The Incompetents!

Trumpian overkill drains these magic words of whatever power they may still have had over the electorate. We’re not buying this cynical shit anymore.

Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....

Hey, FCC this is what you should be stopping. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

Equity!

[readies veto]

Also the butterfly wing flap that brought us to this moment

In late August 2019, I watched as woman after woman stepped forward in federal court to speak about how Epstein’s abuse shattered their lives. Here was my report:

Fight me

What

Trump’s War on Carolina Christmas

"While a legal defense about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment & the original intentions of its authors could win over SCOTUS, it is important to recognize that this administration is making a political case to the American people about who really counts as a citizen." time.com/7324450/birt...

I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this

Fascist

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

Sure did

Looks like we’re getting our first SCOTUS opinion(s) of the term next Friday

OK Gov. Stitt just commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence after SCOTUS declined to stop his execution www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...

This book rules and you should read it

Took the earliest train I could catch into the city for this, thought I was gonna be late, but line to get in is AROUND THE BLOCK. This turnout rules so hard that I don’t even care if I get in.

Kind of wild that the pedophile president is *also* the insurrection president who is *also* the bribery President. What are the chances that those are all one guy

Take that link, read all the emails. They’re bad.

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

When you’re MAGA Mike’s “moderate” beard but actually also just another MAGA Mike covering up for pedos

Hey remember when Lawler said “Nobody’s covering up for pedophiles”?

Listen, I'm not a beard guy either, but yeah

EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION

I feel like this point is weirdly under-discussed in the discourse! Acosta himself approved Epstein's notorious sweetheart non-prosecution agreement. By elevating Acosta to the cabinet later, Trump seemed to ... pretty clearly reward that?

Here in @jamellebouie.net's latest is exactly why I am running for Congress: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

I covered Epstein's indictment. I was at his arraignment. I reported on his death. I was inside the courtroom when his survivors stood up to describe his horrific actions and impact on their lives. Get yourself a Congressperson who won't dodge questions to protect the predator's "closest friend."

Ppl need to understand what's happening here. The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved. Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."

SCOTUS extends KBJ’s 48-hour stay another two days, likely to give Congress the chance to pass the CR, directly fund SNAP, and moot the case. KBJ dissents from the extention of her stay, would require SNAP fully funded with contingency funds for November now. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

It’s almost as if he wants to create the political conditions for a pissed off electorate to demand Medicare for All just so he can go back to the private sector, shatter his old company’s $1.7B health care fraud record, and get away with it again

Whatever’s happening in the Senate, I want everyone to read this & remember that this is our lives. In Chicago. The suburbs. Everywhere. We fight it every day. With organizing. With cantankerousness. With courage. With humor & kindness & generosity & solidarity & patriotism & love And we will win

Checks out

These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Corruption

These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Meanwhile KBJ’s deadline is just before midnight tomorrow (Tuesday) on whether to give Trump a pass for unlawfully starving people as a political pressure point.

Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.

This case in a nutshell

The past few months has had casual observers freaking out while SCOTUS heads have been repeating at every turn “they’re not gonna take this case” and, well…

CA1 says Trump must comply with Judge McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP for November from contingency funds during shutdown. KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP. www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...