Sam Altman would like to clarify his CFO's "we do not want a government bailout" t-shirt.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Many such cases.

So depending on which estimate is correct, the average American adult will lose either 0.5 pound...or over 500 pounds.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy. My new piece for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women. Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more. Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.

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If you’re an Nvidia bull, the worrying thing about Jensen Huang saying that “China is going to win the AI race” is what’s left unsaid at the end of that sentence: “despite not having access to Nvidia’s flagship chips or wanting its nerfed ones” sherwood.news/markets/nvid... $NVDA

“It would be very strange if, on the heels of the American people having rewarded Democrats for standing up and fighting, we surrendered without getting anything for the people we were fighting for.” – @chrismurphyct.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

Every invasion is quick and easy when other, poorer families are providing the soldiers.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

I am begging political reporters to stop treating this guy, who doesn't realize the midterms started the day after the 2024 election, like some political savant. (Source: politicalwire.com/2025/11/05/e...)

Newsom putting his face on the washed-up, late-00s version of D-Generation X is *chef's kiss*

This is how it looked on the ballot. Clear and easy to understand.

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

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.

In Fort Worth, Democrat trade unionist Taylor Rehmet is ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 9 over his two Republican opponents, former Southlake mayor John Huffman and the chief comms officer of Patriot Mobile, a Christian right wing cellphone company, Leigh Wambsganss

"A lot of people who were, who are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody – it puts those folks on notice." Gee, kinda sounds like one of "folks on notice" might be a fellow New York lawmaker who could be primaried in 2028.

Oh?

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.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

It’s important not to generalize from a single election. For example, just because Mamdani won doesn’t mean every man can pull off wearing multiple rings.

NBC projects all three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices will keep their seats. Republicans had hoped to oust them and undercut Dems' majority on the court. Obviously, that didn't work. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Spanberger’s win and Zohran’s likely win means only one thing for the future: the people clamor for CIA Socialist 2028

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is the bathroom from a house that gets eliminated immediately on "House Hunters."

After losing Ras recently as well.

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal funding for food assistance programs is expected to lapse this weekend, and the Trump administration has refused to use a contingency fund. D.C. will cover the cost of residents' November SNAP and WIC benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last night. More from @maustermuhle.bsky.social:

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

@lyz.bsky.social immediately comes to mind, though she just moved to Patreon.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

“The Committee is particularly alarmed by compelling evidence that the Bureau of Prisons has granted Ms. Maxwell preferential treatment while simultaneously stonewalling congressional oversight into her transfer and her ongoing conditions of confinement.“ oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r...

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll Generic ballot (with leaners) 🔵 Democratic 49% 🔴 Republican 41% 10/24-10/29 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-v...

Not at all the worst part of this story, but why would any federal employee ever give to charity through the Combined Federal Campaign again after Pulte has shown donations can be weaponized against workers, seemingly as a pretext? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The peace president is about to start a war.

NYT confirms an underlying current of recent SCOTUS dissents: Kagan "has mostly concluded that to be effective, she must be careful about rocking the boat. But in recent months...Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, has started warning the public that the boat is sinking." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...