“Everybody I talk to is talking about this. It’s every neighbor. It’s every friend. Everyone has either witnessed an abduction or has talked to someone who has.”

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

"We power ICE," Karp said on Monday.

"Armed federal immigration agents forcefully pulled a daycare teacher from inside of the center where she takes care of babies Wednesday morning in North Center." Near our friends' house in Chicago. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

The amount of friends in NYC who are going to frame this lol

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 1 person killed and 2 bodies recovered from the rubble. Two others were wounded and taken to hospitals. ▪️Since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025: - Total killed 241 - Total injured 609 - Total previously killed bodies recovered 513...

“We are not in an armed conflict with these cartels. And so this is just murder.”

Thread. Also important to note that this will hit Americans ACROSS the political, ideological & geographic spectrum: acasignups.net/25/10/29/red...

"Nearly all of the Holocaust survivors who are alive today will be dead within 15 years and half will die by 2031, according to a demographic analysis published by the Claims Conference in April." www.timesofisrael.com/german-gover...

“The distinct line between the judiciary, the legislature and politics is blurring,” said Charles Geyh, a law professor at Indiana University Bloomington who specializes in judicial ethics. “And if we don’t preserve that, it’ll be naked power all the way down.”

That we know of.

As devastating as Mamdani’s words here are, Cuomo’s reply is so much worse. “If you want to be in government, then you have to be serious and mature.” He’s suggesting that sexual harassment is just part of working in government, and “mature” women can handle it. Disgusting.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Worth a try

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

A large social crisis of the past decade or so has been caused by people conflating "My speech should be free of legal attempts to restrict it" with "My speech should bear no social consequences."

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

Finally

Today, I sent a letter to the Department of Public Utilities, calling on them to launch a first-of-its-kind review of every charge on your gas and electric bills.    Every dollar should be justified.    If it's not benefitting you, it shouldn't be there.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

"we don’t see the news business as a connection business or an experience business" and we really should. I've been on one about this, and I think Jen Brandel is right on about this. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/how-...

Solidarity is the only way

The ICE raids, the Guard deployments, the fear — it’s all real. But I can’t shake the feeling that Trump pushed too far too fast. People are waking up. Judges are pushing back. Maybe this isn’t the end of democracy — maybe it’s the moment it remembers to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

This sounds like an amazing project for a team or even a journalism class cc: @newmarkjresearch.bsky.social

The Israeli government's strategy of prolonging this genocidal war for two years has aimed, among other things, to keep Israelis in deep state of of trauma of the 7th of October. That state of trauma allowed a genocidal mindset to take hold and seriously harmed mobilisations against the government.

A lot of people feel culturally connected to a community that also has positions they find abhorrent. I know liberal Catholics who still go to mass while supporting abortion and gay marriage, and a leftist Hindu who belongs to a pro-Hindutva temple because it’s the only one in his area.

"Bright Line Watch, a group of political scientists who monitor the functioning of democracy in many countries, now rate the US as an “illiberal democracy”. That means that the ruling party can still lose elections, so we aren’t a full autocracy just yet. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-...

🚨BREAKING: In a major blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the First Circuit Court of Appeals flatly rejected the administration’s attempt to enforce his executive order ending birthright citizenship. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What?

Honestly like a big wtf to the @dfl.org for revoking the endorsement of Omar Fateh. More and more I regret having ever worked for the DFL. Minneapolis wants @omarfatehmn.com & overturning the endorsement of a mayoral candidate in the biggest city in the state is an incredibly stupid move.

is she accusing him of... subterfuge

“It is astounding that Bhattacharya has the audacity to claim to know that Biden-era policies are responsible for distrust of mRNA vaccines, when he and his associates have done so much to diminish the appreciation of these important medical accomplishments" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

⚖️💥 Judges in Netanyahu's corruption trial rule to increase number of weekly testimonies www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Article in 🧵👇

Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty. It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days. But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.

I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.

Good interview with @dovwaxman.bsky.social on Netanyahu's political calculations in his plan to fully control Gaza City: nymag.com/intelligence...

Have you gotten a medical bill for something you thought should have been free? What did you do? Talk to me for a story! Reply or DM for my number🙏

It is not radical to want good things for everyone. No supremacy. We are all equal siblings. If we all pour water on him, he will melt. 🧙‍♀️🫗

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

A few hours after submitting a USD invoice, terrific 🙄 Switching to Euros for the foreseeable future...

if I'm understanding correctly, there is an extremely small, but non-zero, chance the U.S. financial system collapses today www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

i know it’s a fraught word but these are degenerate people

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!