www.npr.org/sections/sho... Scientists involved in tracking virus say they don't have good visibility into what's happening in animals or humans. That's because federal government has scaled back on surveillance and communication. In the past 30 days, virus has struck 66 poultry flocks.

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Trump: "We're gonna do things to Nigeria that Nigeria's not gonna be happy about, and may very well go into that now disgraced country guns a-blazing... I'm hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack it will be fast, vicious, and sweet."

President Donald Trump keeps touting the fact that Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper this year than it was last year. But Trump hasn’t mentioned that this year’s basket is different than last year’s – in particular, that it contains significantly fewer items. | Fact check

Made spaghetti 🍝 with green peppers 🫑 onions 🧅 & black beans 🫘 tonight plus a version of chocolate 🍫 zucchini bread 🍞 using apple 🍎 sauce instead of eggs & hot chocolate/cocoa instead of chocolate 🍫 squares/chocolate 🍫 chips. Yum 😋

Today, Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi announced that she will not seek reelection and is retiring at the end of her term. From her time working with Harvey Milk in San Francisco to her tenure as the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is the definition of a champion for equality.

BREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.

@hopeful66.bsky.social healing ❤️‍🩹 hugs 🫂

Obvious need: curriculum/movies/educational videos/articles/shows etc to educate on what socialism/Marxism/communism/capitalism/social democracy/Democratic socialism/democratic republic etc is because it’s obvious hardly anyone knows—the dis/mis-info & fear machine is insane 🤯

Duffy: "There's going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations."

California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a new U.S. House map that California voters decisively approved at the ballot.

We in the 🇺🇸 won’t be able to heal, nor move on, until we can get the constant gaslighting & mis/disinformation stopped. I’m not sure how now that so much print/radio/video/media owned by the far right bad faith actors but it has to happen. Journalists don’t push back/afraid—make lying wrong again

Gov. Beshear: “The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”

Toyota is recalling over a million vehicles in the U.S. due to a flaw that may cause a rear-view camera to fail, boosting the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says.

Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame. n.pr/493YcAm

Alvin Bragg Is Re-elected as Manhattan’s District Attorney 🇺🇸💙👏👏 His opponents tried to make the campaign a referendum on his record, which included convicting Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A series of encrypted phone calls – secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source – tipped off federal agents that a group was allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Michigan on behalf of ISIS, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.

ANALYSIS | The USS Gerald R. Ford is on its way to Latin America, a surge of forces that puts nearly 20% of the Navy's deployed warships in the region and makes the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility a nexus of the service's global firepower.

Shock as Orbán allies buy Hungary’s most-read newspaper

BREAKING: Entering its 36th day, the government shutdown is now the longest in American history.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “The worst thing that I just can't get over is we're not working right now. And I put that criticism directly on the Speaker of the House…It is an embarrassment to me that we're not in session.”

Ahhh… VIRGINIA 😻🤩🥳

The Department of Transportation may close some parts of US airspace if enough air traffic controllers don’t show up to work, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted Tuesday that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck. https://to.pbs.org/47oyk0H

BREAKING: Video shows crash of UPS Flight 2976 while taking off from Louisville International Airport in Kentucky

Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.

The administration said it could cover “50% of eligible households current allotments” through November with the $4.65 billion in a contingency fund.

Holder: The Supreme Court is a broken institution. And it’s something that has to be part of the national conversation in ’26 and in ’28. If there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028—and I think the possibility of that is pretty good—Supreme Court reform has to be on the table.

The mayor of Evanston, Illinois, says he is opening two investigations after federal agents were filmed pinning down and repeatedly striking a person in the head as they arrested him. https://cnn.it/3WxkK51

"Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that Oklo didn’t provide verifiable answers to the most basic safety questions. A former senior agency official says Oklo “is probably the worst applicant the NRC has ever had.” Oklo went public last year and now has a market value around $20 billion.

The caffeinating still isn’t going that great & don’t feel up to much but Mom is hungry, doesn’t want leftovers & really wants pancakes 🥞 so…

The cruelty is the point.

Mom says: make pancakes 🥞 😂 of course she does

Mom says GO Chiefs after having me hang a Chiefs flag in the window & changing the channel to where the game will be. She’s still hacking up a lung but overall a little better. Me too but I can feel this COLD 🥶 weather in my bones 🦴 Might try to clean, cook, prep or bake 🤷‍♂️

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Declining population means caring for parents, grandparents, and other relatives could become even more challenging with fewer professionals and family members to pitch in. n.pr/3JeLMex

-- The New York Times published a project Friday outlining what its editorial board argued is an alarming shift toward authoritarianism by President Trump during the first 10 months of his second administration. --

You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time. All are considered acceptable so go off.

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The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. n.pr/47lM2Sa