Chris Hayes

This perfectly encapsulates Mike Johnson's role

schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment

Donald Trump’s tariffs are not reducing the trade deficit [FREE TO READ] Both exports and imports have fallen, and US manufacturers are hurting

Today's Trade Secrets newsletter. One of Donald Trump's (multiple, contradictory) aims in imposing tariffs was to close the trade deficit. Is it happening? No. But is it likely to happen? Also no.

Yes particularly funny when the team is down by a lot.

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.

Tweet from Pete Hegseth saying, “For your Christmas wish list…” followed by an illustrated parody book cover designed to look like a children’s “Franklin the Turtle” story. The title reads, “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.” In the illustration, Franklin the Turtle is dressed in full military combat gear, holding a rifle, and leaning out of a camouflaged helicopter while firing at speedboats below. The boats, packed with crates, are crewed by men with weapons; one boat is exploding from gunfire. A tropical jungle shoreline is visible in the background. The tweet tags “U.S. Southern Command.”

A new post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just a couple hours after President Trump said he wouldn’t have wanted a second strike on alleged narco boats and that Hegseth said he didn’t order second strikes.

It dovetailed with the freakout over the unlawful orders video, but also it is just qualitatively worse. It's absolutely a crime under all circumstances, even against a real enemy in a real war. And that has deep historical roots as *the* most notorious clear-cut war crime you can commit at sea.

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Here's a few I read that enriched my year and the Family Inequality perspective:
Paper Girl, by @bethmacy.bsky.social
Keeping it Together, by @jessicacalarco.com
The Siren's Call, by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Capitalism and Its Critics, by @johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Not all published in 2025)

11:19 14 in shot, i the Post's facts are correct it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the "two men were blown apart in the water," as the Post put it. It is unclear from the Post's Seporting precisely what role Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

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I mean how can you not love this dude

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Who wrote this?

YouTube video by MS NOW Here is Trump's NEW 'political nightmare'

Something I needed reminding of after listening to this episode of #withpod (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) is that the "subsidies" much argued about are roughly equivalent to the MASSIVE tax benefit employers get for paying for part of health insurance costs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSV...

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing

Trump personally rebooting the Rush Hour franchise was by far my favorite story of the day.

when the tryptophan hits

Love a good normiecore Sanders post.

no actually it's not! if you're feeding it sources and using it to navigate those sources with credit then it quite definitionally is not a "plagiarism machine"

Anna Bower & @AnnaBower X.com Hey @EdMartinDOJ @EagleEdMartin, You shared a highly dubious report accusing Shauni Kerkhoff of being the J6 pipebomber. Will you now share this credible report that she's factually innocent and that the FBI ruled her out as a suspect?

Hey Ed

One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.

Everyone should read this story.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Because you're controlling the sources, it allows quality control/gate keeping on the front end that reduces hallucination concerns and crazy errors.

Just starting to play around with Notebook LM for my next project and...wow. Feels like a totally game-changing way to manage sources and research.

solar is about to pass natural gas for power generation in California. good stuff www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

It’s brutal!