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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
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Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
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Venezuela is part of the ICC - a Democratic administration can surrender them to the international courts for war crimes. We’ve never done this but we have also NEVER been in this situation before.
Presidential pardons won’t save them. This NEEDS to happen in order to begin to repair the damage.
Presidential pardons won’t save them. This NEEDS to happen in order to begin to repair the damage.
I also think it's useful to recognize that there can be a range of kinds of accountability. Many of them are inadequate! but they still are limited consequences, they still matter, and we can still work towards them (and towards more.)1
While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Venezuela is part of the ICC - a Democratic administration can surrender them to the international courts for war crimes. We’ve never done this but we have also NEVER been in this situation before.
Presidential pardons won’t save them. This NEEDS to happen in order to begin to repair the damage.
Presidential pardons won’t save them. This NEEDS to happen in order to begin to repair the damage.
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KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
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Schmitt is onto something when he calls out 'universal' concepts like human rights or justice for being emptied of substantive content when they cease to be polemical—meaning oriented against a concrete political foe.
But that just means they need to be reappropriated by new emancipatory movements.
But that just means they need to be reappropriated by new emancipatory movements.
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Schmitt is onto something when he calls out 'universal' concepts like human rights or justice for being emptied of substantive content when they cease to be polemical—meaning oriented against a concrete political foe.
But that just means they need to be reappropriated by new emancipatory movements.
But that just means they need to be reappropriated by new emancipatory movements.
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Just Security has compiled a very helpful timeline to keep track of all of the vessel strikes that Hegseth has ordered, along with the official legal rationales and criticisms that these actions have generated. Experts and allies are uniformly opposed. www.justsecurity.org/124002/timel...
Timeline of Vessel Strikes and Related Actions
A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers.
www.justsecurity.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just Security has compiled a very helpful timeline to keep track of all of the vessel strikes that Hegseth has ordered, along with the official legal rationales and criticisms that these actions have generated. Experts and allies are uniformly opposed. www.justsecurity.org/124002/timel...
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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."
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
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."
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."
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Seems like this ends with Hegseth in jail or a fight over the illegal pardon the non-president Trump will purport to give him (or both)
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."
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 5:00 PM
Seems like this ends with Hegseth in jail or a fight over the illegal pardon the non-president Trump will purport to give him (or both)
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This is true and it goes deeper than this.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is true and it goes deeper than this.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
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Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
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UPDATE: I added in the congressional response to the boat-strike section once I saw we had bipartisan, matching statements from both House and Senate Armed Services Committees. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
UPDATE: I added in the congressional response to the boat-strike section once I saw we had bipartisan, matching statements from both House and Senate Armed Services Committees. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
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1/7
Florida’s transformation was not loud or dramatic. It happened thru quiet procedural shifts that removed guardrails & concentrated authority in executive. A swing state became a controlled state through routine actions that seemed normal at the time. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
Florida’s transformation was not loud or dramatic. It happened thru quiet procedural shifts that removed guardrails & concentrated authority in executive. A swing state became a controlled state through routine actions that seemed normal at the time. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Florida’s transformation was not loud or dramatic. It happened thru quiet procedural shifts that removed guardrails & concentrated authority in executive. A swing state became a controlled state through routine actions that seemed normal at the time. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
Florida’s transformation was not loud or dramatic. It happened thru quiet procedural shifts that removed guardrails & concentrated authority in executive. A swing state became a controlled state through routine actions that seemed normal at the time. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
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The number of House members who've announced they aren't running for reelection is running a fair bit ahead of recent cycles. Not dramatically so, but a noticeable uptick.
ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S....
ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S....
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The number of House members who've announced they aren't running for reelection is running a fair bit ahead of recent cycles. Not dramatically so, but a noticeable uptick.
ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S....
ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S....
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November 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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It seems worth noting that, given what he's ordered, Hegseth's freedom long-term almost certainly depends on staying in Trump's good graces enough to swing an end-of-administration pardon.
So he is likely to cling *very hard* to the job to avoid being pushed out before the end.
So he is likely to cling *very hard* to the job to avoid being pushed out before the end.
Hoo boy
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
There are now bipartisan investigations in both the House and Senate into the administration targeting and killing people in the Caribbean without due process.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It seems worth noting that, given what he's ordered, Hegseth's freedom long-term almost certainly depends on staying in Trump's good graces enough to swing an end-of-administration pardon.
So he is likely to cling *very hard* to the job to avoid being pushed out before the end.
So he is likely to cling *very hard* to the job to avoid being pushed out before the end.
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
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Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Admiral Bradley is dead wrong here. He should be tried.
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Admiral Bradley is dead wrong here. He should be tried.
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
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A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...