Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

We guest lectured to a law school class this week about mutual aid & social movements (& mutual aid as social movement!) & the importance of care work in building a new world! We read: truthout.org/articles/mut... What are you favorite accessible mutual aid reads for new folks?

Facing budget shortfalls due to the end of COVID funding, cuts to Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill and tariffs, states are turning to one place for cuts: child care. Many advocates in 2023 warned that a child care cliff was coming. Years later, it’s now here. 19thnews.org/2025/11/stat...

This is officially the longest government #shutdown in history. If it stretches to the end of November, the CBO estimates it will cost the economy $14B. @npwf.bsky.social has a list of what else we could have for $14B: nationalpartnership.org/six-things-w...

Catching up on this vital series from @grist.org on the "Disaster Economy" - such good reporting here from @zteirstein.bsky.social on insurance bankruptcies leading to mergers and payouts for execs while families are left high and dry. grist.org/economics/in...

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

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Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Child care educators are the backbone of our communities. Yet this morning, a teacher in Chicago was forcibly removed from her day care center. No one deserves to be treated this inhumanely. And especially not those who care for our kids. wgntv.com/news/chicago...

previous increases in immigration enforcement caused child care centers to simply shut down

The Trump administration made it possible for ICE to terrorize children and educators. As @jackiemader.bsky.social reported for @hechingerreport.org earlier this year, ICE was banned from entering child care programs and schools until DHS issued a new directive hechingerreport.org/child-care-c...

Appreciate him articulating this explicitly although people will continue to rationalize bsky.app/profile/atru...

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s youngest mayor in over a century and the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor. He has twice defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in the face of sexual harassment allegations. https://bit.ly/47pa8LH

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Dems in ARRAY

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

OK now we're going to need to have a talk with Gov-elect Spanberger about ending right to work in Virginia.

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily. With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%. Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats. If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats: It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!

Democrat Abigail Spanberger will become Virginia’s first female governor. (AP)

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Decision Desk HQ calls the New Jersey governor race for Mikie Sherrill

“JD Vance’s refusal to forcefully condemn the infamous Young Republicans group chat” illustrates “No Enemies to the Right” aka “NETTR” (a motto coined by Claremont Institute donor Charles Haywood), which has combined with the “technological revolution” to unfurl a “red carpet for…antisemites…” 1/

New at @thenation.com I trace Nick Fuentes' half-decade campaign to push the MAGA envelope, dragging the conservative movement kicking and streaming closer towards outright neo-fascism www.thenation.com/article/poli...

🚨ICE is creating fear for immigrant families. Early care & education (ECE) sites need to be ready. ALL IN for Safe Schools’ new one-pager gives providers clear steps to protect children & families during immigration enforcement encounters. 📄 : tinyurl.com/ALLINSafeSpace @bringingupca.bsky.social

The Roosevelt Institute was honored to present @teenvogue.com with the 2025 Freedom of Speech Medal because their team understood that freedom is about both speaking truth to power and the capacity to build power. Read our full statement: rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

Republicans were already gutting Head Start programs across the country. Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families. All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires. apnews.com/article/head...

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

NEW: @oxfamamerica.bsky.social's US inequality report🧵 10 richest Americans gained $698 billion in the past year. As tens of millions struggle to get by, Trump policies could drive US inequality to new extremes. We dive deep on how we got here, and the change needed. oxfamamerica.org/unequal

Without health insurance coverage, early educators may struggle to afford care—impacting their #health & the quality of care they provide. DC’s HealthCare4ChildCare serves as a model for supporting the #childcare #workforce with free/low-cost coverage.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. www.propublica.org/article/epa-... @lisalsong.bsky.social reveals how big polluters are allowed to estimate their emissions using methods even the EPA conceded are often unreliable.

Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

The contrast with SNAP is deafening. The White House is stretching well beyond what anyone could claim is legal in order to pay the troops — while simultaneously stretching beyond what’s legal to NOT pay SNAP benefits.

Sometimes I think people’s political apathy is a defense against how overwhelming everything feels these days, but there are always ways to help. Attend a town hall, join a union, find a mutual aid network, donate to a food bank. Hope isn’t just a feeling, it’s a practice

“Bringing back high risk pools” would mean people with pre-existing conditions would be priced out of health insurance coverage.

Stagflation The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it. Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Climate #Disaster #Weather #Data

Ah yes, important to prepare a thorough paramilitary response for the…gay neighborhood’s annual High Heel Race

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.