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Sorry for the editorialized title but I feel like the author is really burying the lede here.

The filing included the December 1 memo signed by Trump, which claimed the subpoena had requested an “extremely broad set of materials” and blocked the release of 4,152 documents.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if it doesn’t immediately provide additional water to help U.S. farmers, accusing the country of violating a treaty that outlines water sharing between the neighbors.

The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.

before joining the FBI, Bongino had called the bombs an “inside job.” “I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions, that’s clear, and one day I will be back in that space—but that’s not what I’m paid for now,”

Fascist invaders in Burnsville, MN followed a family home, busted down their door, and abducted 4 of them at gunpoint (including the parents of a 7 year old and the husband of a pregnant woman). All without a warrant for a home owned by a US Citizen. (12/6/25)

Georgia lawmaker says colleagues who made fun of president before 2024 win now support him out of fear

President Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to run for reelection as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.

While the world is adapting to progress in gender equality and diversity, Trump advocates a return to a traditional model that emphasizes physical strength and the preeminence of the straight white male

Accused of incompetence and apathy in the aftermath of natural disasters, governments across Asia are facing increasing backlash as the impact of global warming intensifies.

The great dichotomy of the Cuban critical left has always been opposing the U.S. imperialist intervention, its expansionist and interference-driven character, while also denouncing the dictatorial traits and rights violations of a State that calls itself socialist. At this point, that dichotomy is more than resolved for many people, since one cannot be revolutionary and Cuban without acknowledging that the “Revolution” of ’59 died long ago and that the current State is rooted in the annulment of political rights, and has even destroyed those so-called “achievements” that the historic generation once defended. Cuba is a country where the lack of fundamental guarantees such as access to healthcare, sanitation, and dignified education is common; although these rights appear in the Constitution, in practice they are not enjoyed by the people.

Your Party’s founding conference should have drawn a line under months of infighting. Instead, it revealed a left trapped in its own anxieties and unable to imagine a route to power.

When was the last time being on the left was fun? Even in the best of times, supporting socialism in America can feel like performing a grim duty in the face of almost certain disappointment. The chapter titles in Burnout, Hannah Proctor’s investigation of the emotional landscapes of leftist militancy, are revealing: Melancholia, Nostalgia, Depression, Burnout, Exhaustion, Bitterness, Trauma, Mourning. One of the many virtues of Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York City mayor was that it never felt this way, not even when he was sitting near the bottom of the polls. It was a year-long act of collective joy. Real joy—not the brief sugar high that surged when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket. Volunteering for Mamdani never felt like a chore, even when the weather was bad and fewer canvassers showed up for their shift than expected. It was a blast from start to finish, and we didn’t even have to console ourselves with a moral victory. This time, we actually won.

We, the undersigned workers and members of academic and cultural institutions, condemn the United Arab Emirates’ role in creating, funding, and prolonging the counter-revolutionary war in Sudan.

Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are talking about a general strike. These calls are coming not just from the usual suspects, but even from my own mayor, former Chicago Teachers Union leader and organizer Brandon Johnson.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has strong opinions on the differences between men and women. On a recent podcast, Johnson’s wife, Kelly, noted that her husband likes to say, “Men and women are different in…that men can compartmentalize things.” Giving metaphorical expression to this idea, Kelly Johnson compared men’s brains to waffles and women’s to spaghetti.

With rising grocery prices and increasingly sparse options, more places are considering municipal-owned grocery stores to create equitable access to food.

In the 15 years from 2010 through 2024, 375 people in Texas were exonerated after being imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. Of those, 97 received some form of compensation or settlement from the state. Collectively, those 97 people spent more than 1,200 years in prison. The state paid them just under $156 million, or an average of about $130,000 per person per year behind bars.

More proof that Jeffries is not equipped to lead Democrats in this moment.

Oct. 24 is not a memorable date, but it was an important moment for Ukraine in the United States.

In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in November 2024, despite having no notable experience with drones or military contracting.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb blasts.

Comments Elsewhere Suggest Young People Want HRC to STFU!

Tens of thousands of people in four Croatian cities took to the streets on Sunday, November 30, responding to a call from the initiative United Against Fascism (Ujedinjeni protiv fašizma), a broad coalition of civil society organizations and grassroots groups. Marchers in Zagreb, Rijeka, Zadar, and Pula denounced the escalating wave of far-right violence and historical revisionism, vowing to build broad resistance to trends that are encouraged and supported by the political establishment.

On Thanksgiving evening, as Americans offered grace for their blessings and feasted with loved ones, President Trump’s contribution to the country’s dinner table was the digital equivalent of a flaming turd pie.

The Trump administration just lies and lies and lies. Those in charge assume they can just bluster their way past the system of checks and balances. For everything else, there’s AI generated memes depicting Trump taking a shit on the people he serves. Win-win, I guess.

What surprised the ranking member of the DHS House Subcommittee, which in part oversees DHS’ funding, is that there were no detainees present nor detention officers. … “They have a television and the largest holding cell has three showers. The shower works. And then each holding cell had a toilet. The toilet was not in any way something any of us would be comfortable using, certainly not in an area that is open to others,” she said. … According to Underwood, DHS told her detainees are provided food from either Subway or Walmart or are given food from a previous facility they were at. … She also noted there is no permanent food vendor and no contract for providing medical care

Hoping to repay corporate America’s feckless support of authoritarianism, the Trump administration is once again attempting to illegally ban all state and federal oversight of corporate power. Both via executive order, and by withholding already awarded grants from states that refuse to play along.

Vekselberg, also mentioned, is #57 on Craig Unger’s list of 59 Russian ties to Trump from the book, House of Trump, House of Putin.

This latest iteration of a 250-year old debate goes much further than earlier generations would have thought possible — or advisable. And, for paid, subscribers: Closing my tabs.

In a rare instance of bipartisan alarm, Republican-chaired committees in the House and Senate announced that they have launched inquiries into an explosive Washington Post report alleging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a spoken order to “kill everybody” aboard a vessel carrying suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean. The occupants included two people who had survived an initial missile strike on the vessel and were seen “clinging” to the wreckage.

On Monday (24 November), the US Bureau of Economic Analysis cancelled the release of its growth estimate report for the third-quarter GDP. … The GDP report joins a list of other economic reports that have failed to be released, including the October jobs report and the October inflation report.

Librarians, publishers, and civil rights groups are sounding the alarm as public libraries in Tennessee have begun shutting down to carry out a state government-mandated purge of children’s books with LGBTQ themes.

The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this ‘is contrary to EU law’ and ‘infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.’

The commercials are meant to speak “directly to ICE agents who may be grappling with guilt, burnout, or moral conflict over their work” – providing a counterpoint to ICE recruitment commercials and to commercials where Noem advises migrants to self-deport.

Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly last week is a gift to anti-Zionist and Palestine solidarity activists. The former speechwriter for Barack and Michelle Obama unwittingly does more in ten minutes to demonstrate the desperation and moral depravity of those who have spent the last two years attempting to stifle pro-Palestine sentiment and justify genocide than many have done in hours of speechifying.

Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

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A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

A bipartisan group of 13 governors is pushing to deregulate the permitting of energy infrastructure in the U.S., arguing that doing so is necessary to “win the AI race, lower costs for consumers, and responsibly develop the advanced energy sources of the future.” But in reality, deregulating energy infrastructure construction would be a disastrous mistake that would increase greenhouse gas…

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the president, has announced she is resigning from Congress.

The Epstein case, tech billionaires, Venezuela, Israel: The movement that brought Donald Trump back to the White House now finds itself splintered on numerous fronts. An openly antisemitic, racist and misogynistic current is gaining ground around Nick Fuentes.

Rubio moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations — setting prosecution for their U.S. allies.

The clip of the US president on Air Force One last Friday has taken off without much help from the media itself

One of Maxwell’s lawyers, Leah Saffian, released a statement Friday saying that employees at Camp Bryan “have been terminated for improper, unauthorized access” to an email system that allows prison inmates to “communicate with the outside world,” following a leak of Maxwell’s “privileged client-attorney email correspondence.”

In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.

“Finally, we got an ICE agent who crossed the line so bad, he got arrested,” Attorney Greg Kirakosian said in a statement to L.A. TACO. “This is something I think our local law enforcement has to start doing with such clear examples of unnecessary tactics.”

Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.

Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them, Margaret Talbot writes.

President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland have caused consternation and fear among Danes and Greenlanders alike.

Former intelligence chief is among more than a dozen Obama era officials ensnared in widening Florida-based investigation

The gravity and extent of the damage being done to our constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms by this administration is mind-boggling, says constitutional law professor Kim Wehle.

Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system and his friendships with powerful people

AllHipHop.Com is not a reliable source? I don’t know. They have a date and a byline under the title. I’ll probe deeper, add something below, if possible.

TPUSA had Rob Schneider speak at UC Berkeley on Monday. Counter-protestors didn’t care who was speaking; just that TPUSA promotes hatred

As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

The 6-0 decision comes just days after Trump pardoned dozens of allies — including these defendants — for any potential federal crimes related to the 2020 election.

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

Newly-unsealed federal court documents revealed the devastating story of a homeless 17-year old who allegedly had sex with former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint. Use the search tool here.

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney.

As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE’s plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

The question before the Court is not whether the work program violated labor laws, but whether GEO can claim the federal government’s immunity from certain lawsuits and avoid further litigation while that claim is unresolved.