Jennifer Gordon Thomas
@ragekitten.bsky.social
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
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Trump makes these baloney investment claims all the time (with help from collaborator corporations and authoritarian countries) but they don't work, even with media outlets readily repeating them. Polling on Trump and the economy continues to crater, net approval currently -25ish.
“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.”
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December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Trump makes these baloney investment claims all the time (with help from collaborator corporations and authoritarian countries) but they don't work, even with media outlets readily repeating them. Polling on Trump and the economy continues to crater, net approval currently -25ish.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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If this is why Netflix bought WB, the funny part is that WB is also bad at developing new stuff. This is a problem at all the studios. Passing fading IP around isn't gonna do much of anything. Some of these IPs have been around so long that some of their fans are already dying.
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
If this is why Netflix bought WB, the funny part is that WB is also bad at developing new stuff. This is a problem at all the studios. Passing fading IP around isn't gonna do much of anything. Some of these IPs have been around so long that some of their fans are already dying.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
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Prof Hotez knows.
This is as predictable as gravity.
This is as predictable as gravity.
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Prof Hotez knows.
This is as predictable as gravity.
This is as predictable as gravity.
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exactly this
"The only way to fix this country is total reform and disempowerment of the Supreme Court."
"The first step in getting there is delegimitization. We WANT a fight."
"The only way to fix this country is total reform and disempowerment of the Supreme Court."
"The first step in getting there is delegimitization. We WANT a fight."
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
exactly this
"The only way to fix this country is total reform and disempowerment of the Supreme Court."
"The first step in getting there is delegimitization. We WANT a fight."
"The only way to fix this country is total reform and disempowerment of the Supreme Court."
"The first step in getting there is delegimitization. We WANT a fight."
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Cool cool. Now let's make a little internet joke about doing Hegseth.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Cool cool. Now let's make a little internet joke about doing Hegseth.
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This is the small open boat Team Hegseth bombed and then bombed again. It's almost 1700 miles by sea from Trinidad to Miami. There is no way this boat was headed for the US.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the small open boat Team Hegseth bombed and then bombed again. It's almost 1700 miles by sea from Trinidad to Miami. There is no way this boat was headed for the US.
No one recognizes the current SCOTUS as legitimate. No one but Trump. And sometimes he doesn't either.
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
No one recognizes the current SCOTUS as legitimate. No one but Trump. And sometimes he doesn't either.
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🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:
"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:
"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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BREAKING: Judge Illston issues a TRO blocking State Dep’t RIFs set to go into effect as soon as Friday.
![Given the urgency of this motion - with employee firings scheduled for tomorrow, on
exceedingly short notice from defendants - the Court finds it appropriate to grant plaintiffs' TRO motion without a hearing. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b); Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). Some federal employees scheduled to be separated tomorrow are stationed abroad, meaning their separations could occur in a matter of only several hours.
Case 3:25-cv-08302-SI|
Document 125 Filed 12/04/25
Page 2 of 3
The Court has reviewed the motion, the supporting declarations, and the supplemental
pleading and concludes that plaintiffs have met their burden in demonstrating that a TRO should issue.' On November 12, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Continuing Resolution ending
the government shutdown. Pub. L. No. 119-37, 139 Stat. 495 (2025). The Continuing Resolution contains Section 120, which provides in part:
SEC. 120. (a) PROHIBITION.— Notwithstanding section 106(1), during the period between the date of enactment of this Act and the date specified in section 106(3) of this Act,['] no federal funds may be used to initiate, carry out, implement, or otherwise notice a reduction in force to reduce the number of employees within any department, agency, or office of the Federal Government.
Pub. L. No. 119-37, § 120(a), 139 Stat. 495 (2025) (emphasis added). That is, Section 120(a) prohibits federal agencies from issuing or implementing RIFs from November 12, 2025, through January 30, 2026. Nothing in the plain text of the statute limits Section 120(a) to apply only to those RIFs initiated during the government shutdown. Plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on their claims that the State Department's actions to separate employees on December 5, 2025, pursuant to RIF notices issued earlier in the year, violates Section 120(a) of the Continuing Resolution. The Court therefore adopts the language of plaintiffs' proposed TRO until a preliminary injunction hearing can be held.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreig66x66ozkbouciavcjgtevgamjzcfb3uaxr3akt6jzgsk6pahk7a@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
BREAKING: Judge Illston issues a TRO blocking State Dep’t RIFs set to go into effect as soon as Friday.
GERRYMANDER THE COURT. (SCOTUS) Apparently that should work just fine.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
GERRYMANDER THE COURT. (SCOTUS) Apparently that should work just fine.
We'll eat the Conservative SCOTUS members first.
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We'll eat the Conservative SCOTUS members first.
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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Reason #1783 why I have no time at all for Democrats who are out talking about fighting for our democracy but aren’t willing to commit to federal court reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reason #1783 why I have no time at all for Democrats who are out talking about fighting for our democracy but aren’t willing to commit to federal court reform.
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert from the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights, reveals the existence of North Korean-run concentration camps for Ukrainian children abducted by the Russian invaders.
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert from the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights, reveals the existence of North Korean-run concentration camps for Ukrainian children abducted by the Russian invaders.
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.