TomB.
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Sinking ship, meet rats…
BREAKING MS NOW:
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sinking ship, meet rats…
Huge if true…
Buyer's remorse is going beyond disappointment with Trump's second term, and extending to an increasing repudiation among voters of his nativist, protectionist, isolationist policies. lnk.thebulwark.com/48TqBqY
Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism
His insane overreaches are giving Americans a new appreciation for free trade, immigration, and international alliances.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Huge if true…
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We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.
We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.
We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.
Mike McCaul calling MAGA “them” is an intriguing development…
Cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com
Cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul: "I do find this conversion of Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about how we need to tone down the rhetoric when she's been the one who has thrown a lot of that out very fascinating to watch. What you're seeing is a break within MAGA."
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mike McCaul calling MAGA “them” is an intriguing development…
Cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com
Cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com
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McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
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McGovern: "To say Democrats are the ones who want to enrich insurance companies is absurd. Republicans support big banks, big tech, billionaires, tax breaks for huge greedy corporations. And they accuse Dems of being in the pocket of the insurance industry? Give me a break. Nobody believes this BS."
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
McGovern: "To say Democrats are the ones who want to enrich insurance companies is absurd. Republicans support big banks, big tech, billionaires, tax breaks for huge greedy corporations. And they accuse Dems of being in the pocket of the insurance industry? Give me a break. Nobody believes this BS."
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Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats.
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
Senator Reaches Damning Conclusions After Classified Briefing With Hegseth, Rubio
Sen. Chris Murphy trashed a meeting with the Cabinet duo about the Trump administration's boat bombings.
www.huffpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats.
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trump says that affordability is a Democratic "hoax," but his tariffs derailed an economy that was headed in the right direction
The Affordability Crisis Is Real and Tariffs Caused It
President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania last week to double down on his economic messages: The affordability concerns of Americans are a Democratic “hoax” and if anyone is unhappy, it's a Blame Biden Economy.
bloom.bg
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Trump says that affordability is a Democratic "hoax," but his tariffs derailed an economy that was headed in the right direction
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A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say things have become too unaffordable and have a dim outlook on the economy and President Trump's handling of it. n.pr/4oUB8rT
Trump's economic approval hits a new low at 36%, poll finds
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say things have become too unaffordable and have a dim outlook on the economy and President Trump's handling of it.
n.pr
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say things have become too unaffordable and have a dim outlook on the economy and President Trump's handling of it. n.pr/4oUB8rT
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Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
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one of the ways that Joe Manchin was very damaging to the Dem party as a whole was the way he'd go on television all the time to talk about how the rest of his party sucked
nobody should ever make the mistake of thinking MTG is on their side but "Republican on TV saying Republicans suck" is helpful
nobody should ever make the mistake of thinking MTG is on their side but "Republican on TV saying Republicans suck" is helpful
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I think the midterms are gonna be very hard for Republicans. I'm one of the people that's willing to admit the truth and say I don't see Republicans winning the midterms right now, so that doesn't bode well for Mike Johnson."
December 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
one of the ways that Joe Manchin was very damaging to the Dem party as a whole was the way he'd go on television all the time to talk about how the rest of his party sucked
nobody should ever make the mistake of thinking MTG is on their side but "Republican on TV saying Republicans suck" is helpful
nobody should ever make the mistake of thinking MTG is on their side but "Republican on TV saying Republicans suck" is helpful
Colossal Armadas dispatched to subdue smaller countries are famously successful…
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Colossal Armadas dispatched to subdue smaller countries are famously successful…
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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This
"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.
Donald Trump and the Power of the Little Lie
The war against Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about the destruction of regular order.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This
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Don't get it twisted. Those close-up Vanity Fair photos aren't mean. They're art. Hate corrodes the container it's carried in. Exposing evil and invoking a response is art.
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Don't get it twisted. Those close-up Vanity Fair photos aren't mean. They're art. Hate corrodes the container it's carried in. Exposing evil and invoking a response is art.
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CRIMINAL IN CHIEF: DONALD TRUMP
34 felony convictions. Cozying up to convicted sex traffickers. Cashing in on crypto grifts. Inviting foreign influence into American politics.
This is the standard Trump sets.
See more at: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/
34 felony convictions. Cozying up to convicted sex traffickers. Cashing in on crypto grifts. Inviting foreign influence into American politics.
This is the standard Trump sets.
See more at: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
CRIMINAL IN CHIEF: DONALD TRUMP
34 felony convictions. Cozying up to convicted sex traffickers. Cashing in on crypto grifts. Inviting foreign influence into American politics.
This is the standard Trump sets.
See more at: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/
34 felony convictions. Cozying up to convicted sex traffickers. Cashing in on crypto grifts. Inviting foreign influence into American politics.
This is the standard Trump sets.
See more at: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/
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[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
Tasty and Highly Quotable read:
Delighted to have @lizcookkc.bsky.social writing for us and she is in her damn wheelhouse defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
defector.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tasty and Highly Quotable read:
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Gov. Shapiro on Vance's visit to PA: “This guy shows up and lies to the good people of Pennsylvania and tries to convince them to unsee something they saw with their own eyes — rising prices at the grocery store and elsewhere…I know they'll reject JD's BS.”
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Gov. Shapiro on Vance's visit to PA: “This guy shows up and lies to the good people of Pennsylvania and tries to convince them to unsee something they saw with their own eyes — rising prices at the grocery store and elsewhere…I know they'll reject JD's BS.”
Where’s Rock Hudson when we need him…?
Note that per WaPo, Hegseth considered but opted against an ArcticCom.
Putin orders building of North Pole ice base
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Where’s Rock Hudson when we need him…?
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Latest Jobs Report Suggests Tariffs Harming Blue Collar Work, Counter to White House Narrative talkingpointsmemo.com/news/latest-...
Latest Jobs Report Suggests Tariffs Harming Blue Collar Work, Counter to White House Narrative
Tuesday morning gave us the latest set of data indicating that President...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Latest Jobs Report Suggests Tariffs Harming Blue Collar Work, Counter to White House Narrative talkingpointsmemo.com/news/latest-...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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‘Trump’s Totally My Bitch!’ and Other Wild Quotes From Susie Wiles talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
‘Trump’s Totally My Bitch!’ and Other Wild Quotes From Susie Wiles
Our bespoke piñata of the day is the Susie Wiles piece in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
‘Trump’s Totally My Bitch!’ and Other Wild Quotes From Susie Wiles talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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“That is nothing but whitewashed Sunday morning Vaseline over wholesale misogyny.”
@profgalloway.com's fail of the week is Face the Nation treating settled medical science around mifepristone like it’s up for debate.
@profgalloway.com's fail of the week is Face the Nation treating settled medical science around mifepristone like it’s up for debate.
December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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