[The Weeping Angel]

Fuck you, RFK Jr.

[Bones McCoy]

On a lighter (but gross) note.
Today I learned that the Thanksgiving turkey is deep-fried.

[Killer Whale]

[Boiler]

On a lighter (but gross) note.
Today I learned that the Thanksgiving turkey is deep-fried.

[The Weeping Angel]

Democrats win the race to become Mayor in Miami.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/1 ... 6-00684351

MIAMI — Former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins is heading to the Miami mayor’s office, becoming the first Democrat elected to the position in 28 years. And Democrats in Florida and nationwide are exuberant over the results.

Higgins easily defeated Republican Emilio Gonzalez to become the city’s first woman mayor, with Sunshine State Democrats predicting it was just the beginning of brighter days ahead after multiple cycles of statewide woe at the ballot box.

Higgins campaign adviser Christian Ulvert said the victory showed voters wanted to get back to uniting communities and addressing kitchen-table issues.



“We have a plus-five registration advantage in Miami, but we over-performed to an 8 point turnout advantage — that shows it can be done,” Ulvert said from Higgins’ victory party at the Miami Women’s Club in Edgewater. “It also reinforces what Commissioner Higgins has been saying all along: When you show up and get the work done, voters stand up and stand with you every day.”

Higgins’ campaign is likely to be studied carefully by other Democratic hopefuls in Florida. She ran not on social justice or culture war issues, but on improving affordability and making government work better. She agreed with Republicans that the city’s finances needed a careful look.

[Bones McCoy]

AAnd now it's Piracy.

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w9lg11jw0o

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was aware of the operation, and the Trump administration was considering more actions like this, a source told CBS.

When asked by reporters what the US would do with the oil on the tanker, Trump said: "We keep it, I guess... I assume we're going to keep the oil."

[Yug]

Can we now start referring to Yankistan as a rogue state?

[Boiler]

Considering Mango Mugabe now seems to want to interfere in European elections, yes...

[kreuzberger]

I, like many on here, am wary of hyperbole, but this escapade in Venezuela looks every inch like state-sponsored piracy.

Nicolás Maduro has lost much of his initial legitimacy, but a race to the bottom doesn't look like state-craft by any measure. These vandals deserve each other - I just hopelessly wish that decent, normal people could be shielded from their cock-waving silliness.

The issue here is wealth and these white men's access to untold riches. This wealth is, by its very existence, devaluing human life and deeply racist.