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3+ min ago (413+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's glib attempt to dismiss growing accusations from both Republicans and Democrats that he is engaging in prosecutable war crimes set off a new firestorm after he made a Sunday post on X. At about the same time that Trump distanced himself from Hegseth after his "kill them all" order that led to survivors of a reported drug boat attack by the U.S. military being blown out of the water as they clung to their damaged boat, the Pentagon chief reposted a meme of popular children's book character Franklin, a turtle, firing on boats from a helicopter. Hegseth added, "For your Christmas wish list" That brought on a wave of criticism, with one X user replying, "On the bright side, once Trump dumps you, you'll be able to return to drunkenness again. If you're not there already." Former Rep....

4+ min ago (884+ words) But the odds are, at some point, Democrats will be calling the shots. The question is, what are the shots going to look like? And that's just the government. Trump has ruined America's reputation abroad. The word of the U.S. leader is now synonymous with whims, egotism, and xenophobia. Would-be Americans who have gone through all the proper channels for citizenship are kidnapped by ICE in courthouses, even as they are following the law. Meantime, Trump has been using the office to enrich himself and his family. It's not even happening secretly. Help the Trump family financially, and you could be pardoned. Even when he's not benefiting directly, Trump extorts money from universities for, among other reasons, having protections for trans students. How do you restore institutions and society as a whole after so much destruction and corruption? Rebuilding government agencies…...

17+ min ago (154+ words) Greatest Victims of Trump's Greatest Grift Are America's Greatest Heroes The Department of Government Efficiency has been eliminated, but its legacy of shafting our veterans will live for decades Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:31 AM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | We all believe in improving efficiency, and a team genuinely focused on that could do a world of good. But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.[image or embed] The mush-brained orange pedo loves to screw veterans almost as much as he loves to rape 13 year olds. #1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-30 08:00 AM | Reply "Thanks for nothing, Dummkopf Trumpf and Felon Musk! May both of you syphilis-infected ingrates get cancer of the eyes!" #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-30 08:42 AM | Reply...

17+ min ago (664+ words) Despite landmark decisions at first party conference, core frustrations are "likely to only intensify" Your Party has established its foundations, with members voting on the party"s name, leadership structure, membership status and a party constitution at its inaugural conference in Liverpool. But by the end of the weekend cracks were already beginning to show. The group was established by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn to present a "full-blooded left-wing challenge" to Labour, said Politico. However, if the antics at the conference were anything to go by, it is "mixing deep idealism with the kind of factional splits that would make Monty Python blush". Members of Your Party confirmed its formal name will remain the same. Just over 37% voted to make the placeholder name permanent, with other shortlisted options Popular Alliance (25%), For the Many (23%) and Our Party (14%) being overlooked. Sultana…...

33+ min ago (1614+ words) Consolidation will be the catalyst to prune linear TV as pay TV subscriptions are poised to account for less than half of U.S. households by year's end The latest round of media company earnings reports confirmed once again that linear TV " cable in particular " is eroding quickly, with its decline in stark contrast with the growing streaming business." While it's well-known that linear TV is in decline, it remains a profitable business and accounted for a total 45% of viewership in October, just slightly below streaming's nearly 46% share, per Nielsen. Broadcast made up 22.9% of linear TV's total, while cable made up 22.2% for the month. With the penetration of pay TV subscriptions poised to fall below the critical threshold of half of U.S. households by the end of this year per research firm Madison & Wall, the industry has reached an inflection point. The bundled…...

34+ min ago (348+ words) President Donald Trump's unprecedented declaration over the weekend that Venezuela's air space was "closed" had a major impact on air travel in and around the country, leaving some experts dumbfounded. "Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30 [million] people with world's largest oil reserves," wrote journalist and author Matt Kennard Monday in a social media post on X. "Its airspace has been closed by the U.S. President sitting in White House 2,000 miles away. International law is a chimera. World is run like the mafia and Washington is the Don." Despite Trump not having the legal authority to close another country's airspace, his announcement nonetheless left a major impact on air travel; flight trackers have shown planes avoiding Venezuelan airspace since Saturday, and several airlines had reportedly cancelled flights to Venezuela in response, Newsweek reported. "Trying to "close' the airspace…...

35+ min ago (962+ words) New reporting on a lethal September boat strike intensifies scrutiny of Trump's regional military campaign. New revelations that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally ordered Special Operations forces to kill every person aboard a suspected narcotrafficking boat in the Caribbean have accelerated a political and legal crisis surrounding the Trump administration's covert maritime strike campaign. The Washington Post's reporting on a directive to eliminate all 11 passengers, including survivors of an initial strike, has prompted former senior military legal officials to accuse Hegseth of "war crimes, murder, or both." The allegations have opened a bipartisan oversight effort and raised fundamental questions about the use of lethal force outside conventional war zones. According to the Post, intelligence analysts had determined that the passengers were allegedly transporting drugs toward the United States. Under past practice and international law, such a scenario would normally…...

39+ min ago (1034+ words) Disney and Universal provided the hit sequels as promised, but the rest of the marketplace isn't pulling its weight The 2025 Thanksgiving box office offered a mix of hopeful news for movie theaters thanks to a pair of top blockbuster sequels, along with a cautious reminder that the marketplace still isn't firing on all cylinders. Driven by a $156 million extended opening from Disney's "Zootopia 2" and a $93 million second weekend for Universal's "Wicked: For Good," the five-day Thanksgiving period is estimated to bring in $297 million in overall grosses for the United States and Canada. That is just above the $293 million five-day total accumulated before inflation adjustment in 2013, the year of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "Frozen." Depending on Monday actuals, 2025 will rank as either the third or fourth highest Thanksgiving weekend in industry history, with the record belonging to 2024 at $423.9 million…...

42+ min ago (355+ words) Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue is "catching flak" from his two primary challengers as he tries to distance himself from identifying with the GOP, reports Tim Dunn in the Boston Herald. Minogue, a West Point graduate and Army Ranger who earned a Bronze Star in Operation Desert Storm, led Abiomed, a medical device company known for Impella heart pumps. "In an interview with WBUR, Minogue said he does not identify with a political party, despite running as a Republican candidate," Dunn, who calls Minogue a "rogue Republican," says. In that interview, Minogue said, "I don't identify with a party. I didn't swear an oath to the Constitution at West Point to a party. I swore the Constitution to America. And so I am very focused on the things around Massachusetts, and what I just talked about as my positions....

45+ min ago (565+ words) You should subscribe! Not allegedly! It's an order from Trump, so it can't be illegal, wah wah wah! But that is not the law, and there's no statute of limitations for murder. Should Hegseth start hoping for a preemptive pardon? Massacring unarmed survivors in a conflict is a war crime that perpetrators have been put to death for. It was when the Nazis and Japanese did it to Americans in World War II. In 1944, future president George Herbert Walker Bush narrowly escaped that fate, and also possibly being cannibalized. Uh oh, Pete Hegseth, let's not get any ideas! And it is simply repugnant to human decency, to the point that even the Republican-led Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate have noticed, and vowed to conduct "vigorous oversight," to see if this occurred. The Former JAGs Working Group, made up…...