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Breaking: Indiana State Senate rejects 9-0 Republican gerrymandered congressional map, stands up to Trump’s pressure campaign of threats and intimidation. Huge victory for democracy & defeat for Trump in gerrymandering war he started

And the GOP now owns, inter alia, a healthcare cost debacle heading into the midterms.

Just maybe Chuck knew what he was doing.

“The robots are here. And they’re not even cool. Instead, they’re harbingers of a soulless dystopia architected by the jaundiced men who bought the presidency. They’re death doulas for the middle class.”

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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

"Fraktur Says Dems 'In Collusion' with Calibri"

God damn it. It’s always bothered me and I didn’t want the validation.

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

Rep Fine spouting volkischer ideology like it’s his job:

Iirc, pre-WWII some jurisdictions had no bill rates in the 15% to 20% range which then tailed off to the single digits by the 1970's.

"____________ is the aestheticization of politics"

After Elon Musk lashed out at the EU, calling for its dissolution and accusing the Commission of strangling Europe with bureaucracy, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski fired back: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship on Nazi salutes there.”

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

I, for one, am not cool with supporting a white-nationalist America that is an enemy of Europe and a friend of the Kremlin.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

Now that Vanity Fair dropped Nuzzi can we have Teen Vogue back?

The zombie hands of undead ethnonationalism reach up to rend the world asunder:

A car for the people! A "People's Car"!

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Aka...a war crime:

Put another way, Hegseth approved the idea that someone grabbing a radio and saying "Help, our boat just got blown up." is a legitimate military target.

A relevant case: casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...

Given that Admiral Bradley knows the order to attack in the first place was illegal, it's clear he's decided his career is more important than his honor.

He once dreamed of being an astronaut.

The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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The Masquerade Is Over

There’s every chance that this time next week, Pam Bondi will be rolling out the administration’s plan to obstruct the Epstein files full release.

The likelihood is that tariffs will be struck down tomorrow, then the health subsidies vote, et cetera.

#lameduck

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Like modern day Bourbons they forget nothing, the learn nothing...and they slap a coat of gilt fakakta on everything:

Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?

Every single thing about this person screams "Take me to an Al-Anon meeting":
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Elon Musk X @elonmusk• 10h X If current trends continue, Whites will go from being a small minority of world population today to virtually extinct! Wall Street Apes & @WallStreetAp... • 13h White people are on the verge of extinction Global population of white people: 100 years ago roughly 35% 50 years ago roughly 20% 25 years ago 15% Today just 8% White people are the minorities and must take their countries back. No more tolerance. No more suicidal empathy

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi

media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

Unless you are the President of Honduras and have something Peter Thiel can profit from.

Then you're jake.

Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war

Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.

There's also this. The consternation inside the chain of command must be really intense.
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Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.

Thoughts on this:

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Admiral Bradley was the first in his class from the USNC to make 4 stars and an absolute legend in the SEALS/spec ops community known for his obvious intelligence and character.

He now has to decide if he's going to let these mediocre shills ruin him or if he's going to blow up his career.

"So I listened to her with a kind of anthropological detachment and fascination—essentially as a reporter—as she shared what she learned about him."

sociopath