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President Stubb has published an article in The Foreign Affairs

I think it's a fundamental overview of the current situation and the challenges we are facing today. I highly recommend reading the article itself (it's behind a paywall but I think you can enter your email and read it for free)⤵️

Chapter 3: Russia Lays the Groundwork The Oligarchs, Spies, and Clerics Behind Russia's Global Far-Right Operation

The latest chapter of my series on Russia and the global far right...

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber - emptywheel The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. It tells us nothing about who Cole is.

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

The OSCE was established to keep war away from Europe.

Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles.

The EU will stay the course.
Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance.

My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓

US Congress has the power to help Ukraine. It’s time to use it About the author: Gregory P. Wilson is a consultant, author, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Oct. 24 is not a memorable date, but it was an important mom...

US Congress has the power to help Ukraine. It’s time to use it

With yet another controversial pardon, Trump derails his own DOJ’s corruption case There’s a fine line between a president using pardons to abide corruption and using them to encourage corruption.

As Trump pardons a real estate developer who’d been charged with corruption by his own Justice Department, an unsettling fact appears obvious:

Trump made a right-turn at *abiding* corruption and is now, though his pardon abuses, effectively *encouraging* corruption. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors but still launched a follow-on strike, AP sources say The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.

NEW: Pete Kegseth's "Fog of war, we didn't see them" line is a load of BS. The Pentagon knew there were survivors and murdered them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump's son-in-law almost certainly just broke the law: analyst President Donald Trump's son-in-law likely broke the law this week, one analyst wrote Wednesday.Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow on Tuesday to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over a potential peace deal with Ukraine. The U.S. delegation co...

President Donald Trump's son-in-law likely broke the law this week, one analyst wrote Wednesday.

David Roberts says he missed how destructive this administration would be. But studying Jan 6 taught what would happen. The Capitol attack was organized: the intent was treason. Failing to prosecute those who did it would embolden them: they would see how weak institutions were, and try again. 1/

U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test

Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."

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“Get insurance companies out of it. We don’t need a middle man. They’re like the mob, taking their cut off the top.”

@RepTimBurchett unwittingly makes the case for MEDICARE FOR ALL as Republicans flail for a way to deal with skyrocketing health care costs.

(H/T @PabloReports)

Imagine if Senate and House Dems made a criminal referral to DOJ over Kushner’s corrupt involvement in these negotiations.

Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.

You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.

It says it right in the Constitution.

I cannot understand why more prominent Dems aren't speaking out against the Trump-Witkoff-Kushner attempt to vaporize the Western alliance that has kept us safe for more than 75 years....

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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

🇳🇿🇺🇦 New Zealand to allocate $15 million for PURL program for Ukraine

They explained their decision by saying that Ukraine's defense has "significant implications not only for the security of Europe, but also for the Indo-Pacific region."

"Is it safe?"

ALERT: At US House Homeland Security Committee about violence against law enforcement, Democrats have put the January 6th plaque on a stand behind the Democratic members of panel

(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)

If only!

Watchdog finds Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing of sensitive war plans on Signal, sources say | CNN Politics Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to s...

"Hegseth refused to sit for an interview with the inspector general and submitted his version of events in writing, sources told CNN."

www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

Robert Reich Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme

This week Trump pardoned a private equity fraudster, the drug-trafficking ex-president of Honduras, and a Congressman who allegedly took bribes.

Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies.

An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0

Hi. If you are a Democrat taking anything else out of tonight’s results in TN other than it’s a big hopeful sign and we should all be working our asses off to recruit in all of the House seats we can then I have no time for you. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Assuming Trump / Hegseth got it right and the people on the boats are drug dealers, that does not make them soldier-combatants. You can arrest and prosecute criminals like drug dealers, but you cannot kill them with no trial.

Either way, the second killing was murder or a war crime.

RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden Employees received a survey Monday asking them to rat on each other.

“There is a difference between being surrounded by a religion & having it foisted upon you. The efforts of the Trump administration are the latter, creating uncomfortable & unsafe working conditions for federal employees who either practice a religion that is not Christianity—or no religion at all.”

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Whether it's Donald Trump murdering the survivors aboard a sinking boat or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents engaged in some truly norm-busting behavior.