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"This is the human cost of governance as spectacle. Young people dying for illegal missions. Service members sacrificed for optics."

Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?

Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.

Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.

We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.

Lebanon: Israel’s attacks continue one year into "ceasefire"

A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect a year ago today.

Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.

"Gyat, pot, or kilowatt. No one rides for free."

Bumper sticker for an EV

Thanksgiving is an iffy holiday at best, but giving thanks for family, friends, and community is welcome any time but especially right now.

That 8 week paid vacation must have been exhausting

The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.

Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

Trump’s approval rating negative with every pollster for first time ever President Donald Trump currently has an average disapproval rating of 55 percent, according to a polling aggregator.

For the first time across both terms, every pollster now has recorded more Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance than approve.

While this is irrelevant for him as a politician since he can’t be reelected, this confirms he is officially a massive liability for the GOP in upcoming races.

literally in service of a stunt. for nothing

This. USNA 81 grad. We were specifically taught about My Lai as THE example of NOT following illegal orders. Thank you, @willbunch.bsky.social for point this out.

I think it's important to say every time that Americans have been frightened of Black Haitians since the Haitian Revolution succeeded because the Haitian fight for freedom inspired enslaved people across the Americas and showed colonizer slaveholders that sometimes we win. They're still scared.

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The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."

Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office

Credit where it’s due. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this new framing comes out after a Democratic wave election, the ascendance (and surprisingly broad acceptance) of Mamdani, and his steadily crashing poll numbers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Trump being told to be quiet by beloved Muppet Miss Piggy: “Quiet, Pedo”

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

One of H.S.I.’s priorities is dismantling networks of online criminals who create and distribute images depicting the sexual abuse of children. But the number of indictments for child exploitation crimes fell 28 percent. And H.S.I. agents identified or rescued roughly 300 fewer child victims, a 17 percent drop.

Beneficiaries of the Trump crime syndicate's immoral war on immigrants: child sex abusers

absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

WE ARE SO CLOSE, HENCE THE RELENTLESS ATTACKS

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A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days. Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.

She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.

“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

The thing I keep coming back to as a meta-point in this story is that one of the first people who most prominently lost touch with reality was *one of OpenAI's own investors*, which all of their senior execs know about. Yet even that hasn't fully reined them in or caused them to reflect.

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:

@punchbowlnews.bsky.social