CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

Having to choose between living in The Man in the High Castle America and tiny warring fiefdoms America was not the dystopia I was promised. Where are the Terminators.

Looks like Cuomo's got the Undead/serial killer vote all sewed up.

Helpful @bcfinucane.bsky.social piece dismantling Trump's justification for circumventing War Powers Resolution with his illegal boat bombings. "It is a power grab in the service of killing people outside the law based solely on the President’s own say so." www.justsecurity.org/123844/war-p...

Insane. Inexcusable. Illegal. And the new normal in Trump’s America.

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

She was previously banned from Facebook, Venmo, PayPal, GoFundMe, and Instagram. She was banned from CPAC. She was even banned from Uber and Lyft. But good enough for Pete Hegseth. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Off the top of my head, even with imperfect candidates, I can think of so many concrete ways that a Dem blowout in Virginia tomorrow would improve the lives of people in my community and across the state, as well as bracing the nation for the ongoing struggle against Trumpism.

"I do not believe this is because Ms. Davis has an enduring faith in God. Her actions reflect a deep insecurity over her own faith and a relentless need to have her religious views validated by everyone around her in order to assuage that insecurity."

If you didn't see over the weekend, I took the 1,700-plus pages of Jan. 6 subpoenas Chuck Grassley made public last week and mapped out the connections between the people and organizations they mention. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-web-that...

Yeah, that’s not a thing.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

The corporate media isn't reflecting how unpopular Trump is right now, but his approval rating is primed to go even lower -- consumers are now feeling the price hikes from tariffs, the government shutdown has claimed SNAP, and ICE lawlessness is ramping up. At some point soon, it will break through.

Democrats Win Case to Feed American Families: Attorney General Andrea Campbell on SNAP Ruling... brilliant, clear, empathetic open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The Halloween Special Attorney's Loaner AUSAs' Loaner AUSA Forgot to Describe Jim Comey's Imaginary Crime www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/03/t...

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?" "Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

While Trump spent the weekend golfing on the taxpayer's dime, millions are starting the week unsure how they'll buy groceries without SNAP benefits. Unconscionable.

This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11? Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this: nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...

Today's "One First" dives into the question #SCOTUS is now asking in the Illinois National Guard case—and why "regular forces" *does* mean only the military; why the Trump administration should therefore *lose*; and why that *won't* necessarily provide a justification to invoke the Insurrection Act:

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.

And where is the NRA to protect th open-carry sandwich owners from the federal overreach?

Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?

People: people.com/donald-trump...

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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

The word "evidence" appears 14 times in this 16-page Karin Immergut (who is, reminder, a Trump appointee) opinion extending her TRO preventing Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon. 😎 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

November 2, 2025

Page One. @wsj.com $AMZN $UPS $TGT $META

Read @pkrugman.bsky.social describe how Trump sold out America for a hill of [soy]beans. If only there were a way to convey to MAGAts how Trump has made America weak. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-numbe...

Trump's America

Predictable.

Loaner AUSA Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel's FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/03/t...

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

We are living in a time when not only does the Republican Party believe that starving American children is a winning political strategy, but also that they are correct for about 1 in 3 Americans.

It's been 41 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

Aren’t they arguing that Biden’s pardons are invalid bc he had no idea who he was pardoning?? So…

Only about a third of the Trump interview aired on "60 Minutes." CBS has published the transcript of the complete interview here —> www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

White Christian Nationalism

NEW: The DHS has put out a call to private citizens to build a network of bounty hunters to assist ICE. I'll show you the official memo on The Breakdown starting in about 25 minutes on @meidastouch.com LIVE. www.youtube.com/live/jjFct5f...

Sadistic and idiotic MFer, with zero empathy but to himself

The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people. The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.

It's been 40 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity? There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here. It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

Weird. It's almost like her current boyfriend, the director of the FBI who flies her around the nation on government jets, might have shared information that would normally be limited to trusted law enforcement circles. But that can't be right, because that would probably be a *crime*

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero. Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist. Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.