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Nov. 7, 1925: Clarence Darrow, the lawyer for 11 Black defendants accused of firing a fatal shot from a Detroit home that was being mobbed by angry whites, elicits a key revelation at their trial. Prosecution witnesses are members of a club meant to keep the neighborhood white.

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

Republicans immediately shut down Schumer shutdown offer www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

This is a great deal for Republicans, since it would push the ACA cost hikes until after the midterms. On a purely political calculus, would be malpractice not to take this.

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

A recent study found that more than *20 percent* of UCDavis students relied on SNAP benefits—

Republicans are trying to prolong the shutdown as long as possible

Some!? What the actual. Govern, please. GOVERN. We are waiting.

This administration really doesn't want data on what they're doing to our economy

It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...

Just the staggering chutzpah of someone to insist that they are owed meetings with incredibly busy people who answer to millions of constituents ...

Right, they're gamblers who are reading pundits who are reading pollster who are reading voters ... There's no wisdom or insight there. Quite the opposite.

Trump gets confronted by the FACT that the Walmart dinner he keeps citing to prove prices are down is only because his comparison contained FEWER items, of less quantity, & more inexpensive brands. He calls the reporter “fake news” and refuses to call on her again. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

The story so far: 🧵 Every large language model has an unembedding matrix that turns hidden states (model thoughts) into tokens (output text). This matrix associates a vector with every token in the vocabulary. The idea is you compare the last hidden state with the vectors to pick the right token.

The Onion, yet again, FTW.

If you don’t test for Covid there won’t be any Covid theory, but for air travel.

Cook County property owners will have until Dec. 15 to pay the second installment of their 2024 property taxes, with bills headed to their mailboxes by Nov. 14, officials said. The bills are nearly four months late. @wttw.bsky.social

Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous. Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post: newrepublic.com/article/2028...

The loud part out loud

Dems need to start talking more about how Trump’s dementia means that he can’t distinguish his fantasies from reality. He has completely lost touch with the real world and only knows what his sycophantic courtiers are telling him.

EXCLUSIVE: “Up to 50 people killed in U.S. drone strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific remain publicly unknown two months after the Trump admin. began attacking suspected drug boats, according to MSNBC interviews.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

Queen Victoria wrote to Empress Alexandra to be like "you are ignoring everything I taught you about royalty and realpolitick" and Alexandra was like, "it's fine, it's different with Russians, they love being oppressed."

And some military leaders are being pushed out because they are unwilling to do things that are illegal or unethical. We now have a military engaged in extrajudicial assassinations. Do you want a military that decides to enthusiastically implement Trumps call to target "the enemy within?"

Some of the firings are because officials who ability to discern fact from fiction can save lives will not support Trump's fictional claims. What happens when we have intelligence leaders who will be happy to reinforce Trump's fabulism?

Some of the firings are dumb culture war stuff: We have also seen this in the FBI and elsewhere. Right wing media or posters digging through people's past to find some disqualifying nugget, and then firing a capable leader because of it.

This is a pattern of politicization across the Trump administration, but the threats are more existential in the military, which has tried to stay above politics. The country does not need Generals promoted because they will do anything Trump or Hegseth asks of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

My midseason awards, including: OPOY: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seahawks DPOY: Myles Garrett, Browns OROY: Tyler Warren, Colts DROY: Abdul Carter, Giants PPOY: Dion Dawkins, Bills And more! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

A guy who could think more than one move ahead would see this and wonder if maybe they shouldn't be purging so many experienced and civic-minded military officers as well. For...reasons.

"After the federal mass-deportation initiative dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz” hit the shelter, a meeting was held the next day. Black residents affirmed they stood with Latino residents and the raid impacted everyone. Afterward folks were less divided by race..." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Democratic Socialists basically favor New Deal Democrat agenda while also critiquing the grotesqueries and excesses of capitalism. This is a good thing. However, they aren't communists calling for the state to own the means of production. Which is a big difference.

The elementary art of Putin-style spin still appears to surprise some. If only irony or exposure of hypocrisy had cards, so to speak.

China Commissions Newest Aircraft Carrier With Its Electromagnetic Catapults Front And Center www.twz.com/sea/china-co...

Can U.S. Intel Keep Up With China’s Tsunami Of Weapons Developments? www.twz.com/news-feature...

look man one very consistent feature of concierge access to politicians is that you have to be current on your subscription, and rather than renewing you mailed in what appeared to be a bag of dog shit you had already (?) lit on fire

This is very important from @gregsargent.bsky.social. When the people drawing a gerrymander get too greedy, they can put a lot of their own seats in danger in anything like a wave election. And if there is a 2026 wave, it won’t be Republican.

Trump's non-answer (he said prices are "down already," and the "biggest problem is Republicans don't talk about it") made waves on social media. It underscored that the press is most effective when it is really, directly channeling the public — in this case, reading a voters' own words to Trump.

It's easy enough for Trump to blame the press when he's in a Q&A session about "affordability" with reporters. It's harder when he's hearing from a voter who is struggling. That's why I thought this was a savvy move by Fox's Bret Baier:

This may not sound like a lot compared to Texas but WV is roughly 5-6% the size of TX. This is a big deal. www.hancockcountyhealthdepartment.com/news/health-...

Goodbye, Billionaires. Hello, Trillionaires! Welcome our New Techno Kings! @gilduran.com, editor of the Nerd Reich, joins me around 205 pm ET to discuss how the broligarchy and Silicon Valley will drink all our milkshakes. thelefthook.substack.com

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Amazing to see these recycled arguments about the magical attributes of air power. What in recent U.S. historical experience could lead someone to write this?

Remember back when Biden was president and people weren't being dragged off the street by masked federal agents, airplanes were flying, and we weren't threatening to go to war on four continents?

like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane

How’s it going on the right, you ask? Well a Trump supporter was arrested a few days back for threatening to kill Trump and a bunch of other people because Candace Owens has been saying that Trump conspired with the Jews to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.

Sidenote: I hate how Micronesia kinda gets no attention because it's an externally imposed state over several different indigenous societies all the while having some of the most interesting pre-colonization histories of state-building