Jess
@mmebahorel.bsky.social
I have opinions on things, especially DC theatre, especially ones that got a major critic to block me on that other hellsite. They are mine, but you can borrow them.
The politics ones are extremely mine, especially the ones with my name on them.
The politics ones are extremely mine, especially the ones with my name on them.
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Is this why Bob Menendez is still in prison? No useful quo available now that Andy Kim is in that seat?
Pardoned Democrat Henry Cuellar wants GOP to probe his prosecutors
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Pardoned Democrat Henry Cuellar wants GOP to probe his prosecutors
The Texas lawmaker said in an interview he'd be willing to cooperate with a House Judiciary "weaponization" probe.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Is this why Bob Menendez is still in prison? No useful quo available now that Andy Kim is in that seat?
Under their own supposed logic, if there was a bigger boat, why are we wasting very expensive missiles on the little boat?
Clearly because they are ghouls making snuff videos and it's easier to see people die when you obliterate a little boat.
Clearly because they are ghouls making snuff videos and it's easier to see people die when you obliterate a little boat.
How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Under their own supposed logic, if there was a bigger boat, why are we wasting very expensive missiles on the little boat?
Clearly because they are ghouls making snuff videos and it's easier to see people die when you obliterate a little boat.
Clearly because they are ghouls making snuff videos and it's easier to see people die when you obliterate a little boat.
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A thread on obscenity. I'll get back to these cars. But first: tonight I took my 12yrold to see Nuremberg. He's a pretty serious movie watcher. Thought Zone of Interest was genius. I knew he could handle this. But this isn't a movie review. It's about IRL... 1/
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A thread on obscenity. I'll get back to these cars. But first: tonight I took my 12yrold to see Nuremberg. He's a pretty serious movie watcher. Thought Zone of Interest was genius. I knew he could handle this. But this isn't a movie review. It's about IRL... 1/
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
There was no call for this other than the desire to shoot snuff videos.
Leavenworth. Now. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. This should be not just career-ending but freedom-ending for every uniformed person involved. Hagueseth to Colorado Supermax as a civilian.
Leavenworth. Now. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. This should be not just career-ending but freedom-ending for every uniformed person involved. Hagueseth to Colorado Supermax as a civilian.
On left:
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There was no call for this other than the desire to shoot snuff videos.
Leavenworth. Now. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. This should be not just career-ending but freedom-ending for every uniformed person involved. Hagueseth to Colorado Supermax as a civilian.
Leavenworth. Now. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. This should be not just career-ending but freedom-ending for every uniformed person involved. Hagueseth to Colorado Supermax as a civilian.
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This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
This is not about the new horrible National Security Strategy, but it's from the same brainworms that brought the new horrible National Security Strategy.
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is not about the new horrible National Security Strategy, but it's from the same brainworms that brought the new horrible National Security Strategy.
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Patel is a real throwback to the petty self-enrichment of a Scott Pruitt in Trump's first term, it's refreshing and quaint in a way
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Patel is a real throwback to the petty self-enrichment of a Scott Pruitt in Trump's first term, it's refreshing and quaint in a way
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A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
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The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
The New Cold War is against nationalist authoritarianism, and the US is on their side.
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
So, the pardon's in effect, then?
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So, the pardon's in effect, then?
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Bingo Bongo Betrays Business Blueprint: Bullshit, Bamboozle Bumpkins, Bag Bucks.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has publicly distanced himself from his own conspiracy rhetoric, offering a striking walk-back of claims he made before joining the agency’s leadership.
Bongino Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission About His Unhinged Conspiracies
“I was paid in the past for my opinions,” former podcaster explained on Fox News.
trib.al
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bingo Bongo Betrays Business Blueprint: Bullshit, Bamboozle Bumpkins, Bag Bucks.
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Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.
I assumed the NSS would just ignore/deprioritize Europe (It did that on defense/NATO).
But the actual message was: Europe matters to us, we must save it from itself, the EU and its wokeness. Thus, the USG is going all in on foreign interference to help the far-right win a civilizational war.
But the actual message was: Europe matters to us, we must save it from itself, the EU and its wokeness. Thus, the USG is going all in on foreign interference to help the far-right win a civilizational war.
a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.
This is the federal government trying to manipulate insurance companies and state public health agencies into killing children. "Killing" is not hyperbole here: "depraved indifference to human life" is part of many murder statutes and that's precisely the motivating force behind this decision.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is the federal government trying to manipulate insurance companies and state public health agencies into killing children. "Killing" is not hyperbole here: "depraved indifference to human life" is part of many murder statutes and that's precisely the motivating force behind this decision.
Of course the guy did the Napoleon thing. Not to suggest FIFA has an equivalent jurisdiction to the pre-Italian Unification papacy (reputation is a little more akin to the 16th century papacy), but the power relation of "I could kick you out" is not entirely dissimilar.
The fact that Trump put the ridiculous “FIFA Peace Prize” medal around his own neck added an unintentionally amusing — and oddly apt — twist on the award ceremony. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted ‘peace’ prize
After the president didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize, soccer’s global governing body came up with a way to placate him.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Of course the guy did the Napoleon thing. Not to suggest FIFA has an equivalent jurisdiction to the pre-Italian Unification papacy (reputation is a little more akin to the 16th century papacy), but the power relation of "I could kick you out" is not entirely dissimilar.
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In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
they hate being laughed at, so they made all the jokes real.
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
they hate being laughed at, so they made all the jokes real.
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worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Stephen Miller is clearly the one signing off on National Security Strategy language: the only reason the 14 words are not directly cited is that it put the "traditional families" part pages from the "enable neonazis in Europe against non-white populations" part. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Stephen Miller is clearly the one signing off on National Security Strategy language: the only reason the 14 words are not directly cited is that it put the "traditional families" part pages from the "enable neonazis in Europe against non-white populations" part. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.
Dear Leader stopped pretending it was ever about Flag Day so he can aggrandize himself while destroying Juneteenth. Guy's cheap, needed that two-for-one deal.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Dear Leader stopped pretending it was ever about Flag Day so he can aggrandize himself while destroying Juneteenth. Guy's cheap, needed that two-for-one deal.
No!!!! (I had such a crush on him in Nash Bridges, shut up, back in the day you watched tv with your parents)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: ‘Mortal Kombat, ‘Last Emperor’ & ‘Man In The High Castle’ Actor Was 75
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor best known for his roles in the Mortal Kombat films, The Last Emperor and The Man in the High Castle, has died.
deadline.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
No!!!! (I had such a crush on him in Nash Bridges, shut up, back in the day you watched tv with your parents)
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.