Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!

Take a moment to listen AOC on the House floor tonight This is WHO & WHAT WE NEED A FIERCE FIGHTER I hear talk that she should run for Senate. !! I agree We NEED MORE LIKE HER @aoc.bsky.social

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

House Democrats release Epstein emails, including one in which he flatly asserted that Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. @migold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

The Wash Post Editorial Board published one of the most reckless pieces of “journalism” I’ve ever seen, attacking NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. The article is replete with disinfo, half truths, & anti-Black racism. I dismantle each of their claims—with receipts www.qasimrashid.com/p/rebuttal-t...

Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.

@merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov do you know about this?

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.

Americans remember your betrayal.

Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.

Coward & Sellout spews BS

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

@merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov DO NOT FOLD!

Any Senate Democrats who vote to cave are feckless, weak-willed and gullible — or even worse. The American people want you to hold the line and keep on fighting. DO NOT FOLD!!!

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

“I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured..I have fought this so hard. I want to live” Sunni Montgomery’s health insurance jumped from $541/mo to $1,758/mo 90% of Americans will see premiums soar But MAGA Republicans shut down the government instead of fixing it

There are some things we don't know, but what’s fairly clear is that Patel has been using the jet for events that have no real overlap with the actual responsibilities of the FBI. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

Judge rules on conditions at ICE detention facility; ICE needs to provide 3 square meals to detainees. ICE is now scrambling to find a food contractor to provide boxed meals. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I agree. The level of hysteria does not meet the reality of the moment. I have many smart, informed Jewish NYC friends who voted for Mamdani. If you are posting and fretting about Mamdani and not about Fuentes/Carlson/Kevin Roberts, you may very well be a victim of right-wing fear mongering.

At one food pantry in Boston, the spike in demand means there's now a two-week wait for some to receive food, stressing needy families as well as pantry staff.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit. UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A U.S. Senate investigation led by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) "has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide — with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water."

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NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

This cannot stand. www.commondreams.org/news/gregory...

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

Just about an hour apart by the way

"The agent grabbed Ms. Stagi by the hair, put her into a chokehold, dragged her through the street and threw her down a grassy embankment. Ms. Stagi said, “I’m 5-2. I’m not assaulting him..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

This is Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on Oct 24th when we now know from video evidence that the ICE agents were laughing it up about throwing tear gas at residents:

Much like dictatorship or climate change, the threat of AI taking your job is no longer hypothetical. It's here, as shown by last week's bloodbath at UPS, Amazon, etc. Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Trump is now going against his own administration's plan to partially fund SNAP. He's demanding Democrats end the shutdown and let health insurance costs skyrocket for millions of people, otherwise food assistance won't be released for millions of hungry people ahead of the holidays. Hello?

As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵

UPDATE: Trump is now saying he will defy a court order to fund SNAP benefits, using hunger to try to hurt Democrats (who are fighting to keep health care costs down) as Spineless Speaker Johnson insists Republicans are the ones fighting to help the hungry.

In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order

Seriously, watch this:

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

making a last minute push for the boomer vote

New York is a-changin'.

60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning

Shapiro and Weiss seriously thought they could fan the flames of reactionary politics and it would spare them. Did they think they could spew racist and transphobic bigotry and it not end up growing into a monster that eventually came for them too? They made this bed for all of us.

This sucks so hard. Teen Vogue did a better job of calling politics than a few certain national papers. Hope somebody is staffing up and can hire these talented reporters.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom: I will not raise my children to think Donald Trump is an acceptable American leader. He is a con artist, a predator, a malignant narcissist, and the worst president in our nation's history.