"The use of force shocks the conscience." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

FYI. Buses have been free in Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina for over 20 years. See: chapelboro.com/news/news-tr...

I genuinely don’t know what to make of this riff. Former mayor Lori Lightfoot is non nonsense with a short natural. Is he mixing her up with another black woman from Chicago like Carol Moseley Braun? What is the point?

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

People still matter. Good morning.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

How would you do on the new US citizenship test for naturalising immigrants? 🎁

Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.

It’s almost like 8 million Americans taking to the streets was a sign.

Talking to Americans about Islam is my literal life’s work; I’ve been immersed in American attitudes on Islam for almost 20 years. Mamdani was subjected to some of the worst Islamophobia I’ve ever seen. But his election is also one of the most decisive rejections of Islamophobia I’ve ever seen.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not

this is objectively hilarious

Highest turnout in NYC since 1969??!!!!!

Still. That’s a big gender gap.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Sherrill getting 78% in Hudson Co (Jersey City) with 40% in, Murphy got 73% four years ago

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

Holy smokes www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

Beautifully done closing argument. Also, I haven’t seen a good example of an effective enthusiasm ad from a leading candidate recently that I could use in class. Thank you!

I’m getting more information now from on the ground in hardest hit parts of Jamaica. In the aftermath of the hurricane people are doing their best but the need is overwhelming. Some areas are flattened. Deaths are rising. People need food and shelter. Some places need to be evacuated altogether.

Devastating. Teen Vogue has been doing excellent work in political journalism the last few years, better than some major newspapers.

Absolutely must read piece by Dave Karpf. The thing democrats are failing at most spectacularly is being heard in a new media environment.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will also leave Royal Lodge, his home.

Quick update. AFJ is now matching funds up to US $1 million right now.

If you’d like to support relief in Jamaica after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, here are two organizations my Jamaican NGO friends highly recommend: Food for the Poor foodforthepoor.donorsupport.co/page/2025mel... And AFJ (American Friends of Jamaica) theafj.app.neoncrm.com/forms/afj-di...

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C. buff.ly/16gTRJa

Jamaican Ambassador Antony Anderson outlines ways Jamaicans in the US can help in Melissa aftermath | News | Jamaica Gleaner jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...

I was visiting my dad in Jamaica for the summer when Gilbert hit. Just before I had to return to college. Worst disaster I ever experienced but not the devastation we braced for so I wasn’t that worried until I heard yesterday that it was only cat 3 and Melissa is 5. Now I can’t sleep. 🇯🇲💙

The deployment and the quickening pace of U.S. strikes, including one Friday, raised new speculation about how far the Trump administration may go in operations it says are targeted at drug trafficking. n.pr/3JpFokp

Just seeing this horror after a long day of grading: A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes Cumana in Trinidad and Tobago, where two bodies washed ashore. NYT gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

White House's entire East Wing to be demolished 'within days,' officials say Trump said in July that the project “won’t interfere with the current building.” share.google/vjepPZwBwB0V...

What? I’m sorry all I see is blinding gold filigree.

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

The Woman Who Can Make Affairs Disappear www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/p...

Anyone read anything smart about the WH ball room demolition /construction project? Would love more info re the process.

One thing I appreciate about Curtis Sliwa — this is real talk. I hadn’t seen the full video before. Worth a watch. www.instagram.com/reel/DP9_-cj...

A new poll shows a narrow race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo if Curtis Sliwa were to drop out. Sliwa says he's staying in the race. Tim McNicholas reports. https://cbsloc.al/43l9pZq 

A smart and succinct take about why and how both the protests and the scatological response matter right now.

It really does seem remarkable how often protest activity from the right is treated as the voice of the people and protest from the left no matter how big tends to be questioned and downplayed.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

This scintillating dual review by Wendy Smith of Molly Beer and Amanda Vaill's books about the Schuyler women is in the print @bostonglobe.com today, but you can read it digitally here! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/a...

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Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.