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This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy.
It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.
Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.
It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.
Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy.
It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.
Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.
It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.
Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
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News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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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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NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
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Trump’s net worth has grown by $3 billion since he took office. That’s not a coincidence.
bit.ly/4oV46sG
bit.ly/4oV46sG
A New Era of Crony Capitalism
Washington hasn’t seen graft like this for at least a century.
www.brennancenter.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump’s net worth has grown by $3 billion since he took office. That’s not a coincidence.
bit.ly/4oV46sG
bit.ly/4oV46sG
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A federal judge has released footage from nearly four dozen body cameras showing immigration agents’ ‘unprecedented’ use of force during their months-long deportation blitz in the Chicago area.
Bodycam video shows feds’ aggressive tactics in vivid detail: ‘Deploy f---ing gas’
chicago.suntimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A federal judge has released footage from nearly four dozen body cameras showing immigration agents’ ‘unprecedented’ use of force during their months-long deportation blitz in the Chicago area.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
Didn’t the FBi pull a lot of personnel from anti terrorism to put them on deportations?
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
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The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law.
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law.
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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AOC has a pretty direct take on the coming MTG resignation. I bet AOC is exactly right.
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
AOC has a pretty direct take on the coming MTG resignation. I bet AOC is exactly right.
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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
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Major media outlets have little to no interest in holding the wealthy and powerful accountable. Probably because major media outlets these days are dominated by the wealthy and the powerful and the people who want nothing more than to be near them.
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Major media outlets have little to no interest in holding the wealthy and powerful accountable. Probably because major media outlets these days are dominated by the wealthy and the powerful and the people who want nothing more than to be near them.
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Trump just going through Putin's checklist:
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
A failure - and one that’s Trump-driven.
The world deserves better.
The world deserves better.
COP30 climate summit ends without new pledges to cut fossil fuels - follow live
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump just going through Putin's checklist:
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
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The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
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My latest: The latest detention management figures are out, covering the entire shutdown.
While federal workers were furloughed, ICE arrested and detained approximately 54,000 people and deported approximately 56,000 people.
While federal workers were furloughed, ICE arrested and detained approximately 54,000 people and deported approximately 56,000 people.
Tens of thousands of people were detained and deported during US government shutdown
As most government business halted during the shutdown, immigration agents continued their raids
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My latest: The latest detention management figures are out, covering the entire shutdown.
While federal workers were furloughed, ICE arrested and detained approximately 54,000 people and deported approximately 56,000 people.
While federal workers were furloughed, ICE arrested and detained approximately 54,000 people and deported approximately 56,000 people.
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NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
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If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...
Class 48. Harnessing a Common Identity to Promote Democracy
Is there a way to get people to identify with the traits that unite, rather than divide us to change their thinking and behave in our collective interests?
asharangappa.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...
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It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
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Just a reminder that one of the January 6ers Trump pardoned was arrested last month for threatening to murder Jeffries. Another was sentenced to life this year for plotting to murder the officials who prosecuted him.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just a reminder that one of the January 6ers Trump pardoned was arrested last month for threatening to murder Jeffries. Another was sentenced to life this year for plotting to murder the officials who prosecuted him.
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So it's not just Trump and Bondi running interference for pedophiles. Bessent is a key part of the Epstein coverup. I plan to seek Senate approval of my bill to force the Treasury Department to release its Epstein file in the coming weeks because we need to keep on following the money.
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So it's not just Trump and Bondi running interference for pedophiles. Bessent is a key part of the Epstein coverup. I plan to seek Senate approval of my bill to force the Treasury Department to release its Epstein file in the coming weeks because we need to keep on following the money.