"Homeland security investigators worked approximately 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases from February through April compared to their average in prior years" A tragic shift with real consequences - just one horrifying example:

So they are just going to keep announcing fake trade deals with China every few months

California's investments in our education system are paying off: ✅ Graduation rate is at its highest in 8 years ✅ College and career readiness is up 3.1% We will continue to support the success of California’s students.

Good advice from Chicago’s mayor!

ROYVAL: “.. To fight in front of them just seems like some f***ing Hunger Games-type of f***ing s***. I don’t give a f*** to fight in front of a bunch of f***ing billionaires and rich people that f***ing could give a s*** less about me. .. F*** you guys.” @si.com www.si.com/fannation/mm...

UPDATE: Since launching our own methane-tracking satellite earlier this year, California has helped close 10 large methane leaks in our state. That pollution reduction is roughly the same as taking 18,000 gas-powered cars off the road for an entire year.

This school in Wisconsin is going #solar. The panels will generate energy for the school and it is estimated to save the district $1.5 million dollars in energy costs. Shouldn't every school get a #solarpower upgrade? #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

I’ll be LIVE at 2:15p ET for Sunday’s on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...

THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY. CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY. I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.

the white house is trying to destabilize the ACA markets by wrecking the risk pools. the end result is vulnerable people die

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New term for corruption dropped: blending.

"Blending Family and Governance" is The New York Times' latest euphemism for this.

Sarah Longwell: "The story of Epstein is not just a story of whether or not Trump at some point engaged in the rapid of...underage girls...It's a story of corruption and elite protection at the expense of the average American."

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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

I hadn’t even heard about this .. but it is true!

Cool way to use up leftover yarn 🧶 #knit

Baby capybaras @ the Sacramento zoo #healing #love #hope

It's actually VERY simple, but not MAGA simple, so it works: call conservatives "conservative socialists."

My urgent prescription for Democratic Party leaders, advocates, and voters after the Dem election sweep & the chaotic shutdown vote. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Remember folks! Ken Burns's "The American Revolution" premieres tonight at 8pm! Two hours each night for six straight nights.

America so committed itself to racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, they didn’t realise it would lead to its collapse. Instead of being an innovator in the 21st Century. It dug in to hate. The world no longer trusts America. That’s a really big fu***** deal!

Trump and his voters have put us through so much pain and not one of his supporters has a higher paying job or cheaper healthcare or a better education for their children or new roads or sidewalks or hospitals... Nothing is better. Everything is demonstrably worse.

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

Anyone wanna explain why Trump is murdering people on the high seas because they're alleged "drug dealers" but then pardoning convicted drug dealers at home? I'd really like to hear how that works.

The tiny local farm-to-school nonprofit I work for part time is participating in a fundraising challenge this month, with opportunities to earn matching funds. Do you maybe feel like putting some good out into the world today? donate.seedmoney.org/11723/farm-t...

how good is the Abundance Agenda luxurylaunches.com/transport/dr...

A strategy that helped antiabortion activists in their quest to overturn Roe v. Wade could also work for campaign finance reform: enacting state "trigger laws" that challenge the legitimacy of Citizens United. bit.ly/3Xsczat

one argument thats always struck me as funny is the one about people coming to america to drain the budget of our many social services. such as free university, free healthcare, UBI, etc. you know, all those things we dont have

Because safe food is communism.

As with every #GildedAge, the ultra-wealthy retreat further into their corners. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

🇺🇦 Zelensky: A historic agreement has been prepared with France. There will be a significant strengthening of our combat aviation, air defense, and other defense capabilities.

This line in the NYT: “.. the near-complete breakdown of the Justice Department’s traditional independence to prosecute cases based on facts and the law, as opposed to presidential fiat.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

(one kilo of gold is worth about $135k. A very small Rolex desk clock is $10k, but this one is probably worth many times that)

AOC Rips Republicans for sneaking cash into the GOP spending bill.

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

I just got my hair cut by a woman who has us all beat. She owns the shop but she also works two hours a week bussing at a fancy hotel restaurant so she can get employee deals at fancy hotels. And two days a week she slings bags for Delta so she can fly wherever she wants for free.

President Trump has removed tariffs on coffee and bananas to make breakfast affordable for the American people. Why don’t Biden and Obama do this? by Hugh Hewitt

Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...

I’ll be one of the vendors at our Wilco in Eugene for this Tuesday’s Ladies Night. Looking for handspun yarns, milled roving for handspinning or raw fleeces? Come by between 4p -8p and support a local fiber farmer! #knitters #felters #handspinning

I’m here vending at the Eugene Wilco in Eugene on 11th. Got my milled batts, raw fleeces and yarns for fiber artists. Come on by! Here until 8p.

Great Pyrenees silliness this morning.

So, fine, you don't care what the definition of "fascism" is. But please, think through how differently your strategies would be if America were a fascist state right now. It's not. You have all the powers of a democracy. Use them. Don't buy into the "fascism is now" drama. /16