THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

"[T]hese families, they're losing a family member, and they're going to [learn] that ... alongside the news that they can't afford to get their work vehicle back or they need to shell out [crucial cash] for it."

The "journalists" who remain in this pool are basically hand-picked to be the most deferential to Trump. This is what we're seeing here, this is why the Olivia/RFK stuff is actually a big deal. These are connected. Access journalism is enabling a fascist takeover of America.

The Federalist Society has apparently taken down the video of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's "Fireside Chat" at the National Lawyers Convention on November 7 (the one where he said that he and the Justice Department are at "war" against federal district courts): I wonder why...

"[T]he provision ... makes illegal any hemp product that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. That would be nearly 100% of hemp products currently sold."

I was surprised i hadn't seen anyone isolate this yet, I think the actual disgusting thing here is that none of the other journalists there stick up for her or ask her question again or anything else. They act like it didn't even happen.

The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

“The new mission to excommunicate Greene and wreck her political future is…an example of how much Republican Party dogma now revolves around inflating and protecting the feelings of [Trump]”. @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social on the fallout between MTG and Trump zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...

we are subject to a plague of TRASHY people who absolutely REVEL in wallowing like fatted hogs in their gilded-gold trash-heaps, and by God, I am sick and tired of it

Shrieking Racist Sociopath Displeased

It's my solemn promise that if any man in my earshot ever says "quiet piggy" to a woman, I will do everything in my power to make it the last thing he ever says. Mc. Fuckin. HAD IT.

In the latest episode of Patel's misappropriation of bureau resources, the FBI Director has reportedly assigned a group of elite agents in Nashville to guard his girlfriend. Due to this, sources say these agents will likely be unable to respond to crises in the Nashville area. trib.al/D0EGPNv

Boerpedia

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

It's so fucking good, every year

We’ve been warning for months that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming hard for mail voting — and this week saw a major development in the campaign. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

😲 CONFIRMED: “an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely. Of 88 people on board, six were injured…” From: @gbrockell.bsky.social prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

TO BE CLEAR THIS IS NOT ACTUAL VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS I MADE THIS MAP AS A MEME IN 30 SECONDS

baseline normal racism is typical human nature, it's the same flavor that's found in black people who hate interracial relationships but Southern racism was literally foundational to society; it's not kneejerk distaste for the other it's genuine ideological belief in racial hierarchy

it is true that racists exist throughout the United States but to try and equivocate and say that it's not a uniquely localized problem in the American South is absurd which is very strange for someone who later accurately says it's due to the South's unique history! bsky.app/profile/espi...

if white voters in southern states were the same as white voters in New York this would be every electoral map of our lifetimes

spot.fund/gfbdsl9st All please help support Vlad if you can, this is a great opportunity for him; I would hate to see it pass him up. Even a share helps!!! His mother has done so much for others, supporting me thru hard times & the dog communities, especially @rescuecoop.bsky.social ! #uglydogs

Just use her as a tool to destroy Republicans, but know exactly what she is, folks.

The Epstein emails didn't expose a nostalgic "lost New York" so much as the utter moral rot of a U.S. ruling patriarchy that could never get enough money...or teenaged girls My new column on the midnight of elites, how #MeToo didn't go far enough...and pitchforks www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...

The president is going to use his private army to terrorize an iAmerican city because its citizens rejected his chosen mayoral candidate Democracy!

With Border Patrol’s ramp-down in Chicago, just remember this was already the vibe 2 1/2 months before CBP showed up.

2/3rds of the US lives in the absurd 100 miles border zone where CBP claims the right to ignore the 4th amendment but Charlotte isn't even in there!

Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.

“When the Border Patrol was created in 1924, white supremacists entered the agency, building the culture of xenophobia and impunity that exists to this day … CBP agents are arrested for criminal activity and corruption at a per-capita rate that exceeds any other federal agency.”

“Data indicates that CBP has far more allegations and arrests for abuse and corruption than other agencies and very little oversight … CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.”

If you’re media covering CBP in Charlotte, I would really recommend getting a dash cam.

ICE and CBP Strike Charlotte, NC, as Protests Erupt—’Latinos Running. www.newsweek.com/ice-cbp-stri...

More on ICE/CBP trespassing at a church to abduct a father in front of his family while the congregation did landscaping work, from an eyewitness. Reporting by @charlotteobserver.com www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.

The executive has encouraged the legislature to compel the executive to release files the executive holds and has chosen not to release despite calls from legislators. It's unclear whether the executive will veto the legislature's bill, and whether the legislature will over-ride the executive's veto

More context here. You know, just the fifth amendment, and "trust us we actually have more evidence."

"Liberal defenses of democracy falter because they treat politics as rational and procedural. They treat the symptom not the disease. Democracy is a system of feelings. Citizens must feel included. When those feelings collapse, no procedural reform can restore legitimacy" (Mamdani understands this)

Democrat support of the TikTok ban (during an election season when they were trying to court young voters) was one of the biggest tech policy turds I think I can remember in 20+ years of writing about tech policy

It's the "smell this" of journalism

"Bovino seems focused on becoming the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump immigration era, complete with the blatant racism, illegal tactics, and ignominious losing place in history"

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And then I saw this picture, and it's just... 💯

Almost as if Trump was worried that Massie was gaining visibility and popularity, and that freaked him out, so he figured he'd tell Rs to vote for the thing that he could just do without them, and not do it after they vote for it.