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Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) speaks on the legality, and military and moral aspects of the September 2 boat strikes.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) speaks on the legality, and military and moral aspects of the September 2 boat strikes.
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... Because a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation—it endangers it. A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American. ...
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
... Because a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation—it endangers it. A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American. ...
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"When senior leaders disparage legal oversight, sideline JAG officers, impede the ability of the press to report, or treat accountability as the enemy, they do more than risk unlawful action. They weaken the moral foundation that makes our military credible in the eyes of the American people...
@markhertling.bsky.social warns the gravest threat to the U.S. military is the erosion of the values that keep our forces lawful and legitimate. He implores Congress to investigate whether unlawful orders were issued in the Caribbean, and hold every official to account.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"When senior leaders disparage legal oversight, sideline JAG officers, impede the ability of the press to report, or treat accountability as the enemy, they do more than risk unlawful action. They weaken the moral foundation that makes our military credible in the eyes of the American people...
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Is it possible there might actually be a tiny bit of congressional oversight now? I refuse to believe it until it happens.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Is it possible there might actually be a tiny bit of congressional oversight now? I refuse to believe it until it happens.
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Honestly, gonna start muting "ICC." It's not relevant. It has no jurisdiction. It's not gonna arrest anyone and bring them to the Hague in irons.
Let. It. Go.
Let. It. Go.
He knows that Trump will pardon him and protect him from the ICC.
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Honestly, gonna start muting "ICC." It's not relevant. It has no jurisdiction. It's not gonna arrest anyone and bring them to the Hague in irons.
Let. It. Go.
Let. It. Go.
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Several Senate Democrats tell TIME they have confidence in Republican Sen. Roger Wicker leading the boat strike investigation, but urged him to move quickly.
“It has to be more than just a general hearing at some point in a couple months,” Senator Blumenthal said. “It has to be next week"
“It has to be more than just a general hearing at some point in a couple months,” Senator Blumenthal said. “It has to be next week"
Boat Strike Revelations Spur Push for Hearings 'Next Week'
As the White House admitted to a second boat strike targeting survivors, calls in Congress are growing for immediate hearings
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Several Senate Democrats tell TIME they have confidence in Republican Sen. Roger Wicker leading the boat strike investigation, but urged him to move quickly.
“It has to be more than just a general hearing at some point in a couple months,” Senator Blumenthal said. “It has to be next week"
“It has to be more than just a general hearing at some point in a couple months,” Senator Blumenthal said. “It has to be next week"
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He’s not going to dispel the reports that he’s drunk all the time with this clip. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Van Orden: "You gotta understand that average Americans do not care about these narcoterrorists at all. They care about the fact that their brothers & sisters and mothers and husbands have died of fentanyl overdoses. That's what we really truly care about. We care about our fellow American citizens"
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
He’s not going to dispel the reports that he’s drunk all the time with this clip. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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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
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
ISM Prices Paid: 58.5, highest since September.
ISM New Orders: 47.4, lowest since July
ISM Employment: 44.0, lowest since August
ISM New Orders: 47.4, lowest since July
ISM Employment: 44.0, lowest since August
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ISM SURVEY RESPONDENT:
".. We are starting to institute more permanent changes due to the tariff environment. This includes reduction of staff .. and .. additional offshore manufacturing that would have otherwise been for U.S. export."
@jc-econ.bsky.social #ISM
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".. We are starting to institute more permanent changes due to the tariff environment. This includes reduction of staff .. and .. additional offshore manufacturing that would have otherwise been for U.S. export."
@jc-econ.bsky.social #ISM
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Manufacturing PMI® at 48.2%; November 2025 ISM® Manufacturing PMI® Report
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in November for the ninth consecutive month, following a two-month expansion preceded by 26 straight months of contraction, say the nation's su...
finance.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
ISM SURVEY RESPONDENT:
".. We are starting to institute more permanent changes due to the tariff environment. This includes reduction of staff .. and .. additional offshore manufacturing that would have otherwise been for U.S. export."
@jc-econ.bsky.social #ISM
finance.yahoo.com/news/manufac...
".. We are starting to institute more permanent changes due to the tariff environment. This includes reduction of staff .. and .. additional offshore manufacturing that would have otherwise been for U.S. export."
@jc-econ.bsky.social #ISM
finance.yahoo.com/news/manufac...
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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...
@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
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...
@politico.com #Canada
www.politico.eu/article/cana...
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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...
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
".. 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."
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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“.. Since late October, Republicans’ approval has dropped by seven points ..”
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November 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“.. Since late October, Republicans’ approval has dropped by seven points ..”
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“.. At the center of President Trump’s contentious plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t peace: it’s profit.”
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www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
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www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“.. At the center of President Trump’s contentious plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t peace: it’s profit.”
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www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
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🚨 One of Donald Trump's biggest defenders from Texas won't be in D.C. after the new year.
Troy Nehls becomes the sixth Texas Republican to announce they won't run for re-election.
Troy Nehls becomes the sixth Texas Republican to announce they won't run for re-election.
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Wow, Bari Weiss is going to be SO mad when she finds out about this!
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November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wow, Bari Weiss is going to be SO mad when she finds out about this!
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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MTG “had the courage to leave her ‘abuser.’ The question now is whether anyone else will follow her lead.”
“.. ‘I think she’s reading the room in the country, and she’s smart enough to get out in front of it.’”
@maryellenklas.bsky.social
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“.. ‘I think she’s reading the room in the country, and she’s smart enough to get out in front of it.’”
@maryellenklas.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
MTG “had the courage to leave her ‘abuser.’ The question now is whether anyone else will follow her lead.”
“.. ‘I think she’s reading the room in the country, and she’s smart enough to get out in front of it.’”
@maryellenklas.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
“.. ‘I think she’s reading the room in the country, and she’s smart enough to get out in front of it.’”
@maryellenklas.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
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“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...