Michael Wolff looks really scummy in these emails

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Despite my nerdy tendencies I've managed to avoid sinking money into Magic the Gathering for my entire adult life. This might change with the Avatar: The Last Airbender set...the artwork is too beautiful.

The art of satire is facing an extinction-level threat

The closure of Baker & Taylor is affecting my local library 😟

Man I really want to see Predator Badlands

Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

91 votes separate the two mayoral candidates in Seattle, but Katie Wilson has pulled ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell and is now in the lead.

The funny thing about this Senate fiasco is Rand Paul correctly clocked this as his moment of maximum leverage and he used it to go balls to the wall about.... hemp.

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

DSA and Working Families Party have meetings FYI

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

You gotta hit em in the egos kids, they don’t have much of anything else going on in there

ICYMI: Day of the Dead vigils remember immigrant neighbors who’ve died while in ICE custody “I didn’t know him, but he could have been my brother, he could have been a neighbor, he could have been my family.” americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/day-of-the...

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

At the library with my kids and I against my better instincts decided to hate read this bio of Elon Musk

"New York is going to turn into a communist hellhole where poor people are barely exploitable anymore. So count me out. I’m packing up the offices of my toxic masculinity troll site and taking my miscreant talents somewhere they’ll be appreciated, like Florida or Texas."

“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Pushing 50-year mortgages when the median age of first-time home buyers in the US is ~40. Tuh.

Not posting it, because it’s in no need of further circulation, but PLAYING THE WHORE has made it onto the radar of those mass book ban lists, and to give you a sense of the seriousness of these endeavors, at least a third of red-flagged material was quoting the *bibliography*

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I really wish ppl would go on the offensive more often when pinpointing so-called centrist Dems' positions on DEI/"woke" issues. You begin from a position of common ground, say job protections, affordability, healthcare access, then pick apart why they support it for some but not others.

an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

Here's the shortened clip of her confirming.

Also, DHS is nothing but a 20-yr old org chart. It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership. We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies.

Absolutely sadistic. A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment. The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Climate Resiliency

No hell hot enough: DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin “said in an email that Mr. Quiñonez [a US citizen] was to blame for what his daughter experienced because he brought her to a location where ‘violence against law enforcement’ took place [a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles].”

Saw a promo image for Stranger Things and boy does this franchise need to move on. Those kids aren't kids anymore, they look like they have student loans and credit scores.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.

Abolish Border Patrol.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

As recently as this February, someone told me that there would be a trillionaire within the next five years and I brushed it off as basically impossible.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

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

"But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with “more than 100 Republicans” planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming,”

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

It's Dispatch time

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries. link.springer.com/article/10.1...