This 37 minute episode of the Daily is the most harrowing, infuriating piece of reporting I’ve heard in a long time. Everyone needs to listen to it. A sane country would be debating only the length of the prison terms of the people who did this to these men. We just moved to the next scandal.

Always head-spinning how the venezuelan people (or whoever) are innocent victims of a reign of terror at home but if they try to flee and come here they become sinister illegal aliens. In this case the transformation happens within two sentences

AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

MTG should have to go give scared straight lectures at high schools about looking at your phone too much

My wife said Trump loves NYC and his own personal heaven is like 1985 NYC and the people of NYC overwhelmingly love Mamdani and shipped Trump to Florida and Trump is in awe of that fact that this guy convinced NYC to love him even with the press and Richie Riches against him and she's got a point

#NewYorkCity! We have a new, reliable, multi-organization coalition hotline for reporting ICE activity! It will be live on Saturday, November 15th. I will be handing them out on the 15th as part of the NYC Day of Action. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ldn9...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is the Challenger Disaster of ethics in media.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

What the fucking fuck

can’t even indict a ham sandwich properly

One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him

Everyone go watch Monsoon Wedding! It’s so good!

Nobody will ever match the Simpsons’ perfect summation of America’s indefensible two-party system.

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

and quite honestly the consensus is what brought us here. the elites got too comfortable. no one is making it clear to them that there are limits and so they have become deadly and stupid and addled. they need to feel fear again. even for their own good they need to be constrained. limits imposed

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A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

"Who cares?" says the president about a day of peaceful NO KINGS protest in approximately 2,500 cities, towns, villages all over the United States, and in many other parts of the world.

It’s hard to explain this but Sliwa is a bad leader and a terrible individual—in many ways a harbinger of the violent indecency that plagues America—and yet great at being a New Yorker.

The. Government. Doesn't. Track. Citizens. Held. 🤯

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

Books he read out loud to me, ages 6-13: -The Hobbit & LOTR -Jane Eyre -Pride & Prejudice -Our Mutual Friend -War & Peace (i swear) -Crime & Punishment (i know!!)

Print! Distribute! Stick 'em in Little Free Libraries, put 'em on giveaway tables, pin 'em to community corkboards!

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

Conscription is fundamentally at odds with the firmly held conservative principle of never being inconvenienced in the slightest way

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

If you are Lindsey Halligan this is like signing up to coach your kid’s basketball team and finding out that the first team you play is somehow coached by Steve Kerr or Gregg Popovich

Important:

dunno if 10 hours of livestreamed garment rending and teeth gnashing by the weirdest people on earth is gonna change the fact that they woke all their dragons day one. you're already literally invading america! oh is a second set of gloves coming off? have we seen the end of your famous restraint

these people think having a gun or being able to get somebody fired or deported makes you strong, because they only understand strength as the capacity to hurt someone

The contrails were inside us the whole time….

this is acutely dangerous for the current national political context, because the ambiguity means that politicians can easily interpret to suit their own ends without being called out on it

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

New Quinnipiac Poll: 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Which politicians, experts, and rights groups are catching up to public opinion and finally using the G-word? @premthakker.bsky.social reports. READ IT HERE: zeteo.com/p/who-says-i...

I’m a little sorry but this is just what my brain is like

Look I’m not sure where I stand on banning teens from having phones / social media but I’m thoroughly convinced we should ban every single adult myself and the President of the United States included

I’m so fucking tired.