Happy Anniversary to all of us

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

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I understand you're still celebrating last night's #Prop50 victory @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, but as long as you continue to do nothing about the daylight saving time switch, you'll never earn their votes.

For those not perusing the other place today, here are some of the suggestions re: last night being lobbed 1. Women are the problem; need to repeal the 19th Amendment 2. Should voting rights be limited to only landowners? 3. The "free" system is broken. Voting needs a cost ($1k) + a qualifying test

At least two of the Court’s Republicans — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down Trump's tariffs, and they will likely be joined by Chief Justice John Roberts. That leaves three votes for Trump, but it's not enough.

stay tuned

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Fox calls New Jersey for Sherrill

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

BREAKING (DECISION DESK HQ): New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Called for Democrat Mikie Sherrill

@bencollins.bsky.social Whattya think?

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Sometimes it’s best not to respond and just leave things alone.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

These posters evoke not the New Deal but another thing that starts with N www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

Been waiting for a McKinsey Consultant to pop up like this news.usni.org/2025/10/30/c...

@cheetah.bsky.social has some breaking news in Press Pass: Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was recently removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience.

BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.

As a Jew, I took no offense to liars being called liars. That's not a couched anti-Semitic attack. It's just calling liars out for what they are.

Famously, there have never been issues with facial recognition technology.

TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=deq0...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit "We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

Trying to rewrite history from within...

JD Vance was fed by the government as a child, and now he wants to pull that ladder up behind him.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Just what Delco needs...less schools.

I’m sure they worked very hard for it.

I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

We live in an episode of Veep

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest direct hit to the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. Follow live updates.

Just brutal.

Today in @thenation.com, we have Malavika Kannan on a truly awesome person—Angie Vargas, a suburban mom who has found a new calling: chasing down ICE vehicles in her car. They're scared of her, and they're right to be. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Well said @mattbelloni.bsky.social

With some major news networks making a pivot to the right (CBS), and the future ownership of others in a state of uncertainty (looming potential Ellison acquisition of CNN), independent media is becoming increasingly important

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

Nick Fuentes: "It was December 18...That's Joseph Stalin's birthday. I'm a fan." Tucker Carlson: "You're a fan of Stalin?" Nick Fuentes: "Always an admirer." Tucker Carlson: "Well that's uh...Okay. We'll circle back to that." Spoiler: Tucker never circles back.