A SEVERE geomagnetic storm (G4) is UNDERWAY! Reports of visible aurora from Massachusetts, Omaha, Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, Missouri, Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, etc. LOOK NORTH NOW! And tag/text your family ASAP so they see too! 😍

In my experience, the Sun is remarkably adept at popping off *MASSIVE* storms just in time to prevent the feds from completely gutting NOAA/NSF space weather programs…🤔 (Yes, really. I don’t make the rules.)

If you live anywhere in the North half of the US I don't think you'll even need to go outside smaller cities to see them. My partner can set them from inside Cedar Rapids! #aurora #northernlights

Here is the current view from Imperial, CA looing north! This is literally mere miles from the U.S./Mexico border. ALL U.S. STATES (possibly excluding Hawaii) CAN SEE AURORA RIGHT NOW if clear! theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams

The sky’s just joining the team 💫

From Theodore Wirth Park!

Coworkers report aurora borealis has made it from Minnesota to Colorado ;)

Those of you in the northern half of the country… LOOK UP!!!

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

Once I told a teacher I didn’t have my algebra homework because the gales of November came early. She failed me, which was very disrespectful to the sailors lost that day.

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

damn. That woulda been a good pitch last week

This is pretty damn cool. Way to go, Daylen!

Facts would like a word.

And insists he has “true patriots” lined up to fill those ATC jobs and do them “better.” Unbe-🤬-liveable.

Trump is just a gag from “The Money Pit.”

Is that before or after we get his healthcare plan?

Kind of like John Thune.

nudging the barn door half-closed after the horses all ran away.

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

"If Democrats didn't exist, it would be necessary for Republicans to invent them." -- Elie Voltaire.

Yesterday too bad to describe.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

I know I’m supposed to laugh, but this is too heartbreakingly real… 🦋💔

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

“If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job…” ATC has been understaffed for years. Pity we didn’t know of these qualified “true Patriots” before.🤔

Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.

if you want a vision of the future, imagine 3-month CRs with 40 day shutdowns, forever

I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”

The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary 12th Edition Deep Dive. New paper dictionary arrives 11/18! youtube.com/shorts/Ur4Ek...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

🎯🎯🎯

"Now, will these beans grow into a beanstalk that goes to a magical land in the clouds full of gold and jewels and adventure? Probably not. But we have the beans now and we can plant them and find out!"

Perhaps better headline: Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028. www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...

THIS! Last week’s blue tsunami was a commanding demonstration that politics really *are* local. Apparently, Senate Dems no longer believe that. Last night’s vote was a shell game to protect colleagues, not constituents.

Shut us down for good reason. Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed. You want us to have confidence in you? You want us to think YOU can lead US? Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.

Is it too early to announce a primary?

To put things just slightly differently: Congratulations, Mr. Schumer, you just made Democrats part of the bums voters are going to want to throw out in 2026, if not sooner.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The only silver lining to last night’s cave.

We have had enough winning. by Senate Democrats

Was the possibility that Repubs would dig in and refuse to compromise because they don’t care about Dem priorities not considered before this began? If it was, was “calling attention to the issues” (the only thing achieved) worth doing this? Is a shutdown the only way to do that?

Reminder that your senator probably still sucks even if they voted no because Senate Dems rotate around unpopular votes to protect whoever they think is vulnerable. That’s why they always magically have exactly enough to pass.

With some moderate Democrats caving to Republican pressure, the shutdown was all for naught. www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Love waking up to news that, once again, reminds me that there is no one in power in America who gives a single shit about regular people who are just trying to live their fucking lives.