Leave it to a pro to sum up how we all* are feeling... *largely

If you live in the U.S., PROTEST NOW ☑️NO NEW WARS ☑️No ICE ☑️No corruption ☑️No tax breaks for wealthy and corporations ☑️No more limits on Constitutional rights ☑️No voter disenfranchisement REPOST to amplify your voice E P S T E I N F I L E S T R A N S P A R E N C Y Vote Blue to heal our democracy💙

Wow.

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

The Computer-Weaponized War on Women’s Human-Rights with The Rise of Reproductive Surveillance - An Exhaustive Compendium tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv

Trump has hit a new low (ref: Reiners) - but I feel somehow certain that he is capable of something even more despicable.

Remember when Schumer and Dems capitulated the end of the shutdown to maga on the promise of a vote on ACA subsidies "around" December 11th? Those fascists must be cracking the hell up.

I doubt it will be an annual watch, but as a Christmas movie, Violent Night was wild, funny and maybe a little cathartic? Hubby tells me a sequel is “in the works” - hope so.

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Sometimes reading these shock me - and then I realize…

Bravo.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

It doesn’t feel like we’re being invaded by immigrants, it feels like we’re being invaded by Trump.

If this ..administration.. declares war on Venezuela (or anywhere else for that matter): 1. I will be certain in my heart that it is because ‘they’ want war powers… 2. Will lose every last teeny shred (all that remains) of respect for our current federal government.

Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.

Del. @thedrmikejones.bsky.social nails it: "I am so disappointed and dismayed that the SCC would approve this gas plant which is in complete opposition to our clean energy goals, the Virginia Clean Economy Act and the health and welfare of Virginians in the vicinity." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/virg...

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

HEAR HEAR!!!!

Ah!

Yep! Not. Going. Back.

Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI” when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI

This! 👇 It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I want ask you if freedom is important to you? Then I want to ask you to repost this video & across your socials & ask your followers the same thing. Because they aren't just detaining undocumented people. They are also detaining permanent residents & citizens & you could be next. #ICELawlessness

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OH!

Prices aren't coming down. Trump lied. They started going up as soon as he took the wheel.

Video: In Committee on Rules, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) "Defends Amendment Blocking Jan. 6 Payout" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/wedn...

I especially like/appreciate LWON today. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

I am SO ANGRY with my senator!!!!

Excellent translation of poli-speak:

and NOW the chief fiend is demanding(?why?) that the states who have stepped up in place of his axis-of-evil to claw back *that* aid!

just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important

Another piece of good news to see this morning. Next week may be shit again, but this morning is good and I welcome it!

I hate it here.

Well said!

This morning’s hype anthem

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Trump just told this “I ended 8 wars” lie 🤥 again, so here’s the truth in case anyone cares 👇🏽

Supporting No Kings day because I hope we re-claim the USA which is actually governed by law (yes, often imperfect, but always in work toward “better”) instead of the mass of lies, personal agendas and pettiness we currently suffer under.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

Whatever happened to the GOP battle whine about The Deficit? Funny how there is plenty to spend to tack-ify The White House: gilt everywhere, massive new (unneeded) ballroom, etc. Now 'Kommandant Don-avich' wants a ‘triumphal arch’ in DC. Shouldn't that $ be going to lower the dreaded Deficit?