Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Monday, December 1, 2025

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David Waldman and Greg Dworkin help us start the month, week and day off right.

You read it here first! (Unless you read it over at The Intercept a few hours earlier.) The United States… that’s us... We blew up a boat with 11 people in it, then we circled around and we murdered all the survivors. We have murdered at least 83 in boats… Most of the world understands that is wrong, and we recently might have stopped murdering the swimmers, which we might all agree is somehow even more reprehensible. But we didn’t just decide that was bad yesterday, we always knew that was a bad thing to do. Except of course for Pete Hegseth, who we, or at least some of us, hired to not do an evil job. Hic-seth thought that this was really funny at first but sobered up quickly to transfer the blame to his soldiers. Donald K. Trump doesn’t know a “Hegseth”, but if you write it at the bottom of the check, he’ll pardon him.

Juan Orlando Hernández made millions as president, raping Honduras in partnership with El Chapo while creating one of the largest drug-trafficking organizations in the world and was formally sentenced to 45 years. Oh well.

Alina Habba, one of the biggest of Trump’s lawyers, is out as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Sure, Kristi Noem disregarded court orders to send Venezuelans to El Salvador, but that wouldn’t be against the law if judges hadn’t said so.

No one needs more ballroom less than Trump and even his architect says so. Do reactionaries just feel left out?

Trump has almost reached Jan 6 levels of unpopularity, and Republicans are feeling it. Another Gop seat could be flipped in Tennessee tomorrow, as they plan to redistrict Nashville away. One Republican Senator in Indiana drew the line on Trump insulting his daughter, while another wasn’t swayed by swatting and doxxing. and yet another by a pipe bomb. Meanwhile, Troy Nehls of Texas feels now should be when he spends more time with his family.