just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

In case you were wondering whether Trump is racist when slinging his “low IQ” insult, here is a list of other people he has recently called “low IQ”: • Kamala Harris • Jasmine Crockett • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez • Rep. Al Green • Charlamagne Tha God

“If you look at affordability, which [Democrats] campaigned on, they lied,” Trump said. The numbers show he and his administration are the ones lying about rising costs. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

Here’s a collection of organizations and aid groups accepting donations to fund emergency relief efforts in the Caribbean. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

from me ⤵️

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Ryne Stanek said he gets death threats "every day" from angry bettors. nypost.com/2025/11/07/s...

Tucker Carlson to Nick Fuentes: “You’re clearly ascendant.” I wrote about MAGA’s mask-off moment, and what the decision to welcome white nationalists into the tent tells us about modern conservatism

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Here's how to aid those affected by the devastating storm in the Caribbean nation. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

"The cruelty feels sudden, but it’s anything but accidental." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is wild: Bluesky says at least 3% of all posts made on November 1 -- Game 7 of the World Series -- were about baseball. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

h/t @photoeditorjoe.bsky.social

okay, that's good

"Trump did not invent expanding presidential power. It was Cheney."

"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney."

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • Mamdani does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t said or done anything antisemitic • Mamdani did not call to "globalize the intifada" • Mamdani is not a communist

. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social

College basketball finally returns today😃 Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.

Quite a juxtaposition

"The cruelty feels sudden, but it’s anything but accidental." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Republicans’ so-called health care plans are so secret they won’t share them with members of their own party. “Mike Johnson, for a month now, cannot give me a single policy idea," Marjorie Taylor Greene said. 🤫 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

“It’s horrifying, the absolute immorality of what this administration is doing," @sanders.senate.gov tells @rollingstone.com.

Kyrsten Sinema's brief post-Senate career highlights: launching a business lobbying group, forming an advocacy org for AI firms, and bullying an Arizona city to approve her client's AI data center. The story I was born to write is now up at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at [email protected] to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Haha, excellent call-out here 👇

The Border Patrol is taking a central role in Trump's immigration crackdowns -- far from any international border crossing. In my first piece for The Contrarian, I explore why the infamously brutal federal force is now stoking fear and havoc from L.A. to Chicago and beyond...

"Congress built a system to guarantee their own survival and legislated one that imperils everyone else."

"I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain, too,” Bessent said. But Bessent isn’t a farmer; he’s a landlord who rents to real farmers.

this fuckin' guy

"It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be - it will be near it, but not touching it. And pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite." - Trump

"We don’t have to agree on everything, but we have to be aligned that democracy is worth fighting for — and that we can win." ✊ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"There’s a difference when you’re viewing Republicans through graphs and pie charts [...] and telling jokes to voters and there being some degree of synergy and understanding." My first @rollingstone.com Interview with comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

turn this up

FLASH: Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to murder Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

@stephenrodrick.bsky.social time for an update

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One of the PC industry’s earliest bouts with regulation came thanks in part to the CB radio. Thanks, FCC. tedium.co/2025/10/20/c...

“They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” the president said days before posting an AI-generated video of himself piloting a plane labeled “King Trump” while wearing a crown and dumping excrement on protesters.