Homeland Security DHS claimed an incident on Oct. 3 showed agents were in danger of being "rammed." In fact, body cams "suggest[] that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

Y’all remember how Doge found so much fraud that not one single person was charged with fraud?

More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax. theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Robert Reich is right. The move toward authoritarianism is not just Trump suing and intimidating mainstream media. It is the growing concentration of ownership in what we see, hear and read.

Scoop — Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, will not cooperate with the Congressional probe into the Epstein case. Her legal team said she would not answer questions in response to a Congressional subpoena. politico.com/live-updates/2…

Republicans and many Democrats coming together to proudly condemn things like universal healthcare, tuition-free public college, strong social safety nets, and billionaires and corporations paying their fair share in taxes. Their donors have spoken.

Here is a video of a Border Patrol agent admitting that agents use this exact technique of brake-checking and reversing at ICE observers to stop people from recording their activities.

Love it when people who make it their brand to hate the government stick around JUST LONG ENOUGH to collect a lucrative pension unavailable to the majority of workers in America while getting praised in the media for taking some sort of principled stand against Trump.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/…

Costa Rica will accept Abrego, per The Washington Post . If true, DOJ, DHS, and Dept of State caused lies to be disseminated to Judge Xinis all day Thursday, where an ICE official testified about info sent him by Dept of State, claiming Costa Rica wouldn't take Abrego. 1/2

I know we're all consumed by the Lizza-Nuzzi drama but underneath this incredibly tawdry stuff is some alarming and damaging accusations and revelations about the man who runs our nation's health agencies. And it feels like he's skirting by all of it.

Entire hearing was live-blogged at this link. bsky.app/profile/rparlo… Compare and contrast.

WATCH: “During a period Epstein was facing more heat than ever, Bannon got even closer with him.” Ari Melber breaks down the cozy Bannon-Epstein relationship in the emails. Bannon even helped him with damage control re: the underage sex trafficking. MAGA’s ok with this?

Reuters confirms that President Trump’s son and his special envoy met in private with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy in Miami to help draft the new “peace plan” for Ukraine. This leaves the administration wide open to serious counterintelligence and influence-risk concerns.

Notice how they never vote on resolutions to condemn fascism?

Hilarious that even Elon's AI bot knows the 28 points were originally written in Russian.

“The Center is being looted to the tune of millions of dollars in foregone revenue, cancelled programming, unpaid use of its facilities, and wasteful spending on luxury restaurants and hotels,” alleged Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) about Kennedy Center cbsnews.com/news/democrati…

BREAKING!!! Rubio confirmed to Senators what I and other brilliant colleagues, such as Michael Weiss , had been saying all this time: this is russian wishlist and was leaked to U.S. media by russia, full stop!!!

Russians handed it to the Trump admin, who they took it to Kyiv UNEDITED, demanding Zelensky sign it by Thanksgiving. Trump and Vance then both promoted the plan Vance in person, on social media and on television, AS THE RUSSIANS WROTE IT, VERBATIM. It's insane.

Alex Raufoglu Michael Weiss So basically you're saying Trump was promoting the Putin peace plan and theatening an ultimatum if it wasn't accepted without any idea what he was talking about. Got it.