“Americans voted in Trump to lower the cost of living … rather than meet the public where it was, Trump and his cadre of ideologues … took their victory to mean that they could pursue their most radical dreams and try to make good on their extreme preoccupations.”👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

I just feel it necessary to explain that if this one line were true, what he’s saying is American consumers are paying a tax out of their own pockets to keep the global economy from collapsing.

Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere

David Pepper's been saying this for several years now. Glad to see it spreading!

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.

And if you've never watched Lina Khan, I'd encourage you to check out @hcrichardson.bsky.social's interview with her last week. She's refreshing, whip-smart, and everything we need more of as a party: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxk...

Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.

After ICE agents raided a Chicago daycare Wednesday morning and arrested a teacher that has citizenship documents, Alderperson Andre Vasquez, 40th Ward Chicago says the city doesn't have time to wait for elections to fix the Trump administration's chaos and calls for Chicagoans to act now.

Trump will start shutting down U.S. air travel, raising the possibility that Americans will miss seeing their families for Thanksgiving. And all because Trump refuses to negotiate with Democrats to help millions of Americans keep health insurance.

“Media sneering about 'anti-Trump' politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular.”— Greg Sargent 🧵👇🏼

Several teachers fled with a student and hid in the back of a pick-up. They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'” -- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Google has updated the Play Store page for the Mobile Identify app, saying Google has verified it is affiliated a government entity. This is the app DHS is giving to local police departments around the country to identify immigrants with just a photo of their face www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Now that’s rich. All gerrymandering is anti-Democratic, in my view, and SCOTUS really blew it in Rucho by permitting it, but GOP lawsuit to block it in California while using it in other states is the height of hypocrisy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

I’m sure there are many horror stories about sudden spikes in premium rates. This was totally avoidable and exactly why Democrats drew a hard line.

When the ACA enhanced premium tax credits expire, thousands of Washington families will see their health insurance costs skyrocket. Here's the cost increase for a self-insured middle-class family in Snohomish County.

Responding to a question from @democracynow.org on Wednesday, during his first press conference as mayor-elect, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.

Citadel CEO Griffin says the people of NYC deserve better than Mamdani's talking points reut.rs/4p0JaA9

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Okay, no, this is not a lullaby, not by any stretch of the imagination, but this one is for the Bluesky mood tonight. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4...

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

This makes my heart sing, and I hope the only person I've ever dated who has probably voted Republican still lives there to see it.

"They're freaking the f*ck out, this is their worst nightmare.” @anandwrites.bsky.social and @mizzwelch.bsky.social explain how Andrew Cuomo would purposely ‘dis-pronounce’ Mamdani’s name and how his election is a Republican’s worst nightmare.

Spelling aside, all the good, real New Yorkers will hang. Don't threaten me with a good time.

“…Trump has zero credibility when it comes to the rule of law,” [Gov]Shapiro said, calling [Trump]“the guy who tried to throw out [PA] votes…overturn the 2020 election…pardoned…people who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th…who I’ve beat dozens of times in court.”👇🏽 www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump know what a rare earth is? NO FUCKING CLUE!!!

So Trump says he knows nothing about the pardon he issued for a billionaire who just so happened to make his family a fortune in crypto. This clip is going viral for a reason. Don’t underestimate a struggling American public’s slowly building intolerance for this kind of blatant corruption.

Trump’s USDA: unprecedentedly callous, a #SNAP funding thread👇🏽 

Suspect the SNAP issue is going to become increasingly problematic both for Trump and Congressional Republicans because of the demographic skew of SNAP recipients bsky.app/profile/dese...

If I had the opportunity, says Judge Michael Luttig; "I would tell the Chief Justice that he is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America. That's what he is doing." For anyone concerned with what remains of US democracy, this is a must listen podcast.

He knows the Sunday show producers are busy stacking their rundowns. Gotta feed them topics that aren’t ‘shutdown’, ‘SNAP’, ‘inflation’ or ‘Epstein’.

Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.

Here's the meat of his argument, which I think is an important one.

“The Kremlin takes every opportunity it can find to use international institutions as a tool for both facilitating its disinformation campaigns and restricting the circulation of unfavorable information about its violations of international law.”

What struck me about Illia’s analysis is how familiar this tactic has become to the United States in such a short time; this sort of lawfare is being used by the MAGA movement to great success, particularly against disinformation researchers.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

🌐 A question I get persistently is, "I can't afford any more subscriptions, but I'd love to read that article. Why can't I pay a dime for a single copy? It just makes so much SENSE!" Here's @joshtpm.bsky.social explaining micropayments and their discontents. www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/micr...

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

[second paragraph from the end] oh btw the premise of my article is false

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: To finish off this Halloween, here's Beethoven's so-called "Ghost" movement, the spooky second movement of one of his piano trios. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5w...

Partisanship is a hell of a drug

As the Trump administration tries to withhold SNAP benefits from families all across the country, it also plans to make it much more difficult for blue collar workers to qualify for disability 👇

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today: *An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park *Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston *Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston *An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston