Turns out he already prepared for this

"If we, as citizens, decide that we want to resurrect our nation’s dead commitment to a politics of anti-corruption, then we can. It is within our power to do so, a task to accomplish through political action on the street and at the ballot box."

"I grabbed that hand, I don't give a hell where that hand's been." -a real thing the president said today that would be presidency-defining weirdness in any previous era

Shameful, disgusting.

NEW: Court blocks Texas's mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame. "DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court. Law Dork:

That's quick.

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally." In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.

What a horribly vile plan. This from people who claim to be against Christians being persecuted.

Uh, wtf?

Man, I was hoping VT would screw up this hire, but they did not. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

Pope Leo to #COP30 “It is not the Paris Agreement that is failing, we are failing in our response. What is failing is the political will of some. True leadership means service, and support at a scale that will make a difference.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"Fuentes is not the origin of prejudices metastasizing on the right, nor is he the end point. Today, many popular figures among young conservatives espouse some level of ethno-nationalist ideology." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Talking about slavery without addressing the way it continues to shape the social, political, and economic infrastructure of our country today is like talking about a hurricane only by discussing the speed of its winds, and not the damage it left behind." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Greene may be a lunatic, as the president says, but she’s a lunatic who’s looking down the road and positioning herself for the day Donald Trump no longer enjoys unfettered power over Republican politics." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

It is late 2002 or early 2003. I am reading the same sentence except with a different president and country. I am sure everything will turn out fine.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says reut.rs/4qRPCLg

The Republican Party should be disbanded. Americans are not imbecilic morons. We have fought, bled and died for our country. Using tax payer dollars and official USG channels to insult us is pathetic and shows a contempt for the public that has no place in a nation built by those sacrifices.

The next time the airlines strand you and offer you absolutely nothing, you’ll know who to thank. I wonder whether the airlines offered Trump a gold bar like the Swiss www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...

Wish more members of Congress had this sort of courage.

A great 34-17 road win for #UVA in Durham! Wahoos are 9-2 on the season so far! Enjoying a victory beer. #GoHoos

The President should not be making personal for-profit business deals with the foreign leaders while he's supposed to be conducting foreign policy on behalf of the country. This should not be a remotely controversial statement.

I honestly can’t process how they see this as something new. It’s his whole deal! Always has been!

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Important to remember: If the worst of the Epstein stuff had already been released, there would be no reason for Trump to keep fighting it. If he’s trying to stop it, there’s a reason why.

Hell of a comeback win for A&M!

"'People who care about the future of an independent U.S. higher-education system must take seriously the authoritarian aims of the federal government,' said Dominique Baker" This lady seems really concerned about govt overreach & credulous higher ed stakeholders www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

He’s totally gone.

imagine that

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

It feels like the playing field has shifted quite dramatically over the past several weeks and that Trump is on the back foot after being on the offense for the better part of a year. The disastrous election results in VA/NJ have R electeds shook 1/x

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Why not Virginia? #GoHoos www.espn.com/college-foot...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Hard to believe it's been three years since we tragically lost these three wonderful young men in a senseless act of gun violence. May they rest in peace.

“Howard is telling the president things that just aren’t true,” a Trump confidant said. “You just can’t do that.” This quote is hilarious because his advisors OBVIOUSLY tell him false things all the time! The president seems to really believe his own BS. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States—almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

👀 Could it be that the Epstein Files Transparency Act will actually pass both houses of Congress?

Reminder: there are no trade deals. Nothing binding was actually signed. 90% of news coverage you saw about “trade deals” was wildly misleading. It’s pretty weird. And it will get weirder as “deals” turn out to be not deals, actually.

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today. For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support. #NoContractNoCoffee

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

NEW INVESTIGATION: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Then Never Charged With a Crime

Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."