Mrs. Peabody is tethered to the facts 📎

Here’s the part of the report i believe:

“The officer reported hearing the men talk about ICE agents “kidnapping individuals” and said the conversation led him to believe the brothers “needed to do something about it.””

You?

Federal prosecutors, huh?
Let’s see how this goes - indictment? presidential medal? dinner at MAL?

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Trump picks new CFPB director amid efforts to close agency The nomination of Stuart Levenbach was a "technical" maneuver intended to extend White House budget director Russ Vought's oversight of the agency.

Russ Vought is openly admitting this nomination is a front so he can stay on at the CFPB while he tries to shut it down.

Instead of lowering costs for Americans, Trump and Vought want to make it easier for giant corporations to scam families out of their money.

Russian attack kills 25 in Ukraine's Ternopil as Zelenskyy arrives in Turkey for Erdogan talks The attack hit two apartment blocks, injuring at least 73 people. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted most of the 476 drones and 48 missiles fired overnight.

A large Russian drone and missile barrage on Ukraine’s western city of Ternopil killed at least 25 people, including three children, authorities said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Turkey in search of diplomatic support for his fight against Russia’s invasion.https://to.pbs.org/4o0QZof

Who Attended Trump’s Dinner for the Saudi Crown Prince?

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
F Scott Fitzgerald

The oligarchs assemble 👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Trump Berates One Reporter and Tells Another,‘Quiet Piggy’

“You ought to go back and learn how to be a reporter,” the president said. “No more questions from you.”

No more soup for you!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

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A win is a win.🤷‍♂️

Good morning, folks. Girding loins begins right now ...

Trump meets with Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salam No doubt Trump shares the prince’s feelings towards journalists who criticize him

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Soulless mates 🔪

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind.

The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

Some pig

Charlotte, are you okay?

These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two The search for a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all

"Knowing where these whales live can help mitigate the potential harm of sonar by avoiding military training in important beaked whale habitats."

I'm old enough to remember when that still mattered. Sigh.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wait … have you hacked into my texts? 😏

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article) Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

"I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. I think Americans should be enraged. We all deserve better than this."

Read about the chaos.
Hold onto your rage🔥
(And try not to get tear stains on your keyboard)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Black text on a white background. The text is as follows: The Myth of Neutrality In his book, "Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" Lundy Bancroft says, "to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal .. Anyone who chooses to quietly look the other way therefore unwittingly becomes the abuser's ally."

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel (Holocaust Survivor)

IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR. - DESMOND TUTU-

Multicoloured ducks (possibly geese?) stand atop a sign that reads: “YOUR SILENCE IS JUST AS LOUD AS THEIR HATRED.”

Some of my favourite blurbs on the subject of neutrality. Generally speaking, believing you’re being neutral when one side is clearly being hurt.. you aren’t. There is no neutral. You’re essentially just telling the bad side to carry on.

We must always clearly side with those who need us.

You’ll never hear her renounce white christian nationalism because that’s who she is to her core.

She’s a canny politician crafting a new image intended to please bubba and his wife.

But if she’s helping to take down the 🍊 💩 , it’s a good thing.

This would be funny if the consequences of his moral failure weren’t so tragic.

But you just go ahead and roll with the punches, doc. Sometimes medical science wins, sometimes the quacks and conspiracy cabal carry the day.

Life goes on … for us at the top of the food chain

"... They may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."

From 'The Grift Bubble' by Timothy Snyder

"The republic can break, but it need not. Those who work against the grifters, who reinforce the reality beyond the bubble, are doing right. They are not only holding back authoritarianism, but giving the republic a chance..."

The Grift Bubble A Political Theory of American Collapse

This👇

"Because they are inside a grift bubble," writes Snyder," [Trump and Vance] push for authoritarianism in their own interest, without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country. For them, America is a limitless passive resource."

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“For the reporters covering this president, it has, in a word, been impossible to pull a cogent quote from him. “I have to pull partial quotes and try to make sense of the rest,” one reporter told me.

We should quit trying and instead give it to the American public raw.” 🎯

Raw. Demented. Unfit.

Poland changed course on the strength of a 74 percent turnout among voters

The most important defense is an engaged electorate

THE COMING ELECTION MAYHEM —
AND THE WAY OUT!

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Epstein's gonna be in so much trouble when Caligula gets wind of this.

Oh, wait ...

(Hey Ghislaine, watch your back!)

Seems too good to be true 🙄

But if it is true, some bot 🤖 is gonna be in trouble

go.bsky.app/D6bQXrN

Breaking: A Utah judge just tossed out Republicans’ gerrymandered map and ordered a new map that will include a new safe Democratic seat.

Utah now joins California in helping to cancel out Trump’s gerrymandering.

“…staff down to minimal levels, taking away their “hideaway” offices, and a portfolio of other large and small cruelties. Cocaine Mitch, say what you will, was stronger as a Minority Leader with his caucus than Chuck Schumer was as Majority Leader.”
-Rick Wilson

“If Schumer were McConnell, he’d tell these Senators that supporting Trump (because that’s what this is) will lead to their immediate removal from committees, elimination of their staff down to minimal levels, taking away their “hideaway” offices, and a portfolio of other large and small cruelties…