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I honestly think he really doesn't know why he keeps going in for MRIs and his keepers are just lying to him. The doctors are obviously concerned about his accelerating dementia since he's being monitored so closely but nobody will tell the king that.
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Earlier this year, 6 high-ranking UN human rights experts spoke of command responsibility in Georgia.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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ISM Prices Paid: 58.5, highest since September.

ISM New Orders: 47.4, lowest since July

ISM Employment: 44.0, lowest since August
U.S. STOCKS EXTEND DECLINES SLIGHTLY AFTER NOV ISM PMI DATA
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court on Monday found Alina Habba, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is serving unlawfully as US attorney for New Jersey, dealing a legal blow to the Trump administration that could have far-reaching consequences on other appointments across the country.
—CNN
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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GOP Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on Venezuela: "If you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound on this. We're in for a pound. The buildup is real."
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Canada's move marks "the first time a third country will formally participate in the [EU's] flagship joint procurement initiative."

@politico.com #Canada
www.politico.eu/article/cana...
Canada clinches deal to join Europe’s €150B defense scheme
The deal concludes months of tough talks and will allow Ottawa to take part in procurements financed by the EU’s SAFE program.
www.politico.eu
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Pope Leo XIV is on his first visit to Lebanon. He arrives at a pivotal time for the country, buffeted by conflict with Israel and a devastating economic crisis.
Pope Leo visits a wounded Lebanon in his first trip to the Middle East
Pope Leo XIV is on his first visit to Lebanon. He arrives at a pivotal time for the country, buffeted by conflict with Israel and a devastating economic crisis.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump."

On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump’s Fury at NYT Explodes amid Fresh Concerns about Mental Decline
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength ...
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.

This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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An exhaustive and utterly damning assesment. "In sum, there is simply no plausible argument that the reported killing of two survivors clinging to the burning wreckage of their stricken vessel could be anything other than an extrajudicial killing." www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The Center for Countering Disinformation reports that this is a record since Soviet times and a clear signal that peace is not part of the Kremlin’s plans for the coming year.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Putin has signed the federal budget for 2026, in which nearly 40% of all expenditures are allocated to the military and security sector.
t.me/c/1663231580...
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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".. in his return to the presidency this year, Trump has seldom ventured across the country to anywhere other than his own clubs. .. Everyone around Trump, and everything he is seeing on TV and on his phone, is telling him that he’s right."
Trump’s echo chamber:

Very little U.S travel

No rallies or contact with supporters

Right-wing media

Dinners with rich donors and billionaires

Truth Social

Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Kash Patel is described by multiple internal sources as inexperienced, with one source saying he “has neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing an FBI director needs to be successful.”
nypost.com/2025/11/30/o...
Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’
FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him.
nypost.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Epstein emailed Bannon “Btw Im in New York tonite thru sat , if you want to visit under the cover of darkness or breakfast tomorrow if you like.” Bannon apparently did like, but requested “access that’s not the front door.” www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The last time Trump claimed he didn’t know someone he had pardoned came when he pardoned a crypto mogul who has made the Trump family billions of dollars in cash.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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If you want the truth to come out, please help. Your donation counts:
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November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Mine and George Llewelyn’s report on life under constant energy black outs in Chernihiv for @tvpworld.bsky.social

youtu.be/6RginnzbYPs?...
Exclusive report: Chernihiv in darkness
YouTube video by TVP WORLD
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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NATO prepares for a future where U.S. support is limited. A French-led wargame in Romania showed Europe’s eastern flank defending alone, while Trump’s drawdown raises fears allies may face Russia without American backup.
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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In St. Petersburg, 83-year-old Lyudmila Vasilyeva was detained. She went out to Palace Square with an anti-war poster, and she was taken to the police station immediately.

Lyudmila was born in 1941, worked at defense enterprises
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM