lol the judge who disqualified lindsay halligan as us atty for edva included this footnote, citing a guy who agrees with him (or used to!?!?)

What timeline did we fall into?

Falling back in love with running 🎁 defector.com/falling-back...

Also I just want to make sure people saw this part of the TX ruling: "It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors." lol

BREAKING: a federal court has BLOCKED the TX congressional gerrymander www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This ICE flight is taking Ukrainians back to a warzone tonight. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show. Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would. From me for @prospect.org: prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

why would someone spend millions on building a factory in the US under the presumption that US-made products will be protected if the protection comes and goes on a whim?

You misspelled defendant

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Trust the historians

Not now, carnivorous death ball

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

If you are a service member or civil servant ordered to perform an operation in spite of concerns you raised about their legality, you have lawful options to blow the whistle. They do not involve leaking to the press. Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.

day 4 of early voting in TX and what i'd like to know is why @houstonchronicle.com is giving houstonians a paywalled voter guide when the statesman provides austin with a voter guide free to the public? both are owned by hearst.

the league of women voters houston voter guide is over here, no paywall, the section on the candidates for congress district 18 starts pg 12: digital.houstonvotersguide.org/nov2025

Evergreen

Ireland and the Grapefruit Ladies: #TheMoreYouKnow #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

I always thought iHerb was owned by Jim Spanfeller

You don’t have to be rich, just join @defector.com!

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

@defector.com out here doing the good work of following the money

today's national voter registration day. CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS. if you've moved and you've been procrastinating updating your registration, do it now. there are people who would absolutely love it if you don't make sure you're registered. go ahead and ruin their day.

Alright fine, guess I’ll have to be America’s hottest male redhead

Haunting, philosophical, emotional, moving, wrenching, inspiring, surprising, and beautiful. The Long Walk movie is as good as I remember the book being the first time I read it. Congrats @stephenking.bsky.social and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social on a great film #Brothers

James Talarico 🤝Evil MoPac Coming Friday!!!!! 👀

I’d like to say as nicely but forcefully as possible, and as someone who’s done wrong and made amends, that the many media people who pushed Roberts as a moderate would do themselves a lot of good if they fully admitted how wrong they were. No “buts.” No “he changed.” Just “I was wrong.”

You push back and resist. You let them know that if you try it you’re gonna go through some things. Watch them blink.

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

We should be clear-eyed about the challenge we face. They're not winning. They're losing harder every day. The danger is how much damage they can do while they fail. This is not a nation descending into Nazidom, this is a half-staffed executive branch descending into its own little Aryan Jonestown

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

At least I didn’t bet half a million on this garbage #Longhorns

What a disappointment this debut has been #Longhorns

Malik Muhammad commits a lot of penalties #Texas #Longhorns

You’ll always have the Aspen Ideas Fest

The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I hope every history teacher in Midland, Texas breaks out the state's secession statement so students have some context for understanding the renaming of their school to honor Confederate general Robert E. Lee. 🗃️ www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/...

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

'Japanese store sign baby' speaks for all of us regarding the last few years.

This is why I pay for Internet

An incredibly depressing sentence. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...