BREAKING NEWS: A judge REJECTS the Utah legislature's map and picks one drawn by the League of Women Voters and Mormon Women for Ethical Government for the new congressional districts: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

A Utah judge rejected new congressional boundaries proposed by Republican lawmakers, instead choosing a map that will create a heavily Democratic-leaning district in Salt Lake County.

This is a terrible thing to report before bed, but the USAID death toll has now passed 600,000. Over 400,000 of which are children. It is now at 88 deaths per hour. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

"We, the Utah House and Senate Democrats, feel a deep sense of hope and relief following Judge Gibson’s decision to adopt the plaintiffs’ Map 1. This is a win for every Utahn. We took an oath to serve the people of Utah, and fair representation is the truest measure of that promise” #UtPol

I've posted the judge's entire ruling for you to see here: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.

What was the damn point of the shutdown? People missed paychecks, families went without SNAP, and Democrats walked away with nothing. This isn’t about moderates versus the far left. It’s about who’s actually fighting for people who are struggling. She nails where so many of us are right now.

Average healthcare costs in the US: Giving birth? $18,000 Cancer treatment? $150,000 One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k. That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through. Cost in Canada? $0. Cost in the UK? $0. Cost in Australia? $0.

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

At the FedSoc’s National Lawyers Convention last week, high-ranking DOJ officials spoke very openly about their weaponization of civil rights laws and their prioritization of helping those who feel victimized by equality. I listened so you didn’t have to: nominationnotes.substack.com/p/doj-offici...

#GVerse MoveOn calls for Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership. “Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.” It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!

"If a future government manages to roll back the current administration’s efforts to consolidate power but fails to rebuild our national tax capacity, it will be a hollow victory."

"Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment. In Georgia, for example, property holders simply asserted the value of their estate and, by law, tax officials could not dispute the owner’s estimate."

No foreign country pays a penny of the tariff we place on imported goods. All tariffs are added tax on the American Consumer.

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

“Patel’s inexperience, his dismissals of top F.B.I. officials and his shift of bureau resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w... (gift link)

Such an impt read! Besides enriching his own coffers & those of his cronies, Trump is fundamentally undermining the tax system which “strikes at the very capacity of a democratically elected government to act.” “Together, taxation & representation make a powerful govt accountable to the public.”

New from me today! An article at @lpeblog.bsky.social, about Trump's tariffs, Magna Carta, and why opponents of democracy always try to undermine the tax system. lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon... Also, I got to write this one sentence:

Trump's tariffs are always described as chaotic. They aren't chaotic. They are part of a concerted attack on the rule of law. If you want to read about that at more length and with more penguins:

My book comes out tomorrow so let’s play “What does the news remind me of?” Up first: The editorial in Bezos’s Post describing Mamdani’s win as "new era of class warfare." It reminds me of a memo commissioned by a different rich guy more than a century ago.

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. ⬇️

ERISA won't save you. The ACA market entering a death spiral will cause massive failures in the health care delivery system. Even more hospitals will close. Rural clinics will go under. Entire practices will be sold to venture capital.

How to identify some of the different units of the Gestapo www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This comes after my Senator @wyden.senate.gov warned us yesterday that the CR would include a national abortion ban. This comes after federal workers telling Dems to hold the line. This comes after House Dems telling Senate Dems to hold the line.

The Demo Traitors in the U.S. Senate just sold 99% of the Americans out www.yahoo.com/news/article...

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.

#Bamboo #MaterialsScience www.linkedin.com/posts/drmart... #SharedFacts

The journal article, for those interested: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

If they do this in one camp then it will be implemented in more! “Drinking water continues to taste foul“ “stagnant water and sewage in the facility” “inadequate medical attention” This ICE facility was found to have no less than 60 violations in 50 days! This is happening in all ICE facilities…

Look at all the republicans faces, all acting like that’s not true.. and then the video shows proof!! They are fucking liars…

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

Why??? EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files. #Pinks #ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea

Mar-a-Lago guests feasting on fancy meals while a music video falsely claiming Trump won in 2020 plays on the side screens

“Unlike other federal agencies, CBP officers are uniquely granted extraordinary & unprecedented powers..officers are able to racially profile, stop, frisk, detain, interrogate, & arrest anyone without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. www.southernborder.org/100_mile_bor... bsky.app/profile/jkin...

US has made an all-in bet on AI and Fossil Fuels. China on green tech. @katemac.bsky.social l & I @parismarx.com podcast on how China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans- everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom. bsky.app/profile/tech...

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.

Americans are paying the price of Johnson's failed leadership — 800,000 people remain unrepresented in the House. Mr. Speaker, do your job. Swear in duly elected Adelita Grijalva and call House Republicans back to Washington.

10/ Ryan Walters has called church state separation a “radical myth.” Sound on. x.com/jennycohn1/s...

7/ This is the Everson case. American Reformer, which received $50K from Heritage in 2023, published the article last year. Timon Cline is American Reformer’s editor. americanreformer.org/2024/07/ever...

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

WHAT IS THE 100-MILE BORDER ENFORCEMENT ZONE? The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which includes Border Patrol, is largest law enforcement agency in US.. jurisdiction spans 100 miles into the interior of US from any land or maritime border..2/3 of population lives within this 100-mile zone