🚨 * Do not forget the survivors. * As #Epstein / #Maxwell survivor Maria Farmer says in this #60MinAustralia ep, Trump is lying. She reported her rape & trafficking to the FBI *in 1996* & Trump was named as an associate. Full ep: The President and the Pedophile: 📺 youtu.be/qMIP4RIoCHc?...

Denigrating the media, targeting rivals, undermining trust in the justice system. I’ve seen this playbook before in Putin’s Russia in the early 2000s. America’s democratic institutions may be stronger, but we should never take them—or our rights—for granted. As I told @IAmAmnaNawaz / @NewsHour.

Looks like most of the US saw northern lights last night. Montreal: Clouds. But we do have some lovely snowcover on the ground today.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

Replacing a leader for a specific failure, requires that the replacement be capable addressing that specific failure. Who among Senate Democrats would have been capable of stopping Jeanne Shaheen et al from selling out the Democratic caucus for the nothing that they got?

Cost about three fiddy.

watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I just called my #NewMexico Senators to tell them to reject any so-called deal that does not firmly protect tax credits for health insurance now. Pls call if you live in NM, leave messages. Heinrich 505-988-6647, 202-224-5521 Lujan 505-230-7040, 202-224-6621

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.) the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.

While I couldn't reach any of Durbin's offices, I *was* able to leave a message with @duckworth.senate.gov's DC office. Her contact info is below. I encourage you to call, ask her not to cave, and also ask her to send the same message to Durbin.

This reminds me I'm out of fresh ginger.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Miss me with your AI anything until, after it insists it’s correct based on all it knows, I can hand it a new source, and it can weigh the relative value of that source and then say “I’ve changed my mind because of this,” or “this still is not convincing”, correctly.

Trump’s ICE goons dragged a childcare worker out of a bilingual daycare and preschool in front of children and parents. This is who Trump claims is the “worst of the worst” — a woman who has dedicated her life to educating and caring for children. The cruelty is the point.

What actually happened in the Jury Room here is that the guy threw a Taco and the jury couldn’t agree if it was a sandwich or not so he was acquitted.

Fed's Goolsbee: There's very little private sector information about inflation, it will be some time before we see any problems.

Neal Katyal's opening volley against Trump's tariffs: "May it please the court: Tariffs are taxes."

Sen. Schumer: "The election....the American people have spoken. [Trump should] sit down and talk with us, and let's end this shut down."

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

So. How long are we thinking, until the DOJ reinstates charges against Adams? Two months? Tomorrow?

AS USUAL BLACK WOMEN SAVED Y’ALL’S ASSES Lol @ white women. They seem to love being oppressed

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

Trump has made plain his intent to starve blue states into submission. Pls donate to this joint fundraiser for food banks in bluest states. www.grapevine.org/giving-circl...

Which sounds like hell for Henry Kissinger, but heaven for Dick Cheney.

Do you think Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo ever just get together, sit alone, drink beers, and every so often one of them lifts his hand to the other and says "Whelp......."

On Saturday, the names of those who have died in ICE custody were read in front of Home Depots across the country, as activists asked Home Depot to stop facilitating ICE raids of hard working immigrants in our communities. This video from Santa Fe.

I wonder what it feels like to be a politicians who the polls all show you're going down in a double-digit loss - but you still have to go out and campaign the day before "Election Day"? Can't imagine it's good. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

What Trump was focused on as he illegally shut down SNAP benefits for 42 million people: "a Great Gatsby-themed party at the Mar-a-Lago on Friday, filled with glamorous women in roaring twenties outfits and even a burlesque dancer." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

For my Canadian friends, in case you're not paying attention: The Toronto Blue Jays are just one win away from winning "The Stanley Cup" of baseball. Their next game is Friday (Halloween) at 8pm ET, at home in Toronto.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration threatened Ohio with “costly litigation” unless it bans the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day, the state’s top election official revealed in comments to lawmakers. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Blue Jays are really bringing the Canada against the Dodgers this World Series, but I think Americans will miss out on the Full Canadian Treatment unless there's a bench-clearing brawl that ends up with time outs in the penalty box. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We've been well beyond "drunk uncle at the wedding" for some time now.

The LHC produces a large number of Z bosons. So it is worthwhile checking if some of them behave inconsistently with the standard model. This #CMSPaper measured that the chance that Z bosons decay to two different kinds of leptons is smaller than one in 10 million arxiv.org/abs/2508.07512

If this becomes the legal standard I can think of a lot of corporate CFOs who are going to hate all the check signing they have to do from now on.

it's just a little froth

It's not hard to see that this is going to result in mass shootings.

We have not yet had the conversation that everybody who voted for Trump, didn't vote for Trump, and didn't vote at all knew exactly what they would be getting. And Trump's approval rating hasn't significantly changed since March 2025, and is identical to what it was throughout his 1st term.

Don't look at me - I've always believed that after the 12th inning, the game should be resolved by the Code Duello.

I’m thrilled to be a literary host at this year’s Annual Gala for @wwborders.bsky.social I look forward to spending the evening with other lovers of international literature. Join me on 10/29 at the Edison Ballroom in NYC by getting your ticket here: wwborders.live/2025Gala

So it looks like 2025 is going to be another year where we do absolutely nothing about the fact that there's no "r" in "Colonel". Change the pronunciation, change the spelling - I'm not picky. But something ought to be done.

Why I'm Spending Thanksgiving Alone Again This Year, by Ross Douthat

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

I just ran into this: if you ask Grok on X about the shutdown, it will insist that passing the Republican Bill is the only correct thing to do, and that requiring extension of the ACA Credits is less important than re-opening the government immediately (example attached).

You heard it here folks! Trump's main priority while the government is shutdown is destroying the White House to build his golden bathroom.

Friend of mine - a retired teacher in California - got her ACA premium estimate for next year. It is increasing from $198 per month, to $1027 per month. She - and many Americans like her - are why the ACA subsidies should be extended.

Probably should have used a password more complicated than "Elon".