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GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

Costco demands a refund from Trump The mega-retailer is suing to get its tariff money back.

"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Kansas MAGA mayor Joe Ceballos is facing voter-fraud charges after admitting he voted while he was not a U.S. citizen and only had a green card.
Funny how “voter fraud” keeps catching the loudest screamers. 🧾⚖️

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“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland

When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Somehow this is the worst part.

Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Can someone mention the fact that Trump is constantly falling asleep during the day?? This is crazy and it is not being addressed.

There's blame for both. Each wanted the other to catch the ball. I would say though that the ones with the most to lose have suffered more because they they decided to wait and see what the other side would do instead of just catching the ball.

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A table tracking three things: Share of people ICE arrests with a criminal conviction, with no conviction (but perhaps a charge), and with neither. The third category has gone from <20% a year ago to 40% now. I've made a note in pink saying, "$$ formerly spent on curing cancer."

CATO's report on ICE's increased focus on non-criminals talks about opportunity cost in terms of actual criminals whom ICE leaves alone.

But think, too, how much $$ has been shifted into arresting peaceful neighbors away from things like curing cancer (my annotation).
www.cato.org/blog/new-dat...

Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected.

Small businesses were the hardest hit.

Come on, old man! What’s up with your ignorant, science-denying death wish for all of us? This kind of *news* is an almost-daily reminder that the guy in the White House would rather harm than help. As if we needed another one. 🙄

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.

They are lying to us.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This story sums up Trump: No need for evidence. No need for laws or treaties. No need for discussions. If Trump decides (based upon whatever random information or maybe just heartburn) that someone is in the wrong, he believes he has the right to kill them.

The US is now a rogue nation.

DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Boycotts as a strategy works with corporations, but not with politicians and voting. Politicians lean towards who voted for them, not who didn't.

Questioning is fair as it cause discussion. The problem comes when people use questioning as a means to hand over power to an even worse scenario. It's not wrong to argue a position to convince movement towards it, but turning over the ball to the other side just sets your own agenda back.

No, it's not, but I'm not sure AOC wants that job. There's been talk of her taking Schumer's Senate seat, and that could be more useful. Buttegeig would need more Congressional experience. Jeffries was recently endorsed by Mandani, so maybe he'll be developing more backbone? Gonna watch him and see.

71 million views. Another brilliant PR move by the outstanding WH comms team. They owned the libs again by attacking and demeaning Sabrina just because she asked them not to steal her music for one of their sick deportation videos. Thanks for the new voters.

Rep Pramila Jayapal: "Remember the militarized raid on a Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night where agents rappelled from helicopters and zip-tied sobbing children? It has resulted in ZERO criminal charges two months later.
The cruelty, chaos, and fear are the point."

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

I’m sure the self-proclaimed ‘most transparent White House in history’ won’t mind a thorough investigation into the second strike.

Sen Mark Kelly:

“You do not execute survivors who are clinging onto a side of a ship.”

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

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Sadistic Personality Disorder: Signs, Traits, & Treatment Sadistic individuals take pleasure in the suffering of others, whether by witnessing it or actively causing it. Although Sadistic Personality Disorder (SPD) is no longer listed as a distinct diagnosis...

Megyn Kelly has Sadistic Personality Disorder. She has always wallowed in Sadism and luxuriated in the professions of triggering people. She profits from human misery on every level. www.choosingtherapy.com/sadistic-per...