It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

The median home price in the U.S. is $435,000. At 6.5% interest: 30-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,750 - Total Loan Cost: $989,800 50-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,450 - Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300 $1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.

Thread: part of an ongoing project to erase people of color from military history:

“Less than 48 hours earlier, U.S. officials said, Trump had been watching Fox News aboard Air Force One…” www.wsj.com/world/africa...

This is the guy running the US healthcare system.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

US firms are likely to suffer because they can't get enough power, while consumers will end up paying more because of Mr Trump's dismissive approach to renewables.

Long-term use of melatonin supplements may be linked with a higher risk of heart failure, according to new research — but does that mean people taking it as a sleep aid should stop using it now?

Reminder that Ohio Senator JD Vance’s “chief fiscal policy advisor” was caught on Reddit bragging about ski trips and managing his drug addictions with novel designer chemicals Rules for thee, not for them

Here's the thing: Social Democracy has always been a good form of government. It's just that the corporataucracy made it such a taboo, for so long, by shouting "SOSHULISM!!' and citing Cuba & Venezuela instead of Norway & Sweden. The lies that tried to make it toxic are just finally wearing-off.

So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.

Yep.

Apparently, the Trumps are saving God.

"preserving and amplifying civil rights history in the Deep South has always been fraught. But museum officials and civic leaders in Atlanta said providing an unvarnished depiction of the movement required a renewed level of perseverance in the current climate." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...

We truly live in one of the most self-destructive countries on Earth. Remarkable. It didn't have to be this way. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"If you sleep in a democracy, you wake-up in a dictatorship."

The right-wing anti-democratic owners of some of the world's largest social media platforms have declared war on democracy and multiculturalism. This isn't populism. It's manipulation and racism. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Meta is making bank on scammy ads slate.trib.al/hCbF02b

Are We Great Again Yet? www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...

Hey kids the Trump Healthcare Plan just dropped!

Brb asking the women I know who work at the New York Times

On Todd Blanche:

Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure

Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are. Independent monitors in Nigeria report 33 deaths this year in attacks against Christians (fewer than the 88 Muslims killed). But Trump cut off aid that helped save 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria. 270,000 > 33.

get in bitch we're destroying the west

This is a ridiculous adorable story.

If Mike Johnson had been alive in pre-revolutionary France: "See. This is whar the radical left-wing media does. People love cake. I don't know about you, but if I had to choose between cake and bread, I'd choose cake. Some people just want to make our great queen look bad. That's all this is."

Bank of America says Domino’s Pizza is among the most likely M&A candidates

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.

A good – if hard to watch – new documentary on the fight against the genocidal junta in #Myanmar. youtu.be/MC5_Li82ibk?...

And Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris — who was also Florida Co-Chair of the Bush campaign — refused to recuse herself.

Right-wing accounts on X have been spreading a baseless conspiracy theory accusing a former Capitol Police officer of planting the J6 pipe bombs. Amid all that, Ed Martin posted a thread that spelled out “P I P E ?” He later deleted some of the tweets and then posted this on his DOJ account:

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

Let's look at any and all rankings of red states and blue states on any major quality of life measures – from poverty levels and income, education, health... Take your pick, Tomi.

Trump's Gestapo is insane

“In the immediate hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory was declared on Tuesday night, a new topic began trending on Elon Musk’s X: Repeal the 19th” This essay issues fair warning as to what Christian nationalists and the far right would have in store for women.

The GOP protests pedophiles and works for the Kremlin.

"The Obsolete Man" From Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone," 1959

Cannot overstate how unhinged and insidious what Candace Owens is doing with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. (Short version: a lot of huffing and puffing and “just asking questions” to lead people to believe The Jews Did It)

If you want to move the needle in the direction of a more peaceful world, all reporting on wars, violent conflicts, and mass atrocities should include as much focus on those who provide funds and arms to the belligerents as on the belligerents, themselves. www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/a...

Those letters are cheese, not gold.

This is what happens to all the Republicans in Congress whenever Trump posts a randomly angry rant on Troof Soshul.

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?