Isn’t this like Vietnam, all over again?

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

As a naturalized citizen who initially got my green card via marriage, this sends chills down my spine. Green card interviews were already so horrible, stressful, and insulting before any of this started. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

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What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

This is awesome.

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists & Flock Fleecing Frauds. For any believer, atheist or agnostic who will ever have to deal with right-wing Christian nationalists; releasing 9/9. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

Super important. But the fact that this needs to be said in America makes me profoundly sad, scared, and angry

THREAD: There are a lot of unanswered questions 12 hours after President Trump — who, according to the Constitution, has no final authority over the census — released a social media post calling for unprecedented changes to how the government produces data that forms the foundation of U.S. democracy

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

each year on this day i find company in this poem “No Explosions” by Naomi Shihab Nye To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life

One thing that is weird about the Mandami story is the focus on the checked boxes, not the rest of the application (which presumably contains essays or other written statements). Admissions people actually read those! (especially at a school like Columbia, in an era of paper applications) 1/

Of course, the Medicaid and SNAP cuts are appropriately getting the most attention. But almost lost has been the dramatic expansion of ICE, dwarfing every other law-enforcement agency combined. I had feared a private Trump vigilante force. Much worse. An official one.

Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and his signature legislation cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

Hey. Two-thirds of people DON'T KNOW what's in Trump's budget bill, even though it will affect all of us. Polls show when people know what's in it, they don't want Trump's Big Ugly Bill. So let's make sure more people know what's in it 🧵

In a 4 minute address gloating over US bombing of Iran, President Trump made this statement: “We love you, God, and we love our great military.” This is Holy War language. He was flanked by Hegseth, who has the Crusades motto “Deus vult” tattooed on his arm. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

For those who don’t have truth social apparently we are at war. Insanity that this is how the U.S. president makes an announcement. I’m old enough to remember a US president making an announcement to the nation and not posting something this serious to a right wing platform

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

Listen to today’s Daily Beans (and on all other days, but especially today) mswmedia.com/show/daily-b... Do not miss the interview with @christineahn.bsky.social

After a November election that felt like the end of the world, after months of attacks on values and institutions we hold dear, after a Democratic official and her husband were murdered Saturday morning, we needed to see that we weren’t the only ones heartbroken, freaked out and super pissed off:

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

It's .........very cosplay so far here at Trump's birthday parade. Those wigs must be so damn hot Let's do this! 🧵

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

So, 65% of the annual NEH budget.

“Milk came from a family that had a history of naval service and he was commissioned as an officer in 1951 … Milk then served as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged from the service as a lieutenant junior grade in 1955.”

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

A great night for Democrats: 1. Susan Crawford beats Schimel/Musk/Trump is Wisconsin and appears to be on track for a landslide. 2. Cory Booker delivers historic motivation. 3. +17 swing toward Dems in FL-01 from November 4. +19 swing toward Dems in FL-06 from November Damn good night for Dems.

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

Well done @booker.senate.gov. Well done, indeed.

* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS @reuters.com

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