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FACTS: Before Trump was elected, inflation was projected to drop to 2.2% by the end of 2025. In September, it rose to 3%.
#DonTheCon
#DonTheCon
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
FACTS: Before Trump was elected, inflation was projected to drop to 2.2% by the end of 2025. In September, it rose to 3%.
#DonTheCon
#DonTheCon
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
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Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Indiana state senator.
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Indiana state senator.
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When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
Przewalski's horse
Mountain Gorilla
Bushbaby
Hyrax
Olive Baboon, way too close for comfort.
Mountain Gorilla
Bushbaby
Hyrax
Olive Baboon, way too close for comfort.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Wood stork
Bobcat
Manatee
Alligator (that's kind of cheating)
Indigo snake
Wood stork
Bobcat
Manatee
Alligator (that's kind of cheating)
Indigo snake
Coyote
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Przewalski's horse
Mountain Gorilla
Bushbaby
Hyrax
Olive Baboon, way too close for comfort.
Mountain Gorilla
Bushbaby
Hyrax
Olive Baboon, way too close for comfort.
Thread.
There is no war.
There is no war.
Seeing a lot of folks calling these acts war crimes.
And, to be clear, had these acts been committed in an armed conflict they would amount to *multiple* war crimes.
But it is crucial we distinguish wartime crimes from those outside of war.
And, to be clear, had these acts been committed in an armed conflict they would amount to *multiple* war crimes.
But it is crucial we distinguish wartime crimes from those outside of war.
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Thread.
There is no war.
There is no war.
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
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Someone should remind Hegseth that when the Dems win the House they will have subpoena power
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Someone should remind Hegseth that when the Dems win the House they will have subpoena power
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Every claim in this paragraph is false, which cannot bode well for the rest of the post.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Every claim in this paragraph is false, which cannot bode well for the rest of the post.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
If Trump actually cared about the drugs he uses as a pretext to murder people in the Caribbean, he would not pardon people serving time for smuggling drugs without providing some evidence that they are actually innocent.
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If Trump actually cared about the drugs he uses as a pretext to murder people in the Caribbean, he would not pardon people serving time for smuggling drugs without providing some evidence that they are actually innocent.
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Caught: Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler invented a fake quote in her dissent to the court’s new congressional redistricting decision on Tuesday. It marks a continuing trend in the adulteration of legal precedent in right-wing jurisprudence. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander
It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
slate.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Caught: Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler invented a fake quote in her dissent to the court’s new congressional redistricting decision on Tuesday. It marks a continuing trend in the adulteration of legal precedent in right-wing jurisprudence. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
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truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
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BREAKING:
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Order – #196 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
ORDER: The Court ORDERS that the Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 a...
www.courtlistener.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
BREAKING:
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Sixteen Tons.
10 Better Choices for the National Anthem Than the Actual National Anthem:
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Sixteen Tons.
Also, early Christians are not known for their uncritical celebration of the world they lived in.
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Also, early Christians are not known for their uncritical celebration of the world they lived in.
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I second the motion to adopt this term.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I second the motion to adopt this term.
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obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
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Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
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It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
The National Guard shooting suspect was in one of the CIA’s ‘Zero Units’
The man charged with shooting two National Guard members in D.C. is an Afghan national who came to the United States in September 2021 and worked with the CIA.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
😬
Modernity was nice while it lasted.
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
😬
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history