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“Since taking office, Hegseth has had few defenders in internal White House deliberations, even as Trump has backed him publicly. But the past week has been rocky even by Hegsethian standards…”
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Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Since taking office, Hegseth has had few defenders in internal White House deliberations, even as Trump has backed him publicly. But the past week has been rocky even by Hegsethian standards…”
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“Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees is in a state of disrepair.”
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The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities
The saga is emblematic of Trump’s most dangerous and self-serving tendencies.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees is in a state of disrepair.”
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“The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s conclusions are unequivocal and brutal: Pete Hegseth endangered the success of a U.S. military operation and put the lives of American military personnel at risk.”
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Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s conclusions are unequivocal and brutal: Pete Hegseth endangered the success of a U.S. military operation and put the lives of American military personnel at risk.”
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“The ambiguity of the Tennessee results—Behn lost, but she over-performed, but she probably under-over-performed—has reignited an interminable intra-party debate.”
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Republicans Are in Trouble, but Democrats Could Blow It
Last night’s Tennessee special election gave both Democrats and Republicans something to worry about.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“The ambiguity of the Tennessee results—Behn lost, but she over-performed, but she probably under-over-performed—has reignited an interminable intra-party debate.”
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“The inspector general’s conclusions seem likely to create an impression among the military rank and file that there are two sets of rules: one for the Defense Department’s presidentially appointed leadership, and one for everyone else.”
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Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector-general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“The inspector general’s conclusions seem likely to create an impression among the military rank and file that there are two sets of rules: one for the Defense Department’s presidentially appointed leadership, and one for everyone else.”
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“The United States’ justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold President Donald Trump and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election. The failure will invite future attempts.”
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The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“The United States’ justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold President Donald Trump and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election. The failure will invite future attempts.”
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If, as reports say, Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors of the first strike against the “terrorist-controlled drug boats,” then he issued a “no quarter” order, and he could be guilty of murder and war crimes according to American and international law.
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If, as reports say, Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors of the first strike against the “terrorist-controlled drug boats,” then he issued a “no quarter” order, and he could be guilty of murder and war crimes according to American and international law.
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“The world that ChatGPT built is a world defined by a particular type of precarity. It is a world that is perpetually waiting for a shoe to drop.“
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The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“The world that ChatGPT built is a world defined by a particular type of precarity. It is a world that is perpetually waiting for a shoe to drop.“
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Hawai’i Independence Day
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hawai’i Independence Day
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
www.instagram.com/p/DRm13hlE5H...
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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Youcis has demonstrated that far-right creators can use AI to make good-enough entertainment without needing to go through any gatekeeping institutions…And proven even those who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
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The Racist, AI-Generated Future of Entertainment
The bigotry of a new animated series demonstrates the alarming possibilities of artificial intelligence.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Youcis has demonstrated that far-right creators can use AI to make good-enough entertainment without needing to go through any gatekeeping institutions…And proven even those who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
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“As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory…The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.”
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Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory…The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.”
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Gratitude is so effective that if you could bottle it you’d be a billionaire. But as with so many beautiful parts of life, gratitude is not something you can market like a drug or nutritional supplement: It happens to be completely free—but not so easy to attain.
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The Right Attitude to Gratitude
Being thankful is the ultimate win-win: If the person being thanked feels happy, the person doing the thanking feels happier still.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Gratitude is so effective that if you could bottle it you’d be a billionaire. But as with so many beautiful parts of life, gratitude is not something you can market like a drug or nutritional supplement: It happens to be completely free—but not so easy to attain.
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“In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense.”
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Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense.”
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Big Island Surf (@bigislandsurf1) on Threads
Started about 35 minutes ago.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Trump and Hegseth do not merely believe that they should be free to give illegal orders and that the rank and file should have to follow them. They are also keen to use the power of the state to suppress political dissent.”
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Trump and Hegseth’s Hysterical Reaction to an Ad
For the president and his minions, loyalty is more important than legality.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Trump and Hegseth do not merely believe that they should be free to give illegal orders and that the rank and file should have to follow them. They are also keen to use the power of the state to suppress political dissent.”
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“We don’t have any inflation,” he insisted earlier this month. Also: “Our prices are coming down very substantially on groceries and things.”
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation
Having promised to lower living costs, the president seems keen to make American life more expensive.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“We don’t have any inflation,” he insisted earlier this month. Also: “Our prices are coming down very substantially on groceries and things.”
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“For a long time, Greene’s seemingly fathomless gullibility qualified her as a MAGA leader in Congress. But the gullibility actually did have a limit. Sometime after her election, she began to realize that she’d been made a fool of.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
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November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“For a long time, Greene’s seemingly fathomless gullibility qualified her as a MAGA leader in Congress. But the gullibility actually did have a limit. Sometime after her election, she began to realize that she’d been made a fool of.”
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Pilots, technicians and support teams rehearse the types of operations France may be called upon to conduct in a rapidly deteriorating international security landscape.
Exclusive: France trains air force for war scenario in TARANIS drill
Pilots, technicians and support teams rehearse the types of operations France may be called upon to conduct in a rapidly deteriorating international security landscape.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Pilots, technicians and support teams rehearse the types of operations France may be called upon to conduct in a rapidly deteriorating international security landscape.
“She revels in the privileges she’s been granted since being transferred to a new facility by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, and she expresses optimism about one day freeing herself.”
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The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails
Extra toilet paper is just one of the privileges the former Epstein associate is enjoying in prison.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“She revels in the privileges she’s been granted since being transferred to a new facility by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, and she expresses optimism about one day freeing herself.”
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“Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus.”
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‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
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November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus.”
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“Over the past 24 hours, multiple media outlets, citing several administration officials with direct knowledge, have published details of a new U.S. peace proposal that is tantamount to a Ukrainian surrender.”
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A Self-Defeating Reversal on Ukraine
The Trump administration had actually begun to make progress. Now it’s all in doubt.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Over the past 24 hours, multiple media outlets, citing several administration officials with direct knowledge, have published details of a new U.S. peace proposal that is tantamount to a Ukrainian surrender.”
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“Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats…It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump…”
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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken
Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
“Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats…It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump…”
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“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls, deflecting criticism with crassness and obscenity.”
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A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls, deflecting criticism with crassness and obscenity.”
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