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Stop asking why corporate Democrats keep failing and pay attention to what they do. Jeffries is openly pushing the party to move further into Neoliberal capitalism and championing an agenda that’s defined by a venture capitalist.

They’re not failing. They’re in on it.

www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Under the bus you go.

CNN: 'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean…after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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1. Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator for a peace deal in Ukraine, has an active financial partnership with Len Blavatnik, a billionaire sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. Witkoff and Blavatnik are co-developing ultra-luxury condos in NYC, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire
Steve Witkoff coached a top Putin aide on managing Trump and created a peace plan that mirrored Russian demands
popular.info
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The fact that some people find it easier to believe a grand conspiracy rather than Trump being a simple egomaniac is one of the largest signs many people have no ability to deal with fascism now or in the future.

If you can't handle basic facts, then you will be wholly unable to find solutions.
Wow, we all knew but this confirms it.
IT WAS ALL STAGED...
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed.
This story is part of a collaboration between FRONTLINE and ProPublica that includes an...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Something very “end of empire” that is happening lately is because the top of the pyramid is so unbelievably criminal and absurd, all the secret ways the U.S. conducts itself are spilling out into the open.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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"Ignore all the woke stuff..."

One day liberals will wake up to Tim Miller and most, not all, of the Bulwark crew. They are using you to feather their nest and will abandon POC and immigrants without hesitation. Also he's a gay man saying all this.

youtu.be/HeBoaDtfpks?...
James Carville Explains What Could Finally Unite Democrats
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The open question is simply if the American people are going to form a critical mass of anger at the absurd way they are ruled and demand transformative change.

Doesn’t have to be that many people.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Adam Smith himself wrote about how the rich and powerful have no interest in helping the country, their interest in politics and policy is solely about enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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💯 Fomenting fake wars, tanking the economy, promoting white nationalism, invading American cities, tearing down part of the White House, innumerable acts of corruption, destroying federal agencies, etc.

Where is the line, Congress?
What more does he have to do to damage our country?
not removing Trump is a dereliction of duty and it needs to be treated as such
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This ⬇️
I wrote a piece recently about how Trump, Putin, Musk and the rest are actually fellow citizens of a borderless, lawless society designed to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. Politics and patriotism are just a cover.
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The unspoken real reason: oligarch enrichment

Time to say it more frequently.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.

Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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💯... As we made crystal clear at #RemoveTheRegime, "Congress, this is on YOU."

Our lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are complicit in every crime and constitutional violation of this illegal administration unless and until they act to impeach, convict and remove.
If you read just one thing today, make it this:

"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America, and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."

www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...
Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…
www.techdirt.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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There are no high-minded nor structural defenses against an elite class that is all in on being terrible, there's just beating them.
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The wealthy have stolen so much wealth and rigged the system so far that our economy is on the verge of collapse. They’re pushing fascism and dismantling democracy to get at what little remains.

We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...
The Game They Make Us Play: Capitalism as a Ticking Time-Bomb
We're standing at the end of a disastrous cycle that has played out time and time again.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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1. EXCLUSIVE

Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage

The use of Chinese components was previously unreported

Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🖋️ “Reject Chaos and Protect Ukraine’s Autonomy” hit 5,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PTHQVH to 50409
Reject Chaos and Protect Ukraine’s Autonomy
Text SIGN PTHQVH to 50409 — I am writing with deep concern about the escalating confusion, contradictions, and apparent factional infighting inside the administration regarding the so-called “peace plan” for Ukraine — a plan whose authorship senior officials cannot agree upon, and one that appears to have been drafted in part by a sanctioned Russian banker. Over the past week, Americans have watched our foreign policy collapse into open chaos. First, journalists at Axios revealed a 28-point “peace plan” that read like a Russian wish list. Then foreign-policy expert Anne Applebaum publicly asked whether the administration was actually disputing whether the plan was written by Americans or Russians. Within hours, multiple senators confirmed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told them in Halifax that the proposal was not a U.S. plan — that it was a Russian document merely “received” by the U.S. But shortly after those statements became public, the State Department called the senators’ account “blatantly false,” and Rubio reversed himself and claimed the U.S. wrote the plan. These reversals are not normal. They are dangerous. As Anton La Guardia of The Economist put it: “If for a moment you thought the grown-ups were back in charge, think again. We’re still in the circus.” We now know, via Reuters, that this plan emerged from a meeting in Miami between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Kirill Dmitriev — a sanctioned Russian wealth-fund chief. Senior officials at the State Department and National Security Council were not briefed. At the same time, credible reporting suggests that Vice President J.D. Vance is running a parallel foreign-policy track without Rubio’s knowledge. Foreign nations are now being forced to negotiate with rival factions inside the U.S. government — some of which are reportedly coordinating with foreign powers. This is not only embarrassing; it is a profound national-security risk. Congress must act. A coerced Ukrainian “peace” agreement would not be peace at all. Vladimir Putin has violated every agreement he has ever signed — including the Budapest Memorandum, the Minsk accords, cease-fire deals, and every subsequent understanding meant to limit Russia’s hunger for land. Russia is openly rejecting any plan that does not destroy Ukrainian statehood and weaken NATO. Concessions from Ukraine are not “progress”; they are incentives for further aggression. To maintain U.S. credibility and global stability, I urge you to: 1. Reject any plan drafted with Russian participation or private financial interests. 2. Assert congressional oversight over Ukraine policy immediately. 3. Reaffirm that the United States supports Ukraine’s autonomy, territorial integrity, and the right to choose its alliances without coercion. 4. Oppose any attempt to force Ukraine into surrender under threats of withheld weapons or intelligence. America must not reward Putin’s violations or pressure a democratic ally into capitulation. Congress must reassert clarity, unity, and moral leadership.
resist.bot
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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ICE is trapping people in abusive relationships, and more generally, making immigrants afraid to assert legal rights and ask for help that they are very much entitled to. (Noting that this is not new, for example there's history of agricultural workers threatened with la migra for speaking out!)
How ICE’s Crackdown Hurts Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM