According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Hempstead animal shelter #1 thing they're looking for in an adopter for MELIA. "Hello, we would need an applicant that has experience with resource guarding and stranger issues, as she does have a bite history with both those behavioral issues." (516) 785-5220

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Things that should get more attention:

Missile attack on Ukraine again

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Giving mine big paw & very serious #CatsNoirFriday look to you all. Get some sweet sleep beautiful babies. Need lots of energy for #Caturday. Tomorrow. Family sends extra hugs 💤💙💤

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Better than 50% chance there is no FIFA Peace Prize next year and this was a one-off to make the orange toddler happy.

@elienyc.bsky.social morning.

I hope it’s now (even more) obvious that having military in our streets, with instructions to ignore “stupid rules of engagement,” is not in any way intended to protect us or make us safer

Morning.

Warning: decent person. @crockett.house.gov

What i have felt like since 2015

Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

I don't work for the shelter. breaks my heart MELIA has been there such a long time. I am TRULY GRATEFUL for each of you sharing her. There is an amazing person who is the right fit for her. We just have to find them. Here's her bio. Please read it. Info is there ⬇️ 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...

A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.

While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

😢 MELIA will spend her second Thanksgiving at the shelter. She wants a home for Christmas. She can live with cats, no dogs. Low traffic home, adult only. Needs training. Please adopt her. 😢 Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 [email protected] 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Today I sent out Christmas orders. And even though we don’t have electricity, my mood is still good — I spent the day working. My work here 🤗 etsy.com/shop/HappyJewelryHelga

The cardinals are back

Cool Mustard: “it was a hard morning walk mom.”

The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.

Jack Prosebic “its time to let the men handle this.” AMVO. Criticizing women on CNN

On AMVO THEY are fuming because no description of the shooter was given. They want to know whether he was “trans” or “wore a wig.” Good lord.

Morning friends.

If a local police department assists ICE in kidnapping people, are they eventually going to be held criminally liable too? Accountability must happen. We can't bend the knee to fascism and police who assist are as culpable a anyone else.

I’m trying to make breakfast but My cat stold the eggs and is taunting me to drop them... 😹 #catsofbluesky

Maximum pressure must be applied on Belgium and its partners to find a solution to provide Russian frozen assets to Ukraine as soon as possible. Anything less means blood on our hands. Do we want that?

Survivors who escaped El Fasher in Darfur tell how Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed scores of unarmed men and raped dozens of women and girls as they captured the city. - Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.au/sudan-el-fas....

The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.

excellent development - now insist on new leader after 2026 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Morning.

Morning.

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Air alarm🚨

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

@elienyc.bsky.social morning.

Slava Ukraini

“Bolsonaro was arrested shortly after 6am on Sat…after a supreme court judge issued a preventive arrest warrant because he was poised to flee to a foreign embassy *** Bolsonaro, who counts…Trump, among his international allies, lived about 15 minutes from the US embassy.” 11/22/25 … 1/

What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.