it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

“The alt-right label doesn’t make sense anymore because there is no longer any need to describe these views as an “alternative” to the mainstream right. Many are now the Republican Party’s stated positions.” www.vox.com/politics/470...

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans. Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.

Listened to some excellent stories recently about increased yeti activity where storytellers took for granted yeti exist "one day, goats howled. Could've been anything but..." "Yetis are everywhere this year. It's been too warm and chhatpat bhachha (they're unsettled)" etc etc (Obv yeti are real!)

Time after time, official statements from DHS — including ICE and the Border Patrol — have turned out to be malicious fabrications, often intended to blame the victims for their own brutality. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...

#ICYMI: RIS and the Africa and International Studies Working Group are teaming up for an ECR paper prize! 📆 Deadline 👉 January 16, 2026 🚨 Find out more 👉 buff.ly/cIOqnwG

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

As the Trump administration continues to ramp up its immigration agenda, taxpayers are left footing the bill. A new report from @bloomberg.com shows that on average, it costs more $17,000 to detain and deport a single person. More here 👇 bit.ly/3M2Fe3r

A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...

Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... FBI spied on immigration activists, calling them anarchist violent extremists

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w... No Palestinians in a meeting about Palestine.

"he will continue teaching" 😡

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

www.wdbj7.com/2025/11/12/r... Our new mayor won by 18 votes! Hadn't really followed this too much but he's the current vice mayor and beat a popular (or so I thought) local baker

Cursed shelf at the bookstore

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

Obv there's heaps of issues (climate emergencies, corruption, youth unemployment) here but also cheap healthcare available esp for elders and there's "briddha bhatta" (old age payment) that's for all elders (not means tested). Just thinking of that when reading US news today.

Immediately going to become a massive fan of my hometown(ish!) team with their new name! (Thought they were waving a baseball bat but it's an oar? And they're rowing?! This is a delight)

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Easy to blame Musk for this (and we should) but there's no Musk without govt relinquishing its responsibilities. Rubio should've nightmares rest of his life about what he's done (but won't)

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the most chilling things about this story is that some did not even know it was ICE. They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter. Think on that for a minute.

Middle East Studies Association and American Association of University Professors: report on US govt investigations into universities "According to the report, only 1 of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel." shorturl.at/xUeBz

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules

“The prison guards uniform changed, with a tag on the chest written on it the word ‘fighters’, or ‘warriors’, and they started acting like they were in a war and this was another front, and they started beating, torturing, killing like warriors” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses. In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Don’t believe anything they say. https://apnews.com/article/detroit-michigan-halloween-terror-plot-fbi-patel-d4758edbde0b18c19ca7b38f9e836904

Allow me to summarize: 1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner. 2. IDF files charges. 3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened. 4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation. 5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed apnews.com/article/detr...

Such a good point here from @davekarpf.bsky.social: If Dems don't engage forcefully enough on Trump's terror raids, Trump/MAGA propaganda filters down to the "inattentive public" and risks persuading people this is normal and acceptable. Check out our full exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Was reading, looked up, saw this!

Also: one of the best small museums I've ever been to is in Matewan and you all should stop by if you're in the area wvminewars.org

I was told from reliable media orgs that Republicans were fighting antisemitism, that the reason university presidents were brought before the Republican Congress was to address concerns of antisemitism on campus. www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19 Reports @motherjones.com

Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved. There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence. Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt. 1/

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Been reading local town/govt sites on FB and this "Ds need to join Rs" is the language everywhere in SW Virginia. What happens to many people's healthcare costs if govt is reopened now is rarely mentioned.

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis. Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.