Despite what Jeanne Shaheen might say here, "Democrats Succumb to Republican Threats to Ban Obamacare-funded Abortions" may very well be the news headline before we head into the holidays

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

Literally nobody, certainly not Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Angus King, Dick Durbin, Tim Kaine, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Jacky Rosen, could have seen this coming

When newspapers go to fewer and fewer civic meetings because of staff cuts and also hang out less where things get discussed, they can end up knowing less than many voters do about a "little-known" candidate who consistently puts in the time, does the work and wins.

INBOX: Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor filed a sweeping indictment against the city’s jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a prominent opposition figure widely seen as a key rival President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of 142 offenses and seeking a total prison sentence exceeding 2,000 years.

“A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said Tuesday. “ apnews.com/article/kans...

Look at Germany's semi-functioning legal system dawg

A reminder that Las Vegas and Atlanta are the two largest non-mining settlements in the history of civilization not to be built by a navigable body of water. They frankly should not have existed if not for human hubris

An Alaska Native official who helped oversee the federal agency in charge of U.S. arctic research policy has quietly departed her post in recent days, according to a source familiar with the matter and documents seen by Reuters.

We asked every Senate Democrat if they would bring such a motion or support it if someone else brought the motion. None of them responded. But they have the power to do it. prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...

"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)." Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!) margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...

Axios reports that Reps. Shri Thanedar, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, and Emily Randall, all part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sitting Democratic congresspeople to demand that Chuck Schumer cease being Senate Minority Leader.

scenes from a victory lap zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

⬇️ A powerful read from @lisapatel.bsky.social and Grace Wickerson of @scientistsorg.bsky.social on MAHA, climate change, and choosing a different path forward.

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

i mostly agree, but don't understand why people have forgotten something which they understood in the 70s: that the purpose of having a militant and a political wing is to permit the militant wing to be disavowed by the political wing.

what man

BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks and owner Patrick Dumont are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at a 10 am central time meeting on Tuesday, sources tell @espn.com's Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon.

Victor Wembanyama is insane.

The last time the Spurs were 8-2 after 10 games, Victor Wembanyama was an 11-year-old basketball prodigy in France. That was in 2015.

What the Trump administration has banned from government websites and documents, we've got you covered. Get our free, weekly newsletter to catch up on all you need to know about global health and environmental impacts: buttondown.email/thexylom

What a night of basketball

Desmond Bane with the crazy contested buzzer beater to win it for the Magic

DDHQ needs to issue a written apology to all newsroom partners but especially Seattle's NPR affiliate

JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race. Stay tuned for details on today's count.

UPDATE: IT IS SNOWING IN ATLANTA

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵

INBOX: a source tells me that is *snowing* in the northern Atlanta suburbs.

Tim Kaine is gloating over millions of Americans losing healthcare and Congress abdicating its Constitutional powers

New York assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-NY) about bill to mandate school education on Jan 6: "People are entitled to their own political beliefs, but they are not entitled to change facts. Anyone of good faith who watched what happened on that day recognizes the threat to democracy"

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Narrator: Mike Johnson won't

Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

The Dallas Mavericks just hired a new Chief Communications Manager because surely their defense is winning them championships. They should have just given their #1 fan @bencollins.bsky.social the bag and called it a day www.dallasnews.com/sports/maver...

Ah, seems like Indonesia has hopped on the "rehabilitate deposed military dictator" bandwagon. What could go wrong

The mechanism exists. d

1️⃣ The BBC is by far the most widely used source of news in the UK both online and offline, and it is more widely used as a source of news than many public service media around Europe. It is also the most popular source of news among both Conservative and Labour voters

Spoke at Spelman College earlier today and repeated something I’ve said for the better part of the year: We’ve lost this experiment we call democracy.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on QAnon and its effect on Trump’s base, and rightfully so. We need to have the same lens applied here, considering the broad buy-in to the idea that there is no organic support for the Palestinian people by our political, academic, and media elite.

The purpose of the system is what it does. This is what white Republicans who defunded public media wanted all along: the resegregation of all aspects of the public sphere, controlled by the few wealthy and powerful

"Completely ignoring the interconnected threats posed by climate change-related impacts and environmental pollution is not just a scientific oversight; it is a public health failure," writes @lisapatel.bsky.social of @docsforclimate.bsky.social and Grace Wickerson of @scientistsorg.bsky.social:

The difference in subscribers between The New York Times' print and digital products (12.33 million) and Ms Rachel's YouTube channel (17.6 million) is a little bit more than the total population of New Zealand. As a reporter, I simply wouldn't have done the "no surprises" emails so sloppily

Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...

INBOX: less than a week after Georgia voters emphatically voted out Republican Public Service Commissioners, who were supposed to regulate utilities, nearly 4,000 Georgia Power customers are without power along the Atlanta Eastside BeltLine, the area with the highest turnout in the city

Peek the "this is fine" reference from yours truly

#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage): www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

What he can do is to make this a salient issue in the upcoming clown car gubernatorial primary