This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna give Iran $14b to fund this war with the US? We're gonna give Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally putting money into the pockets of the nations we're fighting. We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country's history"

"We should have empathy for the president." Once again, the cult's cabinet officers insist that we must adjust our norms to make room for the world's most special little boy

I spent some time with Sonny Burton at the prison where they were supposed to kill him. My latest for @theintercept.com

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

I hear Bill Barr will be playing at Mueller’s funeral, covering up the eulogies

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

This is not just a “mean tweet.” This is a character assassination of an honorable public servant, a concept Trump will never understand, all to rewrite the history of Trump‘s own dishonor.

These two posts were sent an hour apart.

Trump's stance is ridiculous. His advisers informed him of this problem in advance; he simply assumed our (his?) "strength" would overwhelm any boring complexities. He has spent the last year pissing on our allies. Now he suddenly needs our alliances after all? 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2080...

The wrong guy died today.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

James Fallows: “This is the most despicable public statement by an American public official in my lifetime. It needs to be recognized as such.”

I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today: 1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...

I think it's time we call them by their rightful name: Concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Look on the bright side. He's making the ICC indictment a lot simpler to prepare.

"After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before." 😬 www.cato.org/blog/strateg...

8/ The time to act is now—coordinated reserves releases & price caps, excess profit taxes, fair rationing protocols. Governments have the tools, hopefully for all they'll act. Full piece with @isabellamweber.bsky.social no paywall at www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

“To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt:
To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

“If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you,” lobbyist Mike Davis told Gail Slater, then head of DOJ’s antitrust div. (Davis denies.)This gift @wsj.com article details alleged corruption/patronage in DOJ, starring Davis & others. ... 1/2 www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

Trump just raged at our NATO allies for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bail him out of the fiasco he created. He threatened to withdraw from NATO with childish insults. This is best seen as an admission of serious political weakness. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2080...

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

No country in history has removed sanctions, for non-humanitarian reasons, from the country it is at war with. And all because the market is tanking and Trump is worried about his approval ratings. Treason.

🚨BREAKING: Trump REMOVES sanctions on Iranian oil [CNN]. Sometimes you have read something twice for the sheer insanity of it to sink in. Trump is now allowing his military enemy to sell its oil, which will fund the further bombing of Americans in the Gulf. Impeach. Remove. Imprison.

admitting to your adversary just weeks into a war you started that your economic pain tolerance is effectively zero is The Art of the Deal, no doubt

Did the U.S. Embassy not even install solar + battery storage before the Trump regime cut off Cuba's oil? Do these people plan even a single step ahead for _anything_? (Don't reply, I already know the answer.)

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Just in case you need some good news today: researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (primary ingredient in vinegar) using the sun. This has the potential to really help us reduce plastic waste. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/w...

As a history teacher myself, I see "boots on the ground" in a different way than Rep. Hairdo

More corruption in plain sight.

"Unlike during previous oil shocks, renewable power is now competitive with fossil fuels. >90% of new renewable power projects in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives. Nations w more renewable power are more insulated since renewables are not imported fuels.” apnews.com/article/midd...

"In the city’s modeling scene, Mr. Zampolli also intersected with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who would later be accused of sexually abusing hundreds of girls and young women. The men once discussed buying a modeling agency together..."

it's basically a meme at this point, but it's 100% accurate to say republicans are north korean style propagandists for trump it's fucking embarrassing

thank you fake TMZ for the accurate obituary

Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.

With 1,109 of the 1,244 mosques in Gaza destroyed, residents this year were forced to perform Eid prayers in small open-air prayer spaces, streets, or tents in displacement centers.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Reminder that CBS spends thousands of dollars a day on an unnecessary security detail for Bari pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

6. His tax cuts for “the people that I love,” as he put it during the State of the Union, are going to add nearly $5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. www.editorialboard.com/sotu-wasnt-a...

BREAKING: In our FOIA case against DOGE, the government asked Judge Boasberg to reconsider his order, now I bet they wish they hadn’t. The govt now has to find and preserve comms from Elon’s private phone. @nationalsecuritylaw.org @annabower.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...