The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

I want to thank the coffee growers of Colombia for their help with my morning today. Trade is good. Glad for Canada's free trade agreement with Colombia, facilitating $2.6b in bilateral trade to help both countries grow our economies. Yay. 🍁🇨🇴

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Just horrific. These are crimes. And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.

She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

virtue signalling is good actually

“.. I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” - 11/06/25

Whenever secret police kidnap and disappear people, atrocities are happening behind the scenes.

> @gettyimages.com

i wrote a thing on this like a decade ago it's part of why condo fees in berlin and other cities are so low www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/22/i...

I'm becoming interested in the general phenomenon of norm equilibria that are getting shattered, and whether/ when that results in a new worse equilibrium. Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement... www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

Guy goes out of his way to call socialists communist while simultaneously trying to seize the means of production. 🤦‍♂️

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Airplane safety is woke 🤦‍♂️

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

When you're extremely concerned about an uprising.

I vaguely realized this town was in the mountains, but as someone born in the middle of North America, my idea of a mountain town is more like Calgary, Vancouver, or maybe Pittsburgh....

Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

I feel like an idiot right now. I didn't realize tourist traps were a real thing. Here, tourist tourist tourist!

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

My partner read a book about traveling Italy by train before we left for Sicily. It set my expectations extremely low. Thus far, the regional train from Siracusa to Catania is not bad! The sleeper trains look dated, though...

Just a Canadian hoping my American friends make good choices. But I encourage you to pay as much attention to the top result as the bottom.

USMCA "enables automakers operating in the U.S. to compete globally through regional integration, which delivers efficiency gains" and accounts "for tens of billions of dollars in annual savings." www.reuters.com/business/aut...

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury

Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit. Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear. Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

At some point, closing US commercial airspace -- while ICE raids continue -- might prod some Americans to question our priorities.

The least manly men on earth.

Too many people who had similar priorities to my own pre-2016 haven't grasped that the stakes are much different now. Publicly owned grocery stores and free busses are silly ideas for New York. Accelerating fascism is an existential threat to America. Silly ideas are survivable. Fascism isn't.

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Roger Lowenstein explains why Executive Branch capture of the Federal Reserve virtually guarantees a future inflation problem. Especially this time. rogerlowenstein.substack.com/p/dont-let-t...

Even the saddest places can become beautiful, with enough time.

2500 years of population stagnation is one way to keep a lid on housing prices....

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Please. Even if a bunch of people throw a hissy fit an leave, people will line up to take their place. New York survived the 1970s, 9/11, and COVID. An election cycle isn't going to move the needle. If people leave, others will get in line for a piece of Brooklyn or Manhattan.

And here's former vice president Mike Pence sharing a Wall Street Journal article calling out the head of the Heritage Foundation for defending Tucker Carlson's friendly chat with Nick Fuentes.