Thanks! More here on that program at PubliCola: publicola.com/2025/11/05/p...

Great read. Especially the info about Seattle PD Chief firing people for pushing back on his insane surveillance tactics. Who the fuck hired this guy? 👀 #cascadia #pnw

A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends: “I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Editing is top notch. #zohranmamdani

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

The government will open after the TN-07 special election December 2nd, so Johnson has a vote to cancel Grijalva's on the Epstein discharge petition. Unless.... democrats WIN that special election...

As Attorney General, I adopted a Tribal consultation policy to ensure we sought consent before starting a project that could affect Tribes. I signed an executive order adopting a similar process for our state agencies. Tribal consultation must be more than checking a box.

Border Patrol Commander Accused of Lying About Terrorizing Chicago Residents

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

It's a bad shoot. They will say it was a good shoot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrW... He drops the weapon RIGHT before they shoot him.

Q: Food prices are still going up. Grocery prices are still going up. How do you respond? MIKE JOHNSON: All of the economist have shown that food prices always go up. There's an inflationary level that's built in to grocery prices.

You know what’s hilarious? Republicans understand it’s about socialism. Do you think democrats understand that? Or will they just keep harping on about everything Trump does and offer no solutions and failing to fix anything in the places where they have majorities. (Like blue states, for instance).

lefties are still holding our breath here in seattle as the late counts come in. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Release. The. Files.

AOC dropping truth bombs.

Bahahahahahaha

we're on day 2 of Mike Johnson urging everyone to ignore the drubbing his party took on Tuesday

There’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that ICE deported a man in a persistent vegetative state Or the fact that he was perfectly healthy when he was detained, and his family have no idea what was done to him to cause such a severe decline He died shortly after being deported to Cuba

"Um, I not, I don't know, eh, what you're talking about with the, ah, children." Speaker Mike Johnson No one believes you, Mike.

Sen. Ruben Gallego on Latino voters: "They are worried about the cost of living...They're also worried about what's happening with immigration enforcement right now...They were told that the administration was going to go after criminals, not fathers and mothers."

There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

More election results data: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

And thank fuck for that.

(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates .. @bloomberg.com #Challenger www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When the chickens come home to roost carrying H5N1.

Any ideas why Russian mafia invested in Twitter so much?

Between 2018 and 2024, over 900 journalists from 15 countries in Latin America have been forced to leave their home countries and settle elsewhere for their protection, according to a recent report from the Latin American Journalism Review.

💥A Russian man charged in Poland with spying has admitted giving information to the FSB. Igor Rogov and his wife passed details on Russian opposition activists in Poland and those helping them—including Polish MFA officials. Rogov used to work for the pro-democracy Open Russia movement.

Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend. She definitely doesn't sound like the sort of person who would get involved with tax fraud on a house purchase.

💥🇷🇺 Russian Orthodox bishop Hilarion (Grigory Alfeyev), Patriarch Kirill’s ex–No. 2, is seen here harassing his young assistant George Suzuki — who shared the video with @denikn.cz. Hilarion served in Budapest, cozying up to Viktor Orbán, now based in Karlovy Vary. More: denikn.cz/1880250/lezl...

"Where does this leave the Democrats? Keep pressing on the gas pedal. This debate about whether the Democrats should focus on economics or threats to democracy is silly. I can do two things at once. So can you. And so should the Democrats:" newrepublic.com/article/2027...

It looks like ProudBoys thugs among ICE members icelist.is/ice/daniel-d...

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deleted my account exactly one year ago today! I don’t miss it a bit.

Land records reveal a 33.7 million pounds London mansion owned by sanctioned Iranian banker Ali Ansari, accused of aiding the IRGC. www.occrp.org/en/news/sanc...

The EU today begins a months-long push to ensure content made by artificial intelligence is clearly identifiable online.

NEW: Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out CFPB.

From February to March 2025, the number of detainees subjected to solitary confinement in immigration detention increased by an average of 6.5% per month, over six times the average recorded between April and November 2024 under the Biden administration.

COMMENTARY: The Kremlin’s gray-zone aggression is draining Europe’s resources — and making it increasingly costly to be a business based in a Western country. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

NEW: We reviewed federal prosecutions, local arrests, internal protest summaries by the Portland Police Bureau and more than 700 video clips posted to social media before Trump said he wanted to send the National Guard to the city. Here’s what we found.

In his first “60 Minutes” interview in five years, President Donald Trump misled about the Insurrection Act, his administration’s deportation strategy and his record on grocery costs. PolitiFact fact-checked Trump’s statements from the interview. Read the facts: www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

OCCRP’s Serbian member center, KRIK, has profiled more than a dozen people opposing anti-government demonstrators, who have also been convicted or investigated for serious crimes. www.occrp.org/en/news/conv...

💥INVESTIGATION: For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians abroad. Internal emails obtained by journalists show how it collaborated with Russian spies, funded propaganda efforts, and built points of influence along the way.