well, John, how important exactly is "fuck you Trump can do what he wants" to you? how's that approval rating looking? want to be the face of millions of starving kids? happy Friday, asshole

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

I think it’s kind of funny that the GOP has a trifecta and has all the hard-guys and deficit hawks. & yet they’ve gone a full year with only a CR, basically Biden’s budget. & now they are a quarter way through another year, no appropriations. They can’t legislate. They can’t get their priorities.

Woke pope

It’s actually fairly difficult for predators in the wild to get fat, so the ones that do are really good at being predators

Abolish Border Patrol.

I admit I was pretty skeptical of the Dems focusing all their messaging on ACA subsidies. It felt pretty small ball considering everything going on and I worried it was too easy for the GOP to concede on it and get bipartisan cred while not giving up much. I underestimated the depths of GOP venality

against the wishes of “dem base” online types, don’t the dems basically have one demand for reopening govt? Do the subsidies. The idea that any reporter (I know) is entertaining the idea of the gop trying to make a “deal” with Dems is ridiculous. It’s one condition that is popular among gop voters!

The Criterion guys after I lock myself in the closet

Donald Trump is AGAIN suing to avoid sending food to hungry children and seniors.

Dems don't take the bait. Don't come to the table. They're coming apart. If he's this mad about it, that means what you're doing is working

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

The United States is a land of effectively infinite abundance and we had in recent decades created an admittedly imperfect system to distribute that abundance both at home and abroad. The project of the Trump administration has been to destroy that system and the abundance it creates.

Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate

For a big segment of the country, Trump II is an exercise in “be careful what you pray for, lest the gods choose to listen” and I wonder if there will be any lessons learned

I liked but did not love GDTs Frankenstein partially because I thought it was a bit ham-fisted, but to read some reviews it’s a complex puzzle of a film that is constantly challenging you with intractable moral conundrums rather than a fable where one guy tells Victor “You are the monster”

Elon Musk is one of if not the most destructive human beings of the 21st century and if we had any kind of functional justice system he would never live another day of freedom and if there was any kind of just god his afterlife would be no less unpleasant. May his every joy curdle and turn to ashes.

Great evidence for a future trial.

These are so routine now that I sometimes miss them. We murdered three more people in the Caribbean.

Massachusetts convicted a girl of manslaughter for doing exactly this

“More people could have died in the past week in El Fasher, and this is without hyperbole, than died in the past two years in Gaza,” says Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, who joins Mehdi remotely.” zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

It's not even strictly partisan, Democrats who suck up to him can get in on it too (Blagojevich did, good chance Menendez will). No need for any pretense a prosecution was flawed in some way. It's official policy that Trump just straight-up hates the idea corruption should be illegal and punished.

I am personally disgusted by this and would like to be on record that if I were presented with this set of facts, I would absolutely vote to convict per the judge's instructions. The law is the law, and I have as little right to ignore that as a hypothetical prosecutor has reason to strike me.

The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that, even if they are violating the law, it would be irreparable injury to not let them keep doing that, and the SC has routinely agreed with this position.

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

Taurean Prince sounds like the name of a Minotaur romance novel

The description of Mamdani’s victory address is entirely unmoored from reality to the extent it seems likely it was written without watching the speech.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Republicans looked at the past few decades of American history, in which shutdowns have pretty much universally been electoral disasters for the GOP, and said “ah but this time is different because our senile narcissist fuhrer will say on tv were doing it on purpose so he can make himself king”

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

I have friends and family in the airline industry and the logistics involved are ludicrously complicated. Like, “an icy tarmac in NYC means your flight from Atlanta to New Delhi is cancelled” complicated. And that’s just the flights themselves, not even getting into catering contracts etc.

i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

Helen Andrews believes women are a problem because they keep calling her a terrible, abusive colleague to HR whereas men take the more straightforward approach of going on C-SPAN.

The thing about republicans is they’ve radicalized themselves about as much as possible so if, hypothetically, you say they all deserve to die and you hope they burn in hell, they may claim that makes them hate you even more but they’re lying. They already hate you and they already want to kill you.

Very exciting to see activists launching a new nonprofit today to keep building on the community of volunteers that came together to get Mamdani elected. Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.

This, coming after weeks of conservative infighting because people keep subtweeting mean things about their favorite little Nazi, is a bit much.

It’s actually super manly to live in constant terror that some guy in Hollywood might have been in the wrong club in college twenty years ago

When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ... You're not beating the rap guys

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

I know it won't happen but a part of me I'm not proud of is absolutely fiending for stories of people who lived on the Upper East or Upper West Side of Manhattan, finally realized they were conservatives when Mamdani was elected, and now have to learn how to function in Jacksonville.

The timeline right now. Find the country trying to run itself into the ground

A cool thing about american politics is that if you describe in a matter of fact way what people believe the people with the most power in the media industry think that’s rude

Just thinking that we could easily be living in a world where electricity too cheap to even bother metering buy successive political decisions have been to ensure that is not the case.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

If the current French government falls again, they should just have a multi way octagon death match between the current pretenders to the throne and whoever survives gets to decide how much baguettes cost

Aside from being utter nonsense this is written at maybe a second grade level