Grijalva should swear in on the Epstein Files discharge petition

Happy Adelita Grijalva Swearing In Day to those who celebrate, i.e. everyone who believes in a system where people are represented in government. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

“On Halloween morning, FBI Director Kash Patel had a big announcement to make: "The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack," he said in a 7:32 a.m. social-media post that referenced arrests in Michigan. There was one problem…” @wsj.com We probably won’t ever know the extent of the incompetence…

"President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown has hit a disgusting new low, after federal agents reportedly pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Chicago and then lied about it."

New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Among those fired or forced out, the WSJ has reported: Fannie Mae’s chief ethics officer and general counsel, about a dozen members of its ethics and internal investigations unit, and the acting inspector general at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Welcome to “justice” in Donald Trump’s America.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...

Think about it, MAGA. Take all the time you need.

Republican gerrymandering efforts

The University of Florida's College Republicans and Turning Point USA are attacking each other www.alligator.org/article/2025...

Looking forward to Trump next hawking a new 50-year mortgage turnaround to the rubes that transforms a mortgage into a reverse mortgage after 25 years

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash. He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

NEW via CNN: “The 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”

When anyone can take a picture of you found online and use AI to simulate you having sex (or worse), we need AI regulation

I’m proud that the VEST team produced the precinct data needed for this lawsuit

One weird trick to make the Bond Franchise even worse: Multi-verse

I welcome these stories because they provide yet another way for Trump to let down his supporters

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

Musk’s miserable life in sum

🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

No one who has ever been in one of these packed sardine cans would call it a lounge

Why didn’t Senate Democrats keep the government shut down until January, 2027?

Don’t you ever go changing, Nate Silver

Trump and Republicans raised ACA health care premiums. They were unwilling to compromise despite a historically long shutdown and dismal public approval. Holding a vote after premiums go up, and enforcing the vote with another shutdown threat can force Republicans to own the issue

NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game. (Video: Marisa Schultz)

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

"We" means I will take credit for what Democrats do to fix the problem I created

Ice goons + SNAP = misery for the poor Gilded ballrooms and bathrooms, lavish parties, flying palaces, and billions in crypto schemes for Trump

Trump take Thanksgiving family dinner

Now time for another nappy nap after all that thumb exercise

There’s also tariffs and ICE goons weighing down the economy. If it wasn’t for the AI bubble the size of the Death Star we’d been in recession right now

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

The Heritage Foundation, of course. It’s in the name of

Add noticeable drooping on the right side of Trump's face when he loses focus

District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order limits how and when feds can use gas in the Chicago area. It restricts the use of gas in "residential or commercial areas" that could risk injury to a plaintiff class member "who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person"

Health insurance CEOs are at this moment ordering a golden golf cart

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

A rule-of-thumb forecast that might be informative moving forward is to take the special election margin shifts over the next year and divide by half. I explain here michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/turnout-an...

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.

I remember reading a bunch of corporate media stories about Biden after he got new shoes with better support. Which, by the way, he did after he fractured his foot. bsky.app/profile/atru...

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Trump Cake to be provided in place of SNAP

“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”