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The Trump Administration's latest rationale for killing striken seamen was that they knew that two men had survived the initial strike but that they "needed to sink the vessel" so they fired again.
That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.
That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.
Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors but still launched a follow-on strike, AP sources say
The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.
www.seattletimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Trump Administration's latest rationale for killing striken seamen was that they knew that two men had survived the initial strike but that they "needed to sink the vessel" so they fired again.
That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.
That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
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New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
April 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
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BREAKING: Judge McFadden has *granted * the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.
April 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
BREAKING: Judge McFadden has *granted * the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country.
December 20, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country.
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Remember the accusation that Harris was being fed questions by another network?
Always projection with Trump.
Always projection with Trump.
“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a [Trump] senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox…images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.”
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...
Trump camp was fed questions for Fox News town hall in advance from person inside network, new book says | CNN Business
President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in wh...
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Remember the accusation that Harris was being fed questions by another network?
Always projection with Trump.
Always projection with Trump.
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F*CK CITIZENS UNITED
Next time Dems are in power, we need to have a bill like this here.
📌 Australia’s Labor Party has proposed capping political donations at $20,000 per candidate to prevent billionaires from buying elections.
Next time Dems are in power, we need to have a bill like this here.
📌 Australia’s Labor Party has proposed capping political donations at $20,000 per candidate to prevent billionaires from buying elections.
December 12, 2024 at 12:20 AM
F*CK CITIZENS UNITED
Next time Dems are in power, we need to have a bill like this here.
📌 Australia’s Labor Party has proposed capping political donations at $20,000 per candidate to prevent billionaires from buying elections.
Next time Dems are in power, we need to have a bill like this here.
📌 Australia’s Labor Party has proposed capping political donations at $20,000 per candidate to prevent billionaires from buying elections.
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Here's how CNN covered Luigi Mangione's note:
"This manifesto, these rantings and ravings of an individual that obviously has some aberrant thoughts in his mind and that's why he put it down on paper. So all of that is certainly very disturbing."
"This manifesto, these rantings and ravings of an individual that obviously has some aberrant thoughts in his mind and that's why he put it down on paper. So all of that is certainly very disturbing."
December 11, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Here's how CNN covered Luigi Mangione's note:
"This manifesto, these rantings and ravings of an individual that obviously has some aberrant thoughts in his mind and that's why he put it down on paper. So all of that is certainly very disturbing."
"This manifesto, these rantings and ravings of an individual that obviously has some aberrant thoughts in his mind and that's why he put it down on paper. So all of that is certainly very disturbing."
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🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points.
Absolutely brilliant.
H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social
Absolutely brilliant.
H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 7:51 PM
🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points.
Absolutely brilliant.
H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social
Absolutely brilliant.
H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social
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For people who saw the clip of me advocating for a new opposition movement and are asking for more info, here is the piece I wrote laying it out.
I hope you read, share and act.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
I hope you read, share and act.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
Building the Opposition
From Marc | The success of our democracy rests on an effective opposition movement.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:28 AM
For people who saw the clip of me advocating for a new opposition movement and are asking for more info, here is the piece I wrote laying it out.
I hope you read, share and act.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
I hope you read, share and act.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
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McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half-century, thinks judges who are unretiring after Trump’s win lack integrity. Good grief!
newrepublic.com/post/188982/...
newrepublic.com/post/188982/...
Hypocrite Mitch McConnell Complains That Democrats Are Too Partisan
McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half century, thinks judges who are un-retiring after Trump's win lack integrity. Good grief!
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:26 PM
McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half-century, thinks judges who are unretiring after Trump’s win lack integrity. Good grief!
newrepublic.com/post/188982/...
newrepublic.com/post/188982/...
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When someone’s own mother calls them an “abuser of women,” my god.
That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.”
That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.
That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.”
That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.
NEWS
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
![I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care)
Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...
Mom](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t46sqvutibvsmjgwn6r6izve/bafkreie2kzc3io4sqvusq7fhsun5azugv4noqwq35sdhhuinuih7pgkx7q@jpeg)
November 30, 2024 at 2:56 AM
When someone’s own mother calls them an “abuser of women,” my god.
That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.”
That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.
That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.”
That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.
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One attribute of personalist regimes is the use of family members rather than people with experience of competence
Another family member: Trump names Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, as his senior advisor on Arab and Middle East affairs. He already played a major role in Trump's 2024 campaign www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/u...
Trump’s In-Law Is Trying to Exploit Democrats’ Weakness With Arab American Voters
Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father in-law, has been working behind the scenes to persuade a critical group of voters in Michigan.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:28 PM
One attribute of personalist regimes is the use of family members rather than people with experience of competence
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It's also true that there will be so much of this kind of thing - fraud on a completely new scale - that our underfunded media and our shattered attention spans might find it hard to cope. People are already used to the next administration's corruption and it's not Jan 20 yet
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.
popular.info
December 3, 2024 at 5:51 AM
It's also true that there will be so much of this kind of thing - fraud on a completely new scale - that our underfunded media and our shattered attention spans might find it hard to cope. People are already used to the next administration's corruption and it's not Jan 20 yet
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Then / Now.
Just despicable.
Just despicable.
November 14, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Then / Now.
Just despicable.
Just despicable.
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Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/
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/2 So Trumpism is about scorning and ridiculing norms of courtesy and civility and saying “fuck your feelings” and calling people low-IQ and retarded and enemies of the people and vermin and encouraging violence and then saying “how uncivil not to shake my hand.”
November 14, 2024 at 6:36 PM
/2 So Trumpism is about scorning and ridiculing norms of courtesy and civility and saying “fuck your feelings” and calling people low-IQ and retarded and enemies of the people and vermin and encouraging violence and then saying “how uncivil not to shake my hand.”
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BREAKING: Attorney for teenager at the center of Matt Gaetz sex trafficking allegations says "She was a high school student and there were witnesses." Calls upon Ethics Committee to release it's report which Miami Herald/McClatchy sources say is "highly damaging."
November 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
BREAKING: Attorney for teenager at the center of Matt Gaetz sex trafficking allegations says "She was a high school student and there were witnesses." Calls upon Ethics Committee to release it's report which Miami Herald/McClatchy sources say is "highly damaging."
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This one is not funny at all.
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM
This one is not funny at all.
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Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...