BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Live shot of Speaker Johnson's presser.....

Yes please

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!

Why bother cooking the books when you can just choose not to release economic data at all? Thankfully DoorDash came through with their own inflation numbers based on the price of eggs. 🙃

Maybe by the end of the day Republican house members will be rushing to sign the discharge petition so they can say to their constituents that they did.

Grijalva: That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files. Justice cannot wait another day.

Another sign of how hard the tech job market is for new grads.

This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?

Jesus said that it’s better “if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea” than to harm a child/push them to sin (Luke‬ ‭17‬:‭2‬) As a Christian, I call upon the “christian nationalists” in Congress to follow Christ’s teachings & protect children from our pedo President

Rep. Adelita Grijalva has officially signed the Epstein discharge petition. There are now 218 votes. A full vote must come to the floor.

Adelita Grijalva is FINALLY sworn in and is now officially a member of Congress

WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED

Today's shocking release of emails has me asking whether the shutdown was always just about Republicans protecting Trump from the Epstein Files? And, if so, what does that tell us about the last ten months and the next 3+ years. Subscribe now to Democracy Docket to get my latest. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

It is a great thing that wind and solar got cheap, but jeez, it just takes one despot to undo the effect

Weija: Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein's house with a victim? Leavitt: These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that president trump did nothing wrong.

Busy day today but note the U of Michigan consumer sentiment survey just reported its lowest reading in its 65 year history. Well done Donald!

EARTH IS BEING ROCKED — AND EVERY LIVING THING CAN FEEL IT. ⚡ A G4 geomagnetic storm is in full swing — the Kp Index just hit 9, one of the highest levels on record. The planet’s magnetic field is under extreme stress, and the auroral oval is lighting up the entire northern hemisphere.

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

What I now see as The Coming Clash of Civilizations should’ve been obvious. But from my old perch inside technocratic comfort, it was easy to ignore. I thought systems could save us; I didn’t realize they were eroding us. The real conflict isn’t nations or ideologies—it’s hierarchy versus humanity.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Is your phone being hacked by ICE/Trump? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl94...

Another sign that the United States of America no longer represents, and is no longer trusted by, the free world. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92

This is almost a weekly event now. "Belgium flounders as 5 drones buzz nuclear power plant." www.politico.eu/article/dron...

Jeff always has an interesting perspective on our nightmare. Sadly , Trump makes his comments even more real. 2547–release the files now. 🇺🇸

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. “ "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984 That was a day of love," Trump said

Trumpists attack BBC, and its response is woeful: my comprehensive analysis - youtu.be/S6fuqxDO7Zc?...

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

You can't win a shutdown fight when the other side actually likes having the government shutdown.

I'm still digesting all of this after my initial rage, but Josh Marshall makes some points here to consider: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

The BBC chair rightly admits an error in editing Trump’s Jan 6 speech. But he does not challenge the false Trumpian claim in the dossier: that Panorama “completely” and “materially”misrepresented its meaning. This is not impartiality. It’s surrender to post-truth populism.

Unpopular opinion here on bsky re the shutdown: the Dems were pointing a gun to their own heads threatening to shoot if ACA subsidies weren't extended. It was a worthy thing to fight for, but they were never going to win this one. Best to end the shutdown now.

I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.

Now the Dutch—even the very rightwing Dutch—are tasking themselves with preserving US history our own American fascists want o erase.

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Checking in on how a focus on "personal liberties and free markets" is going at the Washington Post. Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani? Oh OK.

"Our country will be woke no longer." - Donald Trump

The Trump administration asked to Supreme Court to block the court order requiring full payment of SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. Wild to see a government actively trying to harm its citizens just to win a fight over tax cuts for the rich.

One of the things I’m most thankful for is that I didn’t push my kid to get into tech. The entry level job market is non-existent and the entire industry is spending trillions of dollars to replace their experienced workers with chatbots.

pretty impressive example of the effect of propaganda that tesla shareholders at the annual meeting just booed the NYS comptroller for proposing that Tesla repeal a new bylaw that makes it effectively impossible for regular shareholders to sue the company

I’ve a young friend who recently quit a job for a mental health AI project a fraction as evil as this. She just couldn’t do it. To keep working for this trash once you’ve seen what it is is worse than peddling fentanyl. Maybe some say they’re trying to make it better. Yeah, “better” fentanyl.

FIFA making up a Peace Prize to award Donald Trump is the most on brand thing they’ve done this year.

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

New rule: if you have enough money for a private island, you have to stay on it.

The Onion can’t top this.

While billionaires are trying to make it out to be a disaster that a scandal free politician who wants to help people won an election, the rest of us are like

Who's going to use this for an album cover?