It matters if the president is a bad person

#USA: National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or TTY 1-800-787-3224

NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

November 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanitation." n.pr/3X1BB07

Once upon a time I was a nearly prolific illustrator of ancient life forms. Here's a sampling of this 🐡🎨 paleoart from the early 20's.

Without some change in course, possible future scenarios are grim: If housing stock deteriorates, or buildings are abandoned by owners, or investors are unwilling to put their money into affordable housing, the city’s affordability crisis will get even worse.

This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!

An existential battle of interests: what the Sudanese war is actually about

The prosecutor President Donald Trump hand-picked to take his political foes to court hit back at a CNN guest on Tuesday over a perceived slight during an interview on the network.

Turns out Trump wanted more than just the Sudetenland. Who knew!

Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be. May she rest in peace.

Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.

Queen shit

Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes." Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.

This is probably your best bet. A good run down, while also reflecting on the ick of middle aged men courting her since she was a literal teenager. bsky.app/profile/kate...

When you assemble a squad of thugs and tell them they're above the law, don't be shocked if they start behaving as if they're above the law.

Doctors don’t order MRIs in elderly patients for the hell of it. www.salon.com/2025/11/19/_...

Exclusive: Convicted Church Bomb-Plotter Donated to JD Vance Zimnako Salah, recently convicted in a multi-state plot targeting Christian churches, previously donated more than $500 to the man who is now vice president per FEC records meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

Rep. Andrew Clyde's (R-GA) rebuke of Democratic Del. Stacey Plakett (USVI) for calling President Donald Trump a felon earned groans both online and on the House floor.

BARTIROMO: How do illegals get a mortgage? SCOTT TURNER: Well, Maria, you know, during the Biden administration, there were over 12m illegal aliens that came over the border, straining our housing supply (That's not an answer)

i’m sorry but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net and the resemblance is uncanny www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...

‘We sent the kids home. Then all our cellphones went out’ – This is climate breakdown

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

Regret over being found out.

Sure, conservatives are in the middle of a gleeful orgy of corruption, kidnapping, rape, and murder, but the real problem is when liberals say it's bad.

@scumbelievable.bsky.social joins us to talk about her novels incl. Black Flame and Manhunt, as well as the cancelation of her comic series Red Hood. Plus sensuality in horror and more! Listen where you get your podcasts or bitchesoncomics.com/episode-201-... Psst, this will be our final episode 😭

This hasn't gotten the coverage I think it deserves: a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the Trump admin "violated the constitutional rights of furloughed federal workers by using their work email accounts to send partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown." /4

The word's definition may be obvious, but Friendsgiving can mean different things to different people. Here are expert tips for how to celebrate it. n.pr/4pjeudt

Poland has ordered Russia to close its consulate in Gdańsk in response to last week's sabotage of a rail line by agents working for Moscow. The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.

Designating Saudi Arabia a major non-NATO ally gives significant military benefits. Doing so moments after dismissing Khashoggi’s murder—and attacking the journalist and network who asked about it—shows how far Trump is willing to go to elevate those U.S. intelligence has tied to murder.

For me, Trump’s unhinged and savage use of the epithet “Piggy” triggered a middle school memory of reading Lord of the Flies in which a sane, rational, and sickly character named Piggy with whom I identified is murdered by a mob of angry brutalizing boys.

The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Prior to the House of Representatives voting on a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, one survivor of the sexual predator took a moment to address Donald Trump — and warn him that he needs to make good on making sure all the files are released.

You may not be able to afford rent and groceries, and your health insurance may be about to skyrocket in 42 days, but the good news is that the Saudis got F-35s, nuclear tech, and security guarantees after putting hundreds of millions in Trump’s pocket.

NEW: Trump’s climate policies could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths by 2115, our analysis found. “The sheer numbers are horrifying,” a climate advocate said. “These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams.”

So many senior appointees in the Trump admin got positions they were utterly unqualified and unprepared for because of their social media presence or Fox appearances. MAGA cheers it on. Then it constantly comes back to bite them when they screw things up - like the Texas gerrymander.

1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea. 2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.

For Sale : A Glimpse Into Israel’s Dehumanization of Gaza‼️ An Israeli soldier just marked the end of his service by boasting about his role in the genocide in Gaza. He even posted photos of Palestinians his unit kidnapped captioning one of them “for sale.” (Gaza Notifications)

“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...