I hate to ask this but: Or what? What if they just don't do it? Then what?

A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.

Commercial airlines gonna have 10 percent of their flights cut tomorrow. Meanwhile Omni is humming along with three ICE removal trips in the last two days. The migrants on the plane landing in Vietnam have been shackled for 31 hours.

Wow -- I saw him endorse Trump at the infamous rally last October in Latrobe, Pa., the same one where Trump talked about Arnold Palmer's genitalia I bet Trump pardons him

Human millstone: Trump has been uniquely successful in dragging down the fortunes of Republicans in Virginia.

It’s happening now! www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...

And 77M voted for this

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

News: Democrats are inclined to keep their shutdown fight going, according to multiple people familiar. Republicans are weighing a funding vote tomorrow but Democrats are leaning toward blocking it at this point without more reassurances on ACA/federal workers www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

NEW: California’s attorney general said Thursday he’s wary of moves Trump could make to use federal power to interfere in the 2026 elections — through intimidation, suppression or purges of the voter rolls. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The Office of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to operate, even with the shutdown

Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

Good 🧵 if you’re traveling in near future

😒 and he’ll take his sweet time with that

250 years ago this week, Lord Dunmore shook the colonies: “All indented servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to rebels)… free, that are able and willing to bear arms.” Dunmore’s Proclamation changed the Revolution. 🎧 Hear the story #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250 #Virginia #History

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.

Uh …

They’re no longer useful to him

One of Trump’s staffers just passed out. Rather than offer any comfort whatsoever, he is seething and disgusted. One photo sums up his entire pathology.

Good assessment

Lina Khan, the former head of the FTC, will now co-chair Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team. Her understanding of corporate power and how to combat it, which she examines in the video below, make her a perfect fit. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdgxIJZDns

“Winning isn’t everything, Charlie Brown.” --- “That’s true, but losing isn’t anything!” (Classic Peanuts - November 6, 1967) ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball

Pittsburgh #Pirates pitcher John Candelaria hurls a no-hitter vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers at Three Rivers Stadium! (1976) Happy 72nd Birthday to "The Candy Man", born on this day in 1953! #MLB #Baseball #History

Facing budget shortfalls due to the end of COVID funding, cuts to Medicaid and tariffs, states are turning to one place for cuts: child care.

New in PN: Dem victories you missed while celebrating Mamdani's win "Guess everyone got tired of waiting for $2 gas & decided to skip right to transgender for everyone! But across the US, there were dozens of significant down-ballot races where Dems cleaned up in ways that bode well for the future"

Great profile of the artist Rama Duwaji (Zohran Mamdani is her husband) in the latest RVA Magazine. Includes many examples of her excellent work. She's a Virginia Commonwealth University Arts grad. Virginia can claim her! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽, VCU. rvamag.com/art/rama-duw...

We need him here

I think the ”super radical” takes that Mamdani is a counter revolutionary phenomenon are extremely tired arm chair shit Also he is gonna be Mayor of NYC so anyone who was expecting him to lead the revolution either works for the NY Post or doesn’t understand the system or both

ICYMI: The New York Times is done with women

I posted this 15 minutes before Pelosi announced her retirement. I’ll probably have something to say about her speakership later…but for now, here’s some new data about congressional Republicans resisting Trump. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Thursday that this term in Congress will be her last.

Part of the story of the Trump administration is the effort to demolish state capacities. Some will be very hard to rebuild and that is the point (thread)

Big day for shutdown - Senate Rs want an answer on reopening government and Dems will hold a critical meeting. If things are trending poorly, Senate might not stay in this wkend "We will have a lot of conversations,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “And we need to.” www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

Senator Tuberville has made some pretty epic tactical blunders during his time in the Senate. But, he gets this one spot on: Americans do not care about Senate rules. Nuking the filibuster wouldn't create the uproar many Democrats assume. But Republicans won't do it anyway.

I’m taking a victory lap for my coverage of young voters over the last year. I’ve argued that Trump’s 2024 gains with voters <30 stemmed mostly from anti-incumbent sentiment from high inflation — and that “GOP gains” / a youth “realignment” was a mirage. Tuesday’s results suggest I was right.

The tariffs may go down in flames at the Supreme Court, but we’re not out of the woods just yet. To this day, John Roberts has shown no indication of wishing to dial back the worst aspects of his disastrous immunity decision, which the Trump administration is weaponizing in three other key cases.

new to me: Gieseking plays Handel, Bach, Scarlatti. Tremendous! A reason to live. Uploader Mark Ainley (The Piano Files) says it is one of Gieseking's best studio records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ4B...

This man is your problem now, Istanbul

FIFA, the international group that runs soccer’s World Cup, has a history of corruption and is led by a pal of Trump’s. For some reason, FIFA has invented its own peace prize, which will be awarded next month. Something tells me the fix is in.

Starving the troops has famously gone so well for leaders throughout history. /s

When @iza3800.bsky.social and I were leaving this afternoon this cat auditioned us. Ran up to our front door meowing, then jumped onto the car hood to look us in the eye. We said no (several times) and it eventually ran off.

Imagine how many food banks Bloomberg could have funded with that five mil instead of flushing it down the toilet of the Cuomo campaign.

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This is FIFA folks. Plenty of time for Putin to bribe his way to a victory here

mildly horrifying trivia: Fievel got its start as Disney thinking "hey, we should do an adaptation of Maus" the creator of Maus, unsurprisingly, was horrified and told them to fuck off

Fun fact: Fievel is technically Ukrainian. The Mousekewitzes lived in Shostka, in the present-day Sumy Oblast in Ukraine, before they were driven out by the pogrom at the beginning of the movie.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life