One aspect of US political history that I think is underplayed is that on several measures—health care, housing, transportation, basic assistance—by the late 60s/early 70s, the nation was headed in a similar direction as European social democracies. Domestic policy was ambitious & liberal.

Senate will vote Friday to advance shutdown-ending deal, Thune tells Republicans www.politico.com/live-updates...

I asked the Department of Homeland Security for comment on Judge Ellis saying Gregory Bovino lied under oath. Their second response was to diss her(?) as an “Obama crony,” praise me for riveting journalism, and finally defend Bovino

The nation’s top diplomat: “Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

A few photos from federal officers conducting an immigration enforcement action on Chicago's Southwest side Thursday afternoon.

Nope

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?

New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY-21) expected to announce a run for New York governor on Friday. #NYGov nypost.com/2025/11/06/u...

apnews.com/article/abra... Lincoln letter seeking job for Black friend and valet now on display at presidential museum

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

OH MY GOD www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

Posting this for no reason.

Completely invents illegal thing Democrats aren't doing and then claims it shows how bad the Democrats are

Thread with thoughts about the new CMS info on how Most Favored Nation drug pricing agreements would interact with the existing Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Bottom line: still unclear if this will produce any significant savings for state #Medicaid programs (1/x): www.cms.gov/priorities/i...

Glimmers of the liberal justices' frustration with the majority constantly bowing to Trump's "emergency" applications in yesterday's tariffs argument from Justice Kagan. (Laughter broke out at this point, at least in the press gallery, though the transcript does not note it.)

Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.

House of Representatives still absent is not helping resolve the shutdown. It was a strategy designed to pressure Ds but instead angered them and made them dig in. (Same with tactics like blocking the NY-NJ tunnel, etc. etc.)

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

Washingtonian: The 12 Best Subs to Throw at Federal Agents Eater DC: Jose Andres Offers Lunch Special on Federalist Pig Sandos The 51st: Your Rights After You've Sandwiched a Fed, Explained WCP: Darrow's Page 4 Sandwich Shots Axios: EXCLUSIVE: Fed Saddened by Sandwich

Justice Jackson's dissent focuses on her belief that the government has failed to show any harm it suffers as a result of the policy being blocked, while the plaintiffs can show harm if it is in effect.

NEWS: Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce passport restrictions targeting transgender people www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

will this guy’s humiliation ever end

The replies write themselves

WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

your hard-earned tax dollars are paying for a White House social media account that calls duty elected senators "demented losers." it's totally unacceptable and a disgrace.

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

Republicans grappling with the results of their party in the gubernatorial election told the New Jersey Monitor that the outcome says less about GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli than it does about the national political climate. via @newjerseymonitor.com

Democrat Danny Ceisler won the Sheriff in Bucks County and ran against a Republican who partnered with ICE. He said “that does send a message to law enforcement all over the country that partnering with ICE is a losing proposition.” whyy.org/articles/ele...

Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C. www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

As a general rule, canceling subscriptions over one-time events is a bad idea IMO. The world needs more journalists, not fewer. And better informed audiences, not less-informed. Worst case, make sure you’re subscribing (with real 💵💰) to OTHER outlets when you cancel another.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

"He was used a prop for the Department of Homeland Security's videos and then released at a gas station a mile and a half away," Ellis says of Muñoz's arrest.

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Woof

They said people in DC loved the Guard in town too, even after the Post found 80% of residents wanted the troops gone.

Oh, yeah, people just LOVE it.

BlueSky really needs a better way of skipping to the end of a thread. (My revelation as I jump between several lengthy threads about court proceedings today)

Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here

Those warnings must be given "at a sound level where the targeted individuals can reasonably hear it," Ellis says

Federal agents can only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person." There must be two separate warnings given before force is used, Ellis rules.

Judge Ellis, throughout this hearing, has repeatedly said that the version of the facts provided by DHS officers is not credible. She has cited video evidence and testimony in court that undermines what government officials have said publicly.

Delta has released a list of airports affected by the FAA’s flight reductions. The list includes airports in every corner of the country, from the busiest (ATL, DFW and DEN) to prominent (DCA and LGA) to distant (ANC and HNL).

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

Ellis now getting into the religious expression aspect of the case. The judge finds plaintiffs have shown they're likely to succeed on claims that their religious expression, e.g. praying at the Broadview ICE facility, has been impacted "under highly coercive threats of violence."

Ellis now getting into the meat of the injnuction order she says she *will* be issuing, starting with her ruling that plaintiffs have standing to pursue relief.