Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

“As with the illegal so-called Department of Government Efficiency—which cost us billions of dollars, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and will almost certainly kill millions more—the desire is never to eliminate waste, but to eliminate people who have been deemed a waste.”

Absolutely Not This Guy 2028!

Please donate to Aya and her family, if you can. They’ve suffered hardship after hardship and need our help. gofund.me/54f4a4825 @mommunism.bsky.social

My reading skewed heavily horror this year. Best so far: Old Soul, by Susan Barker, and after that, Flicker, by Theodore Roszak, and Build Your House Around My Body, by Violet Kupersmith.

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

"he looks like a comic-book character"

@bluntrochester.senate.gov it’s time for Schumer to step down.

ICE arrested outstanding journalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social while he was on assignment covering protests at the facility in Miami. Throw him some money please because as a freelancer he doesn't have the legal support backing a full-timer would and we need to continue fighting for a free press.

Please donate to Aya and Majd. Majd was seriously injured months ago trying to pick up food from an aid station for his family and is going into emergency surgery today. They need our help. gofund.me/a0e70c2b1

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

remember every Democrat should be assumed to be in support of this unless they break Senate omertà and start opposing colleagues in primaries

It’s not just that they don’t give a shit about you, your family and your budget, or your freedoms, or you job… the cherry on top is that they think you’re too dumb to see through this ruse.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.

This is delusional.

please tell me @coons.senate.gov and @bluntrochester.senate.gov are on the right side of this

Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp was reportedly "heckled" during his speech at a New York Bar Foundation event on Friday, just seven months after striking a controversial deal with the Trump admin. Good. More of this please. www.rawstory.com/trump-paul-w...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

This is one hell of an obituary: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow. —control of state supreme court —lower state court races —Philly DA: Krasner's reelect —important, heated school boards —partisan battles for county execs in swing counties —Bucks County at a crossroads

One race to watch locally is for #BucksCounty sheriff, where Incumbent Fred Harran, a MAGA Republican, faces Democrat Danny Ceisler, an Army veteran who earned a Bronze Star Medal for his service in Afghanistan. This election is seen by many as a referendum of Harran’s decision to partner with ICE.

gofund.me/fe4a81727 Aya’s Bluesky account keeps getting deleted. Please donate if you’re able.

Columbo fans: is there a better secondary character (not Columbo and not the villain) than Goldie, the victim’s ex-wife, from Blueprint for Murder?

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going. Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

In Ancient Rome, a general being feted with a Triumph would have a slave whispering “memento mori” in his ear, to remind him that no matter how great he thought he was, one day, he would die. I think about that a lot, for some reason. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky. “It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

THE TERMINATOR was released 41 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction/action films of the 1980s, and the film that launched the career of writer-director James Cameron, the story of how it was made absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until it is read… 1/65

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108 1/2 hours in and 4 competitors left: www.youtube.com/live/VPs4oeu...

Doylestown, PA—maybe 2,000 people? Significantly bigger than the previous protests. The police presence was larger, too, but 100% peaceful.

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.