Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So

As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.

I can't put into the words the visceral hatred I feel towards the administration in the US. The pain their behaviour is causing to Ukrainians is unforgivable.

Ukrainians have russians terrorising them with missiles & drones. Now the US is terrorising them with russian demands for capitulation.

South Carolina Tried to Pass a Bill Jailing Women for Abortion. No Republican Voted Against It. South Carolina legislators debated what would be the most stringent abortion law in the nation.

Mary Ziegler points out that no Republicans voted against the failed South Carolina bill that would have jailed women for up to 30 years for abortion. But the point of such bills is that they incrementally mainstream the most extreme anti-abortion positions.

When Trump admin officials get asked why a certain sector of the economy is so bad, 90% of the time their answers begin with “we inherited.” Did everyone forget what Biden inherited in Jan 2021? Or what Obama inherited in Jan 2009? When are Republicans ever responsible?

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

🔥🔥🔥 A 3 alarm fire for House Republicans following Marjorie Taylor Greene’s announced resignation, courtesy of @punchbowlnews.bsky.social:

He’s always thinking about new ways to improve the lives of average Americans.

@adamzyglis.bsky.social
Kleptocracy

Americans are feeling the pain of the affordability crisis: ‘There’s not any wiggle room’ The costs of groceries, housing, childcare, education and healthcare have become intolerable to many

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Hey, look America, I just pulled 'Many legal scholars' out of my butt."

Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”

This from @paulsperry.bsky.social is a bald-faced lie and contains no element of truth. I never received a “leak” of “highly sensitive details about an active investigation” from @jamescomey.bsky.social—in a October 2016 or at any other time, on Google or on any other platform. He links to nothing

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

In North Carolina, the Border Patrol’s Presence Divides a Swing State

"Many residents have yelled profanities at them, and honked their horns at agents when their unmarked vehicles are spotted..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you

CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.

Sunday thought The rot at the top

Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-732

I am really losing patience with Americans who treat their elected officials like celebrities they have to defend, instead of representatives they have to hold responsible. Grow the fuck up. Millions of lives are at stake.

Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage.
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.

financialpost.com/pmn/business...

The America First people in charge of the US government don’t seem very America First to me.

"In my military training, I was taught that I should obey and enact all *lawful* orders... I was also taught that, if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, that my responsibility was to the law and the Constitution." – PETE BUTTIGIEG

Apparently, Stephen Miller cosplayed a “many great legal scholars” last night.

We really can’t get enough of these

392,000 followers on X.

Genius

She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Coffee cake. Four loaves on a wooden cutting board

A Baptist lady named Ada ran a convalesce out of the house next to my grandparents, taking in poor, sick people who went to her church. She also helped raise my mom and her 15 siblings. Her recipes are always made to have some to give away. This is an ancient, very humble coffee cake.