Attorney General Bonta Slams Trump’s Latest Effort to Feed Americans’ Personal, Sensitive Information into Mass Surveillance Machine
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Attorney General Bonta Slams Trump’s Latest Effort to Feed Americans’ Personal, Sensitive Information into Mass Surveillance Machine
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today co-led a coalition of 18 attorneys general in opposing the Trump Administration’s expansi...
Archived copy of today’s WSJ reporting on the disgusting deal between Russian oligarchs and U.S. oligarchs, serving Putin and Trump respectively, to sell out Ukraine and make the oligarchy richer. https://archive.is/2025.12.01-210742/https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290
Catching up on Ruben Gallego’s most-recently publicized misogynist, anti-trans texts and, more importantly, his own characterization of them.
Arizona Daily Independent
Senator Gallego’s Anti-Trans Messages Leaked
Senator Ruben Gallego secretly thinks the people of his party, the Democratic Party, are nagging and unattractive. The senator also expressed conte...
 Gallego casts his blatant bigotry and hatred as as being in service to an inclusive, “big tent” vision of the Democratic Party. A disingenuous and pragmatically unpromising approach. 1/
One of the very best pieces I have read in along time.
War on the Rocks
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previ...
 1/ ‘Rather than asking, “What does being a soldier look like in an illiberal state?” senior leaders should instead be asking, “To what degree does continuing to serve as an officer in the U.S. military do more harm than good to the democratic values I swore an oath to bear true faith and allegiance to?”’
“Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a recent interview that his agency intended to probe anti-fascist and anti-ICE protesters and those that support them … ICE would be using its powerful but lesser-known Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division for this effort. This part of ICE usually investigates transnational crimes such as drug trafficking and related money laundering, human smuggling, and customs violations.”
Brennan Center for Justice
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Saturday morning of Thanksgiving weekend and the Republican Fascist Trump regime is - marauding in New York City - closing airspace over Venezuela, signaling escalation of its wholly illegal war against that country - lying about the safety of the lifesaving Covid vaccines Stay angry. Stay determined. Stay committed to a long haul fight for justice, rule of law, democracy, and civil rights.
It appears Hegseth is really afraid that he’s going to caught out for giving at least one manifestly illegal order, in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the usual criminal law forbidding murder. And now the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a ranking Democratic member have announced a preliminary investigation of Hegseth’s “kill” order.
The Daily Beast
Powerful Republican Turns on Pentagon Pete’s ‘Kill’ Orders
The Senate Armed Services Committee is investigating the Department of Defense Secretary’s bloodthirsty strikes.
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the Guardian
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
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Terroristic troop commander Bovino lies and lies and lies. His credibility in front of any tribunal should be nil.
Chicago Sun-Times
‘His word means nothing’: Dismissed case reveals dishonesty of Border Patrol commander, protester says
Cole Sheridan was charged with assaulting Gregory Bovino in Broadview, but prosecutors tossed the case after a video appeared to contradict Bovino...