YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

As @owillis.bsky.social says, FIGHT AND WIN.

Making ANY offer when you have the upper hand is a questionable tactic and contributes to the pretense of there being a business-as-usual environment on the Hill, a typical senatorial conceit. However, I’d be surprised if Thune accepts the offer and suspect it largely theater on Schumer’s part.

Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous. Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post: newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Haaretz's beat reporter on US-Israel relations views Pelosi's departure as likely to be an accelerant on the generational upheaval within Democratic politics on Israel. " Pelosi will not be around to act as a counterweight against New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as she may have in years past."

WTF?!? Two panels of black Americans who helped liberate the Netherlands at the American Cemetery in Margraten were removed without explanation.

This sleepy, confused, unhealthy old man has sole and ultimate authority over whether, when, and how to use any or all of the approximately 1,770 deployed weapons in the US nuclear stockpile, up to 900 of which are maintained on 24/7 alert on Minuteman III ICBMs and Trident II D5LE SLBMs.

NEW: The U.S. Congressional Budget Office was hacked. @doublepulsar.com found that the cause may be an unpatched Cisco ASA firewall. I asked CBO about that but it did not respond to the question. techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/c...

Abolish Border Patrol.

Hell, I’d vote for someone advocating to nationalize his companies. SpaceX at least.

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

so far, grand and petit juries are the institutions with the best track record in standing up to authoritarianism

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

“Let us not forget that the great seal of the US says E Pluribus Unum. That means Out of many, one Every life matters no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here, no matter how you identify. You have the right to live a life that is free” DC Sandwich Guy Sean Dunn

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Open secret is that Palantir is the only one of these companies that makes anything that isn't vaporware, and also it still sucks ass Very easy arguments (without even broaching the even easier drug use) to lock these guys out, for any Dems willing to go back to first principles of "fascists bad"

China's progress with open-source models doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI boys venturebeat.com/ai/moonshots...

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Hell, I’d vote for someone advocating to nationalize his companies. SpaceX at least.

Goodnight, all. May we sleep tonight as well as Trump does during meetings.

Obscene. Why are we tolerating this extremity of wealth inequality? Something has to give—or be forced.

"Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates... 0.15% of users had conversations with explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Consciousness of guilt is rarely so openly flaunted.

Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

famous artwork but with a twist: thread

IMPORTANT thread worth reading in full—Professor @isabellamweber.bsky.social is an expert in anti-fascist economics:

I wish I believed in Hell.

If Trump really does put US military into Damascus then buckle up because Israel has been actively intervening and bombing and destabilizing Syria ever since Asad fell.

Malignant narcissists can only mimic socially appropriate expressions of emotional reaction—and sometimes they don’t bother to try.

Is anyone keeping a list of all the companies Trump is extorting? Because…it’s a lot.

The absence of robust federal monitoring capacity and limited containment efforts are troubling, but there are still NO confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission of H5N1. The “human outbreak” referred to here means humans becoming infected from animals. So, it’s not good, but don’t freak out.

Obscene. Why are we tolerating this extremity of wealth inequality? Something has to give—or be forced.

1.1 million is greater than the populations of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.

NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Is anyone keeping a list of all the companies Trump is extorting? Because…it’s a lot.

As is often the case with these types of intervention videos, you can hear in @alaw202.bsky.social’s voice that doing this was not easy for him—but that’s what’s asked of us now: to feel the fear and rage and have the courage to act anyway. Well done, Alex.

IMPORTANT thread worth reading in full—Professor @isabellamweber.bsky.social is an expert in anti-fascist economics:

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to pay full SNAP benefits for November by tomorrow, rejecting the administration’s plan to only partially fund food stamps for 42 million Americans. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/s...

“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

That’s a wrap for sandwich guy.

From my limited exposure to her work, I’ve always imagined Helen Andrews—one of the women Ross Douthat platformed in the NYT today—to be a misogynistic and malignant narcissist whose father probably wanted a boy child and settled for her instead. This video only strengthens my initial impressions.

I love how the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the guy in charge of our national well-being, runs away like a cartoon character the moment somebody needs medical help. The other Trump gargoyles at least attempt to look concerned. Kennedy sprints off camera.

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

Excellent piece and worth reading. They’re serious about wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, and things to look out for along the way include efforts to control access to contraception and to eliminate no-fault divorce, both of which are widely discussed on the right even away from the fringes.

Exactly this: “Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed.”