How did JJ McCarthy make it to the NFL thinking he needed to get 30 yards on every play?

Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pause an order directing it to release SNAP benefits in full. The request came after the administration said it was working to release the benefits, suggesting the money was going to be dispersed.

CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.

Trump may tell Americans — even his own supporters — that they won’t pay the tariffs. But at the same time, his own lawyers are arguing before the Supreme Court that American businesses and consumers pay the tariffs. Listen for yourself.

Immigration judges with prior immigrant defense work make up the largest share of those fired by the Trump admin. NPR identified 70 fired immigration judges. The changes have at least shifted perception of fairness in these courts My latest investigation: www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...

“‘DHS effectively collapsing different government databases into one is a privacy and practical disaster,’ said @isabelalinzer.bsky.social, elections and democracy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, in a statement.“

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

After Glenn's foot-dragging, hopefully @abigailspanberger.com will move forward on opening Virginia up to legal adult-use marijuana. I don't consume weed, but its time to end the War on Drugs & to boost our economy with legal cannabis retail. www.marijuanamoment.net/virginias-ne...

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Not sure the "appeal to incel Nazis" strategy some on the right are pushing is gonna fix this electoral problem.

Democrats just won the Virginia AG race with a terrible candidate who got hit with an October surprise against a Republican incumbent, completing the sweep of statewide races. The House is currently +7 Dem, with more to come. At this point the VA GOP should just pack it up and go home.

There are few albums in recent years that I've enjoyed as thoroughly as I do Coast Arcade's self titled release.

I shared my brief thoughts on why elections, as an extension of government, matter far more than they should in a liberal democracy.

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

It is always incredibly disheartening to learn that a friend holds some rather offensive and disgusting views. But it is incumbent upon us to call them out. With that, I want to publicly disavow @andyjabbour.bsky.social's assertion that candy corn is in any way an edible substance.

It's wild to me that the left watches the gross abuses of the state and concludes that we need to give it more money.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

I had intended to publish some thoughts on why elections shouldn't matter as much as they do, but it morphed into something else that deserves a bit more attention. If you're interested, you can sub (for free!) here to get my brain dump.

You shouldn't use Meta products if you can avoid it, because Meta is an unethical company that makes the world worse. But you particularly shouldn't use Meta's WhatsApp if you care about your privacy. (And you should care about your privacy.) aboutsignal.com/news/whatsap...

Question: But Nick, how can you say there's an AI bubble? Answer: Primarily because the current sky-high valuations are based on a digital genie emerging soon that can do anything, such as cure cancer on demand, not on the actual existing tech product selling. But also because of stuff like this:

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Encrypt your shit, people.

Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by. The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.

If this video doesn't fill you with disgust, then you're not a real American.

What should have been the OTGWG for the Flyers was reviewed (league initiated) and waved off for offside. That's...not offside. #NHL

Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

After Cardinal News investigation, Office of Attorney General data refutes Miyares’ chief campaign claim

Feeding peanut products to infants was connected with a 43 percent lower association with developing peanut allergies, according to a recent study. Here’s when experts recommend your kids try peanuts:

It makes me just a little sick to say this, but @bookshop.org needs an Amazon-like feature that allows people to purchase books off of a wish list without the owner knowing (while removing it from the public list) without having to ship it TO THAT PERSON.

People discovering that Bernie Sanders is, and has been his entire career, an anti-immigrant nationalist would be funny if only it hadn't been a contributor to shallow political analysis for decades.

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated. Secretary's critics worry Pentagon at risk of enduring damage amid firings, resignations and early retirements of high-ranking staff www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc... cc @dpounder.bsky.social

"Builing a bigger Presidential Palace" is just such typical authoritarian leader behaviour, it's almost boring.

I’m skeptical that a court can or will do this, but i think it has to be tried, because the GOP has descended to full lawlessness, and we don’t have any kind of government if the majority party can just refuse to recognize others.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

PSA for anyone running #Jellyfin: Don't upgrade to 10.11.

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks. I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@tailscale.com being down is...not fun.

There are few things I classify as "must read." This is one

News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them. Smith spoke to us on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

We need to have a serious and perhaps uncomfortable collective conversation about mental illness.

Defining half the country as terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals seems problematic. But sure, tell me how offended you were at being called "deplorable" once.

Not all MAGA are Nazis. But nearly all MAGA welcome Nazis. Which tells you a lot.

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...