This album is amazing. I have it memorized and could hum it/do terrible mimicked lead bass noises for you. I’m putting it on now. It’s as good as the best Yes album but all BASS. Fuckin nerd city for prog psychos like me.

If I was running for Congress, I would promise to appropriate money for USAID, b/c as far as I am concerned it remains an agency as no-one repealed the statute that created it in 1998. It blew my mind at the time that we were like, yep, sure, we will just close an agency without authorization.

Be a part of the movement! dsausa.org/join

A lot of people were very angry that I wasn’t in last year’s Road House. Well, MGM heard you & they aren’t making the same mistake with Road House 2. Image below is high res enough to print onto a tablecloth or cape. deadline.com/2025/11/road...

The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

“We are in trouble for all the crimes”

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Yep. I’m filing this one under “Whoopsie!”

We joke around here but AI has allowed me to streamline my business to such a degree that last week I was able to lay off 2 pregnant women AND roast my son’s golden retriever alive (SmartHome heating system still learning; d’oh! We’ll get there!) 🐕 🔥💀🤣📲🤰🏽🤰🏼🚫

I interviewed 20 Virginia House candidates over past few months. Always asked: what are you hearing on the doors? Affordability. Good schools/no vouchers. Chaos/anxiety No one ever mentioned hearing about trans issues - and that was GOP's dominant issue Read @katelynburns.com's analysis. Spot on:

When I was 12 you could get the t-shirt below for free if you bought 3 packs of cigarettes. I did so thinking I’d give the cigarettes away. None of my 12 yr old friends wanted them so I smoked them. By end of 3rd pack I was addicted & smoked for years. Just as RJ Reynolds intended! 🇺🇸🚬#marketing

Critical insight here. Social media-led homogenization of thought has led pundits to think you need a one-size-fits-all approach to campaigns. WRONG, we were collectively reminded Tuesday.

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Last night was huge rejection of Trump's plan to rig midterms: -CA passes prop 50, giving Dems up to 5 new seats -VA elects Dem gov & leg, boosting redistricting chances -ME voters defeat voter suppression initiative -Dems retain majority PA Supreme Court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Beshear: 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.

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Serial killers Miller & Hegseth are gonna have to murder several boatloads of Venezuelans just to get out of bed this morning.

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Weird the $9 bifocals I ordered off eBay suck a lot compared to the ones I paid [REDACTED] for from a real optometrist & immediately lost

Chuck Schumer eat a fuck

My California homies vote yes on Prop 50 yet today? I faxed mine in a while back from a different country I also vote in. I vote all over the place.

I'm not really into the "constitutional crisis" discourse but if this is the thing you were waiting for, it's here. Next: which media outlets will report that the President is violating two court orders that the government must immediately distribute SNAP benefits—and which will go with euphemisms.

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

No single industry is more responsible for the dire straits we find ourselves in than big tech and its gang of billionaire cartoon villains. If you're a Democrat and you still want to play nice with these guys you're nuts

New awareness campaign

I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

...World Series hero Miguel Rojas (Venezuela), Edgardo Henriquez (Venezuela), and manager Dave Roberts (born in Japan). What an incredible international team of immigrant champions! (2/2)

Congrats to Mark Walter, President of Guggenheim Partners and owner of the Dodgers, and his players Teoscar Hernández (Dominican Republic), Shohei Ohtani (Japan), Andy Pages (Cuba), Hyeseong Kim (South Korea), Kiké Hernandez (Puerto Rico), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Japan), Roki Sasaki (Japan)... (1/2)

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment: It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Important Art

Happy Halloween from @lankumdublin.bsky.social youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)