This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Ah, the beauty of print...My latest piece, a wide-ranging essay about a remarkable book by the historian Paul Preston, in the new issue of @nybooks.com. . . .

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.

You are understanding it correctly! Through no fault of their own, despite being approved for SIJS, they may still be deported because Congress decided to link SIJS to visa availability, visas are so backlogged that that means a multi-year wait, and SIJS itself doesn't protect from deportation.

If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.

The desired solution seems to be a tribute-based economy, where trade deficits are financed by inbound investment flows from countries believed to be dependent on US demand and/or defense, but entities doing the investment have zero control over the investment or income from it.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

When MAGA blame Democrats for no SNAP benefits, tell them that the Republican president is going to the Supreme Court to make sure SNAP benefits are withheld.

The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Father of two, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, senselessly killed by ICE He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children. www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

The GOP has a huge pedophilia problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/in-matt-gaetz-scandal-circumstances-left-girl-vulnerable-to-exploitation.html?smid=url-share

No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein this happened! this is a thing that happened!

Your tax dollars 💵 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/

🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed." I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."

4. His grandson is now in charge of the FHFA, who has used his position to level allegations of mortgage fraud against Trump critics. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

It is - www.themarshallproject.org/2017/09/13/f...

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.

Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.

Not the relevant takeaway here but Heggy keeps trying to sound tough by using poaster memes. Just comes off as desperate and weird.

This is not the country we should be.

Deeply disgraceful.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Well, tens of millions of Americans are going hungry and tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, but it's all been worth it to ensure transgender citizens can't get passports.

REP. CROW: “Trump actually has the money to feed these families. Congress appropriated $6 billion to put towards SNAP Trump has decided he does not want to spend because he is trying to weaponize hunger... How sick & grotesque is that?”

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

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

People finally woke up to the reality that Project 2025 was simply a plan to dismantle the gov't and cut all programs that help people, and that the GOP's other go to move is to shut down the gov't b/c they have no actual plans to help people.

This woman is sick.

Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “The worst thing that I just can't get over is we're not working right now. And I put that criticism directly on the Speaker of the House…It is an embarrassment to me that we're not in session.”

ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.

Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.

Ice agents crashing into US citizens then forcibly detaining them. They don’t know how to hold guns. They clearly don’t have any training. They obviously aren’t following the laws. This is embarrassing for our country and dangerous for our citizens.

U.S. Citizen Shot From Behind as He Warned ICE Agents About Children Gathering at Bus Stop His attorneys said an ICE agent shot Carlos Jimenez from behind. The U.S. citizen and father-of-three was charged with assault on a federal officer and released on bond Friday, with a bullet in his shoulder.

À propos of nothing in particular

At a recent presentation at Cambridge, (prince) Andrew biographer Andrew Lownie claims Epstein and Melania Trump were in a relationship before he introduced her to Trump. When his biography on Andrew was released, Trump forced the publisher to redact those portions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...

Republicans: we have absolute control over everything; everything works great; we are doing a great job! Also Republicans: we can’t do anything; democrats have control; we are weak and helpless! We are victims of conspiracies!

Republicans are in complete control of the government including the FAA so if the Transpo Secty is talking about increased aviation risks, that is all on them.

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)