I think a lot about the leaked signal chat, in which it was clear that folks were claiming presidential backing without any evidence. That’s how our government is running. People lying that they’ve talked to the president.

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

reagan judges, democracy's strongest soldiers

Deleted the Netherlands Cemetery repost until it's verified by external news source. Dutch source below gives some context.

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Quick note about this again; the 100 mile zone has nothing to do with Border Patrol’s ability to operate. They can operate anywhere in the country. The 100 mile zone is ONLY about where they have heightened stop and search powers. It’s not a jurisdictional thing.

@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social this was this evening's Fata Morgana of the Elkhorn Slough area, seen from Capitola.

so I'm doing the Feeding America drive again with songs as a reward for large donations. teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

Ahahahahaha the Vancouver car-eating banana barrier made it into their slide deck.

Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

“does this angle make my butt look big?”

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are. I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Incredibly beautiful day to be at Tunnel Tops park. In a city full of amazing (and increasingly interconnected parks) GGP obviously chief among them, this still stands out as a phenomenal one. Pelosi helped make it happen

One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “He is a historic president—a historically unpopular president. Underwater in every key category—I mean, you can’t even make this up… “And he knows it. Why else did he feel the need to rig the election before even one vote was cast. That's just weakness.”

The Bay Bridge looks cozy this morning.

Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, ESPN reports.

We need to build more clean electricity than most folks realize just to handle electric vehicles & buildings. The Administration is making clean electricity more expensive & harder to build, all while AI is spiking power demand. At my talk at MIT this week, I said when demand up & supply down: bad.

The newsletter is out! A look at the history of TV election-coverage colors, a new record set by the president and a look at how great prediction markets are at prediction (not great)! Free to read, as always. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

The current U.S. government made solar power more expensive and added more red tape to get solar power built. Your electricity will now be more unreliable and more expensive for at least several years.

The piece is about how the Trump administration had two consecutive illegally-serving heads of DHS. Like I'm not making this part up, they filed the wrong paperwork and literally overstayed how long they were supposed to be there according to statute. A level of irony that feels fictitious

It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...

Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...

25 years ago today: the most consequential presidential election of my lifetime. 36 days later, it was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority, would later she regretted that the court accepted the case.

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

I don’t really understand much about our federal courts system (not my specialty! sorry, I’m a wetland restoration engineer!) but this is a very helpful explainer of what Justice Jackson did tonight:

I love the USPS www.today.com/popculture/m...

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The aesthetics of American fascism are so ass.

Stephen Miller special

Dear all powerful judges. I would like to starve children. Pretty please let me starve children. Signed, The president

A frenzied last ditch effort to… deny food to children.