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On @cnn.com with @kasie.bsky.social discussing reports that the UK is withholding intelligence from the US due to concerns over strikes on suspected drug boats. youtu.be/uH5M2QMAhOA
11.11.2025 22:19 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0But Trump and his spokespersons repeatedly claim that food prices are down!
11.11.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The reactions of PM Netanyahu, many members of his coalition, and many conservative Israelis is sadly reminiscent of many conservative Republicans in the US to the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal in Iraq.
NBC News share.google/vfcEZff2ttqE...
Los Angeles Times share.google/9e9PCYd1SONx...
The resignation and detention of Israelโs chief military lawyer, after she leaked a video of an incident where soldiers allegedly sexually abused a detained Palestinian, are kindling fierce debate in Israel over the bounds of what is legal in times of war.
11.11.2025 20:00 โ ๐ 52 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 2NEW: Campaign for Accountability files bar complaint against Lindsey Halligan, alleging that she violated multiple rules of professional conduct related to the prosecution of James Comey and Letitia James.
Read the complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
True. The US didn't fight any wars between WWI and WWII.
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One doesn't need to be an economist or financial genius to realize that promised investments that haven't been made won't need to be refunded if SCOTUS holds that Trump's Liberation Day tariffs aren't valid.
Trump perennially engages in fuzzy math, creative accounting, misrepresentations, and outright lies. Promised investments extorted by Trump via his threats of imposing even higher tariffs are not themselves tariffs, nor have the vast majority of them been made to date.
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Critics couldnโt fathom why Democrats would abandon a seemingly winning hand in the government shutdown, but โthis is how the government shutdown was always going to end,โ Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire report. https://theatln.tc/cvMG3bbQ
11.11.2025 17:45 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 1Mark L. Wolf has resigned as a federal judge in Massachusetts, a position he's held since 1985:
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"My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. Pres. Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes."
Good for the Dutch!
11.11.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you for this thread. I was well aware of the racism and segregation of the US military during WWII, but I'm floored and disgusted that no Black soldiers were allowed to join the victory parade through Paris.
11.11.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Black Panthers logo, used by the 761 tank battalion that liberated over 30 French towns.
The 761 Tank Battalion
A soldier from the 761 tank battalion looks out from his tank.
Soldiers from the 761st tank battalion.
So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.
11.11.2025 17:46 โ ๐ 719 ๐ 287 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 8The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
11.11.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 2013 ๐ 431 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 24Comeyโs reply brief in his vindictive prosecution motion lays out in a one-sentence nutshell why the indictmentโalleging leaks to Richman โat the FBIโโappears to fail. See @annabower on dates Richman was โat the FBIโ:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
This week's Economist/YouGov tracker:
Right Track/Wrong Track: 30/61
Trump Job Approval: 39/56
[No issue-specific job approvals this week. But I'll note that only 56% of Trump voters think he's honest.]
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wow. WOW.
11.11.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 2649 ๐ 473 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 13Bari Weiss is literally eliminating standards at CBS. If there was a unit called "Actual Journalism" she would cut that too.
11.11.2025 14:55 โ ๐ 246 ๐ 51 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1โIโve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, โWhatโs the point of standards?โโ one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Holy shit. The new spending package has a hidden provision that allows Republican Senators to sue the government for $500K over the phone records searches related to the January 6 riot. How can any Democrat vote for this? How can you argue this is a good deal?
11.11.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 243 ๐ 93 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 8NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
11.11.2025 15:06 โ ๐ 11739 ๐ 3960 ๐ฌ 366 ๐ 477There is NO $2000. Payment.
To be clear, Congress didnโt authorize payments which is required by our constitution.
The sad part is many of the people he screwed over with his budget cuts will still believe his BS.
He is a danger to our country
Truth Social's management will no doubt quickly pull their AI search feature until its truthfulness glitch is fixed and it can be trained to respond per the official Trump misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and lies.
11.11.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0OK this is amazing.
Trumpโs Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of โWoke AIโ in federal government.
Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc:
www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
Did Trump Admin unnecessarily curtail air traffic to put additional pressure on Democrats to agree to reopen the gov't without concessions? Some airline executives thought so!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It's incredibly weak and disappointing that @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social has the Treasury Secretary on and he says many faslehoods and they do not push back.
Such as that a tarriff is NOT a tax.
Seriously Econ101 says a tariff is a tax.
@joe-scarborough.bsky.social
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Trump's proposal to lease new offshore tracts for oil exploration and possible production off the coasts of Alaska and California must be opposed. Drilling for oil in the Artic is extremely risky for the environment, and California doesn't want new offshore drilling.
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