If anything this understates it, because the Trump administration is now telling states to claw back benefits already provided, which is administratively a nightmare and also illegal. 🧵

“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.”

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

Oh, I’d argue against that.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Youngkin wins by two points? That’s a model to follow Spanberger and Sherrill win by more than a dozen each? Boooooring

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of 'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

I wrote yesterday abt how Judge Cameron McGowan Currie had to ask twice to get EDVA to turn over the transcripts from Lindsey Halligan's big grand jury debut. One thing I realized is EDVA MUST have given Currie the full transcripts from the Tish James' GJ. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/c...

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Dem women governors in NJ, NY, VA, MA. 🔥🔥

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

How many Democrats feel tonight:

Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules

Only took 417 years for Virginia to elect a woman as governor

Yawning at the limited government folks warning that a democratic socialist mayor of New York is an existential threat, but who remain guardedly optimistic about an authoritarian president.

In one of my first articles for my college newspaper, I interviewed someone and then read the article to them over the phone to make sure they approved. My editor called me out after that and told me we don't ask permission to do our jobs. She was right. Anyway then I was put in charge of CBS.

None of them know anything about the pardon for the guy who made Trump a fortune in crypto. bsky.app/profile/atru...

NEW: At least six FBI employees linked to the Arctic Frost / Jack Smith probe have gotten the ax in recent days, NBC News has learned. The firings continue to trickle in.

Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires. Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.” (Published August)

"[A]s for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear ... that they are US citizens or otherwise legally in the United States" 🙄 #KavanaughStop

SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program. One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all. From me:

In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices. Anyway:

NEW: “I Don’t Feel Safe.” Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force, by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social w/ @mlk50.com

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far? TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.

“Don’t get lost in the facts,” says the oily liar.

Ahh, the greatest and wealthiest nation in human history has food lines. What a great place, run by the best people. Make America Have Great Depression Bread Lines Again.

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

We are seeing not just a merging of different parts of the armed forces; we are also seeing a deprofessionalization. Competent people are fired. Those willing to break the law are hired. Normal practices are abandoned as the new force becomes more responsive to the demand for quotas & brutalization.

Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃

The cruelty baked into the BBB is really tough to overstate. The biggest burden will fall on the people who already struggle just to survive now, and the reality is many of these people won’t survive due to program cuts. There are people out there doing the lord’s work, but it’s getting harder. 8/x

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Of course the Trump admin thinks the War Powers Resolution does not apply to VZ strikes. The logic it is describing, though, is even more expansive than past admins - no risk to US personnel = president's powers to engage in extrajudicial killing are unbound www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Authoritarian regimes are notorious for making people think what they perceive to be reality is not actually real. Sometimes this is called creating "unreality" sometimes "gas-lighting." It doesn't matter which label is used, the goal is the same: make people doubt what they see with their own eyes.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

“We were screaming and filming, and that’s when the officer pulled the gun out and pointed it at us and threatened to shoot us. We were posing no immediate threat to him, and we were filming and making noise.”

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today: *An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park *Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston *Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston *An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

yeah of course. yeah. of course.

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

Trump is one mirror away from connection to a violent siege on the US Capitol

Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS. The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended