He Saved Americans’ Lives in Afghanistan. Then an American Took His Life in Texas. Why was the war hero’s killer allowed to walk free?

The more I read the news, the more it seems that the only real crime in MAGA World is not being white.

www.thebulwark.com/p/he-saved-a...

Trump’s Flurry of Pardons Signals a Wholesale Effort to Redefine Crime

“President Trump is employing the vast power of his office to redefine criminality to suit his needs — using pardons to inoculate criminals he happens to like, downplaying corruption and fraud as crimes, and seeking to stigmatize political opponents by labeling them criminals.”

It’s OK to make up fictitious reason to hate the Jews again. Yay MAGA!

We’re turning ourselves into the Soviet Union at lightning speed.

Morning Bluesky.

In Georgia someone has hacked the payment system on Tbilisi public transport so that it plays chants and speeches from the protesters fighting against the pro-Putin party that stole the recent election.

Trump suggests Ukraine shouldn't have fought back against Russia “Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful,” Trump said. “He shouldn’t have done that, because we could have made a deal.”

“We could have made a deal with the Japanese to give them Hawai’i in exchange for not attacking us any more.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Egg prices hit record highs this week.

Much of the increase is the result of egg shortages brought on by avian flu.

How has Trump responded? By ordering public health agencies to cease communications with the public.

His presidency is a threat to our health and our wallets.

Pretty distressed at how Dems are responding to this bill to let Trump get another term. It’s an attack on democracy—not a meme generator related to a third Obama term (the bill precludes that anyway, and Obama doesn’t want one) or a chance to joke about Trump aging.

It is. An attack. On democracy.

Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic.

«Speaking to reporters in NC on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials … When asked about Fauci & former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump said, “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.”»

So the argument is that we SHOULDN’T try to put any limits on immigration because it WON’T stop criminals from getting in illegally, but we SHOULD ban even legal and documented gun sales because that WILL stop criminals from getting guns illegally?

Or have I got that backward?

Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey Capitulation is contagious.

Mark Zuckerberg had to move parts of his company into a Republican jurisdiction, put a Trump toady in charge of his D.C. operation, and then allow one of Trump’s courtiers/spies into the governing body of his kingdom.

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...

The Anschluß of Greenland progresses ….

'This is Trump's America': Man allegedly followed reporter for 40 miles and strangled him A man allegedly followed a news reporter for 40 miles to his station, where he attacked and strangled him after accusing him of not being an American citizen.

The previous Trump term saw a sharp rise in random attacks on nonwhites. It’s already starting again.

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Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.

“Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets … put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform.”
www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media

Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances.

Uggh. Strong evidence that Trump 2.0 will be even worse than the worst we might have imagined. This is wrong and deeply f—ked up in 800 ways.

Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If anyone understands transitioning, it's Nancy Mace

The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century. But Mr. Trump claims a “powerful mandate.”

“The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Trump AG Pick Linked To Musk’s Fraud Lawyer If confirmed, Pam Bondi could shut down a Justice Department probe of Musk’s company, which was represented by her brother.

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Post: Trump replaced a Florida man with a Florida woman So far we have President: Florida Chief of Staff: Florida Secretary of State: Florida National Security Advisor: Florida Attorney General: Florida

Make America Florida. Huh.

The real story on Capitol Hill is the desire of GOP men to have transgender women in their bathrooms

‎Empires of the Word ‎Professional & Technical · 2011

The e-book of Nicholas Ostler’s terrific “Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World” is on sale for $1.99 today. books.apple.com/us/book/empi...

It may seem to disqualify her for Secretary of Education, but in fact it’s the most important qualification for being part of the Trump administration.

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Dana Goldberg post: I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.

They say the cover up is always worse.

Mike Johnson’s profound indignation
That the future A.G. of this nation
Paid over ten K
For an underage lay
Is directed at Biden inflation.