A little New York City I can’t eat for your morning. This is Central Park West around 105. I did not scrape the dirt off to see who it belongs to, but there are a lot of other water supply man who covers and objects nearby.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

I think I would still be wildly unhappy with how this all played out with this messaging, but at least it would feel like it's engaged with the world we live in today. The "my constituents just want us to work together" argument exists in the eternal 1995 too many Dems refuse to leave behind.

Some amazing aurora tonight, visible from Boulder! Some highlights from tonight here. (The views from Minnesota are -spectacular- based on what I’m seeing from friends there!) Go look up!! (And north.) 🧪🔭⚛️☀️

first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know

Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇲

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

About those spending cuts: 2025 Total Outlays: $7.01 Trillion 2024 Total Outlays: $6.75 Trillion

Laffer Curve is 100% bullshit

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese tech giant SoftBank says it has sold all its shares in chip maker Nvidia for $5.8 billion. $NVDA @apnews.com

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

"Many of the missing are people who went to collect food and never returned — often from distribution sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), where Israeli soldiers and security contractors killed over 2,600 people since May."

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

It’s a classic Vance rhetorical move that’s almost indecipherable unless you're doused in MAGA. Instead of calling out the Hitler-loving Fuentes, he called out anyone who has been calling out Fuentes. And he called on the GOP to unite around the things they love, like deporting brown children.

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Vivid account aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

Really interesting take on the why of Mamdani and the issues and opportunities of his policies from @adamtooze.bsky.social I would like to add a thought about the NYPD 1/ open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

omg

Just a vote? No. Not enough. People have starved and gone without pay. We owe their sacrifice a positive outcome, not just a fucking vote. @schumer.senate.gov

It should be on the Republicans or offer the off-ramp to save Americans from their Mad King. It shouldn’t be up to Democrats to offer watered down compromises. Bc it’s clear to the whole world who is responsible for Americans’ pain and misery: Trump and his Republican bootlickers in Cong.

Breonna Taylor

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.

“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).” - Vital Knowledge

What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture? This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally. But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.

No

Agree, very thoughtful commentary

Majestic Gorgeous

New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" “The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”

Congrats, MAGA voters. You voluntarily destroyed yourself for Trump's billionaire friends. Enjoy eating racism instead of food. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

The unfortunate con of American capitalism is successfully convincing Americans that all of OUR tax money should be spent subsidizing billionaire's excessive greed. And WE'RE weak if any of our tax dollars ever come back to subsidize OUR fundamental needs. They teach us to hate receiving help! 🧵

Back in 2017, I realized the Republican claim of "less spending, fewer taxes, smaller government" was a lie. They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient. And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. 🧵

Would be funny if it were so sad and enraging

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.

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.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout. Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.

incredible new trump photo

Giving away tax cuts Congress didn’t even pass! Illegal Atrocious Laughably unsurprising www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

We’ve all now seen the iconic photo of Trump staring soulless, expressionless, into the void as others assisted the fainted Gordon Findlay, an executive at Nova Nordisk, behind him. Have you seen the (then) live video of Trump fast asleep beforehand?

Keep track of the victories when they come

Trump is worried that if he feeds the hungry and he didn’t have to, that he won’t be able to get the money back. Our money. Appropriated by Congress. To feed the hungry.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump & USDA going to Supreme Court to try and STOP SNAP Benefits from being distributed. This is truly the MOST evil thing I have ever witnessed by a sitting Administration. Absolutely DESPICABLE! www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...