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US intelligence agencies have supplied the White House with coordinates of suspected drug-trafficking sites in Venezuela and Colombia, the NYT reports.
Which suggests any attack won’t be limited to Venezuela.
Which suggests any attack won’t be limited to Venezuela.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
US intelligence agencies have supplied the White House with coordinates of suspected drug-trafficking sites in Venezuela and Colombia, the NYT reports.
Which suggests any attack won’t be limited to Venezuela.
Which suggests any attack won’t be limited to Venezuela.
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NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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Gift link : 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
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Gift link : www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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The one lesson Trump learned from his first term was that he didn’t fully exercise the power of the office to grow his wealth. He is determined to make up for that this time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The one lesson Trump learned from his first term was that he didn’t fully exercise the power of the office to grow his wealth. He is determined to make up for that this time.
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True. Its a cult of faith and submission modelled on religion more than anything else.
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
True. Its a cult of faith and submission modelled on religion more than anything else.
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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It dovetails with decades old resentment and grievance best summed up as “you can’t fucking tell me what to do!”
Slinging Slurs, whipping off Sig-Heils, Anti-Vax BS, it’s all a finger in the eye of the people who told them That Stuff Is Bad, Don’t Do It.
It’s weaponized Oppositional Defiance.
Slinging Slurs, whipping off Sig-Heils, Anti-Vax BS, it’s all a finger in the eye of the people who told them That Stuff Is Bad, Don’t Do It.
It’s weaponized Oppositional Defiance.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It dovetails with decades old resentment and grievance best summed up as “you can’t fucking tell me what to do!”
Slinging Slurs, whipping off Sig-Heils, Anti-Vax BS, it’s all a finger in the eye of the people who told them That Stuff Is Bad, Don’t Do It.
It’s weaponized Oppositional Defiance.
Slinging Slurs, whipping off Sig-Heils, Anti-Vax BS, it’s all a finger in the eye of the people who told them That Stuff Is Bad, Don’t Do It.
It’s weaponized Oppositional Defiance.
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Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
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Here's another metaphor: RMS Titanic was sunk by its own ballroom. To accommodate a grandiose high ceiling in the ballroom, a watertight bulkhead had to be lowered, allowing water to flow from one flooded compartment into the next. Had that not happened, the ship would have stayed afloat.
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's another metaphor: RMS Titanic was sunk by its own ballroom. To accommodate a grandiose high ceiling in the ballroom, a watertight bulkhead had to be lowered, allowing water to flow from one flooded compartment into the next. Had that not happened, the ship would have stayed afloat.
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Remigration is ethnic cleansing, which is a crime against humanity and a form of genocide.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
They're not even bothering to disguise their real aims any longer.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Remigration is ethnic cleansing, which is a crime against humanity and a form of genocide.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
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This will cost them way more than 75 million. I know at least 3 alum donors who will cease support.
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This will cost them way more than 75 million. I know at least 3 alum donors who will cease support.
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Northwestern agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government in a deal reached on Friday with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions in research funding and closes multiple investigations into antisemitism on campus.
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Northwestern agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government in a deal reached on Friday with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions in research funding and closes multiple investigations into antisemitism on campus.
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“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
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But yet, Trump is about to pardon the ex-president of Honduras who was found guilty of sending hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. I guess poor guys on little boats don't have the funds to bribe the President of the US.
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
But yet, Trump is about to pardon the ex-president of Honduras who was found guilty of sending hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. I guess poor guys on little boats don't have the funds to bribe the President of the US.
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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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For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
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The Seal Team Six crew needs to be charged as well as Hegseth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Seal Team Six crew needs to be charged as well as Hegseth.
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With all due respect, this is EXACTLY the wrong question. "How do we get through the next 3 years" implicitly takes out of consideration the idea that this gang could be removed from power before the term ends.
We should be asking *how* to remove them or pressure them to throw the worst ones out.
We should be asking *how* to remove them or pressure them to throw the worst ones out.
Exactly.
The question is how the hell we get through the next 3 years when the regime is hellbent on ethnic cleansing, electoral malfeasance, and selling the country out to whoever will enrich Trump and his cronies.
The question is how the hell we get through the next 3 years when the regime is hellbent on ethnic cleansing, electoral malfeasance, and selling the country out to whoever will enrich Trump and his cronies.
Team Trump justifies his endless parade of lawless actions as what Americans voted for but it clearly is not. He’s minus 25 and people hate everything he’s doing. There’s no support for any of this, let alone in the illegal manner it’s being imposed.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
With all due respect, this is EXACTLY the wrong question. "How do we get through the next 3 years" implicitly takes out of consideration the idea that this gang could be removed from power before the term ends.
We should be asking *how* to remove them or pressure them to throw the worst ones out.
We should be asking *how* to remove them or pressure them to throw the worst ones out.
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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This is absolutely insane..
Trump and Witkoff are negotiating on behalf and for the benefit of Russia, the country now sending troops to Venezuela to train their military on how to kill US soldiers as they continue to murder Ukrainian citizens daily...
Trump and Witkoff are negotiating on behalf and for the benefit of Russia, the country now sending troops to Venezuela to train their military on how to kill US soldiers as they continue to murder Ukrainian citizens daily...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is absolutely insane..
Trump and Witkoff are negotiating on behalf and for the benefit of Russia, the country now sending troops to Venezuela to train their military on how to kill US soldiers as they continue to murder Ukrainian citizens daily...
Trump and Witkoff are negotiating on behalf and for the benefit of Russia, the country now sending troops to Venezuela to train their military on how to kill US soldiers as they continue to murder Ukrainian citizens daily...