David Squires on … Fifa’s peace prize and Donald Trump’s eligibility

Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work

Say it louder for the people in the back! Or don’t – with less honking and quieter streets, you don’t really have to. www.nbcnewyork.com/video/on-air...

Expressions of blatantly immoral actions about outgroup members are growing on social media This leads people to radically overestimate the degree to which political outgroup members support immoral actions Democrats and Republicans are both off in their estimates. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Conclusive evidence that no amount of money or power can fill the howling void of raw emotional need that men like this have at the core of their being where a human soul should be.

Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.

Some rare good news from this SCOTUS - gotta celebrate the wins whenever we can.

This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday

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

Asking once again: if agents of a foreign adversary somehow seized control of the highest US gov’t offices & wanted to destroy the nation from within, what would they do differently than what’s happening all around us now - besides do it more slowly & quietly than this crew?

Just because we (still) can

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Uncritical adoption of the noxious “tax relief” frame might be our media’s single most corrosive habit - & that’s a HIGH bar to clear these days. The idea that the wealthiest people need further “relief” from taxes in a society that already promotes historically extreme wealth inequality is obscene.

Somebody needs to show this to merchants & landlords on Penn Ave. in the #Pittsburgh strip district. More bikes = more business! @producertory.bsky.social @daniskitchen.bsky.social @santelli.bsky.social @zano.bsky.social

The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

“The Emperor’s new clothes are just magnificent: so beautifully designed & tailored, such gorgeous material!”

#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts. Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

I've seen enough: the gerontocracy is dead. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-geront...

By desperately clinging to the past, this US administration is decisively losing the future, for all of us.

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Gotta love the Nittany Lions swag - WE ARE!

I was thinking the same thing this morning. Ground the private planes.

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

Asking again: if agents of a foreign adversary somehow seized control of the highest levels of the US gov’t & wanted to destroy the nation from within, what would they do differently - other than be less open & brazen with their destruction?

Rep. @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social Grijalva: “What Speaker Johnson has done by not seating me is highlight how corrupt Trump is and allow me to connect with people across the country.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

“Death-Ball Sponge” sounds like a terrific punk band

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before. Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.

making America grounded again

can’t even indict a ham sandwich properly

@williamlidc.bsky.social and I were JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

PS: @espiers.bsky.social has a very good recap of the Mamdani campaign that you should read. Campaigning has changed forever because of Trump. Democrats must keep up and surpass to actually protect democracy. newrepublic.com/article/1972...

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

New comic: Lead is good for you www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Hey Democrats: Schumer wouldn't even endorse Mamdani or say who he voted for. Maybe, just maybe, stop letting him lead the Senate Dems?