Imagine what Epstein, the world’s most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker, must’ve seen his best friend do. “I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump," Epstein wrote in 2017 to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. "Not one decent cell in his body." www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

AOC and Her Ideas About Income Inequality......❤️

If you live in Orange County and want to honor the service and sacrifice for those who have served, here’s a good list of local activities voiceofoc.org/2025/11/wher...

They found billions for foreign deals but not for your healthcare. Hold them accountable. Flood the lines! 📱 (202) 224-3121

Proud to see Trade Ledger join forces with United Fintech to accelerate AI-powered innovation in banking. It’s been an excellent chapter working with such a talented team to transform commercial lending, and I'm excited for what’s next! innovationstreets.com/united-finte...

It's complicated. But the bottom line is the next step would be for the whole court to consider it and it could result it in a stay designed by the 6-justice legion of doom.

Cruelty is the point.

Even the most advanced AI (Deep NN, advanced reasoning) will never feel anything. Consciousness isn’t computation. It’s a biological phenomenon rooted in lived experience. At best, they’re Chalmers’s philosophical zombies. Stochastic parrots without an inner world. #AI

Happy 🎃 Halloween. Great to see Brian Stack back as Frankenstein. A Conan classic that will start your day with a smile.

Worthy of a few moments of your time www.tiktok.com/@beezay22/vi...

According to usafacts.org/articles/how..., we are looking at 2.86 million on the payroll, so @ike55.bsky.social is spot on. This payment is a drop in the bucket, and some repayment will happen at some point.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

We have just over two weeks to pass Prop 50. And when we do, it will send a message of hope across the country, that change is possible if we do the work. So, let’s get to it. linktr.ee/cadem

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

⚠️ ORANGE COUNTY - ELECTION ALERT ⚠️ Only 14 days left. Only 15% of ballots returned. The race is neck and neck. Your vote has never been more important. Please, take 5 minutes to complete your ballot, SIGN IT, and return it today.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

When the press can’t stay independent, transparency and accountability die, and with it, the last shreds of our democracy. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

“We could hear them laughing.” Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. #OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

This does not seem good at all

I just dropped off my ballot at the local drop box for the California special election on Prop 50. Don’t sit this one out. Your YES matters now more than ever. Munger’s 💰 has flooded the airwaves, and the NO voters will be out To find out the easiest way for you to vote, check out ocvote.gov/voting

It’s of note that during tonight’s hearing the DoJ didn’t even try to make the case that changing conditions on the ground in Portland warranted the CA National Guard. Instead they relied on legal technicalities. Proving again that what they say in court is different than lies they tell the public.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

One of my favorite sayings is “correlation is not causation.” In fact, here’s a whole site about spurious correlations. Some are pretty hilarious, but most importantly you can't draw any conclusions from any of them.

Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

As I noted last week in House Oversight Committee, Donald Trump’s actions in his second term are straight out of the authoritarian playbook These attacks on our democracy and the rule of law must not be allowed to stand. We the people need to stand up to protect and defend our Republic.

As a member of the Oversight Committee, I just questioned Alex Acosta, the US Attorney who negotiated Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal. His answers were evasive and non-credible. What is clear is that there is A LOT they are hiding. I won’t stop until the full Epstein files are released.

It’s happening. It isn't cancel culture, it’s the government silencing voices of dissent.

I love democracy. I advocate free elections, diplomacy over extrajudicial killing, freedom of speech, press, and academic freedom, and the idea that human rights are universal and inalienable regardless of class, race, disability, or sexual preferences and identity.

I feared this was coming and this is scary.

The Many Ways in Which the September 2 Caribbean Strike was Unlawful … and the Grave Line the Military Has Crossed at www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

/3 Previously it has been the Right that more reliably asserted that “hate speech” was not a First Amendment exception. But the Right’s pretense to caring about actual freedom of speech has been revealed to be sheer bunk.

Why does my gut tell me this deal will involve one or two individuals with the last name Ellison? www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Central and Southern California came out strong for the Democracy Door-to-Door kick-off! 💪 Our volunteers are organizing region by region to win YES on Prop 50 this November.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Young women and girls around the world are watching closely to see what we in Congress will do. I won’t stop fighting until everyone in the Epstein files—regardless of how rich and powerful they are—is held accountable. Release ALL of the Epstein Files NOW.

"One of Us": The Murder of Charlie Kirk and the Mirror America Refuses to Face How the Right’s Narratives Collapsed When the Suspect Wasn’t an Outsider open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

I appreciate his inclusive comments about political violence. The malignancy in the WH was, as usual, just blaming the left and fueling hate and conflict.

History is watching. Will we be the generation that let democracy die, or the one that saved it? This is our choice. This is our legacy. Vote YES on 50. #yeson50

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

A good look at where we are this weekend and how to prepare for what will come next. In short, get involved today and start supporting a cause greater than yourself, opposed to just vilifying this vicious fascist.