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South Korean president declares emergency martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state, pro-North activities

Trump tells Trudeau Canada could become 51st state to avoid tariffs
It appears that four years out of the White House has done nothing to alleviate Trump's propensity for saying absolutely insane shit to foreign leaders, if a report from his recent dinner with Canada's Justin Trudeau is to be believed. The MAGA cult leader told Trudeau that if Canada cannot handle his tariffs and secure the northern border, then it should simply become the 51st American state with Trudeau as its governor. A wildly insulting and condescending thing to say to one of our closest allies, Trump appears intent on isolating America and ruining our foreign relationships right from the get-go.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump's "detachment from reality" called out by own top cop
On the latest episode of No Lie, Brian Tyler Cohen discusses the MAGA cult leader's truly shocking pick to lead the FBI, QAnon conspiracy theorist Kash Patel, who Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr once lambasted when Donald tried a similar move in his first term, saying, "The very idea of moving Patel into a role like this showed a shocking detachment from reality." Well, yeah.

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Give thanks for your eyesight — and then give to help others see!
Orbis: Being able to see the world around them is so important for growing kids, but over 450 million children around the world can’t get the treatment they need for vision issues. Something as simple as a pair of glasses can transform a child’s life for the better. As Giving Tuesday approaches, now is the perfect opportunity to make a donation and help Orbis deliver the gift of sight to a child in need. Chip in today!

Trump defense pick Pete Hegseth faces new media report on alleged alcohol abuse, sexual impropriety
The serial philanderer whose own mother called him an abuser of women and who was credibly accused of sexual assault at a Republican women's conference in 2017 just can't catch a break, folks. In a report published Sunday by The New Yorker, a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint alleged that Hegseth was drunk on repeated occasions while acting as president of the Concerned Veterans for America "to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events." But wait, there's (always) more. "At one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team" and reportedly sexually pursued female staffers (while he was married), whom he lumped into two categories: "party girls" and "not party girls." In 2016, Hegseth was ultimately forced to step down as president of CVA over "concerns about his mismanagement and abuse of alcohol on the job," marking the second time he was forced to leave a veterans advocacy organization in disgrace. Hmmm, just the kind of guy we need running the most expensive and powerful military in the world.

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"Fatally flawed": Delaware judge rejects Elon Musk’s second bid to ram through $56 billion pay package
$56 billion, eh? Sounds like the kind of wildly excessive, budget-busting spending a mythical department of efficiency should look into...

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Nearly all Arctic sea ice could melt by the summer of 2027, scientists warn
Cool. Let's definitely continue doing nearly nothing to confront the planet-altering catastrophe unfolding before our very eyes.

Dinesh D'Souza admits his 2020 election steal conspiracy film "2000 Mules" was actually a bunch of made up bullshit
If only there was a way for lawsuits to undo the damage that his lies did to the psyches of so many Americans.

Legal group vows to stop Trump from pillaging our pristine wilderness
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Michigan GOP lawmaker says gay marriage should be "illegal again"
Before Thanksgiving, Republican state Rep. Josh Schriver announcred that he'd be turning his phone off and going on a trip with his family. He must really hate his family, the institution of marriage, and happiness in general, because the first thing he posted after that trip was: "Make gay marriage illegal again. This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme." It's a grim reminder that gay marriage could very well be next on the right-wing's chopping block, along with contraception, no-fault divorce, IVF treatments, and all the progress we've made over the past century as they try to drag our country back to the very bad old days.

North Carolina's GOP-controlled Senate overrides Gov. Cooper veto of bill strips powers from top Democrats
State Republicans up and down the ballot took a good, old-fashioned walloping in North Carolina last month, so naturally, they're turning to familiar, tried-and-decidedly-untrue tactics as they grapple with the fallout: they're simply moving the goalposts. Again. Democrats won races for governor, attorney general, and other statewide offices, so GOP legislators decided to just strip away power from those posts because it's their ball and they hate they playing anyway. Oh, they also packaged their undemocratic power grab with badly needed hurricane relief and recovery funding, because nothing expresses how little they care quite like playing pointless brinkmanship with life-saving aid.

RFK Jr. once hawked bottled water with HIGHER fluoride levels than tap water
Of COURSE he did.

Trump hosted far-right German politician with a porn star past at Mar-a-Lago on Election Day
Somehow, this is the least surprising bit of news of the day. What a world.