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'Successful' Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian sea drones disabled two of the "shadow fleet" tankers carrying Russian oil. No doubt the start of a campaign
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who knew the devil wears hair extensions, got filler, lasix, botox etc. why is this completely unqualified woman in any position of leadership?

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Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.

(next to an images of striking Starbucks employees) NO CONTRACT NO COFFEE BREW CHANGE NoContractNoCoffee.org (No Kings logo)

Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge

so tragic

HP to Lay Off Thousands of Employees in AI Push HP is letting go of between 4,000 and 6,000 roles by 2028 — and looking to AI to make up the shortfall.

HP to Lay Off Thousands of Employees in AI Push share.google/ueFAz6EOIYYl...

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

"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

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

always grateful for our farmworkers who keep the land

Trump and his Administration are targeting me because I said something they didn’t like — but here’s the thing: I won’t be intimidated into silence. I’ve overcome challenges a lot tougher than Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth.

Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the SPEED Act, a “permitting reform” bill that hobbles the National Environmental Policy Act & will make it far easier for DOI to justify these lease sales & kneecap Californians’ ability to seek redress in federal court.

Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann) Trump claimed today that I was pals with Epstein. Totally false. Never met, knew, communicated with him. Ever. But if Trump wants to prove his allegation about me and others he has the power NOW to...

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Every day Trump is bolder displaying his misogyny. It's easy to imagine him mistreating young girls and women. He's not even civil.

New york 80/early 90s DLS ruled.

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

“Sánchez’s youngest son, a third grader, could not accept for days that his father was gone. He kept asking adults if his father could have survived the explosion, noting he might still be at sea.” apnews.com/article/trum...

occupydemocrats

BEYOND deplorable! ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen in the BACK simply because he dared to warn them about CHILDREN nearby at a bus stop. Instead of showing basic human decency, they PULLED GUNS on him — so he tried to leave, and they SHOT HIM.

All because he wanted to protect.

York Students Held At Gunpoint In Lombard: Elmhurst Official The gun-wielding men were believed to be federal agents, an alderman said.

Students held at gunpoint by Trump's masked thugs at York High School in Elmhurst, IL, right outside Chicago.

An unidentified car blocked the students in the parking lot

Pulled them out of their car at gunpoint

It was one month & local Patch the only one reporting it

Should be a national story

A daycare. Every day in Chicago. The state is not stopping this. Pritzker’s and Johnson’s cops have ONLY been protecting these assaults so there is so far nothing that is stopping them besides unarmed residents screaming. How many children are technically orphans now @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

Fact check: Trump has spent far more time at golf clubs than Obama had at same point | CNN Politics Criticized for golfing twice on a Memorial Day weekend during which the US coronavirus death toll approached 100,000, President Donald Trump responded Sunday and Monday by drawing attention, again, to...

Tapper doesn’t even have to look outside his own company’s website to fact check this shit. So why wouldn’t you do that??? 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.

Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975–83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown

If you lower the standards, degrade the organizational culture so anything goes, you attract people drawn to that environment; people who cannot make it in other work environments. These are not the people who want excercising state power over your liberty. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I was told that Biden would create a police state… 🤔

There’s a special place in hell for anyone who can watch this and feel joy.

And for the ones just standing there doing nothing, you’re not much better…

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

YouTube video by Lawfare Scaling Laws: Sen. Scott Wiener on California Senate Bill 53

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The Venezuela Boat Strikes and the Justice Department’s Golden Shield How the Office of Legal Counsel Helps the White House in its Summary Killings

One overarching takeaway from this piece by Jack Goldsmith is that members of Congress and 2028 aspirants need think creatively about accountability for the lawless killings in the Caribbean.

Likely significant hurdles to domestic criminal prosecution.

www.execfunctions.org/p/the-venezu...

Holy shit. Midnight massacre at ICE.