See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

Read this article on Sudan and what Trump, and (slightly more likely) @nba.com and Disney can do to stanch the bloodshed. Genocide is genocide, no matter how politically salient. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Very curious how much this pivot affects MTG's perennial underperformance.

It is striking to me that so many of these arguments revolve around the President having inherent powers over foreign affairs, like it is just an established fact. It doesn't say that in the Constitution. Where did this idea come from? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

The most powerful tool a campaign has is the candidate. And despite academics charts showing low ticket-splitting, a focused candidate *can* differentiate them from the party. Mamdani focused on costs and voters listened. www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/how...

@searchlightinst.bsky.social ran the poll and candidates CAN determine how voters view them, even in an era of low ticket-splitting and nationalized discourse. If any chart gives you hope about 2028 when we'll have to run against populism, it should be this one on Mamdani's success:

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

So much big news in local elections.

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

California National Guard actually being utilized to help, rather than hurt, their communities

Just another Kavanaugh Stop:

With the needs in Gaza so acute, two friends are traveling to Jordan (with humanconcern.org) to help feed starving kids. Please join me in donating: www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/... www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Jesse Eisenberg might have 500 million friends (in a movie) but he's definitely getting one more when is donating his kidney to a stranger! You can too: nkdo.org www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Lots of wrong information coming from the Trump administration on SNAP "running out of money November 1" and the SNAP contingency fund. The truth is: 1) It *can* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. 2) It actually *must* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. Let's dig in.

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

I'm a fan of @davekarpf.bsky.social and normally love his work, but this is just factually incorrect -- as demonstrated by Jacobin of all places. A year ago, the Leftist critique of Harris was that she didn't talk about economic populism nearly enough!

Once upon a desert sandy As through winds the trav'ling man he Spied the face of Ozymandy Lying, simply lying there Suddenly there was some writing Pon the plinth that he was sighting That the sand and time were blighting Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

One thing about shutdowns is that the submerged state becomes a lot more visible when the tide goes out

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A single mother of four in Ohio whose children receive SNAP benefits puts it very clearly. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/28/o...

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person. We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

People ask a lot about whether protests matter. While Trump’s approval rating is driven by many factors, events like the No Kings rallies likely play a role, too. Media coverage and people seeing their neighbors take a stand help convey that disapproval is not just acceptable but widespread.

Top 3 funders of the anti-Mamdani PAC are Bloomberg, the Hess Oil guy, and...DoorDash?! I guess I'll be picking up my food more often then -- hey look, Zohran's already making my life more affordable!

lmao

Too many Americans die of kidney disease. You can save a life by donating: www.nkdo.org Or, call your Rep/Sens in Congress and tell them to support the End Kidney Deaths Act www.endkidneydeathsact.org

It's been 35 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

This is the best critique of Deciding to Win, imho. We, as a party, need a positive working-class agenda. It can be done: "Fix the damn roads" and "Free buses" are good local examples.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

The available data suggests that the murder clearance rate in the US could be the highest in a long time in 2025. But the year isn't done and the very imperfect dataset isn't complete, so it'll be a while before we know just how high this year's rates go. jasher.substack.com/p/a-murder-c...

Yes, good candidates do this -- and we should learn these lessons nationally because the turf (Senate; R gerrymandering) is getting so hard. & b/c the occasional candidate (McLeod-Skinner, Eastman, Gill) believes the opposite and that the base can ride them to victory in purple/red-tinted districts

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Perception: Rs can make the electorate tune in to any random issue: heck the Cracker Barrel logo was bigger than the East Wing demolition: Reality: Neutral accounts are spreading East Wing takes 5x as much as peak Cracker Barrel The enemy isn't all-powerful. We can beat them!

This feels like another version of the One Poll, but the worse than usual R numbers indicate to me that while Trump has convinced the GOP that doing bad things to his enemies is good for them, there’s room to hit him with them when he does things for himself

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

This is incredible bsky.app/profile/adam...

I'm glad we now all agree that moderate candidates perform better in purple seats

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Re: today's NYT editorial, here's an example of "angry centrism" via left-on-economic issues looks like: Jared Golden was the only Dem vote against BBB because...it didn't include a billionaire's tax. Jared Golden! Poster child for moderates! Heterodoxy via economic leftist! This is the way.

Incredible stuff from the Purdue student paper in solidarity with IU. We love to see it.

WOW... JUST WOW... In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras. Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :

While the messaging part of the shutdown is going better than I expected, Trump is indeed showing that "essential worker" is in the eye of the beholder. I think there is a good chance that there shutdowns cease to exist post-Trump because the next Dem president declares it so.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1