James Watson has died. #giftarticle www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

📣📣 YIKES It seems that a bumch of DEM Senators are about to cave on the shutdown with NO wins. This after 7m people on No Kings, best election day in years, and 47's polling tanking low. WHAT? WHAT? 👉👉CALL Schumer's office and your DEM Senators ASAP! Pass this on!!

Unfortunately what I'm hearing is a Dem surrender may be imminent. We've been driving calls, not to mention organizing the largest protest in history followed by the biggest election night in years, along with polling saying we're winning the fight. But they're not listening to that. It's bad.

Trump’s signature by Darco🤐

You can pull up 5calls.org enter your zipcode & get a walk through with phone numbers to call & a script! It took me less than FOUR MINUTES to call my Senators!

You really don't want shingles. If you're eligible, get vaccinated. 🔹️Study was a records review of > million people, 2007-2023 🔹️400 variables were controlled for (impressive!) 🔹️Dementia risk 27-33%⬇️ over 3 yrs after vax 🔹️More shingles = more risk... 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Don't forget you can also email them—go to their website and click the contact option. Speaking as someone sitting in an airport and not making phone calls.

Connecticut flipped the mayor/first selectman in 20 towns! ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/11/05/c...

NEW: Seattle has a rare Republican in office, its city attorney. She championed a policy rolled out last year — when you’re so much as charged (not convicted) of a drug offense, a judge can ban you from setting foot in select areas, like downtown. She’s also up for reelection in a few weeks:

8️⃣ Connecticut Republicans were aspiring to claw back some local power this year. Instead, Democrats flipped the office of the mayor or first selectman in 30 towns: ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/11/05/c... These include Bristol, Milford, New Britain, & Stratford.

7️⃣ Georgia Democrats flipped the two seats on the ballot for the Public Service Commission, the utility commission crucial for electricity rates and climate policy. These are Georgia Dems' first statewide victories for any non-federal office since 2006. And they won both seats by 24%.

5️⃣ JD Vance's half-brother, Cory Bowman, was crushed in his challenge Cincinnati's Democratic mayor Aftab Pureval. His loss was unsurprising in this blue-leaning city. But he lost 78% to 22%: That's the biggest margin in a mayoral race in Cincy since it started electing mayors directly in 2001.

4️⃣ You may have heard Pennsylvania Dems kept their 3 supreme court seats. This means they keep their 5-2 majority. But don't sleep on this, too: Results all but shuts the door on the GOP getting a majority on this court before 2029. GOP really wanted it ahead of 2028: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

3️⃣ Some of Pennsylvania's most politically swing-y counties were electing their chief executives on Tuesday. Dems flipped the office in Erie County, ousting a GOP incumbent by 25%, and defended Lehigh & Northampton by similar margins. Also, Dems also flipped county board of red-leaning Luzerne.

2️⃣ In one of Colorado’s largest school districts, in Douglas County, the conservative school board has sided with anti-LGBTQ+ politicians and undermined a state health survey. Conservatives lost all 4 seats on the ballot on Tuesday, and lost their majority. www.cpr.org/2025/11/05/c...

1️⃣ Conservatives in Maine put a measure on ballot that'd have introduced many restrictions on mail voting, + imposed voter ID. It'd have greatly affected older Mainers, & voters with disabilities. It'd have been implemented by the midterms. Voters rejected it 64%/36%. boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races? I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over! 🧵

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

But the story in the North Pacific is the opposite: from virtual extinction, a single pregnant female ("Big Mama") signaled the return of Salish Sea humpback migrations. Big Mama has had 7 calves since 2003. There's politics in removing these whales from Endangered Species protections...

Another species no longer on the global Endangered list: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

The I.R.S. is shutting down its free online system for filing tax returns, a program that the Biden administration introduced last year and that users gave high marks. via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

A family was abducted by armed militia in Alamo, TX. ICE denied that the armed men seen in this video kidnapping members of the Caballero family are not ICE. The children have no idea where their parents were taken after this video was filmed. 11/7/2025 Federal authorities said they are not ICE

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation! Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF #AHA25 @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

THIS IS EMPATHY! This is being Human! Had To Post this!!! I miss this vibe in our country! It’s too rare ❤️ substack.com/@energythera...

We like this town so much we decided to cut time in Bilbao shop and stay here exploring until Tuesday.

Then as we were driving along when were shocked to find we were near Altamira, the site of the ancient cave inhabited by different human groups between 13,000 and 35,000 years ago and house a masterpiece of the earliest human art. We had to stop.

It has been a beautiful drive through the Galician towns along the coast. We stopped in Aviles last night after spending the afternoon visiting with. Cousin of Juan’s and her husband and son. They just moved there from Medellin last year. I even saw my first Tomato Tree (Tomate arbol).

@drkimshepherd.bsky.social @drjudystone.bsky.social @edrybicki.bsky.social @lappinscott.bsky.social @drhdez.com Yesterday we took a quick look around A Coruna before continuing our roadtrip along the coast.

FYI we are all currently paying Lindsey Graham’s health insurance premium.

Politics came for healthcare and the only way to fight back is by getting political. So proud to be one of many doctors running for office this cycle and so grateful for @314action.bsky.social and their support. 🇺🇸

Sen. Ron Wyden is calling out the GOP for pushing to slip a nationwide backdoor abortion ban into the government funding bill. This is dangerous for women’s health care. We’ve already seen the consequences in states like TX, but I guess the GOP is intent on The Handmaid’s Tale.

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines

Interesting fact... "Thousands of veterans in every state — who may be unemployed, working in low-paying jobs, or have disabilities — use SNAP to supplement their low income to put food on the table for themselves and their families."

I hope that everyone is having a great weekend. There are a lot of hurting people out there, because of tRump and MAGA. If you can, donate to your local foodbank. Donate your time too if you are available. We need to come together as a nation if we are going to get through this in one piece

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats: in 2001: 32 in 2003: 34 in 2005: 40 in 2007: 44 in 2009: 39 in 2011: 32 in 2013: 33 in 2015: 34 in 2017: 49 in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999) in 2021: 48 in 2023: 51 2025, i.e. this week: 64

If you’re older, you may remember bugs smashed all over your windshield and front of the car when you took long trips. That doesn’t happen anymore because we’ve wiped most of them out.

Timothy Mellon gave Trump 130 million to pat the military during the #TrumpShutDown As Scaramucci says not only is it illegal but it has an Epstein connection as well. It seems Mellon’s father is all over the Epstein flight logs. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.rawstory.com/trump-267427...

We knew about it two weeks ago bsky.app/profile/muel...

It’s time to live another day as a radical extremist with unpopular opinions, like that all humans deserve food, healthcare, bodily autonomy, civil rights, a home, and clean air.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Neighbors helping neighbors: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

The sun gives us 10,000 times more energy than we use. A few weeks of sun is more energy than all known reserves of oil, gas, and coal. The sun's energy is free. Solar power was invented in the 1800s. But yeah, let's keep burning the stuff that makes monster hurricanes happen multiple times a year.

It is important to understand that the reckoning on Covid is not about feels, it’s not about fears, and it’s not about fuzzy ideas of social justice. It is real people being forced out of their jobs because their workplaces refuse to acknowledge the scientifically proved risks of Covid.