Read Heritage Foundation report on women, childbearing, and education. They want to prevent women from earning degrees and working because they have fewer children.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

State officials recently prioritized reducing wait times for calls into Louisiana’s child abuse hotline, but achieving that resulted in hundreds of reports to its online portal going unhandled for days. via @lailluminator.com

On Wednesday, the Trump administration circulated a six-page draft executive order titled “Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy.” It would create an “AI Litigation Task Force” led by the Attorney General to challenge state AI laws, among other provisions.

deeply unfair. fake news. they're spending all their time buying up tariff refund contracts. www.wired.com/story/cantor...

This is perfect. A Fox 52 episode podcast about the life of Jesus, apparently built on subterfuge, theft and lies. Many or most of the actors billed as participating had their voices repurposed from other work and didn't even know they were part of it. ew.com/celebrities-...

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

At least 20 women who were held in a SF jail say earlier this year deputies ordered women to strip down in front of each other while the deputies laughed and filmed them. The sheriff is looking into allegations; lawsuits could follow. via @abineely.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-j...

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene. This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed. "When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

Here is another way of looking at state percent Southern Baptist and death rates, measured here as state total population life expectancy. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

Via a friend: the recipient of the first successful neonatal heart transplant celebrated his 40th birthday a few days ago, still with the same donor heart transplanted into him when he was just days old: news.llu.edu/patient-care...

Meiselas: This guy's a con artist. He's a fraud. He's quite literally a criminal. A felon. He lies. He destroys people's lives. He's a rug puller. 'Look, $23 trillion! Dividend checks are right around the corner! I'm gonna make you so rich!' It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.

US LAYOFF NOTICES ARE SURGING AT A RECESSION PACE 39,006 AMERICANS GOT ADVANCE LAYOFF WARNINGS IN OCTOBER — THE SECOND-HIGHEST SINCE THE 2020 CRISIS, UP 160% IN TWO MONTHS.

In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

SELLERS IN THE US HOUSING MARKET NOW OUTNUMBER BUYERS BY ABOUT 500,000 — THE BIGGEST GAP ON RECORD, PER REDFIN.

OVER 12% OF CREDIT CARD BALANCES ARE NOW 90+ DAYS DELINQUENT — THE HIGHEST IN 14 YEARS — WITH INTEREST RATES ABOVE 21%

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

We're never going to live down the accusations that we just invade countries to steal their oil

PSA: The President of the United States is a dangerous stochastic terrorist. 🧵1/6

Completely apropos of nothing: "Just obeying orders" does not work out when those orders are illegal. See also Nazi prosecutions after ww2.

Fifteen of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia.

Weird bottom line from today's hearing in Abrego's civil case: There's no "order of removal" in Abrego's file. Govt says the order barring him from removal to El Salvador acts, "by operation of law," as a removal order. Judge Xinis wasn't buying it; may eventually grant release on that basis.

How could I not write this up www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Incredible headline.

NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again. With @startribune.com

Slotkin: "This is a really bad week for Donald Trump on the Epstein files. He's been fighting this for a long time. He doesn't want to be talking about that."

“The swastika signified the mission allotted to us—the struggle for the victory of Aryan mankind and at the same time the triumph of the ideal of creative work which is in itself and always will be anti-Semitic.” - Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/020...

Market Cautious on Soybeans After Rally Slowed by China Demand Concerns

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

The Trump administration is overhauling the widely anticipated annual U.S. reports on human rights around the world, adding a new focus on issues like individual liberty rather than the persecution of groups and minorities, according to U.S. officials.

for the humanity left in us 🖤

Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb on Thursday ruled that the use of troops in the nation's capital was unlawful. n.pr/47S9WVt

TLDR: Even mild infections are shit for your💔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina? None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

This is nuts. Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment. Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.

What is going on with republican men? www.rawstory.com/cory-mills-2...

Officials are facing threats and intimidation for resisting Trump’s plan. The situation is particularly alarming in Indiana, where four Republican lawmakers have been targeted in so-called “swatting” incidents after voting against a partisan redistricting session.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Help me out here. Is this as shitty lawyering as it looks? Judge: How could she have made prosecutorial decision in 3 days? Loaner AUSA: Well, if you order discovery we'll explain that. FWIW, I know what the answer would be and ... it would only serve to expose that Lindsey can't read a calendar.

Generic Ballot Polling Among Gen-Z 🔵 Democrats: 64% 🔴 Republicans: 30% Marist / Nov 13, 2025

Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters: 🔵 Democrats: 50% 🔴 Republicans: 46% Marist / Nov 13, 2025

"The US is (X) as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and culture" Stronger: 84% Weaker: 15% Gallup / Aug 25, 2025

Generic Ballot Polling Among Hispanics: 🔵 Democrats: 59% 🔴 Republicans: 35% Marist / Nov 13, 2025

#MyHero 💕

From the Bloomberg article on how “Oracle Corp., the once stodgy database giant that’s borrowed tens of billions and tethered its fortunes to the artificial intelligence boom, is quickly emerging as the credit market’s barometer for AI risk” and … 1 of 2.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.