UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

And there are many other reasons I don't use LLMs. They're not reliable, they are built on theft, their creation incurs environmental costs & direct harm to people. The broader societal push to use AI for everything is destructive in countless ways & has horrifying political ramifications.

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

"[T]his is not just a secret war, but a secret unauthorized war. Or, in reality, a make-believe war, because most of these groups we probably couldn’t even be in a war with,” said @bcfinucane.bsky.social about US claims it is in armed conflict with 24 cartel groups theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

Weekend reading: Where America stands, one year after Trump’s election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are trying to build an authoritarian state; but they have not consolidated authoritarian rule. A democracy no more, but not a stable autocratic regime yet. This week’s piece:

oh please please appeal this to the supreme court

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

The absolute gall of this administration full of Christian dominionists suddenly, well, getting religion on the separation of church and state because clergy is embarrassing them. (Also obviously they are wrong on both the law and morality)

“The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

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“Mr. Hegseth’s moves have fed the impression that there are pro-Trump and anti-Trump generals, officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Tulsi Gabbard was too quiet. Trump’s other historically awful dept leaders have been heard from—RFK Jr. cutting vaccines and spreading disease, Hegseth doing political purges and illegal strikes, etc.—but not the Putin-Assad sympathizer DNI. Now we know: she’s busy curbing US counterintelligence.

Eviscerating Congressional established agencies? No problem Moving $40 billion from account A to account B? Whoa there, hold your horses

An administration that for months claimed unilateral & absolute authority to shutter entire executive agencies suddenly finds without any agency to move money from one internal pot of money to another

That they appointed an antideutsch German gentile academic to enforce the new red lines seems too perfect, like you were inventing a worst-case scenario

The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry. Amazing.

The Brooch. Eva Mudocci (Brosjen. Eva Mudocci) 1903, signed 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1158173

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is true of lots of policies, but imagine the response from Republicans if Dems had denied Jan 6 arrestees the opportunity to meet their faith leaders while detained

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Tulsi Gabbard wants to transfer significant counterintelligence authority away from the FBI—and to her office, Shane Harris and Quinta Jurecic report:

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administrations says the U.S. is in a state of "armed conflict" with 24 cartel groups The groups don't even know it. The list is secret -- even from members of Congress For more on Trump's secret fantasy wars, see my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

Is there a term for absconding with a kid?

can't stop won't stop www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

Interesting that people still have to get vaccinations, though

democrats should attack the supreme court because it harms people but also because it is an explicitly partisan institution that will stymie every future democratic government. it insists that democrats are not allowed to govern, so for democrats to govern they must remake it

"Did Women Ruin the Workplace? Hosted by Ross Douthat" what's the point of satire anymore

I appreciate the legal reporters explaining the likely reasoning behind the SNAP ruling but also rube goldberg-ing our way to maybe possibly giving food to hungry kids is pretty damning in itself

Trying to go back and tell 2007 Eric that President Donald Trump had turned Bill Kristol against border partrol and he would probably say "you lost me at President Donald Trump."

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

Every single day I see multiple people wearing masks *outside* either due to COVID or smog concerns. It's absolutely normalized, especially during COVID spikes. No one bats an eye. The US could have this!

Citizens United + Unhinged billionaires = the end of democracy How much money do you think was spent, in total, for the 2024 election (Congress + POTUS)? $14.8B. Add in Musk’s Twitter buy and it’s $62.8B. Musk is worth $500B, was $334B on Election Day. They are stealing our democracy for profit.

For years I've been fighting neo-Confederates who REALLY DO NOT want the term "white supremacist" to appear in the biography of the 1874 governor of Texas. The trouble for them is: reliable sources say that Coke *was* a white supremacist. The policy on Wikipedia is: reliable sources win!

The talking point they came up with is so lame and pathetic. Yes, insurance premiums are paid to insurance companies. Yes, the subsidies help low and low-middle income people afford to pay them. That’s how the ACA works. Just admit you want to raise premiums on 22 million people.

Accord @stevevladeck.bsky.social

Of course the Roberts et al could choose to extend the admin stay or, more likely, will just straight up stay McConnell’s order before KBJ’s deadline passes. But she did what she could to control the process tonight and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before Roberts et al disregard it.

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

KBJ, as the circuit justice for CA1, temporarily stays McConnell’s order that Trump fully fund SNAP for November, says the appeals court should issue its decision on the matter before she or the full SCOTUS gets involved. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Aaaand Trump’s DOJ is asking for SCOTUS to intervene by 9:30pm

Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...

'Maybe we'll cancel SNAP and 10-20% of all flights through *Thanksgiving* and *Christmas*' is just an insane political position. You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.

ROFLOL Tariff man confused

I don't think people fully realize how brutal a vise Republicans are in now. If they cave tomorrow Democrats get all the credit for giving people healthcare. If they somehow bypass the filibuster they get a year plus of headlines about ripping people's healthcare away.

Are we invading Poland

JFC

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.