Just as quickly as Spirit Halloween rises from the dust, so too does it quietly dissolve back into the dust. Such is the cycle of life.

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%... "The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“.. The economy is increasingly dependent on ‘three narrow, interconnected 'A-pillars': 1) affluent consumers 2) artificial intelligence-fueled investment 3) asset price gains” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Massive voter suppression is the next Don the Con shoe to drop: “SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.” @bloomberg.com $HD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...

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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Hey MAGA: why would Ghislane Maxwell be receiving “concierge style treatment?” WHY?

It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population. This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.

Long. Live. Books. 📚 #books #booksky #booklover #audiobooks #bookban #bangunsnotbooks #bannedbooks

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Clips like this are political gold

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

Headline: ExxonMobil doesn't care about people and the climate because oil is simply too profitable.

As if Ohio State hadn’t done enough with Vance, an OSU grad is also designing Trump’s ballroom. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸 @theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym

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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

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.”

A right-wing anti-drag queen advocate, Marc Villanti, has just been arrested for possession of over ONE THOUSAND files of child sexual abuse material.

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

It's a start down a long road:

When I was young, music genres blended quite a lot:

disgusting www.cbsnews.com/news/jobless...

And here's P-Nerf ferreting out a juicy apple slice from inside an old coconut shell we found on the beach. Many other possums visit here, but only P-Nerf has figured out the coconut prizes so far. #possums Two parter:

Hopefully you've seen the @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social article revealing that Meta makes 10% of their revenue from scams and fraud. Their bullshit PR response adds insult to injury. I chew it into tiny pieces point by point in this week's Platformocracy. 1/3 #meta #trustandsafety #adtech #fraud

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...

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

After “a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims ..” @latimes.com #ICE @wired.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

My latest for @msnbc.com details how Fox News has totally ignored the massive right-wing firestorm about Tucker Carlson hosting Nick Fuentes that has commentators and politicians taking sides and Heritage in meltdown. Literally no one has directly mentioned it on-air. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The claim that Mamdani is anti-Semitic rests entirely on the idea that well, surely he *must* harbor those beliefs secretly because of his religion. That's an approach that has itself fueled a lot of *actual* anti-Semitism and is deeply dangerous to push.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

"Hey, man, what message should we push today as we deliberately deny millions of Americans their food benefits?"

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

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