Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

LET’S GO!!!!

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

Typhoon Kalmaegi kills at least 58 in the Philippines, heads toward Vietnam reut.rs/4oNd8aw

Chaos in the FBI Continues. Four FBI agents who were fired yesterday over Arctic Frost, then reinstated because US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said they're critical to an active public corruption probe, have been re-fired and walked out today. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

apnews.com/article/redi... TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican House leader on Tuesday dropped efforts to force a redraw of U.S. House districts that would have thrust the state into a widening national battle for partisan advantage in the 2026 elections.

We have the first result of any of the 190+ races on my cheat sheet, and it's from Florida. The only Republican on Orlando's city council has lost his reelection bid: Jim Gray was defeated by Democrat Tom Keen.

Recommend not listening to the audio in this video, but you can see engine 1 is on fire before takeoff. It was too late to slow down, only hope would be to fly over buildings and crash into a field. It did not succeed, went through a populated area with autobody shops and warehouses. Just awful.

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 has already called the Virginia governor's race for Abigail Spanberger.

Our first @runforsomething.net win of the night!! Jason Bonilla has won his race for Manchester Board of Alderman, ward 5 in NH. His launch video will get you fired up. www.instagram.com/reel/DH3asPx...

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

If your case is so weak the country will “die” unless the Court takes your side, maybe the real threat isn’t the Court. Pressuring SCOTUS with “life or death” rhetoric is a textbook warning indicator in our assessment of accelerating authoritarian dynamics.

This has the same stench as WMDs and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Let's be clear, seizing Venezuela's oil was always the plan. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Had to happen at some point, but this is the worst rebuke of an FBI director by the rank and file that i have ever seen. A typical FBI director in a typical DOJ wouldn't be able to survive it. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/k...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.

Republicans are currently starving millions of people in order to force Democrats to cooperate in cutting health care for millions of people. We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

Feds claim immigration enforcement might have to stop if judge intervenes on Broadview facility conditions. UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.

CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.” Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.

I saw it a while ago but hadn’t had a chance to show you. 🇺🇦 Viktor Sydorenko From the series ‘Flashes of Chernozem’, 2024

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

SCOOP: Trump readying "living hell" for GOP senators over nuking filibuster

In case you haven't notice, trans people aren't the ones taking away your SNAP benefits. Trans people aren't the ones who are taking away your health insurance. Trans people aren't shutting down the government. Maybe trans people aren't the scary ones.

Yes. More like this. More fight. Polarize everything. newrepublic.com/article/2018...

It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine will not accept a second-tier status in the European Union and must be treated as a full member of the bloc once it is invited.

Republicans torch Pentagon over lack of information on European troop drawdown

Judge rules Trump administration can’t tie transportation funding to immigration

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

Hey look. Communism.

But that's literally the whole business model! This entire genre of punditry would collapse without it!

Meanwhile, Ukraine is doing its job. On the night of November 4, over 50 Ukrainian drones struck a Lukoil refinery in russia – a facility that supplies, among others, moscow region, which accounts for about 30% of the country’s petrol consumption.

We’re going to have to get used to this. 2026 and 2028 are likely to look very similar. No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, attempts to prevent US citizens from voting should be a red line for you. We can’t allow terroristic threats to keep us from the polls.

Kyiv. Why do I show you its beauty when others focus on destruction? I show you resilience. Strength. I don’t want your pity – I want you to feel proud of us.

It's the old tariff shuffle, again: Create maximum uncertainty so that no one knows where they stand. The key difference is that he's not threatening the well-being of other countries, but low income Americans.

JUST IN: Judge Currie orders DOJ to submit a more compete transcript of the Comey grand jury proceedings, noting that the transcript she was provided — of the lone witness — does not include Lindsey Halligan's remarks or presentation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trumpkins Flee to Bubbles, Bunkers, and Safe Spaces open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

I could not disagree more. There are many reasons that MMR is given as one shot. Separating it out means: -Babies more vulnerable to preventable disease for no reason -Three times as many doc visits -Three times more shitty days for baby -Three times more copays -Three times more work absences

Who was it that used to refer to the RW masses as "programmable meatbags"? They were told inflation is the Most Important Thing, so they dutifully echoed that back. Then they were told immigration is the Most Important Thing, so they swung that way, like a school of fish.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.