Peter Liepmann

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.

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot (Published 2019) Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.

To use district heating effectively, cities have to be dense, not single family homes like most US cities!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS

Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”

The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.

They are lying to us.

Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.

Someone asked me a good question on here. How do we stop ICE from violating our constitutional rights. We don't. Our local elected officials do that job. Our Governor, or Sheriffs our mayors, Police. They stop ICE. With force if necessary. That's how you stop ICE from pulling us out of our homes.

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

Just.
Tax.
Billionaires.

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

Happy Thanksgiving

If we don't privatise everything that the people own and award contracts to the company that donates the most to a political party then where do we expect politicians to make money from when their terms end

Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests

Right.

I see.

And they said disease control was expensive.

How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

These forced-birth videos, their amplification, and their timing follow a tested strategy designed to attack third-trimester abortion to soften the ground for harmful abortion restrictions. Forced-birth groups aren't subtle, and they aren't original. If Canadians don't recognize what's happening, they will sleepwalk into the same nightmare the United States is living. The antidote is vigilance and unapologetic clarity. Abortion is health care, and it is a human right. Pay attention, don't spread forced-birth propaganda, and speak up, which includes defending third-trimester abortions. And in Alberta, that also means working on recalling UCP MLAs (14 are now facing recall petitions). This is the moment to bolt the door before it has a chance to crack open.

Thank you @drjengunter.bsky.social

This is oddly not discussed in the media and it should be. It’s dangerous.

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

Whomst could have predicted that bosses would rather listen to an ELIZA-bot that repeats their thoughts back to them over the employees they've been trying to get rid of for decades w/o losing any revenue?!

the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities

WOW! Yeah, I think We The People agree on a lot more than we typically do!

It's incredible how a common enemy can unite disparate camps, even just for a while.

Because insurance companies bribe elected officials.

Duh.

...
"And hospitals and clinics deploy an army of clerks and managers (costing billions) to maximize billings and fight with insurers. Overall, nearly one-third of the dollars Americans spend on health care goes for administration, twice as much as in Canada."
...

Ukrainian forces released videos of the operation against the two oilers Kairo and Virat in the Black Sea which tried to reach the Russian coast.

The message is clear:

If you are a shipowner trying to get Russian oil, expect that you will lose your whole ship.

• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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They deport legal residents, cage without warrants, kill innocent (until proven guilty) people in boats. This is a regime of thugs. When we take power, I want indictments, not handshakes!! Garland thought restraint would earn respect. All it earned was time for trump to build an army & a throne.

In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .

If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

A Dishonorable Strike Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder

“A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder” By Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith (a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & former head of the Office of Legal Counsel) 1/