"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Some of this is a function of (still) relatively low interest rates. But factoring this in, the equity risk premium (ERP) has still dipped below (3.9%) its historical average (4.2%) for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis. (During the dot-com bubble, ERP got all the way down to 2%.)

The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.

🧑‍🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.” TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers. (cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Reagan-appointed federal judge: "justice is supposed to be administered...equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now....Day after day, I observed in silence as President Trump, his aides, & his allies dismantled so much of what I dedicated my life to."

This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns. The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.

The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Trump administration alleges the boats targeted by recent U.S. strikes were being operated by narco-terrorists and cartel members. The AP identified four of the men who were on the boats—and found the truth is far more nuanced.

The man who took food and medicine from the world’s poorest people, condemning thousands to a miserable death, is the world’s first trillionaire.

Republican politicians can commit all the crimes they want and victimize as many people as they want because right after they are convicted Trump pardons every single one of them. Every Republican politician is above the law and can do whatever they want. Total immunity.

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

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

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they've tried everything else," attributed to Winston Churchill.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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

Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

Ellis again insists that the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

This video is twenty minutes long, and REALLY worth watching. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either," Ramesh Ponnuru writes. https://wapo.st/3JIgtIW

1st Muslim & S. Asian Mayor of NYC 1st woman Gov. of VA 1st Muslim woman Lt Gov.of VA 1st Black woman Mayor of Albany Maine rejected plan to tighten voting rules CA approved Prop 50 allowing redistricting in response to TX redistricting What a message! This was a major referendum on the GOP.

So, no, there is no deficit reduction miracle. DOGE, tariffs, oil & gas revenues - all were supposed to balance the budget and pay off the debt. Instead, big tax cuts and spending hikes pushed projected deficits towards $3T-$4T within a decade. Ignore the spin, watch the data.

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

This is a good thread

“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:

“It’s when you step back and take in the full list, with all of the extortionate details, that it becomes clear that Trump is moving toward something like China’s command economy.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"You might say that he ceded the future to China in return for a hill of beans. This is especially amazing when you bear in mind that China made similar promises to buy U.S. goods during the first Trump administration and never came close to delivering" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-numbe...

The rate of boat strikes has roughly doubled since Adm Alvin Holsey’s departure as head of Southern Command was announced in mid-October. Evidently Hegseth has found more-compliant officers who will do Trump’s bidding even if, in the process, they risk a future court martial. wapo.st/4nEItvh

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

The public health system in the US is in complete chaos under these clowns. Every day it is new drama and more stupidity.

Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc. Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.

The Trump regime is doing all it can to take food out of the mouths of poor people. They’re banning stores from giving special discounts to SNAP recipients whose benefits have been disrupted by the shutdown.

“When oligarchs can capture regulatory systems, when tech platforms can shape electoral outcomes, when concentrated wealth can buy political influence—you’re arguing about whether democratic majorities have authority to constrain private power at all.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

Even if it all stopped tomorrow, I don't think the damage that's been done can be repaired in my lifetime. But at least we could start. Instead, tomorrow will be worse.

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Trump's approval ratings are already tanking, and the American people haven't even gotten to the part where they pay enormous costs for his stupidity.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I 100% agree, and have been saying this since the first Trump Admin. It puts appointees under a legal and potential financial obligation to an individual that could conflict with their oath.