Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

So the #CorruptSCOTUS is 100% okay with deliberately gerrymandered elections for a partisan outcome.

JFC - this failing democracy 101.

#ThisIsAmericaNow

NYTimes: The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In
The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/supreme-court-partisan-gerrymandering.html

Boat Destroyed in ‘Double-Tap’ Strike Was Not Heading to U.S., Admiral Reportedly Tells Lawmakers
https://time.com/7339154/admiral-bradley-boat-strike-hegseth/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-time

The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration
and more like a royal family in medieval Europe
— a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox.

“Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating.

It’s also clear in Trump’s habit of handling negotiations through family members and old business partners rather than the traditional bureaucracy.

Political scientists Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman say
Trump resorts to a
“clique composed of family members (primarily his children),
fierce loyalists (Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem),
and elite hyper-capitalists (often tech elites like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen).”

The clique tends to mix private interest and national interests in an open and unashamed way
that’s totally alien to modern state bureaucracies.

Other countries take advantage of this,
like Russian representatives getting cushy deals
by bypassing the more intelligent U.S. national security apparatus
and convincing an administration of real estate salesmen (Steve Witkoff)
to view Russia not as a military threat but as a “land of bountiful opportunity”
involving energy, rare earth deals and even space exploration.

“It’s misleading if you think of it just as corruption or just a degenerate category of neoliberalism,”
said Newman,
a political scientist at Georgetown University.

“It’s an entirely different system of how actors distribute power amongst themselves.”

https://www.alternet.org/trump-corruption-family-wealth/

Thank you Cinnabon
RACIST 'KAREN' HAS BEEN FIRED
Share with all you in Wisconsin especially in Ashwaubenon
I'm sure Fox or Newsmax will offer here a job shortly
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#FireAllRacists

#IMissJoeBiden
"Joe Biden Just Gave A Speech That Put Trump To Shame Where He Urged America To Fight"
Joe Biden spoke at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute where he urged America to
Get Up
Stand Up
Fight Back
Resist
Reject Trump & GOP Fascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/joe-biden-just-gave-a-speech-that?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
#ResistanceIsGrowing

Can GOP voters ever learn or will hate, stupidity & willful ignorance finally cost them the lives of the families & friends:
ACA Subsidies expire
Crashing the US Economy
Worst Jobs Record since Trump 1.0
Destroying Public Education
VOTE
OUT
ALL
GOP
https://www.protectourcare.org/headlines-red-states-will-be-hit-the-hardest-by-trump-and-republicans-medicaid-cuts-stripping-away-health-care-from-americans-across-the-country/

Happy Caturday to all who celebrate!

Zaz is determined to lift my spirits and entertain me.

She's doing a good job. Who wouldn't feel better watching her have fun?
And did you catch that flash of toe beans? Such a coy madame. (And of course the whiskers...)

Have a good day, all. Hugs to those who need them.

So many Participation Trophy Awards, so little time
What a pathetic LOSER
This is what a Malignant Narcissist craves:
ATTENTION
Even if he has to buy it
All the awards as he's earned?...ZERO
Only one he can fully claim?
THE
WORST
POTUS
IN
US
HISTORY
https://youtu.be/886NTBb7erQ?si=-NGO43LQWoNqD9Rp
#RemoveTrumpNow

#SchiffsSamstag #ShipSaturday #Schottland #Scotland #IsleofMull #fotografie #photography

#Trump

Why are things unaffordable? If the min wage increased at the rate of productivity since 1960, it'd be $27 today—not $7.25

Billionaires & Mega Corps have stolen at least $20/hour from working Americans for 65 years—an estimated $79T

Things are unaffordable because billionaires are stealing from us

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
‘Praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not banter. Not in a playground. Not anywhere.’
Not at any time nor at any age. @theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/05/holocaust-survivors-call-on-nigel-farage-to-apologise-over-alleged-antisemitic-comments

Another grand jury realizes it can say No to being used as a political pawn.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-less-two-rcna247310

It is vital that as many members of the public as possible learn that if they are serving on a grand jury or trial jury that they can refuse to be political pawns.

New in PN: A war criminal without a war

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal