NEW at SCOTUS: the Court decides 6-3 that Trump can require transgender people to list their biological sex on passport applications. Justice Jackson writes a long dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.

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

Pro Tip: If you're traveling the next few weeks on the Northeast Corridor, book whatever seats Amtrak has left at this point ASAP before prices go way up and availability disappears.

Clipper 2.0 is going to revolutionize how we get around the Bay. Something as simple as taking the bus to the train will be rewarded, not punished. From my house in Berkeley to my friends in the Castro could be literally half the price as today. Check it out: clipper2.hikingbytransit.com 🧵 1/7

welcome to the resistance, Bob Appetit.

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets of President Trump, his heirs, his companies, and all related organizations.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse. n.pr/4qLBoeQ

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

Particulars of Israel-Palestine aside, it's a bit surreal seeing a mayor get grilled on foreign policy while everyone shrugs when the actual president appears to be throwing darts at a map blindfolded to decide our next war. Sorry, Cameroon. Nothing personal.

This is going to be an absolute disaster and they could stop it by ending the filibuster

"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position." Analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

other countries use much less FAR. often, it isn't even possible to completely fill the building envelope. and single stair induces thinner buildings, better quality homes in those buildings. and more flexibility and height variability like so: 100% illegal in the US bsky.app/profile/holz...

OMG

My statement on Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s announcement she won’t seek reelection next year:

Oh right, so much better

There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed. Tariffs, DOGE bloodbath, federal worker firings, killing of NY-NJ tunnel etc are *abuses of power* that *also* hurt the economy. Dems can say both these things. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Extreme Valuations for the S&P 500 Plotting the Warren Buffett indicator (US stock market cap to GDP) versus the Shiller cyclically adjusted P/E ratio shows that the S&P 500 today is at a historically extreme valuation. Torsten at Apollo

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish

The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago. Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.

why yes I do enjoy imagining this

centrists and consulant-led politicians want the low engagement demo for themselves, its less work

THIS IS SO GOOD

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

The principal reason I *don't* wear a red poppy, in fact, is that it has been co-opted by the far right and made a symbol, not of remembering the dead from a singularly pointless war, but of support for British invasions of foreign countries.

Female sex demon = Succubus Male sex demon = Incubus Non binary sex demon = Omnibus Can't remember where I read that but it tickled me* * the wordplay not the sex demon

As a friend put it, "If the lettuce was wilty, you must find not guilty."

we functionally do not have any *one* person performing the duties of president of the united states, we have many often in overlapping and contradictory capacities

Seems big. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

German Speaking Areas in 1910 vs Today What happened? brilliantmaps.com/german-la...

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

It’s all AI slop but… who the hell is nostalgic for 1974, one of the grimmest years in American history. Watergate, Nixon’s resignation, 11.1% inflation, unemployment went from 5% to 8%.

Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed. Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?" Hewson: "Yes."

Debra Messing already has 97+ crashout insta stories in the past 5 hours

Neocons were originally post-Trotskyists Now we have post-post-Trotskyists

I was thrilled to talk with Teos and Shawn at @masteringdnd.bsky.social this week. We talked about Designers & Dragons: Origins, of course, but dug into some nice history too: Greyhawk's dungeons, Jack Fred, Palace of the Silver Princess! (The show is nicely indexed, so you can hear what you want!)

dude has one DUI and is emptying bottles of cheap whiskey at 12:20 pm on a Tuesday.

Two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia. Top municipal races in Pennsylvania swing counties. Breaking a Senate supermajority in Mississippi. These are some of the *other* results across the country where Democrats also won big + saw momentum grow.

Here’s a deeply tragic story: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation after being held without her meds now missing in Mexico. By Meredith Colias and Kate Perez www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/t...

basically: everywhere you might actually stop outside of central idaho is... pretty normal. overt racism is not super routine... because everyone is white. but there are places where people move _specifically_ because there are no minorities there. i lived there. i am white. i would not go there.

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations is the organization that refused to let J Street join a few years ago, if you want to know how representative they are.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

You guys he hired LINA KHAN. That bodes so freaking well.

When essential supply is suddenly disrupted, rapid adaptation happens by necessity. Eastern Europe, once reliant on Russian energy is now leading Europe’s clean-power shift: solar output up 460% since 2019; battery storage capacity up 472% since 2022. https://f.mtr.cool/bojmuzqknr