there has been a notable bump in GOP support for a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants prri.org/research/the...

Increasing the House would be good for other reasons but do very little about gerrymandering. State legislatures with much smaller districts are still badly gerrymandered. Proportional representation would make gerrymandering impossible, or Congress could impose strict limits on House redistricting

Looks pretty clear now that Trump has broken the old pattern of quick recovery after shutdown approval losses. You might say that a string of ugly stories has prevented that, but are they really any worse than "normal" over the last 10 months?

How cable news broke US politics: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-cable-...

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

Sounds good to me

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Avg swing in specials to Congress is 17 pts left since 2024. But bc they've been so low-turnout, the data b4 last night suggested a 100% turnout (relative to the past midterm) special would have swung closer to 6-7 points. So TN-7 (13 pts) is updating priors about the share of swing that's turnout

Williams, here complaining that a 200k salary (before kickbacks) is not enough, has not gotten the memo on affordability

New @CookPolitical: Could the White House's redistricting war backfire? Three GOP seats at severe risk if VA joins CA in adopting a Dem gerrymander: #VA01 Rob Wittman (R) #VA02 Jen Kiggans (R) #VA05 John McGuire (R) My full analysis, w/ maps: www.cookpolitical.com/a…

the avg special swing for special elections in the 2026 cycle is 13 points to the left, according to The Downballot -- so we are seeing an above average shift here in TN-07, even with Trump's late intervention docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Thanksgiving costs climbed about 10% this year over last year, according to new research from @groundwork.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org. That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇 https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf

Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth. By @megomatz.bsky.social

Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person. All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”

Tomorrow's political data roundup is about survey experiments and what they can teach us about how voters are responding to information about the policies of the Trump presidency/GOP-controlled Congress: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...

Some incredible details in this piece *one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm *illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted

Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

We will need tribunals and Democrats need to start talking about that

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds. So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism

Public grocery stores run into a monopoly problem: big grocers get better deals from suppliers. That's actually illegal, but the law that bars price discrimination to small grocers is effectively dormant. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social writes that NY is writing its own version of the law:

"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.” What happened to DOGE after Musk left. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“.. the first time any president since at least 2007 .. has refused to help residents recover from such extensive damage to their homes, federal records show.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.” 👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

1. Good riddance. 2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

Polls this week showed Democrats growing their margin in the House generic ballot — by 2 points on avg, compared to polls from the same pollsters last month. Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters! If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards

This is even more silliness. First off, admitting that you want to make life harder for challengers is not a great look! But more to the point, if need be, MD could delay *just* its congressional primaries and leave its legislative primaries untouched.

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Yup. @gluesenkampperez.house.gov you sought to censure members of your own party in wildly performative gestures, and we wonder where your outrage is when the president called for the deaths of your colleagues. And Mike Johnson refused to condemn those words. Where is your outrage, babe? Show us.

Unsurprising that the take away for these two chodes is "Donald Trump is pretty great actually"

Not for nothing but the “bromance” stuff is as made up cope as anything else. I haven’t heard a clip of Mamdani saying anything other than “I appreciated the invitation to discuss things with him” and agreeing that he called him a fascist

SCOTUS is poised to simply say racial gerrymandering is fine in all forms

I’ll confess that I don’t fully understand exactly why Texas needed an administrative stay here; everyone agrees that the earliest deadline for the primaries (the candidate filing deadline) isn’t until December 8. Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.

“We can’t do congressional restricting because it could give our primary challengers more time to campaign against us” … is exactly why these Maryland Dems deserve to be primaried. If they can’t be persuaded to put fighting back against Republican power grabs ahead of self interest, they need to go

also from this article: anti-redistricting Sen. Ben Kramer (D-Montgomery County) said that he and other state senators are backing Ferguson's opposition to redistricting because they're afraid of giving their primary challengers more time to campaign against them

New poll finds Dem voters broadly want independent redistricting but favor passing new maps to neutralize GOP gerrymanders. California's prop 50 was unprecedented but easily passed due to Trump. 2026 is an opportune time for ballot measures in VA, NJ, & CO that would empower Dems to draw new maps

After a cascade of bird flu cases drove egg prices to record highs, ProPublica reporter @natlash.bsky.social unraveled the outbreak and revealed major flaws in how we combat the disease:

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Four Republican legislators in Indiana have been targeted in "swatting" attempts just days after Trump called for primaries against those who opposed re-gerrymandering the congressional map. Trump's supporters take him literally and seriously when he advocates political violence