It started here in New Jersey. With a raid in Newark that detained a veteran. We thought it was a shocking, isolated event. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. As @yunao08.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social wrote, "No veteran or military family should live in fear of deportation and separation. Period"

New post: Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo... As public perception and econometric estimates of the damage caused by Brexit rise, Labour's refusal to discuss rejoining the EU's customs union or single market means more self harm.

it's cool how i know actual humanoid robotics guys who are like "yeah the implementation of this stuff is probably a decade if not longer" and Elon's like, fuck it, a billion, send it

when *the U.K.* no longer backs your right to naval aggression you know you’ve gone too far.

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Trump's Veterans Day speech: "Secretary of War -- we like the sound of that better than the other."

A reminder that according to Fetterman's own former staffers, Fetterman had a meeting with J-Street president Jeremy Ben Ami in which he told Ben Ami that he believes Arabs are like a "carton of sour milk" and that we should get back to killing. "Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.

in chicago’s austin neighborhood around 8 am: this horrific video posted to social media shows at least four feds open a person’s car door, then handcuff and abduct them from laramie avenue.

the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore

The cost of a warming planet: Iran's record heat and drought may result in catastrophic measures. "Facing Iran’s worst drought in 60 years, the country’s president warned that the capital might need to be evacuated" nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w... @SanamMahoozi @ErikaSolomon @nytimes

When the ruling class decided it would prefer you to remain ignorant.

The word to describe the unlawful killing of civilians in international waters is "murder"

Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

fucking vile blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”—Brett Kavanaugh #AbuseofPowerWatch

The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL

Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

Tonight was a very bad night.

also when you engage one of these attys, the consultation will typically speaking not be incredibly expensive, you will likely get some useful advice for that money, and you are covered by privilege

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

🚨 call script below! Schumer: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand: 202-224-4451 bsky.app/profile/matt...

I’ve said this before but I couldn’t get insurance when I was pregnant due to my pre existing condition…pregnancy.

Surely Democrats are not on the verge of supporting a program that will double insurance premiums while allowing millions of poor people to receive "Trump Checks." Because that would be absolutely beyond stupid. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

If these are your senators, CALL THEM and tell them how you feel. If these aren't your senators, call yours and tell them to give those senators the business.

omg

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

This is how social media is frying all of your brains. You have very clear sense of what you’re “supposed” to say, because every statement has a bunch of metrics underneath it indicating whether it’s popular. And then many of you decide what you are going to believe based on how it’ll be received.

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-...

I’ve had two conferences—one in the US and one international—change titles of panels or the entire gathering to avoid being targeted or make people’s lives more difficult. It’s the exact kind of thing the US used to label totalitarian when foreign countries did this to their scholars.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

It’s hard to overstate the scale of death in Darfur. “These are people being shot in the back and shot while they’re trying to escape. It’s as bad as it could possibly get,” a former Africa analyst for the C.I.A. said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g4dHaA

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position