CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

🤔 I know trump & his merry band of asshats have no clue.

This is a good, short listen on the Tucker Carlson - Nick Fuentes interview, and the divisions on the MAGA right over just how Nazi is too Nazi. @gregsargent.bsky.social and @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social also make interesting points about 20th century history, and the current divisions over Israel.

Great pod today.

I feel bad for King, but this is an incredible opportunity for people related to Bari Weiss

@haliesoifer.bsky.social in @politico.com: “If the president himself and Republicans were serious about combating antisemitism, they would condemn it when it emerges in their own ranks. And they do not.” “There’s a permission structure within the Republican Party, and it comes from the top.”

Honestly, I don't think Trump's incomprehension of political asylum has anything to do with his serious personality-disorder-related psychiatric afflictions and his seeming dementia, which both raise 25th Amendment questions. I do, however, think it reflects his utter stupidity ….

Wow. That seals the deal. Cuomo should concede.

These Trump fact checks are getting kind of long. Can we shorten things up on those columns and just tell us which parts are true? I feel like that would save a lot of time.

CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication: presswatchers.org/2025/11/cbss... NEW from me.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening. “We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions. “It's an instrument of terror.”

Apparently the citizens of his district don’t want to be Trump’s pawns as much as elected Republicans do. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Fox News host Charlie Hurt "can't square" why Obama won't support Winsome Earle-Sears, since they're both Black

Trump’s closing argument for Cuomo: He was born privileged and entitled like me. We also both had multiple sexual harassment allegations against us and are accused by many of screwing up the pandemic. I can’t really think of any other reason to vote for him but do it anyway.

No, CBS will not settle any lawsuits against them that people may bring for editing out over half of Trump’s interview since none of you are in a position of power to approve their merger with any other media companies.

A shocking report that pervasive racism has been discovered in the Republican Party.

If we were a Republic functioning as intended with separation of powers, checks & balances, House Oversight would be conducting an investigation into the Zhao pardon that Trump doesn’t remember, his involvement with Trump’s crypto company, & the foreign investors. But we aren’t.

Obviously, refusing to negotiate with Democrats while hoping they cave has not been a successful strategy. Is it too much to ask for Mike Johnson to get his members back to DC and actually negotiate a compromise, or are we just going to keep doing the same thing day after day?

Is this supposed to be an argument against it? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Excellent answer! Ignore the distractions. Eyes on the prize. Help the people.

Mamdani is asked about Trump’s comment last night that he’s better looking than him: “My focus is on the cost of living crisis.”

Most shutdowns end because two sides who initially were unable to come to an agreement during negotiations finally compromised when the pain points hit and things got worked out. But in this one, Trump ordered Republicans not to negotiate at all. That makes it hard to resolve.

Hilarious. What a way to end one of the worst campaigns in American political history. bsky.app/profile/meid...

You hear that @jaketapper.bsky.social ? President Autopen is struggling with his memory. It’s a scandal!

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

North Carolina Republican spokesman tries to pressure @propublica into killing a story by implying that the Trump administration might retaliate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

... Yet we, as a society and as a nation, largely refuse to discuss his mental condition—at least publicly. The accelerating destruction that he has wrought, and will continue to wreak, is on all of us—especially those who choose to look the other way.

... These are textbook psychiatric afflictions—indeed, an extreme illustration of them. Textbook mental illness. At this point, after all we have seen, there cannot be even the slightest doubt. And this leaves aside his seemingly apparent descent into the dementia that ended his father's life...

... And what is right or wrong turns on how, at any given instant of time, it makes him feel, and upon how he thinks it affects him. This is textbook pathological narcissism. It is textbook sociopathy and psychopathy. These are textbook personality disorders. ...

In Donald Trump's mind, there is only him. He is everything. Everything is his. Everything is about him. Nothing else, no one else, matters. In his own mind, he is the law. Everyone must follow him. He is the only one who gets to say what is right and what is wrong. ...

Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.

Shapiro: I just heard from a woman who spoke at the press conference where I announced the disaster declaration. She’s got 30 bucks left on her SNAP card to get her through the holidays here in November…

The scariest thing you’ll see all Halloween. No costume needed. 🎃

Trump on Mark Carney: "He apologized for what they did with the commercial. Because it was a false commercial. It was the exact opposite. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. And he did apologize."

Tucker Carlson discusses ‘these Zionist Jews’ with avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes https://www.timesofisrael.com/tucker-carlson-discusses-these-zionist-jews-with-avowed-antisemite-nick-fuentes/

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'" taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/

EUGENE DANIELS: “You said diversity can be a weakness. What did you mean?” CUOMO: “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan.” EUGENE: “I’m Eugene.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ (Jonathan is the other Black host. SNL’s writers have nothing on Cuomo!)

Good question, Junior!

“I think we really need to hear from Holsey on this,” Rep Adam Smith says. "We need to hear: Did he quit because he believed he was being given illegal orders?” How is it possible we may never get an answer to this question?

“They did not in any way, shape, manner, or form explain what the ceiling and floor are for ‘affiliated,’” Rep Adam Smith told me. “Theoretically, that could go beyond whether they’re in the actual action of moving drugs.”

“If Republicans fail to secure Holsey’s testimony, they will be denying themselves, along with the rest of the country, information that is vital to understanding one of Trump’s most lawless usurpations…” @gregsargent.bsky.social on Trump’s bloodthirsty boat strikes newrepublic.com/article/2025...

"Trump’s autocratic takeover depends on 'complicity, collaboration, and cowardice of congressional Republicans.' The GOP failure to exercise oversight on Trump’s bombings is allowing his consolidation of authoritarian power to balloon exponentially and dangerously." newrepublic.com/article/2025...

The claim of novel emergency or extrajudicial powers are dangerous precisely because once established, they can be expanded.

I'm groping for the right words to describe this