"Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity" abcnews.go.com/Health/immig...

“[Trump] instructed us to take all steps realistically possible to make it clear that he is not exploiting the office of the presidency for his personal benefit.” - Trump attorney Sheri Dillon, Jan. 2017

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

"A U.S. finding that Israel was committing war crimes would have required, under U.S. law, blocking future arms shipments and ending intelligence sharing with Israel. Israel’s intelligence services have worked closely with the U.S. for decades and provide...information...about...the Middle East."

Sad, but an important read for anyone who works in genetics. I used a selection in my Molecular Genetics course last week when we covered the horror of eugenics and the fact that it is NOT dead

All emergency stay applications out of the First Circuit go to her.

CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.

Remember, we’ve got two SNAP cases working their way through the courts - Judge McConnell’s ruling in RI and Judge Talwani’s in MA. Both district courts roll up to the First Circuit, which is overseen by Justice Jackson.

Sorry, to clarify, the 48 hours starts running after the First Circuit rules, so the actual time could be much longer.

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

Justice Jackson letting Trump take SNAP (for a maximum of 48 hours before further ruling).

my feral daughter (17 months) refused to relinquish her bean burrito at the playground. she squeezed it until her fingers ripped through the tortilla. painted herself with refried beans. the other babies elected her mayor in a landslide (she ran unopposed)

“We don’t need any Black people on staff, we’re good.”

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬 DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

“..’There’s a baby in the back!’ an onlooker shouted. Minutes later, someone cried out, ‘They’re about to drive!’ “.. Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat ..” @nytimes.com #ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

*TRUMP LOSES TRIAL OVER POWER TO DEPLOY US TROOPS IN PORTLAND

Trump continues to work for Putin after he exempted Orban’s Hungary from sanctions on Russian oil today.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

The new executive of King County, the big county that contains Seattle, will be Girmay Zahilay. She defeated Claudia Balducci. Both are Dems, & this wasn't the biggest ideological gap, but one proxy: Zahilay was endorsed by the more progressive The Stranger, & Balducci by the Seattle Times.

My 3yo was listening to Ross Douthat's podcast when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, did liberal feminist women ruin the workplace?" And when I told him, "it's debatable, but they certainly don't seem to be reading Rod Dreher's Substack," he started crying.

Here’s the ruling, which is a public document freely available on the internet that should take any reporter about one minute to find and share widely: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the fury i feel is indescribable.

That’s exactly how AI bros and their companies are selling LLMs in medicine and therapy. Quite explicitly saying that ‘something is better than nothing’ for the poorest/those with limited access

Seattle's mayoral race will end up quite close; that could make 'challenged' ballots that had some issue key to resolving the race. WA allows voters to "cure" their ballot, i.e. come in and explain or fix issues like forgetting a signature. (Not all states allow this.) Info from the county:

The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.

This is why you don't rush calls: King County has been very transparent (including on here!) about the number of ballots left, but then this happens and some will surely say something shady is happening. Making calls shouldn't undermine trust! www.kuow.org/stories/kuow...

Wilson-mentum is real. The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.

Also your plot to confuse Americans and lie to their faces and hope they wouldn't notice the kidnappings and astronomical grocery prices has obviously not worked, so if you want to stay in business you might want to start reporting the news again instead of running press releases from the WH

They should invent headlights that also allow *other* people to see

can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.

"Gunness noted that tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly children – remain at risk of malnutrition." “Israel has made it clear that it wants to commit a genocide against the Palestinians, it wants to ethnically cleanse them, and it wants to starve them,” he said.

Remember Teresa Borrenpohl, the Coeur d’Alene woman dragged out of a Republican town hall by her arms? Idaho AG Raul Labrador has cleared Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris of any wrongdoing in the matter. Norris is seen putting hands on Borrenpohl before directing her removal in multiple videos.

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

if you're wondering how my week is wrapping up, i just wrote my last name as 'cholera' in a document because i was thinking about cholera

humbly: every university that's pushed this garbage should walk into the sea

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

“I could smell the onions and mustard.”

Change in Headline

The most predictable about face ever.

Even as USDA began paying out SNAP benefits while DOJ tried to get a stay, DOJ today filed a notice of appeal in the case over the Trump administration's efforts to force many other federally funded public services to require ID checks for immigration purposes. From the 9/10 prelim injunction:

"Some of the drugs...haven’t been approved yet by the Food and Drug Administration; the lower prices for people paying out of pocket only appear to apply to the lowest doses of the drugs; and the deal doesn’t expand Medicare coverage to people seeking treatment for weight loss alone."

JFC

Adventures in emailing with the Department of Homeland Security

Who cares about supreme courts? Michigan —Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1. Wisconsin —Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April. Pennsylvania —Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday. via

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The US has just deployed attack aircraft, including an AC-130J Ghostrider, to El Salvador as part of a growing regional troop buildup linked to possible operations in Venezuela, NYT reports.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

'But those stop-gap measures, Hall said, will soon dry up, leading officials to plan for post-Thanksgiving closures, if no other funding scheme — or an end to the shutdown — emerges.' Important reporting by @pattynieberg.bsky.social and Jeff Schogol on the growing food crisis for troops