Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

I feel like this point is weirdly under-discussed in the discourse! Acosta himself approved Epstein's notorious sweetheart non-prosecution agreement. By elevating Acosta to the cabinet later, Trump seemed to ... pretty clearly reward that?

We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.

For people interested in the real improvements that AI has in healthcare (not just genAI hype machine BS), know that there have been real improvements in healthcare using AI to do scribe work for providers, coding review, and identify sepsis cases before humans identify them. These are real today.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

One of the highest-level Jan 6 defendants is back behind bars A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News ===>

This won’t get to the correct folks in #stl but FYI the ‘Scout’ guy in town to buy your legos & toys & gold coins is a MAGA grifter who lives in FL. He’s been run out of town several times, he’s was chased out by the the head of the BBB who he tried to defraud years ago. Be aware of Fox2 commercials

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

Phang: These firings were illegal in the first fucking place. It’s like the Republicans are supposed to think that they’ve now done something right by not doing what is illegal in the first place.

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

In a two party system with first past the post voting in single member districts, there is no real choice for voters disillusioned with their party. In a multiparty system with proportional representation, parties actually have to compete to represent voters. We should move to PR.

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

So Democrats having concrete, reasonable asks (especially tied to health care, which is starting to hit as we speak, is key. You want people to look at the conflict and say “why the fuck won’t republicans just do this thing?”

And hasn’t missed a paycheck. 🤡 @bresreports.bsky.social

Responses to this move seem like peak bskyism to me. It isn't what I would have done but it is logical and follows through on Schumer's stated goals from the beginning. Rs reject the deal, optics win and status quo. Rs accept the deal, short term win for American people and good for 2026 election.

A reminder of what I have done. (And what you too can do.) www.theomnicosm.com/i-bought-tac...

Immigration judges with prior immigrant defense work make up the largest share of those fired by the Trump admin. NPR identified 70 fired immigration judges. The changes have at least shifted perception of fairness in these courts My latest investigation: www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now." I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce. Watch/share/subscribe to Zeteo: zeteo.com/subscribe

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Some people call me radical because I want people to have housing, food, education and healthcare. But I think intentionally withholding food assistance from your own citizens bc you want to cut their healthcare to further enrich the billionaires sounds like the radical idea 🤷‍♀️

Chuck Schumer's office declines to say who he voted for

Made it a more memeable

BREAKING: Trump has just posted on Truth Social indicating he doesn't intend to release SNAP funds until the government reopens, which would defy both a court order and his own administration's comments yesterday.

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

And one of the last great voices of politics in popular consumption fallen. Very sad for Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. You've been a surprising inspiration to many. It is time for the rest of us to step up our support or independent news and courageous reporting.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Once again, marginal income tax and capital gains tax rates are too low and pose an existential threat to American democracy

We've got you 👍

Does the Speaker of the House know what's going on in the country? It's not clear that he does, as Mike Johnson's communication strategy seems to rely heavily on being unaware. When faced with questions he should be able to answer, he has a reliable response: "I don't know."

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

It behooves all of us to remember forever that Donald Trump, Republican President of the United States, and his Republican enablers did not *want* to release funds to feed children. Judges have forced them to do it against their will.

Biggest no-brainer ruling ever. The statute is beyond clear, the instructions for the contingency fund were beyond clear. Failure to pay would just be another in a long series of impoundments and withholdings that are the real reason for this shutdown. www.businessinsider.com/snap-benefit...

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

Republicans tried to starve Americans for political gain while Democrats defended the rule of law to feed them.

Tomorrow is our food drive! And we need a few more hands on deck. If you've been looking for a tangible (and manageable) way to do more for our community and those hurt by the Gov't shutdown, we could sure use your help for a few hours on Sat morning from 9-12:30! secure.ngpvan.com/-6Nd5E8_2k2O...

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

Can we call them racist yet?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Here Trump takes his entire theory of governance to its logical conclusion by demanding Democrats improve the parts of government he keeps trying to destroy

Noem denied that any U.S. citizens had been arrested or detained by DHS, saying enforcement efforts only target individuals in the country illegally and dismissing any reports suggesting otherwise as “false reporting.” The fvcking facts: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

There's going to be a lot of focus on the topline -- that polling was more accurate than in 2016 and 2020 but still biased towards Dems on average by 2.7 pp -- but I want to highlight some of the other findings I found most interesting

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

“.. A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states .. to form ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in ‘riot control’, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive ..” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...