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This is pure, unhinged fearmongering.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Trump's border czar, confronted by a heckler linking his rhetoric to the El Paso white nationalist massacre, showed chilling indifference. This is the real human cost of trafficking in replacement theory: it inspires acts of domestic terrorism.
Trump Border Czar’s Speech Derailed by Heckler’s Insults: ‘Traitor!’
Tom Homan’s appearance at the University of Texas at El Paso briefly went off the rails.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Governor Walz highlights the stark contrast between competent, responsible governance in Minnesota and the destructive chaos of Trump's federal policies.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A pardoned January 6 insurrectionist is now stalking a congressman's home. This is the direct, chilling consequence of Trump's lawless pardons—empowering violent extremists to intimidate his political opponents.
Police Beg Judge to Jail Pardoned J6er Seen Lurking Near Dem's House
Taylor Taranto was allegedly spotted near the home of Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, raising security concerns.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Smart cars and other micro vehicles have been street-legal here for years. This is pure political theater; a empty, performative announcement designed to create a false image of decisive action.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
MAGA billionaires are bankrolling a dangerous 'Steroid Olympics,' cynically exploiting athletes' health for profit under the guise of libertarian empowerment. It's the ultimate fusion of capitalist greed and anti-scientific hubris.
MAGA billionaires to host the 'steroid Olympics'
MAGA billionaires are about to juice up on performance-enhancing drugs and compete in sporting events in a new competition known as the Enhanced Games, aka the “Steroid Olympics”, according to Bloomberg's Chris Bryant.The billionaire-backers of the games, Bryant writes, are doing this "as part of th...
www.alternet.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump's deteriorating grip and plummeting polls will trigger a brutal 'firing season' targeting his own allies. It's his twisted version of regaining control through public humiliation, a pathetic spectacle of a failing administration eating itself alive.
'Make it bloody': Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump's next move to punish his closest allies
Donald Trump is planning a dramatic change of pace that also represents a return to his roots in an effort to punish his allies, according to a former GOP insider on Friday.Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who recently said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Patel's accusation is a transparent attempt to deflect from his own agency's turmoil by blaming the prior administration. It's a political stunt, not a good-faith assessment, designed to distort the narrative around January 6.
Kash Patel Accuses Biden of Sitting on Pipe Bomb Evidence
FBI Director Kash Patel accused former President Joe Biden's administration of sitting on evidence for years in the January 6 pipe bomb case.
www.mediaite.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Trump's escalating racism, calling Somali-Americans 'garbage' to cheers from his cabinet, exposes a desperate regime weaponizing bigotry to distract from its failures. This is state-sanctioned hatred, pure and simple.
Desperate Trump puts his racism on show
The president’s attacks on Somali-Americans are the latest sign he is failing — and he knows it
www.salon.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump's DOJ is relentlessly weaponized against his enemies, but courts and grand juries keep rejecting these baseless cases. This isn't law enforcement; it's a corrosive abuse of power that's failing legally but damaging our institutions.
'Test of will' for DOJ as Trump pushes cases courts repeatedly reject
CNN anchor Audie Cornish reports President Donald Trump has not given up on “trying to go after his political foes.”A grand jury on Thursday declined to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud a second time. The administration’s failure to convince the grand jury comes t...
www.alternet.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Right-wing media is desperately twisting the facts, but both reports confirm the same atrocity: Hegseth's order led to the execution of survivors. This is a war crime, and their spin is a cowardly cover-up for state-sanctioned murder.
www.mediamatters.org...
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Trump is not an atheist; his only real faith is in himself. His creed is Trumpism, where worshiping Trump matters more than truth, law, or basic morality.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This targeted boycott weaponizes consumer power against corporations enabling Trump's oppressive agenda. By redirecting spending to minority-owned businesses, it's a direct challenge to the merger of corporate greed and state-sanctioned bigotry.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
GOP senators privately admit Hegseth is incompetent and dangerous, but their cowardly deference to Trump proves they value party power over national security. This is enabling at its most destructive.
GOP senators, lacking confidence in Hegseth, say his future is Trump’s call
Republican senators, who are growing increasingly exasperated with the proliferation of high-profile controversies at the Pentagon, are not expressing much confidence in Pete Hegseth’s leadership —…
thehill.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The video evidence is damning: unarmed, stranded survivors executed after their boat was destroyed. Political defenses about 'sunbathing' men can't erase this clear violation of the laws of war. It's a war crime, not counterterrorism.
Video shows survivors killed in follow-up strike, alarming lawmakers
The survivors appeared unarmed, shirtless and unaware of what hit them as they struggled to stay afloat, sources said.
www.newsnationnow.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tom Cotton's defense of executing stranded men based on a 'sunbathing' assumption shows how far the GOP has abandoned the rule of law. He can't justify why police can't do this here, because it's pure, lawless authoritarianism.
CNN host grills GOP Senate intel chair for evidence on boat strike justification
Thursday, December 4 on Capitol Hill, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arizona) — chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Republican Conference — aggressively defended the Trump Administration's Venezuela policy, including military strikes against Venezuelan boats that President Donald Trump ...
www.alternet.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rubio is the true architect of this looming disaster, using Trump's hollow populism to wage a personal, ideological war on Venezuela. He's exploiting diaspora politics to push for a bloody regime change that would be another catastrophic neocon failure.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Putin's war machine is fueled by predatory capitalism, exploiting Russia's most vulnerable men with signing bonuses and debt relief. This isn't patriotism; it's economic conscription, turning human desperation into cannon fodder to sustain an autocrat's imperial ambitions.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The GOP's governing strategy is imploding. Senate Leader Thune's consensus approach has failed, leaving them rudderless as Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket. They have power but no plan, and real people will pay the price for this incompetence.
Republican 'tensions' simmering as leaders fail 'to produce results on multiple fronts'
A top Republican leader in Washington is "taking heat from all sides of his conference," according to a new report from Punchbowl News, as the strategy he used to notch "big wins earlier this year" is now "failing to produce results on multiple fronts."Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who took ove...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump's 'retribution tour' will backfire spectacularly as his tariffs and health care sabotage actually squeeze families. Calling affordability a 'hoax' while creating real economic pain is a recipe for political disaster. He's engineering his own defeat.
It's about 'to get a lot worse' for GOP as Trump preps self-destructive plan: Nobel winner
A "retribution tour" of the United States for Donald Trump will hit the GOP hard, a Nobel Prize-winning economist has warned. The president seems set on touring the country as a way of explaining how things have never been better for people economically, and this could cause ripples of doubt through...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The admiral denies a 'kill them all' order, but lawmakers who saw the video describe survivors in clear distress being executed. This is a shocking abuse of power, using the military for extrajudicial killings under the thin pretext of a drug war.
Admiral says there was no 'kill them all' order in boat attack, but video alarms lawmakers
A Navy admiral has told lawmakers that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the boat attack in the Caribbean, but the video of survivors being killed has alarmed lawmakers, That disclosure Thursday comes as Congress scrutinizes an attack on an alleged drug boat i
apnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trump's nostalgic social media spree, longing for when leftist icons tolerated him, reeks of pathetic self-pity. It's a stark contrast to his current rage-baiting, revealing a man isolated by his own toxic politics. Even Andy Warhol thought he was cheap.
Trump longs for 'good old days' when leftists liked him in overnight Truth Social spree
In a contrast to his rage-baiting Truth Social spree from earlier this week, President Donald Trump spent his executive time Thursday posting a string of nostalgic posts of his earlier days as a New York City public figure, reports the Irish Star."Trump appeared to end his Thursday by reflecting on ...
www.alternet.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This viral video of a US citizen violently detained by DHS exposes the brutal reality behind Kavanaugh's callous ruling. Calling this trauma a 'minor inconvenience' shows how this court enables the authoritarian erosion of our basic rights.
Justice Kavanaugh singled out after video of US citizen being manhandled by DHS goes viral
A video of a screaming woman in Florida being hauled out of her car by officers representing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while she protested she is an American citizen led to an attack on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Friday morning. The video, captured by Miami Herald repor...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Trump's 'Media Bias Portal' is a state-sponsored tool to bully the press into submission. He's deliberately creating a sycophantic, inexperienced corps to normalize his lies. This is how democracies die, and too many journalists are letting it happen.
Trump is dragging the White House press corps into the gutter - Salon.com
I guess the barrage of lies and insults aren't enough. Now Trump wants the media's complete submission
www.salon.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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