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Senator Slotkin reports that troops and intelligence officers are secretly reaching out, distressed by potentially illegal orders. This isn't just dissent; it's a profound crisis of conscience within the military itself, signaling terrifying authoritarian overreach.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Senator Slotkin reports that troops and intelligence officers are secretly reaching out, distressed by potentially illegal orders. This isn't just dissent; it's a profound crisis of conscience within the military itself, signaling terrifying authoritarian overreach.
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Putting Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prolific spreader of deadly covid conspiracy theories, in charge of investigating the pandemic is like appointing an arsonist to lead the fire department. It's a blatant sabotage of real oversight and public trust.
Covid conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to investigate pandemic
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spread countless noxious and monstrous conspiracy theories about Covid and vaccines, has been appointed to the new Republican subcommittee to investigate the government’s pandemic response.
www.ms.now
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Putting Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prolific spreader of deadly covid conspiracy theories, in charge of investigating the pandemic is like appointing an arsonist to lead the fire department. It's a blatant sabotage of real oversight and public trust.
The White House's furious, over-the-top denial about Noem potentially getting fired makes the rumor seem totally credible. It reeks of chaos and cover-up, highlighting the administration's rampant dysfunction and dishonesty.
'Doth protest too much': Critics flag White House's aggressive denial of shocking story
The White House came out hard Sunday against a new report from The Bulwark that suggested Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem might be on the outs in the Trump administration, and in such a fierce manner that one prominent critic couldn’t help but point out what they characterized as an overly-d...
www.rawstory.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The White House's furious, over-the-top denial about Noem potentially getting fired makes the rumor seem totally credible. It reeks of chaos and cover-up, highlighting the administration's rampant dysfunction and dishonesty.
"They build miracles and then use them to threaten each other. They love their young and leave their elders lonely. They sing while they poison their water. They can’t agree on what’s real, but they can agree on what to hate."
The Quiet Ring
Earth isn't invited to the Galactic Federation, because we keep turning our home into a battlefield and a smokestack while they watch like wary zookeepers.
tomwellborn.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"They build miracles and then use them to threaten each other. They love their young and leave their elders lonely. They sing while they poison their water. They can’t agree on what’s real, but they can agree on what to hate."
This "Trump Corollary" is just a naked reboot of imperialist policy. It treats Latin America as our backyard to dominate, framing neighbors as threats while ignoring how our exploitation fuels migration. It's a blueprint for bullying, not partnership.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This "Trump Corollary" is just a naked reboot of imperialist policy. It treats Latin America as our backyard to dominate, framing neighbors as threats while ignoring how our exploitation fuels migration. It's a blueprint for bullying, not partnership.
This brilliant takedown shreds the myth that inflation is just a monetary problem solved by hiking interest rates. It exposes how the Volcker shock crushed workers and devastated the Global South, arguing we need tools like price controls, not just central bank hammers.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This brilliant takedown shreds the myth that inflation is just a monetary problem solved by hiking interest rates. It exposes how the Volcker shock crushed workers and devastated the Global South, arguing we need tools like price controls, not just central bank hammers.
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Trump is completely absent on healthcare as premiums are set to skyrocket. His own voters will be hurt most, but he offers no plan. Republicans are leaderless while Democrats push to extend vital subsidies. It's gross negligence.
Trump absent from healthcare talks — and Dems think they know why
WASHINGTON — To end the longest government shutdown in American history, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators came together and agreed to kick the can.The can seems to have hit a brick wall. Unless Congress acts, massive spikes in health-care premiums are coming in the New Year for millions of Americ...
www.alternet.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump is completely absent on healthcare as premiums are set to skyrocket. His own voters will be hurt most, but he offers no plan. Republicans are leaderless while Democrats push to extend vital subsidies. It's gross negligence.
Trump's new security strategy is unhinged, explicitly racist fearmongering. It pushes the "Great Replacement" theory as official policy, warning of Europe's "civilizational erasure" from immigration. This is a dangerous far-right blueprint, not sober statecraft.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Trump's new security strategy is unhinged, explicitly racist fearmongering. It pushes the "Great Replacement" theory as official policy, warning of Europe's "civilizational erasure" from immigration. This is a dangerous far-right blueprint, not sober statecraft.
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Trump is attacking President Truman's historic White House renovations while bragging about his own gaudy makeovers. It's a perfect metaphor: he values tacky opulence over actual legacy or governance, every single time.
Trump Ridicules Truman for His ‘Cheap’ White House Decor
“It was the worst job,” the president said of the White House design from the Truman administration.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump is attacking President Truman's historic White House renovations while bragging about his own gaudy makeovers. It's a perfect metaphor: he values tacky opulence over actual legacy or governance, every single time.
Robert Reich sees the MAGA facade cracking as Republicans finally show spine against Trump's chaos. But he warns us sharply: a cornered Trump is at his most dangerous and unpredictable. Stay vigilant.
Sunday thought: Really, truly, the end of Trump is near
MAGA is cracking up, but beware
robertreich.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Robert Reich sees the MAGA facade cracking as Republicans finally show spine against Trump's chaos. But he warns us sharply: a cornered Trump is at his most dangerous and unpredictable. Stay vigilant.
"It wasn’t a cage of bars and locks. It was distance. It was silence. It was the Federation’s decision, unanimous and weary, to treat Earth as a protected exhibit until the exhibit stopped trying to burn itself down."
The Quiet Ring
Earth isn't invited to the Galactic Federation, because we keep turning our home into a battlefield and a smokestack while they watch like wary zookeepers.
tomwellborn.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"It wasn’t a cage of bars and locks. It was distance. It was silence. It was the Federation’s decision, unanimous and weary, to treat Earth as a protected exhibit until the exhibit stopped trying to burn itself down."
This sci-fi allegory hits hard. It frames Earth's crises, war, and climate collapse as reasons advanced civilizations would quarantine us. A leftist take? Our failure to cooperate globally and curb exploitation makes us look like violent children to the stars.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This sci-fi allegory hits hard. It frames Earth's crises, war, and climate collapse as reasons advanced civilizations would quarantine us. A leftist take? Our failure to cooperate globally and curb exploitation makes us look like violent children to the stars.
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A relative of Trump's press secretary is in ICE detention, directly calling out her smears. This is the brutal human cost of their dehumanizing rhetoric, happening within their own circle. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Karoline Leavitt’s Detained Relative Torches Her From ICE Custody
The mother of the press secretary’s nephew is shutting down the smears.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A relative of Trump's press secretary is in ICE detention, directly calling out her smears. This is the brutal human cost of their dehumanizing rhetoric, happening within their own circle. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Trump attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, calling her stupid. She fired back by pointing out his glaring factual error. It's a classic move: discredit the press to hide your own mistakes.
Kaitlan Collins Slaps Down Trump After He Called Her ‘Stupid’
The aging president first ducked the CNN reporter’s question, then blasted her for supposedly asking about something completely different.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trump attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, calling her stupid. She fired back by pointing out his glaring factual error. It's a classic move: discredit the press to hide your own mistakes.
This isn't just a vanity project; it's a blatant money-laundering scheme. Trump is funneling millions from corporate donors like Amazon and Google through a corrupt construction deal, destroying historic property while likely taking a cut.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This isn't just a vanity project; it's a blatant money-laundering scheme. Trump is funneling millions from corporate donors like Amazon and Google through a corrupt construction deal, destroying historic property while likely taking a cut.
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The GOP's demand for private testimony from Jack Smith is a massive tactical blunder. It gives the prosecutor a public stage to detail Trump's alleged crimes all over again. Their overreach is about to smack into a legal brick wall.
GOP about to 'run into a brick wall' after 'misstep' in going after Jack Smith: attorney
Republicans are about to run face first into a "brick wall" after a "strategic misstep" is leaving them in a no-win scenario as they take on former prosecutor Jack Smith.The GOP has targeted Smith for his work in prosecuting Donald Trump in multiple cases, including a federal case over purported att...
www.rawstory.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The GOP's demand for private testimony from Jack Smith is a massive tactical blunder. It gives the prosecutor a public stage to detail Trump's alleged crimes all over again. Their overreach is about to smack into a legal brick wall.
Rubio is embarrassing America by demanding diplomats sell Trump's debunked xenophobic lies to global allies. This clumsy propaganda push ignores how immigrants boost economies and shows profound disrespect for other nations' sovereignty.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rubio is embarrassing America by demanding diplomats sell Trump's debunked xenophobic lies to global allies. This clumsy propaganda push ignores how immigrants boost economies and shows profound disrespect for other nations' sovereignty.
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Trump's corrupt, transactional pardon of Cuellar blew up in his face, exposing his desperation to cling to power as the GOP faces a midterm bloodbath. His rage over a lack of loyalty proves the pardon was a bribe, not an act of justice.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump's corrupt, transactional pardon of Cuellar blew up in his face, exposing his desperation to cling to power as the GOP faces a midterm bloodbath. His rage over a lack of loyalty proves the pardon was a bribe, not an act of justice.
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Even a GOP lawmaker admits his colleagues are fleeing Congress out of shame, reduced to being Trump's rubber stamps. They enabled this humiliation for years. Their belated complaints are worthless.
GOP lawmaker says Republicans are fleeing Congress because it is 'humiliating' to be a 'rubber stamp' for Trump. - The Mind Shield
Rep. Thomas Massie says Republicans are leaving Congress in droves because it is 'humiliating' to be a "rubber stamp" for Donald Trump.
themindshield.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Even a GOP lawmaker admits his colleagues are fleeing Congress out of shame, reduced to being Trump's rubber stamps. They enabled this humiliation for years. Their belated complaints are worthless.
MAGA's base is now cannibalizing its own over performative "Merry Christmas" nonsense while ignoring actual war crimes and a collapsing healthcare system. Even their imagined cultural battles are pathetic distractions from real corruption.
'Fixed it for you': Fans turn on MAGA lawmaker after not 'daring to say Merry Christmas'
A MAGA lawmaker's own base rejected her this weekend after she posted a Christmas-themed seasonal photo without saying, "Merry Christmas."U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), 48, reportedly "set the world on fire" on Saturday by releasing a photo of herself that some have said suggests she is preg...
www.rawstory.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
MAGA's base is now cannibalizing its own over performative "Merry Christmas" nonsense while ignoring actual war crimes and a collapsing healthcare system. Even their imagined cultural battles are pathetic distractions from real corruption.
Pete Hegseth, lacking Trump's immunity, is being set up as the fall guy for what legal experts condemn as war crimes. His reckless "kill them all" orders stem from Trump's unlawful assumption of judge-jury-executioner power. This is state-sponsored murder, not policy.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pete Hegseth, lacking Trump's immunity, is being set up as the fall guy for what legal experts condemn as war crimes. His reckless "kill them all" orders stem from Trump's unlawful assumption of judge-jury-executioner power. This is state-sponsored murder, not policy.
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Even a festive tree lighting is now a staged loyalty test. A Trump cabinet member literally had to instruct a shivering crowd on how to properly cheer. This isn't a celebration; it's a pathetic demand for validation from a deeply insecure regime.
MAGA Goon Forces Crowd to Cheer for Trump
Doug Burgum gave the White House tree lighting onlookers a quick lesson in clapping and cheering in advance of Trump’s arrival.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Even a festive tree lighting is now a staged loyalty test. A Trump cabinet member literally had to instruct a shivering crowd on how to properly cheer. This isn't a celebration; it's a pathetic demand for validation from a deeply insecure regime.
Despite ruthlessly executing Trump's mass deportation agenda, Kristi Noem's position is weakening due to White House frustrations, particularly over her association with Corey Lewandowski.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Despite ruthlessly executing Trump's mass deportation agenda, Kristi Noem's position is weakening due to White House frustrations, particularly over her association with Corey Lewandowski.
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MAGA's radicalism is backfiring spectacularly. A progressive Democrat just slashed a 22-point GOP margin to single digits in deep-red Tennessee. This proves Trump's movement is shrinking, alienating its own base. Their collapse is beautiful to witness.
Inside the rapid decline of Trump's wing of the GOP: analysis
Ordinarily, an election in an area as conservative as Tennessee's 7th Congressional District isn't a major story. That district, which Donald Trump carried by 22 percent in 2024, typically goes hard-right — and a GOP victory comes as no surprise. But on Tuesday, December 2 in Tennessee's 7th Congres...
www.rawstory.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
MAGA's radicalism is backfiring spectacularly. A progressive Democrat just slashed a 22-point GOP margin to single digits in deep-red Tennessee. This proves Trump's movement is shrinking, alienating its own base. Their collapse is beautiful to witness.