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| PWB Toosdai Critters: Cult of Chew n'On A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦
Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.
Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have ... |
samanthab | 12/02/2025 | 88 |
| Kristi Noem pushes a ‘full travel ban’ in wake of DC shooting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is seizing on the fatal shooting of a National Guard member in Washington—using the tragedy to push for a sweeping new travel ban that goes well beyond ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/02/2025 | 165 |
| Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and... |
Meteor Blades | 12/02/2025 | 199 |
| Delirious president goes on manic posting binge President Donald Trump went on a manic late night social media posting binge on Monday night, reinforcing concerns about how abnormal his behavior has been during this presidency.
Between the hours ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/02/2025 | 246 |
| Tomgram: William Astore, A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a... |
TomDispatch | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday blamed a military commander for the apparent war crime the U.S. military committed in September in the Caribbean Sea, saying that it was Admiral Mitch Bradley, |
Emily Singer | 12/02/2025 | 148 |
| How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media President Donald Trump has long been all for bullying and demeaning the media and individual reporters, but since taking office it has become an administration-wide affair.
In its latest attack on ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/02/2025 | 35 |
| Imitative AI Limits, Human And Mathematical One of the reasons that imitative AI like ChatGPT is almost certainly a bubble is that running these systems simply cost too much money compared to the amount of value that they generate. �Even ... |
angryea | 12/02/2025 | 7 |
| Follow the ... Voting: 'BradCast' 12/1/2025 We're back! And so is our election and accountability coverage, callers and much more!... It's no easy feat getting caught up on The BradCast after just one week off during the madness of the Trump Era. But, hey, nobody said fighting to save democracy... |
TheBradBlog | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Krugman's explanation for Trump's pardon of the former Honduran president needs prime time attention This past Friday, Trump announced he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in March 2024 was convicted by a U.S. jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import massive amounts of cocaine into the... |
RETIII | 12/01/2025 | 204 |
| Trump tariffs gut manufacturing as jobs shrink for 9 months straight The Institute for Supply Management released the results on Monday of its most recent survey of the manufacturing industry, revealing a loss of jobs for the ninth month in a row.
The trend under ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/01/2025 | 83 |
| Trump rushes to rescue GOP in surprisingly tight special election President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps on Monday, calling into a Nashville rally for the special election that has grown uncomfortably tight for the GOP. “The whole world is watching Tennessee... |
Alex Samuels | 12/01/2025 | 67 |
| DOD's Own Manual Uses Firing on Shipwrecked People as an EXAMPLE of an Illegal Order The Department of Defense [sic] maintains a manual on the Law of War, last updated in July 2023. The foreword opens with these words: The law of war is of fundamental importance to the Armed Forces of the United States. The law of war is part of who we... |
Dan K | 12/01/2025 | 14 |
| The decline in Trump's approval stuns CNN's numbers guy. The GOP is staring at a midterm abyss In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/01/2025 | 149 |
| YUCK! Pete Hegseth's Disgusting, Bloodthirsty, 'Christmas Wish' Will Nauseate You As the American people recover from their Thanksgiving feasts, Donald Trump and his Republican MAGA cult in Washington are demonstrating their ability to sink lower in morality, legality, and even holiday spirit, than anyone previously thought... |
News Corpse | 12/01/2025 | 23 |
| Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering: The Crisis Uniting Democracy and Gender Justice A deep dive into abortion rights, Venezuela narratives, global manhood reform, and a Trump-Starmer deal that would raise NHS drug prices—democracy is on the line. Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts... |
Egberto Willies | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Yet another red state weighs passing an extreme gerrymander Republicans in the Indiana state House on Monday introduced a new congressional district map that seeks to oust the two Democrats in the state's nine-member delegation, heeding President Donald Trump’s demand that state Republicans help him rig the... |
Emily Singer | 12/01/2025 | 38 |
| Another Texas Republican abandons ship as GOP retirements pile up Texas Rep. Troy Nehls announced over the weekend that he won’t seek reelection next year, becoming the sixth Republican in Texas’ congressional delegation to bow out this cycle, and adding to the steady churn inside a party still struggling to navigate... |
Alex Samuels | 12/01/2025 | 41 |
| Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a trafficker President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic drugs within the United States ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/01/2025 | 53 |
| Cartoon: Kill him A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him. |
Clay Jones | 12/01/2025 | 21 |
| Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russification of America This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you... |
TomDispatch | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| FBI is a 'circus' under Kash Patel, says damning report A 115-page report compiled from interviews with dozens of current and former FBI agents found that FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have turned the agency into a ‘circus,’ with agents describing the two men as clowns more... |
Emily Singer | 12/01/2025 | 97 |
| New Day Cafe: Piers Faccini and Balake Sissoko Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ... |
samanthab | 12/01/2025 | 151 |
| Republicans can’t escape Trump’s drag on the party New polling paints a grim picture for President Donald Trump, whose standing with the public is slipping across nearly every major issue. The erosion isn’t subtle. It’s steady, wide-ranging, and�� |
Alex Samuels | 12/01/2025 | 67 |
| Cartoon: The war on woke As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 12/01/2025 | 28 |
| My People Used To Be Not White The headline is true — my mom’s people used to be considered less than fully white. �For those who know me, this is an amusing fact. �I am extremely white. �Hockey is my favorite sport. �I think ... |
angryea | 12/01/2025 | 105 |
| WAYWO: SPECULUM Recreating obsolete technology.� A nerd journey.� �
Vanity mirrors have a curve to them.� It allows you to see yourself bigger than you are.� Ideal for grooming.� Three thousand years ago everyone ... |
ynohtnA | 11/30/2025 | 12 |
| How Trump is Killing America “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”) — once the US’ official motto, which still appears in a wavy scroll near the eagle, in the Great Seal on the back of every dollar bill. What makes us us? What makes us “America”? What makes us... |
dratler | 11/30/2025 | 7 |
| 📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️🌈; We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ... |
Clio2 | 11/30/2025 | 11 |
| GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ... |
kos | 11/30/2025 | 232 |