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questor606.bsky.social
In the next few weeks Democrats need to further weaken the legitimacy of the Trump regime by making the crimes, corruption, betrayal, and malevolence of Trump’s top advisors - Hegseth, Noem, Witkoff, Bondi, Kennedy, Vought, Sacks - a major topic in our discourse.
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday?

Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
Should You Boycott Amazon?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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npr.org
A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon, and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat. n.pr/4itdOQl
Fired worker sues government in case that could upend civil rights laws
A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon, and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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atrupar.com
"Trump rarely faces direct consequences for his shameful rhetoric. That’s because in the past Republicans have largely refused to abandon him no matter what he says or does. But there are signs that's now changing."
Trump's ugly Thanksgiving meltdown
It's getting so bad that even Republicans are starting to notice.
www.publicnotice.co
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “I would say Trump is both anti-Christian and anti-American values.”

@timmiller.bsky.social tells Gen Z conservatives how Trump attacks democracy, the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, basic decency, etc

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRulgIs...
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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the-independent.com
Trump told crews working on White House ballroom to ignore zoning conditions: report
Trump told crews working on White House ballroom to ignore zoning conditions: report
Trump told crews working on White House ballroom to ignore zoning conditions: report
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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maxboot.bsky.social
The vetting process was so successful that Zero Units never suffered an insider attack — when Afghan soldiers turned against U.S. advisers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Fellow Unit Member Says Alleged D.C. Shooter Felt Abandoned by CIA
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan who allegedly shot two National Guard members, felt abandoned by the CIA, according to a former Zero Unit member.
www.rollingstone.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
Fired US Immigration judge Tania Nemer files federal civil suit against Atty Gen Pam Bondi alleging sex discrimination

Suit: "According to the final agency decision, the President may now fire female federal workers like Ms. Nemer—because of their sex—and the law would have nothing to say about it"
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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wired.com
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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nytimes.com
On the conflict in Gaza, Pope Leo said that the Vatican is “also friends with Israel,” but said a two-state solution was “the only solution” to “the conflict they continually live.”
Pope Leo Calls for a Two-State Solution in Mideast Conflict
The pope, arriving in Lebanon, also encouraged that country’s Christians to stay where they are, despite economic, political and security concerns.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"As recently as a few years ago, there would have been Republican voices denouncing Trump’s bizarre and unAmerican attacks on immigrants. Those voices were the canaries in the coal mine. Their silence now tells us what has been lost."

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The Silence of the Canaries
Trump has normalized xenophobia
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
#TN7 — TODAY IN FRANKLIN, TN: Trump phoned into the Van Epps rally at a billionaire’s gated mansion and over Speaker Johnson’s phone said Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social “hates Christianity” (false) 🤥 and “the whole world is watching Tennessee” (true) ✅
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rolex, Gold Gifts to Trump Spur Call for Swiss Investigation
Swiss politicians have urged the the country’s top prosecutor to open a criminal investigation into the gifting of a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar to US President Donald Trump by business...
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
Indiana GOP is going for it: They've released a proposed map that'd likely lock in a 9-0 GOP congressional delegation & flip the 2 currently held by Dems. Indianapolis would be cracked into GOP seats, and Gary would be drowned in red.

The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."

www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...
Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.
We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"In April, he welcomed Witkoff to the St. Petersburg presidential library for another three-hour meeting with Putin. Witkoff took his own notes, relying on a Kremlin translator..."

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.

Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help in June from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues. Rolling Stone reviewed a screenshot of the group chat in June where Zero Unit veterans shared information with a CIA representative about ongoing issues. Lakanwal posted messages asking for help. His last post went unanswered and was deleted by the chat’s administrator. Rolling Stone called the CIA representative in the text chat, who claimed it was a wrong number. A request for comment from the CIA was not returned. Lakanwal, according to an Associated Press report and confirmed by his unit mate, would swing from “long, dark stretches of isolation,” sometimes going weeks without speaking even to his family to “manic” episodes, during which he would take off on sudden, weeks-long cross-country drives, traveling to places like Chicago or Arizona. The Afghan Zero Unit community is tight-knit. At one point, during a trip to Texas last year, I watched as a group of veterans took over a shisha restaurant with more than 20 sitting at one table, laughing and smoking. Bonded by combat and the pain of losing their country, they are part of a lost generation of Afghans who believed America’s promise of democracy and sacrificed everything for it. But most of all Zero Unit veterans were heartbroken by Ratcliffe’s comments that they should never have been allowed to come to the United States because after fighting shoulder to shoulder with the CIA for almost 20 years, they are the next sacrifice on the altar of expediency. The only certainty in U.S. foreign policy from the last helicopter out of Saigon in 1975 to the Kurds after the Gulf War in 1991 to the 2020 Doha Accords and the Afghan evacuation in 2021, is that American loyalty comes with an expiration date.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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pbump.com
Maybe he was just repeating one of the taglines for his podcast.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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davidrlurie.com
Sickos

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s family has urged her nephew’s mother, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month, to self-deport to a country she barely knows and hardly speaks the language.
Karoline Leavitt's family delivers brutal message to relative detained by ICE
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's family urged her nephew's mom to self-deport to a country she barely knows.
www.themirror.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
"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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espiers.bsky.social
It would be an amazing end to the story if his stupid ballroom collapsed on top of him
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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jaywillis.net
Describing an op-ed author as working "for nearly seven years at the King County Council" without naming her boss, and as "involved in local politics for more than a decade" without providing the context, is imho lying by omission
Tessa Ester: is a former public policy professional who worked for nearly seven years at the King County Council and has been involved in local politics for more than a decade.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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jaywillis.net
Man this is wild
ericacbarnett.bsky.social Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4h
Why didn't the Seattle Times identify this op/ed writer as Republican Reagan Dunn's former chief of staff and a longtime Republican operative? Do they not want people to know that this audit was a partisan endeavor?

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/new-...
New King County executive must guard against risky grantmaking | Op-Ed
As the summer's audit showed, King County needs to make accountability and transparency the driving forces behind grant distribution. It's not there yet.
www.seattletimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Unserious people are in charge of very serious matters. They need to go.
A tweet from Tom Nichols reads: “There is something very wrong with the secretary of defense.” Attached is an image from Pete Hegseth showing a parody children’s book cover titled “A Classic Franklin Story: Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.” The cover depicts Franklin the Turtle wearing military gear and leaning out of a helicopter while firing a rifle at boats below, which are exploding and filled with drug bundles.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM