The Boston Globe just filed a motion for access to the still-sealed materials that Judge William Young relied on to hold that Rubio and Noem violated the First Amendment by arresting and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784...

Please consider helping impoverished Brooklyn College students and their families during this terrible time of Fascist-inspired cruelty to those most in need. This is the list of the school's food pantry wish list. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

The Democrats have learned their lesson. by Susan Collins

Chuck Schumer is caving in on ACA extensions the right way. by Ezra Klein

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

Prescient

The Dems stomping on their own grassroots momentum by going belly up is so Dems.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl". The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News. paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf

The problem wasn't that universities were indifferent to antisemitism, but that they allowed trustees, advocacy groups, demagogues, etc to pressure them into treating as "antisemitism" all kinds of political expression and advocacy that was entirely legitimate.

You know what's kinda funny: Given the Satmars' endorsement of Mamdani, his candidacy united hipster Williamsburg with "traditional" Williamsburg as never before.

Thoughts and prayers: Cuomo backers burned $65 per vote and spent more than $55 million boosting the ex-governor. (THE CITY)

The ADL is an antisemitism inspiration organization www.delawarepublic.org/2025-11-07/a...

1) OTD, 1978 Bruce thanked me that night for quieting down the crowd while he was trying to talk. (I was mashed up against the stage. I also caught him during "Spirit" when he looked down from the chair he was on and said "catch me.") Also, I opened the door for the band

Good God! "William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, calls on the Heritage Foundation, a place he called a “second home,”...

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

it’s always the fucking calipers with these freaks, man

Has Trump been reading Marshall Sahlins?

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Despite liberal hysteria, Charlie Kirk’s message was one of faith, family, and respectful debate. Here’s why so many of his followers have replaced him one-for-one with Nick Fuentes.

It is sad, but not surprising, that the president of Mexico is wasting her time on frivolous matters like suing the man who groped her. by Andrew Cuomo

If this was a high street shop the authorities would shut it down.

It surprises me that Musk’s arrogant, autocratic, incompetent, mistake-prone, drug-addled, and deadly reign at DOGE is not mentioned. Nor does it discuss his Nazi salute, support for far-right political causes, and turning Twitter into a purveyor of lies and hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Change in Headline

Snowflake should start scouting out Miami condos (and 4:30 dinners) www.wsj.com/opinion/unde...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Republican 2-point win in Virginia: huge game charger, Biden is dead Democratic 15-point win in Virginia: this is excellent news for JD Vance

See, Youngkin's win was based on issues of durable importance (critical race theory, COVID masking). Spanberger's win was based on one-shot factors that will never matter again (cost of living, Republican policy being enormously unpopular) www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/this...

Button up your shirt, clown

For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.

“no fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least $100,000 to stop Mamdani… Terminally online hedge fund manager Bill Ackman donated $1.75 million, while failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg donated $8.3 million”

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Dems in Disarray

If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028. by Rahm Emanuel

It's getting harder to think of things that antisemites allege Jews do that aren't also things that Elon Musk and his tech bro friends actually do.

No no no, did he pre-cope in private? Not fair, we deserve at least 4 paragraphs where the feelings shine through

Using the shadow docket, the Supreme Court immunized Jan 6 terrorists from prosecution for any future attempts to install Andrew Cuomo as mayor.

Sour like a 1-pound bag of Warhead candies.

Zohran Mamdani has won more votes than people who live in the following states: South Dakota North Dakota Alaska Vermont Wyoming He will soon pass Delaware. Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.

Now I need Bret Stephens' take. Preferably filed from a bunker in Fort Worth. Don't hold out on me, NY Times.