MamaBear is in Georgia

Trump never had reasonable concerns. Other people did. He did not

The Republicans’ problem is that their entire health care plan has been to be against stuff: Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care.

Their “plans” are an incoherent grab-bag of billionaire-funded policy junk that consumers will hate. Bring it on.

The Post's Dan Lamothe is collecting claims about who inherited his desk.

Over on Twitter, a bunch of right-wing people are claiming to have inherited The Post's desk in the Pentagon press area with one responding to having been corrected by bragging about how they, unlike The Post, promised not to journalism.

These people are operating outside the State Department, rather like the “Three Amigos” of Trump’s first term.

The defendant did more than exact political retribution on his drug trafficking partners who became too visible. For example, on a call intercepted in June 2015, Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias, a/k/a “Porky,” (“Porky”), the leader of Mara Salvatrucha (“MS-13”) in Honduras, told David Campbell, one of Porky’s drug trafficking partners, that the defendant had “assigned an elite police team to kill” a drug trafficker named Byron Ruiz, who had worked with Tony Hernandez, “because it’s inconvenient if the Americans catch him and take him away,” i.e., out of concern that he would cooperate if extradited. (GX 404-T, Lines 9-13; see also Tr. 768; PSR ¶ 64).6 The opposite was true for the defendant’s drug trafficking allies. For example, on an intercepted call from September 2015, Porky described how “the president,” i.e., the defendant, had “gifted” a drug route to Los Cachiros. (GX 405-T, Line 23; PSR ¶ 64). The defendant and his co-conspirators took other steps in an effort to derail potential witnesses against them. For example, in 2016, the defendant’s cousin and eventual co-defendant in this case, Mauricio Hernandez Pineda, a former HNP officer, approached cooperating witness Giovanni Rodriguez, another corrupt HNP officer who was planning to surrender to U.S. authorities in connection with his own public charges. (Tr. 1218; PSR ¶ 65). Pineda cautioned Rodriguez not to mention the defendant, Tony Hernandez, or Pineda because “that could be very dangerous” for Rodriguez. (Id.; PSR ¶ 65). Pineda also told Rodriguez that the defendant “had passed the extradition law due to pressure from the United States, but [the defendant’s] thinking at the time was to get rid of extradition in Honduras.” (Tr. 1219; PSR ¶ 65).

Here's a passage from the sentencing memo of Juan Orlando Hernández.

You can see why Trump loves him.

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I would love for them to point to just three things that *uniquely* define US culture which are not directly borrowed/stolen from another culture.

Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.

It’s finished.

It’s also not finished because, in the words of Paul Valéry, a piece of writing is never finished. Ultimately it is abandoned. That’s because writing is thinking, and we’re never finished with that.

Anyway, I figured out what to do with that long blog post . . .

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—Shitty polling
—MTG breakup
—Thune refusing to kill the filibuster
—Near-unanimous Epstein vote
—House backlash over ACA proposal
—2 IN state senators telling him to fuck off
—Now this
Something is happening…

I mean, this is what the rule of law is all about! You can’t just push people around through brute force. And it’s *most* important to hold the government to such limits. Elite institutions have a special responsibility to stand up for this principle, even when it’s not easy to do so.

Once again Trump will prioritize his personal profits over what's right and wrong, our national security, European security, and the reputation of the United States in the of the world.

His only interest in peace is to win a prize and be praised, and if he can't have that he wants money.

Religion never left… what he means is theocracy.

Only 16% of Trump voters support Ukraine making territorial concessions to Russia and 72% are in favor of selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to a new poll by The Vandenberg Coalition.

72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.

If you dare to displease the despot, you will be declared an enemy of the state and every lever of it will be deployed against you.

DOGE days are over as Trump disbands Elon Musk's team of federal cost-cutters | TechCrunch DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.

News coverage of DOGE’s creation earlier this year was practically wall-to-wall — for weeks. “$2 trillion in savings, $5000 dividend checks, an entirely new model of government.” And now that it’s gone, it’s like eh.

@techcrunch.com
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Jesus Christ.

I remember when Rubio was supposed to be the one Trump appointee who would be at least kind of/sort of qualified, or at the very least wouldn’t be a complete embarrassment.

A screenshot from Trump’s TruthSocial account. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

Spiraling gets worse — the guy has totally lost it as Epstein’s looms. 25th?

House rating changes Nov. 19, 2025 District Old Rating New Rating Hillary Scholten (D, MI-3) Likely Democratic Safe Democratic Monica De La Cruz (R, TX-15) Safe Republican Likely Republican Vicente Gonzalez (D, TX-34) Leans Republican Toss-up Suhas Subramanyam (D, VA-10) Likely Democratic Safe Democratic Eugene Vindman (D, VA-7) Leans Democratic Likely Democratic Kim Schrier (D, WA-8) Likely Democratic Safe Democratic

House rating changes, via Sabato Crystal Ball:

Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names Mark Epstein, brother of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, alleged in an interview with NewsNation that the Epstein files are being edited to remove Republican names.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names people.com/epstein-s-br...

How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Experts say the changes will cost lives.

NEW: ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines.

Experts say the changes will cost lives.

I wonder if Stephen Miller realizes that if he INVADES Mexico, it's literally the opposite of what he claims he wants to happen?

Greg Abbott is having a rough day. First his maps get thrown out, now his Ten Commandments. Thoughts and no prayers, Greg.

Didn't he give up the game by letting it go to a vote rather than preemptively ordering the release immediately? Pretty sure it's another stall tactic, just one born of desperation.

Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’ The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.

Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Don't know why I just thought of this movie. the 1997 satirical film called Wag the Dog. The movie's plot centers on a creating a war to distract the public from a presidential sex scandal. In the movie it was a fictional war. #RepublicansCantGovern #RepublicansDidThis #Venezuela

The Epstein files sinkhole widening under Trump These polls suggest the issue is a bigger problem than the president wants to admit.

As his time in office steadily decreases, more and more people on the right will start trying to peel away Trump’s power. The vote on the Epstein files will be an accelerant to that process.
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Tesla, Palantir down 15-16%, Dogecoin 67%🔥
I love that for them.

Washington Post headline reads: "Trump repeals tariffs on some foods as Americans face high grocery prices The president is rolling back import levies on a host of agricultural goods after administration officials signaled coming changes aimed at addressing consumer complaints about high food costs."

if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?