bro are you fucking kidding me

a woman is ruining my workplace (the bathroom is occupied)

Too few people know Pelosi stuffed Rahm Emanuel in a trashcan when he tried to pair back the ACA to only cover kids "Pelosi even coined a term to describe Emanuel’s scaled-down approach: 'Kiddie Care,' according to a person privy to the call" Paid a big political price, but the ACA is still there.

one of the best to ever do it

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Victory coins for attendees at the Federalist Society convention citing major conservatives wins at the Supreme Court:

It's really easy for the judges in question to lie and say "wasn't me". Roberts would know, since most of the Justices do so profusely throughout their opinions (via their clerks), or whenever they speak publicly. How would they even begin to find the judges who spoke up?

Those investors include large public employee pension funds, by the way.

Defendat Marimar Martinez, who was shot by ICE after they allege she "rammed" their car, just filed an exhibit that appears to show text messages between federal agents about the shooting. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71561...

Bovino is a dimb-bulb cretin who covets Hermann Göring's wardrobe. I also do not see who would beat him in a 2031 GOP presidential primary. Their core primary voters crave most what this guy is selling.

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

We mapped Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois with @evidentmedia.org. A federal judge will hold a hearing today (November 5th) on whether a temporary restraining order restricting crowd-control tactics in Illinois should be converted into a preliminary injunction. youtube.com/shorts/HKXEY...

Alright, this New York mayor thing has been solved. Great work everyone. Looking forward to people talking about other cities and their mayors next.

Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

This plane was at least 24 years old, the last one having been built in 2000. Not sure how typical that vintage of aircraft is for cargo transportation.

I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

It's a huge bummer Disney squandered more IP by making a mostly bad Willow streamer - which they then pulled from Disney+ altogether - instead of more films. The potential was there.

I do not understand the strategy here. How does this help them?

The aggressive immigration raids we now see across the nation began 10 months ago in California's Central Valley. Their impact on children, families, and communities is an important & active area of research I'm pleased my study of the initial raid's early impact on students is now out in @pnas.org

this show is one of the most powerful under-the-radar vessels of right-wing misinformation in the country

In Chicago, Marimar Martinez, a citizen, was shot five times by a Custom and Border Patrol agent. Its not clear who crashed into who. DHS made a series of claims that did not hold up. Martinez is still facing charges that could see her in jail for 20 years. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

SacreLouvre surely would have worked too.

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Yes, Dems should definitely recruit young, charismatic politicians who are very good on TV and social media, and who are popular with a supermajority of voters in their local electoral coalition. The policy particulars don't matter much after you check those boxes.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Your periodic reminder that Jonathan Turley is Mike Lindell with tenure.

amazing. the way Mike Flanagan is just barely holding it together in front of Matthew Holness (I mean, uh, Garth Marenghi) is a delight. youtu.be/q7dyWmIPXFk?...

one might wonder about the motivations of the powerful who are highly incentivized to replace humans with cheaper and more tractable labor, and why THEY might feel motivated to argue that LLMs are Intellectually and Morally Equal to Humans, But Conveniently Only In Ways That Make Us Even More Money

My office captured several stills from today’s @dhsgov.govmirrors.com video supporting Gregory Bovino. The imagery is deeply troubling; it evokes another era when masked government agents rounded up so-called “undesirables" (I’m sure that’s just a coincidence).

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Midsomer Murders is an uneven show but this episode ("Destroying Angel") is incredible. Maybe because Barnaby doesn't do much and the show focuses on its particular variety of weird English things.

We Don’t Revere The Mummy (1999) Enough www.patreon.com/posts/we-don...

Oh. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

this website rocks

I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security. The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Now is as good a time as any to share the original trailer for ERNEST SCARED STUPID (1991). What a picture.

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

like if a Nazi tattoo is news, I think this, coming from a government agency, should probably be news

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

In hindsight it’s too bad that Y2K didn’t shut down all of the computers.

An analysis of “nearly 1,000 AI-enabled medical devices, or AIMDs, approved by the FDA found an alarming trend: Devices from publicly traded companies are far more likely to be recalled, and many hit the market without being tested on real people.”