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Dec 8, 2025, 6:43:13 PM (2 days ago) Dec 8
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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen
opening thoughts: 
producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
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opening thought:

The Hegseth ethos

Dec 6

There is no “Secretary of War” or “War Department” in the United States of America under US law.

Each time a news organization uses Pete Hegseth’s concocted title, and submits to his “War Department” fantasy, it is an act of corruption.

It is a direct and specific choice that immolates journalistic ethics by embracing fantasy at the demand of power.

Journalism confronts power.

Journalism doesn’t obey it, heed it, submit to it, appease it, or accept the premise that make-believe is real if the leader believes it so, regardless of reality....
Perhaps one reason that Pete Hegseth fetishizes the “War Department” is that, when it existed, it commanded a segregated force. The Defense Department has always commanded a desegregated force.

Powerful men have a long tradition of sending powerless young men to die in unworthy causes in far away lands.

There should be an extremely low tolerance for such men in 2025 America, but they are not only tolerated, but indulged.  

The hypocrisy of the US Congress on the matter of Pete “Kill them all!” Hegseth is bottomless and dangerous. Their faithlessness to the American soldier, sailor, airmen and marine is obscene.

The man who jumped up on a table screaming, “Kill all Muslims!” was exactly who the Congress was warned about. Yet, the warnings were unheeded because the Congress cared more about pleasing Trump than the institutions of the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps that predate the independence of the United States. They cared more about sating a stirred-up Fox News mob than a 19-year-old private.

Shameful doesn’t begin to describe it.

It is a dereliction of duty, and the most profound type of moral betrayal.

The 119th MAGA Congress is an abomination, led by a religious nutter and weakling who is neither bright, decent, funny, nor wise.

In other words, he is a perfect MAGA puppet who thinks he is a ventriloquist. In truth, the hand inserted into his most sacred space, the one he hides his bespectacled head within, is smeared with orange hand paint.

Faithless, treacherous and disloyal are the Hegseth ethos. They are a perfect mirror of the only reflection of equal rottenness in America: the crazed MAGA Congress, filled from bottom to top with corrupt loons, belligerent liars, sexual deviants, conspiracists, fraudsters, women beaters, and insider traders, who worship Trump together.

Pete Hegseth is the leader of a military that is unready and unprepared to fight a necessary war. He is a performance artist, a late-stage mid-tier Fox News star who is a herald of disaster to a population filled with indifference. It is about to find out the hard way how much damage a small group of evil men and women can do to a nation.

AND A PARAGRAPH FROM YOUR PIECE THE CONNECTORS:
Dr. Harriet Fraad, a psychotherapist who examines how capitalism affects our personal lives, said that arranging the economy so that nothing is clear and everything is a possible scam goes far beyond making life more expensive, and carries real political implications. It arrests Americans’ ability to trust other people, she told me, which undermines our ability to organize against rising fascism. When every interaction is a possible shakedown, “you withhold your belief in connecting with other people to make life better,” Fraad said. “That is a real enemy of the kind of unity for people to make change.” 
part one:

The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly

Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’  https://prospect.org/2025/12/06/beautiful-game-is-getting-ugly-fifa-protest/

Meet the Connectors

Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.  https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/meet-the-connectors-middlemen/
Whitney Curry Wimbish is a staff writer at The American Prospect and can be reached at wwim...@prospect.org. She previously worked in the Financial Times newsletter division for 17 years and before that was a reporter at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and the Herald News in New Jersey. 
Emma Janssen is a writing fellow at The American Prospect.
part two:
opening thought two: 
Christian pastors, influencers join 1,000-strong Israel mission backing Jewish state, fighting antisemitism
'These 1,000 pastors represent tens of millions of Americans and have major media and social media influence,' says Dr. Mike Evans https://www.foxnews.com/world/christian-pastors-influencers-join-1000-strong-israel-mission-backing-jewish-state-fighting-antisemitism
 
nugget: A delegation of 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors and influencers — the largest group of American Christian leaders to visit Israel since its founding — arrived last Tuesday as part of a Friends of Zion initiative.
The trip, organized in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is designed to provide training and prepare participants to serve as unofficial ambassadors for Israel in their communities.
Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem and a confidant of President Donald Trump, said most Evangelical Bible believers are Zionists, making them a key ally in efforts to counter antisemitism.
"These devils that hate Jews hate Christians just as much. What is being said against the state of Israel is one hundred times worse than what the Nazis said on their party platform in 1920, and everyone is ignoring it. They don’t realize how dangerous this is," Evans told Fox News Digital.
"The new wars of the 21st century are media wars, ideological wars, economic wars and proxy wars. And while Israel has never fought an ideological war, its enemies have," he added.
Evans said members of the visiting delegation were vetted to ensure no hidden agendas and signed a pledge committing to stand in solidarity with the Jewish people. "We had over 2,000 apply; we chose those best suited for this first trip. These 1,000 pastors represent tens of millions of Americans and have major media and social media influence," he said.
The initiative was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Evans has known for 45 years. 

The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access
Michael P. Goodyear is an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law. His research analyzes the potential of intellectual property law to spark and stymie technological and cultural change, especially as it relates to underrepresented populations.

Court seems dubious of billion-dollar judgment for copyright infringement.  https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/court-seems-dubious-of-billion-dollar-judgment-for-copyright-infringement/



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