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Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of those legally dubious boat strikes.

Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Pete Hegseth's travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Profile in Awfulness: Tom Cotton
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Profile in Awfulness: Tom Cotton
The senator from Arkansas is a firehose of lies.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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He's not remembering what he said just a day or two ago.

www.youtube.com/shorts/mPFvI...
Trump: “I never said that.” Also Trump: “We’d release it. No problem.”
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I seriously doubt that our Navy is being used against "narco-terrorism" whatever the fuck that is. The public is being lied to.

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Trump Doctrine: the Terrifying World View Endangering Us All
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The Trump Doctrine: the Terrifying World View Endangering Us All
Part 2 analysis of the newly released Trump administration National Security Strategy
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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DOJ wants to force American Oversight to get rid of three pages of a FOIA complaint that lays out DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein cover-up.

Here's some of what they're asking to strike.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"Look, I know you don’t understand how I’m suddenly the guy making decisions about everybody’s kids when I look and talk like a guy who should never be around a kid ever again, but you need to know that I’m doing what’s best for your children."
I’m Robert F. Kennedy and I Hate Your Kids—I Mean, Um, Vaccines
“A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule, vot...
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Good morning Bluesky. This is the most corrupt, transactional, and selfish, and need I say it, incestutuous, regime in US history. That is saying a lot. Wow.
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"Region imported 438,000 tons of pesticides and herbicides in 2020, two-thirds more than in 2018. More than half of such chemicals used in Nigeria are highly hazardous, at least 40% of those can’t be sold in Europe"

#Pesticide colonialism
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Europe’s Banned Pesticides Are Poisoning Nigeria
Chemicals barred by the EU are widely available across Africa, threatening food and water supplies.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"A new report from ProPublica revealing two of Trump's own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud... It sounds like the standard the president and his administration have used to go after his political enemies, including NY AG Letitia James, Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff, and Eric Swalwell."
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Fired FBI agents file lawsuit against FBI director Kash Patel and DOJ, alleging unlawful retaliation

www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-f...
Fired FBI agents file lawsuit against FBI director Kash Patel and DOJ, alleging unlawful retaliation
Ex-FBI agents are trying to get their jobs back, claiming they were fired during Trump's second term for their efforts in 2020 to head off a riot in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
www.cbsnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Hopefully we all know what 2 do come midterms? We must obliterate the entire Traitorous Republican party 2 the point where they cannot recover EVER again then we can get down 2 business of Removing every single unquestionably unqualified cabinet members charge them with HIGH TREASON! LET'S KICK ASS
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.”

Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”

Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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FOX: Interim U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, Alina Habba has resigned. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she accepted the resignation after a court's decision disqualifying Habba from serving.
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.

Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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TheTruth

Excellent news. It’s amazing that MAGA keeps asking what has he done that’s unconstitutional? It’s more like what hasn’t he done that’s unconstitutional? 🙄
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation used unsealed documents showing that Trump-aligned political action committees (PACs) and the campaign's general fund paid millions to organizers of the Jan. 6 "Save America" rally, including funds for travel, hotels, and a busing program for attendees.
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Duckworth Blasts Trump's Abuse Of Power As AOC Battles His Greedy Tariffs and Somalia Rises Against His Racist Garbage Remarks
Duckworth Blasts Trump's Abuse Of Power As AOC Battles His Greedy Tariffs and Somalia Rises Against His Racist Garbage Remarks
Onward!
www.dworkinsubstack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM