Costco and I’m just standing there like, YES. Please. Take your cart full of hate and go complain about free samples somewhere else. I’d like to shop in peace without hearing about your “freedom steaks,” thanks. Bye now 🤣🤣
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

Cotton confirms that the US killed two shipwrecked sailors in a second strike. No fog of war. No ambiguity.

Credit to Rand Paul. He hated extrajudicial drone strike killings under Obama and he HATES them under Trump where Congress has given no authorization.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

The public never wanted this to start. The people in position to stop it have apparently already seen it. Beat Cotton into submission and start calling for impeachment

I would love to see Cotton go down with the rest of them. The man is pure evil.

It's interesting how Cotton et al are all-in on the "these were legal murders" take when it seems pretty clear the videos will become public at some point, like they know unconditional support has upside while murder/war crime apologia probably has very little consequence

Conway: This is a criminal government. Unless you are willing to say that, you’re basically fighting on their terms. They get to lie, and they win that battle because people say, “We shouldn’t use that kind of language.”

But you get to use that language when it’s fucking true.

Hayes: I'll level with you here. I too am a great believer in naps. I do try to avoid them while I'm on air with you. It goes without saying that the 79 year old president is no Thomas Edison

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland

When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

No airborne muffulettas? New Orleans don’t let a girl down!

Today is the last day of this Israel jerk off fest in New Orleans. It's being run by Israeli military and civilian propaganda dweebs.

🔊 ‘She's feeling a lot of fear in the moment. They came to the US from Mexico 20 years ago but haven't been able to find a path to legal status.’ Listen to Reuters World News for one mother’s anguish over Trump’s immigration crackdown in New Orleans reut.rs/4aBb8OC

Trump launches immigration crackdown in New Orleans New Orleans, with a population of around 384,000, would be the latest city with a Democratic mayor targeted in Trump's mass deportation push.

(Reuters) Update on the latest Democratic US City to be invaded by Trump's armed forces, this time New Orleans, and the force is made up of Border Patrol members.
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